Genesis 8:21

New American Bible - revised edition

When the Lord smelled the sweet odor, the Lord said to himself: Never again will I curse the ground because of human beings, since the desires of the human heart are evil from youth; nor will I ever again strike down every living being, as I have done.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

To the man he said: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, You shall not eat from it, Cursed is the ground because of you! In toil you shall eat its yield all the days of your life.

Genesis 4:12

If you till the ground, it shall no longer give you its produce. You shall become a constant wanderer on the earth.

Genesis 5:29

and named him Noah, saying, “This one shall bring us relief from our work and the toil of our hands, out of the very ground that the Lord has put under a curse.”

Genesis 6:13

God said to Noah: I see that the end of all mortals has come, for the earth is full of lawlessness because of them. So I am going to destroy them with the earth. Preparation for the Flood.

Genesis 6:17

I, on my part, am about to bring the flood waters on the earth, to destroy all creatures under the sky in which there is the breath of life; everything on earth shall perish.

Genesis 6:5

When the Lord saw how great the wickedness of human beings was on earth, and how every desire that their heart conceived was always nothing but evil,

Genesis 6:7

So the Lord said: I will wipe out from the earth the human beings I have created, and not only the human beings, but also the animals and the crawling things and the birds of the air, for I regret that I made them.

Job 14:4

Can anyone make the unclean clean? No one can.

Psalm 51:5

For I know my transgressions; my sin is always before me.

Psalm 58:3

No, you freely engage in crime; your hands dispense violence to the earth.

Psalm 58:4

The wicked have been corrupt since birth; liars from the womb, they have gone astray.

Exodus 29:18

Then you shall burn the entire ram on the altar, since it is a burnt offering, a sweet-smelling oblation to the Lord.

Exodus 29:25

After you receive them back from their hands, you shall burn them on top of the burnt offering on the altar as a sweet-smelling oblation to the Lord.

Proverbs 20:9

Who can say, “I have made my heart clean, I am cleansed of my sin”?

Ecclesiastes 7:20

yet there is no one on earth so just as to do good and never sin.

Isaiah 47:12

Keep on with your spells and your many sorceries, at which you toiled from your youth. Perhaps you can prevail, perhaps you can strike terror!

Isaiah 47:15

Thus do your wizards serve you with whom you have toiled from your youth; They wander their separate ways, with none to save you.

Isaiah 48:8

You never heard, you never knew, they never reached your ears beforehand. Yes, I know you are utterly treacherous, a rebel you were named from the womb.

Isaiah 53:6

We had all gone astray like sheep, all following our own way; But the Lord laid upon him the guilt of us all.

Isaiah 65:6

See, it stands written before me; I will not remain quiet until I have repaid in full

Jeremiah 17:9

More tortuous than anything is the human heart, beyond remedy; who can understand it?

Jeremiah 18:12

But they will say, “No use! We will follow our own devices; each one of us will behave according to the stubbornness of our evil hearts!”

Jeremiah 8:6

I have listened closely: they speak what is not true; No one regrets wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone keeps on running their course, like a horse dashing into battle.

Ezekiel 20:41

As a sweet-smelling oblation I will accept you, when I bring you from among the nations and gather you out of the lands over which you were scattered; and through you I will manifest my holiness in the sight of the nations.

Leviticus 1:13

but the inner organs and the shanks shall be washed with water. The priest shall then offer all of it, burning it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, a sweet-smelling oblation to the Lord.

Leviticus 1:17

Then, having torn the bird open by its wings without separating the halves, the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood and the embers. It is a burnt offering, a sweet-smelling oblation to the Lord.

Leviticus 1:9

but the inner organs and the shanks shall be washed with water. The priest shall then burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a sweet-smelling oblation to the Lord.

Leviticus 26:31

I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries, refusing your sweet-smelling offerings.

Leviticus 4:31

He shall remove all the fat, just as the fat is removed from the communion sacrifice. The priest shall burn it on the altar for a sweet odor to the Lord. Thus the priest shall make atonement, so that the individual may be forgiven.

Leviticus 8:28

When Moses had removed them from their palms, he burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. They were an ordination offering for a sweet aroma, an oblation to the Lord.

Numbers 15:3

if you make to the Lord an oblation from the herd or from the flock—either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow, or as a voluntary offering, or for one of your festivals—to produce a pleasing aroma for the Lord,

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, false witness, blasphemy.

John 3:6

What is born of flesh is flesh and what is born of spirit is spirit.

Romans 1:21

for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened.

Romans 3:23

all have sinned and are deprived of the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 2:15

For we are the aroma of Christ for God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,

Ephesians 5:2

and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma.

Philippians 4:18

I have received full payment and I abound. I am very well supplied because of what I received from you through Epaphroditus, “a fragrant aroma,” an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

1 John 5:19

We know that we belong to God, and the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

1 Samuel 26:19

Please, now, let my lord the king listen to the words of his servant. If the Lord has incited you against me, may an offering please the Lord. But if it is the people who have done so, may they be cursed before the Lord. They have driven me away so that today I have no share in the Lord’s heritage, but am told: ‘Go serve other gods!’