Genesis 6:9

The Passion Translation

This is the story of Noah. Noah was a godly man of integrity, without fault in his generation, and he lived close to God.

Cross References

Genesis 10:1

This is the story of the descendants of Noah’s three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. After the great flood, they fathered many children.

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to him again and said, “I am the God who is more than enough. Live your life in my presence and be blameless.

Genesis 2:4

This is the account of the heavens and the earth after they were created. At the time Yahweh-God created earth and heaven,

Genesis 48:15

He spoke this blessing over them: “May the God of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, who lived devoted to him, the God who has been my Shepherd from my birth until this day,

Genesis 5:1

When God created human beings he made them in the likeness of God and created them as male and female. After he had created them, he lovingly blessed them and named them “humanity.” So here is the family history of Adam and Eve:

Genesis 5:22

Enoch walked with God for three hundred years after Methuselah was born and had many other sons and daughters.

Genesis 6:10

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

Genesis 7:1

The day came when Yahweh said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and your entire household, for I have found you to be the only one righteous in my eyes in this generation.

Psalm 37:37

But you can tell who are the blameless and spiritually mature. What a different story with them! The godly ones will have a peaceful, prosperous future with a happy ending.

Psalm 37:39

But the Lord will be the Savior of all who love him. Even in their time of trouble, God will live in them as strength.

Proverbs 4:18

But the lovers of God walk on the highway of light, and their way shines brighter and brighter until the perfect day.

Ezekiel 14:14

Even if the three godly men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, all lived there, their righteous lives could only save themselves—no one else. I, Lord Yahweh, have spoken.

Ezekiel 14:20

Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job lived there, as surely as I, Lord Yahweh, am the living God—their righteousness would only be able to save themselves and not even their own children.”

Luke 1:6

They were both righteous before God, living virtuously and following the commandments of the Lord blamelessly.

Luke 2:25

As they came to the temple to fulfill this requirement, an elderly man was there waiting—a resident of Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. He was a very good man, a lover of God who kept himself pure, and the Spirit of holiness rested upon him. Simeon believed in the imminent appearing of the one called “The Refreshing of Israel.”

Luke 23:50

There was also a member of the Jewish council named Joseph, from the village of Ramah, a good-hearted, honorable man who was eager for God’s kingdom to appear. He had strongly disagreed with the decision of the council to crucify Jesus.

Acts 10:22

They answered, “We serve Cornelius, a Roman military captain, who sent us to find you. He is a devout man of the highest integrity who worships God and is respected throughout the Jewish community. He was divinely instructed through the appearance of an angel to summon you to his home and to listen to the message that you would bring him.”

Romans 1:17

This gospel unveils a continual revelation of God’s righteousness—a perfect righteousness given to us when we believe. And it moves us from receiving life through faith, to the power of living by faith. This is what the Scripture means when it says: “We are right with God through life-giving faith!”

Galatians 3:11

It is obvious that no one achieves the righteousness of God by attempting to keep the law, for it is written: “The one who is in a right relationship with God will live by faith!”

Hebrews 11:7

Faith opened Noah’s heart to receive revelation and warnings from God about what was coming, even things that had never been seen. But he stepped out in reverent obedience to God and built an ark that would save him and his family. By his faith the world was condemned, but Noah received God’s gift of righteousness that comes by believing.

1 Peter 2:5

Come and be his “living stones” who are continually being assembled into a sanctuary for God. For now you serve as holy priests, offering up spiritual sacrifices that he readily accepts through Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 2:5

And he did not spare the former world in the days of Noah when he sent a flood to destroy a depraved world (although he protected Noah, the preacher of righteousness, along with seven members of his family).