Genesis 6:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.

Cross References

Genesis 10:9

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.”

Genesis 13:13

Now the people of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.

Genesis 6:10

And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 7:1

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation.

2 Chronicles 34:27

because your heart was penitent and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the Lord.

Psalm 11:5

The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, and his soul hates the lover of violence.

Psalm 140:11

Do not let the slanderer be established in the land; let evil speedily hunt down the violent!

Psalm 55:9

Confuse, O Lord, confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

Exodus 32:7

The Lord said to Moses, “Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely;

Isaiah 60:18

Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

Jeremiah 6:7

As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her wickedness; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.

Ezekiel 28:16

In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned, so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I drove you out, O guardian cherub, from among the stones of fire.

Ezekiel 8:17

Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O mortal? Is it not bad enough that the house of Judah commits the abominations done here? Must they fill the land with violence and provoke my anger still further? See, they are putting the branch to their nose!

Habakkuk 1:2

O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not listen? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save?

Habakkuk 2:17

For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you; the destruction of the animals will terrify you— because of human bloodshed and violence to the earth, to cities and all who live in them.

Habakkuk 2:8

Because you have plundered many nations, all who survive of the peoples shall plunder you— because of human bloodshed and violence to the earth, to cities and all who live in them.

Luke 1:6

Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.

Romans 2:13

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in God’s sight but the doers of the law who will be justified.

Romans 3:19

Now we know that, whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

Deuteronomy 31:29

For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly, turning aside from the way that I have commanded you. In time to come trouble will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger through the work of your hands.”

Judges 2:19

But whenever the judge died, they would relapse and behave worse than their ancestors, following other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They would not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.