Noah Pleases God

This is the genealogy of Noah. (A)Noah was a just man, [a]perfect in his generations. Noah (B)walked with God.

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  1. Genesis 6:9 blameless or having integrity

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

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By faith (A)Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, (B)prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of (C)the righteousness which is according to faith.

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and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;

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The Great Flood(A)

Then the (B)Lord said to Noah, (C)“Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that (D)you are righteous before Me in this generation.

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24 And (A)Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God (B)took him.

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11 But that no one is [a]justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for (A)“the just shall live by faith.”

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  1. Galatians 3:11 declared righteous

The Sign of the Covenant(A)

17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord (B)appeared to Abram and said to him, (C)“I am [a]Almighty God; (D)walk before Me and be (E)blameless.

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  1. Genesis 17:1 Heb. El Shaddai

22 After he begot Methuselah, Enoch (A)walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters.

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14 (A)Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only themselves (B)by their righteousness,” says the Lord God.

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Job and His Family in Uz

There was a man (A)in the land of Uz, whose name was (B)Job; and that man was (C)blameless and upright, and one who (D)feared God and [a]shunned evil.

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  1. Job 1:1 Lit. turned away from

you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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20 (A)For there is not a just man on earth who does good
And does not sin.

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(A)This is the [a]history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

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  1. Genesis 2:4 Heb. toledoth, lit. generations

22 And they said, “Cornelius the centurion, a just man, one who fears God and (A)has a good reputation among all the nation of the Jews, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to summon you to his house, and to hear words from you.”

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20 even (A)though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live,” says the Lord God, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness.”

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18 (A)But the path of the just (B)is like the shining [a]sun,
That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.

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  1. Proverbs 4:18 Lit. light

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you [a]considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and [b]shuns evil?”

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  1. Job 1:8 Lit. set your heart on
  2. Job 1:8 Lit. turns away from

and be found in Him, not having (A)my own righteousness, which is from the law, but (B)that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him and the (C)power of His resurrection, and (D)the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may (E)attain[a] to the resurrection from the dead.

Pressing Toward the Goal

12 Not that I have already (F)attained,[b] or am already (G)perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have [c]apprehended; but one thing I do, (H)forgetting those things which are behind and (I)reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 (J)I press toward the goal for the prize of (K)the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

15 Therefore let us, as many as are (L)mature, (M)have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, (N)God will reveal even this to you.

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  1. Philippians 3:11 Lit. arrive at
  2. Philippians 3:12 obtained it
  3. Philippians 3:13 laid hold of it

17 For (A)in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, (B)“The just shall live by faith.”

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Jesus Buried in Joseph’s Tomb(A)

50 (B)Now behold, there was a man named Joseph, a council member, a good and just man.

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Simeon Sees God’s Salvation

25 And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and devout, (A)waiting for the Consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

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“Behold the proud,
His soul is not upright in him;
But the (A)just shall live by his faith.

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37 Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright;
For the future of that man is peace.

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17 But (A)the [a]high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was loyal all his days.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 15:17 Places for pagan worship

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