Job 22:16
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16 They were snatched away before their time;
their foundation was washed away by a flood.(A)
Job 15:32
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32 It will be paid in full before their time,
and their branch will not be green.(A)
Genesis 7:17-24
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17 The flood continued forty days on the earth, and the waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.(A) 18 The waters swelled and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters.(B) 19 The waters swelled so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered; 20 the waters swelled above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep. 21 And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all human beings;(C) 22 everything on dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.(D) 23 He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, human beings and animals and creeping things and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left and those with him in the ark.(E) 24 And the waters swelled on the earth for one hundred fifty days.(F)
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2 Peter 2:5
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5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, even though he saved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;(A)
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1 Peter 3:19-20
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19 in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, 20 who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight lives, were saved through water.(A)
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Matthew 24:37-39
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37 For as the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.(A) 38 For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, 39 and they knew nothing until the flood came and swept them all away, so, too, will be the coming of the Son of Man.
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Genesis 7:11
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11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.(A)
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Matthew 7:26-27
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26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!”
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Ecclesiastes 7:17
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17 Do not be too wicked, and do not be a fool; why should you die before your time?
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Psalm 102:24
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24 “O my God,” I say, “do not take me away
at the midpoint of my life,
you whose years endure
throughout all generations.”(A)
Psalm 55:23
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23 But you, O God, will cast them down
into the lowest pit;
the bloodthirsty and treacherous
shall not live out half their days.
But I will trust in you.(A)
Job 14:19
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19 the waters wear away the stones;
the torrents wash away the soil of the earth;
so you destroy the hope of mortals.
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