Genesis 8:21

New Century Version

The Lord was pleased with these sacrifices and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of human beings. Their thoughts are evil even when they are young, but I will never again destroy every living thing on the earth as I did this time.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 2:15

Our offering to God is this: We are the sweet smell of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are being lost.

Ephesians 5:2

Live a life of love just as Christ loved us and gave himself for us as a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice to God.

Jeremiah 17:9

“More than anything else, a person’s mind is evil and cannot be healed. Who can understand it?

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw that the human beings on the earth were very wicked and that everything they thought about was evil.

Philippians 4:18

And now I have everything, and more. I have all I need, because Epaphroditus brought your gift to me. It is like a sweet-smelling sacrifice offered to God, who accepts that sacrifice and is pleased with it.

Romans 3:23

Everyone has sinned and fallen short of God’s glorious standard,

Ezekiel 20:41

I will accept you like the pleasing smell of sacrifices when I bring you out from the foreign nations and gather you from the lands where you are scattered. Then through you I will show how holy I am so the nations will see.

Matthew 15:19

Out of the mind come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual sins, stealing, lying, and speaking evil of others.

Leviticus 1:13

The person must wash the animal’s inner organs and legs with water, and then the priest must burn all its parts on the altar. It is a whole burnt offering, an offering made by fire, and its smell is pleasing to the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is not a good person on earth who always does good and never sins.

Leviticus 1:9

The animal’s inner organs and legs must be washed with water. Then the priest must burn all the animal’s parts on the altar. It is a whole burnt offering, an offering made by fire, and its smell is pleasing to the Lord.

Genesis 3:17

Then God said to the man, “You listened to what your wife said, and you ate fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat. “So I will put a curse on the ground, and you will have to work very hard for your food. In pain you will eat its food all the days of your life.

John 3:6

Human life comes from human parents, but spiritual life comes from the Spirit.

Isaiah 53:6

We all have wandered away like sheep; each of us has gone his own way. But the Lord has put on him the punishment for all the evil we have done.

Psalm 58:3

From birth, evil people turn away from God; they wander off and tell lies as soon as they are born.

Psalm 51:5

I was brought into this world in sin. In sin my mother gave birth to me.

1 John 5:19

We know that we belong to God, but the Evil One controls the whole world.

Romans 1:21

They knew God, but they did not give glory to God or thank him. Their thinking became useless. Their foolish minds were filled with darkness.

Jeremiah 18:12

But the people of Judah will answer, ‘It won’t do any good to try! We will continue to do what we want. Each of us will do what his stubborn, evil heart wants!’ ”

Proverbs 20:9

No one can say, “I am innocent; I have never done anything wrong.”

Job 14:4

No one can bring something clean from something dirty.

Leviticus 1:17

Then he must tear the bird open by its wings without dividing it into two parts. He must burn the bird on the altar, on the wood which is on the fire. It is a whole burnt offering, an offering made by fire, and its smell is pleasing to the Lord.

Exodus 29:25

Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar with the whole burnt offering. This is an offering made by fire to the Lord; its smell is pleasing to the Lord.

Exodus 29:18

Burn the whole sheep on the altar; it is a burnt offering made by fire to the Lord. Its smell is pleasing to the Lord.

Genesis 6:17

I will bring a flood of water on the earth to destroy all living things that live under the sky, including everything that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will die.

Jeremiah 8:6

I have listened to them very carefully, but they do not say what is right. They do not feel sorry about their wicked ways, saying, “What have I done?” Each person goes his own way, like a horse charging into a battle.

Isaiah 65:6

“Look, it is written here before me. I will not be quiet; instead, I will repay you in full. I will punish you for what you have done.

Isaiah 48:8

But you have not heard me; you have not understood. Even long ago you did not listen to me. I knew you would surely turn against me; you have fought against me since you were born.

Isaiah 47:15

You have worked with these people, and they have been with you since you were young, but they will not be able to help you. Everyone will go his own way, and there will be no one left to save you.”

Isaiah 47:12

“Keep on using your tricks and doing all your magic that you have used since you were young. Maybe they will help you; maybe you will be able to scare someone.

Leviticus 26:31

I will destroy your cities and make your holy places empty, and I will not smell the pleasing smell of your offerings.

Genesis 5:29

Lamech named his son Noah and said, “He will comfort us in our work, which comes from the ground the Lord has cursed.”

Genesis 4:12

You will work the ground, but it will not grow good crops for you anymore, and you will wander around on the earth.”

Genesis 6:7

So the Lord said, “I will destroy all human beings that I made on the earth. And I will destroy every animal and everything that crawls on the earth and the birds of the air, because I am sorry I have made them.”

Genesis 6:13

he said to Noah, “Because people have made the earth full of violence, I will destroy all of them from the earth.

Leviticus 4:31

Then the priest must remove all the goat’s fat in the same way the fat is removed from the fellowship offerings. He must burn it on the altar as a smell pleasing to the Lord. In this way the priest will remove that person’s sin so he will belong to the Lord, and the Lord will forgive him.

Leviticus 8:28

Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar on top of the burnt offering. So this was the offering for appointing Aaron and his sons as priests. It was an offering made by fire to the Lord, and its smell was pleasing to him.

Numbers 15:3

give the Lord offerings made by fire. These may be from your herds or flocks, as a smell pleasing to the Lord. These may be burnt offerings or sacrifices for special promises, or as gifts to him, or as festival offerings.

1 Samuel 26:19

My master and king, listen to me. If the Lord made you angry with me, let him accept an offering. But if people did it, may the Lord curse them! They have made me leave the land the Lord gave me. They have told me, ‘Go and serve other gods.’

Psalm 58:4

They are like poisonous snakes, like deaf cobras that stop up their ears