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Common English Bible
Proper prayer
“When you pray, don’t pour out a flood of empty words, as the Gentiles do. They think that by saying many words they’ll be heard.
Living Bible
“The world will be at ease —banquets and parties and weddings—just as it was in Noah’s time before the sudden coming of the Flood;
Living Bible
But all those who come and listen and obey me are like a man who builds a house on a strong foundation laid upon the underlying rock. When the floodwaters rise and break against the house, it stands firm, for it is strongly built.
Living Bible
“But those who listen and don’t obey are like a man who builds a house without a foundation. When the floods sweep down against that house, it crumbles into a heap of ruins.”Common English Bible
But those who don’t put into practice what they hear are like a person who built a house without a foundation. The floodwater smashed against it and it collapsed instantly. It was completely destroyed.”
Living Bible
If you are filled with light within, with no dark corners, then your face will be radiant too, as though a floodlight is beamed upon you.”
Living Bible
Later, in one of his talks, Jesus said to the people, “I am the Light of the world. So if you follow me, you won’t be stumbling through the darkness, for living light will flood your path.”
Common English Bible
While Paul waited for them in Athens, he was deeply distressed to find that the city was flooded with idols.
Living Bible
I have traveled many weary miles and have been often in great danger from flooded rivers and from robbers and from my own people, the Jews, as well as from the hands of the Gentiles. I have faced grave dangers from mobs in the cities and from death in the deserts and in the stormy seas and from men who claim to be brothers in Christ but are not.
Living Bible
Noah was another who trusted God. When he heard God’s warning about the future, Noah believed him even though there was then no sign of a flood, and wasting no time, he built the ark and saved his family. Noah’s belief in God was in direct contrast to the sin and disbelief of the rest of the world—which refused to obey—and because of his faith he became one of those whom God has accepted.
Common English Bible
They think it’s strange that you don’t join in these activities with the same flood of unrestrained wickedness. So they slander you.New King James Version
In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you.
Living Bible
That is why the Good News was preached even to those who were dead—killed by the flood—so that although their bodies were punished with death, they could still live in their spirits as God lives.
Living Bible
They deliberately forget this fact: that God did destroy the world with a mighty flood long after he had made the heavens by the word of his command and had used the waters to form the earth and surround it.
Living Bible
And from the Serpent’s mouth a vast flood of water gushed out and swept toward the woman in an effort to get rid of her;King James Version
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.New King James Version
So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.
Living Bible
but the earth helped her by opening its mouth and swallowing the flood!King James Version
And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.New King James Version
But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.
