Hebrews 11:7

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Faith led Noah to listen when God warned him about the things in the future that he could not see. He obeyed God and built a ship to save his family. Through faith Noah condemned the world and received God’s approval that comes through faith.

Cross References

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out and spoke to the men engaged to his daughters. He said, “Hurry! Get out of this place, because the Lord is going to destroy the city.” But they thought he was joking.

Genesis 6:13

God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to all people because the earth is full of their violence. Now I’m going to destroy them along with the earth.

Genesis 6:22

Noah did this. He did everything that God had commanded him.

Genesis 6:9

This is the account of Noah and his descendants. Noah had God’s approval and was a man of integrity among the people of his time. He walked with God.

Genesis 7:23

Every living creature on the face of the earth was wiped out. Humans, domestic animals, crawling creatures, and birds were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ship were left.

Genesis 7:5

So Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him.

Genesis 8:16

“Come out of the ship with your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives.

2 Kings 4:5

So she left him and closed the door behind her and her children. The children kept bringing containers to her, and she kept pouring.

Job 35:8

Your wickedness affects only someone like yourself. Your righteousness affects only the descendants of Adam.

Proverbs 22:3

Sensible people foresee trouble and hide ⌞from it⌟, but gullible people go ahead and suffer ⌞the consequence⌟.

Proverbs 27:12

Sensible people foresee trouble and hide. Gullible people go ahead ⌞and⌟ suffer.

Ezekiel 14:14

Even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in that country, they would, by their righteousness, rescue only themselves,” declares the Almighty Lord.

Ezekiel 14:20

As I live, declares the Almighty Lord, not even Noah, Daniel, and Job could, by their righteousness, rescue their sons or daughters. They could rescue only themselves.

Ezekiel 33:5

They heard the sound of the horn but ignored its warning. So they are responsible for their own deaths. If they had taken the warning, they would have saved themselves.

Matthew 2:12

God warned them in a dream not to go back to Herod. So they left for their country by another road.

Matthew 24:15

“The prophet Daniel said that the disgusting thing that will cause destruction will stand in the holy place. When you see this (let the reader take note),

Matthew 24:25

Listen! I’ve told you this before it happens.

Matthew 24:38

In the days before the flood, people were eating, drinking, and getting married until the day that Noah went into the ship.

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to be baptized, he said to them, “You poisonous snakes! Who showed you how to flee from God’s coming anger?

Luke 17:26

“When the Son of Man comes again, the situation will be like the time of Noah.

Romans 1:17

God’s approval is revealed in this Good News. This approval begins and ends with faith as Scripture says, “The person who has God’s approval will live by faith.”

Romans 10:6

However, Scripture says about God’s approval which is based on faith, “Don’t ask yourself who will go up to heaven,” (that is, to bring Christ down).

Romans 3:22

Everyone who believes has God’s approval through faith in Jesus Christ. There is no difference between people.

Romans 4:11

Abraham’s faith was the basis of his approval by God while he was still uncircumcised. The mark of circumcision is the seal of that approval. Therefore, he is the father of every believer who is not circumcised, and their faith, too, is regarded as the basis of their approval by God.

Romans 4:13

So it was not by obeying the laws in Moses’ Teachings that Abraham or his descendants received the promise that he would inherit the world. Rather, he received this promise through God’s approval that comes by faith.

Romans 9:30

So what can we say? We can say that non-Jewish people who were not trying to gain God’s approval won his approval, an approval based on faith.

Galatians 5:5

However, in our spiritual nature, faith causes us to wait eagerly for the confidence that comes with God’s approval.

Philippians 3:9

and to have a relationship with him. This means that I didn’t receive God’s approval by obeying his laws. The opposite is true! I have God’s approval through faith in Christ. This is the approval that comes from God and is based on faith

Hebrews 11:1

Faith assures us of things we expect and convinces us of the existence of things we cannot see.

Hebrews 12:25

Be careful that you do not refuse to listen when God speaks. Your ancestors didn’t escape when they refused to listen to God, who warned them on earth. We certainly won’t escape if we turn away from God, who warns us from heaven.

Hebrews 5:7

During his life on earth, Jesus prayed to God, who could save him from death. He prayed and pleaded with loud crying and tears, and he was heard because of his devotion to God.

Hebrews 8:5

They serve at a place that is a pattern, a shadow, of what is in heaven. When Moses was about to make the tent, God warned him, “Be sure to make everything based on the plan I showed you on the mountain.”

1 Peter 3:20

They are like those who disobeyed long ago in the days of Noah when God waited patiently while Noah built the ship. In this ship a few people—eight in all—were saved by water.

2 Peter 1:1

From Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. To those who have obtained a faith that is as valuable as ours, a faith based on the approval that comes from our God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 2:5

God didn’t spare the ancient world either. He brought the flood on the world of ungodly people, but he protected Noah and seven other people. Noah was his messenger who told people about the kind of life that has God’s approval.

2 Peter 3:6

Water also flooded and destroyed that world.