Hebrews 11:7

New Century Version

It was by faith that Noah heard God’s warnings about things he could not yet see. He obeyed God and built a large boat to save his family. By his faith, Noah showed that the world was wrong, and he became one of those who are made right with God through faith.

Cross References

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out and said to his future sons-in-law who were pledged to marry his daughters, “Hurry and leave this city! The Lord is about to destroy it!” But they thought Lot was joking.

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.

Genesis 6:22

Noah did everything that God commanded him.

Genesis 6:9

This is the family history of Noah. Noah was a good man, the most innocent man of his time, and he walked with God.

Genesis 7:23

God destroyed from the earth every living thing that was on the land—every man, animal, crawling thing, and bird of the sky. All that was left was Noah and what was with him in the boat.

Genesis 7:5

Noah did everything the Lord commanded him.

Genesis 8:16

“You and your wife, your sons, and their wives should go out of the boat.

2 Kings 4:5

So she left Elisha and shut the door behind her and her sons. As they brought the jars to her, she poured out the oil.

Job 35:8

Your evil ways only hurt others like yourself, and the good you do only helps other human beings.

Proverbs 22:3

The wise see danger ahead and avoid it, but fools keep going and get into trouble.

Proverbs 27:12

The wise see danger ahead and avoid it, but fools keep going and get into trouble.

Ezekiel 14:14

Even if three great men like Noah, Daniel, and Job were in that country, their goodness could save only themselves, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 14:20

As surely as I live, says the Lord God, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in the land, they could not save their son or daughter. They could save only themselves because they did what was right.

Ezekiel 33:5

They heard the sound of the trumpet but didn’t do anything. So they are to blame for their own deaths. If they had done something, they would have saved their own lives.

Matthew 2:12

But God warned the wise men in a dream not to go back to Herod, so they returned to their own country by a different way.

Matthew 24:15

“Daniel the prophet spoke about ‘a blasphemous object that brings destruction.’ You will see this standing in the holy place.” (You who read this should understand what it means.)

Matthew 24:25

Now I have warned you about this before it happens.

Matthew 24:38

In those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving their children to be married, until the day Noah entered the boat.

Matthew 3:7

Many of the Pharisees and Sadducees came to the place where John was baptizing people. When John saw them, he said, “You are snakes! Who warned you to run away from God’s coming punishment?

Luke 17:26

When the Son of Man comes again, it will be as it was when Noah lived.

Romans 1:17

The Good News shows how God makes people right with himself—that it begins and ends with faith. As the Scripture says, “But those who are right with God will live by faith.”

Romans 10:6

But this is what the Scripture says about being made right through faith: “Don’t say to yourself, ‘Who will go up into heaven?’ ” (That means, “Who will go up to heaven and bring Christ down to earth?”)

Romans 3:22

God makes people right with himself through their faith in Jesus Christ. This is true for all who believe in Christ, because all people are the same:

Romans 4:11

Abraham was circumcised to show that he was right with God through faith before he was circumcised. So Abraham is the father of all those who believe but are not circumcised; he is the father of all believers who are accepted as being right with God.

Romans 4:13

Abraham and his descendants received the promise that they would get the whole world. He did not receive that promise through the law, but through being right with God by his faith.

Romans 9:30

So what does all this mean? Those who are not Jews were not trying to make themselves right with God, but they were made right with God because of their faith.

Galatians 5:5

But we have the true hope that comes from being made right with God, and by the Spirit we wait eagerly for this hope.

Philippians 3:9

and to belong to him. Now I am right with God, not because I followed the law, but because I believed in Christ. God uses my faith to make me right with him.

Hebrews 11:1

Faith means being sure of the things we hope for and knowing that something is real even if we do not see it.

Hebrews 12:25

So be careful and do not refuse to listen when God speaks. Others refused to listen to him when he warned them on earth, and they did not escape. So it will be worse for us if we refuse to listen to God who warns us from heaven.

Hebrews 5:7

While Jesus lived on earth, he prayed to God and asked God for help. He prayed with loud cries and tears to the One who could save him from death, and his prayer was heard because he trusted God.

Hebrews 8:5

The work they do as priests is only a copy and a shadow of what is in heaven. This is why God warned Moses when he was ready to build the Holy Tent: “Be very careful to make everything by the plan I showed you on the mountain.”

1 Peter 3:20

who refused to obey God long ago in the time of Noah. God was waiting patiently for them while Noah was building the boat. Only 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 you who have received a faith as valuable as ours, because our God and Savior Jesus Christ does what is right.

2 Peter 2:5

And God punished the world long ago when he brought a flood to the world that was full of people who were against him. But God saved Noah, who preached about being right with God, and seven other people with him.

2 Peter 3:6

Then the world was flooded and destroyed with water.