Genesis 6:2

Good News Translation

some of the heavenly beings saw that these young women were beautiful, so they took the ones they liked.

Cross References

Genesis 12:11

When he was about to cross the border into Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “You are a beautiful woman.

Genesis 24:3

I want you to make a vow in the name of the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the people here in Canaan.

Genesis 26:35

They made life miserable for Isaac and Rebecca.

Genesis 27:46

Rebecca said to Isaac, “I am sick and tired of Esau's foreign wives. If Jacob also marries one of these Hittites, I might as well die.”

Genesis 3:6

The woman saw how beautiful the tree was and how good its fruit would be to eat, and she thought how wonderful it would be to become wise. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, and he also ate it.

Genesis 4:26

Seth had a son whom he named Enosh. It was then that people began using the Lord's holy name in worship.

Genesis 6:1

When people had spread all over the world, and daughters were being born,

Genesis 6:3

Then the Lord said, “I will not allow people to live forever; they are mortal. From now on they will live no longer than 120 years.”

2 Samuel 11:2

One day, late in the afternoon, David got up from his nap and went to the palace roof. As he walked around up there, he saw a woman taking a bath in her house. She was very beautiful.

Ezra 9:12

They told us that we were never to intermarry with those people and never to help them prosper or succeed if we wanted to enjoy the land and pass it on to our descendants forever.

Job 1:6

When the day came for the heavenly beings to appear before the Lord, Satan was there among them.

Job 31:1

I have made a solemn promise never to look with lust at a woman.

Exodus 34:16

Your sons might marry those foreign women, who would lead them to be unfaithful to me and to worship their pagan gods.

Isaiah 63:16

You are our father. Our ancestors Abraham and Jacob do not acknowledge us, but you, Lord, are our father, the one who has always rescued us.

Malachi 2:11

The people of Judah have broken their promise to God and done a horrible thing in Jerusalem and all over the country. They have defiled the Temple which the Lord loves. Men have married women who worship foreign gods.

Malachi 2:15

Didn't God make you one body and spirit with her? What was his purpose in this? It was that you should have children who are truly God's people. So make sure that none of you breaks his promise to his wife.

1 Corinthians 7:39

A married woman is not free as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, then she is free to be married to any man she wishes, but only if he is a Christian.

2 Corinthians 6:18

I will be your father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are the people of the Lord your God. So when you mourn for the dead, don't gash yourselves or shave the front of your head, as other people do.

2 Peter 2:14

They want to look for nothing but the chance to commit adultery; their appetite for sin is never satisfied. They lead weak people into a trap. Their hearts are trained to be greedy. They are under God's curse!

1 John 2:16

Everything that belongs to the world—what the sinful self desires, what people see and want, and everything in this world that people are so proud of—none of this comes from the Father; it all comes from the world.