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100 Bible Verses about THE FLOOD

2 Peter 2:5 ESV / 26 helpful votes 

If he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

Genesis 6:17 ESV / 25 helpful votes 

For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.

Hebrews 11:7 ESV / 21 helpful votes 

By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

1 Peter 3:20 ESV / 17 helpful votes 

Because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.

Genesis 6:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes 

And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 8:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes 

But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.

Genesis 6:1-22 ESV / 15 helpful votes 

When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. …

Isaiah 54:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes 

“This is like the days of Noah to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, and will not rebuke you.

Genesis 7:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes 

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.

Luke 17:26-27 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Genesis 7:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

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

Genesis 6:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

Genesis 9:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

Genesis 8:1-22 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated, and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. …

Genesis 7:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.

Genesis 6:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

Matthew 24:37-39 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Genesis 7:1-24 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth. For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him. …

Genesis 6:22 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. …

Luke 17:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Genesis 7:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And the Lord shut him in.

Genesis 7:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.

Genesis 9:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Genesis 8:20 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 7:24 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.

Genesis 7:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.

Genesis 7:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

Genesis 6:1-9:29 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. …

Genesis 8:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,

Genesis 7:21-23 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind. Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.

Genesis 6:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 6:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Luke 17:26 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

Matthew 24:38 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,

Daniel 9:26 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.

Psalm 93:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring.

Psalm 90:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning:

Psalm 29:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord sits enthroned as king forever.

Job 22:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.

2 Samuel 22:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

“For the waves of death encompassed me, the torrents of destruction assailed me;

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Genesis 9:12-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” …

Genesis 9:9-12 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

“Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth. I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:

Genesis 9:8-11 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth. I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

Genesis 8:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”

Genesis 8:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

Genesis 8:21-22 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”

Genesis 8:20-22 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And when the Lordsmelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”

Genesis 8:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made

Genesis 8:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Genesis 7:17-20 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.

Genesis 7:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

Genesis 7:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.

Genesis 6:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

Genesis 6:8-9 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

2 Peter 3:6-7 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

And that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

Matthew 24:37 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …

Genesis 9:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”

Genesis 9:1-29 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. …

Genesis 8:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.

Genesis 7:19-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.

Genesis 7:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,

Genesis 6:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Revelation 12:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …

2 Peter 3:3-7 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

1 Peter 3:20-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

Because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. …

Romans 8:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Acts 17:30-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Luke 21:36 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Luke 1:37 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Matthew 24:44 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

Matthew 24:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

Matthew 22:39 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Joshua 24:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac.

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Genesis 8:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

And the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated,

Genesis 7:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

Genesis 7:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

Genesis 6:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

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

Genesis 6:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”

Genesis 6:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

Genesis 6:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 7:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.

Ezekiel 14:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God.

Jeremiah 46:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

“Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge?

Isaiah 59:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

So they shall fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come like a rushing stream, which the wind of the Lorddrives.

Isaiah 28:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters, he casts down to the earth with his hand.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Psalm 107:25-30 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

For he commanded and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea. They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths; their courage melted away in their evil plight; they reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wits’ end. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed. …

Psalm 104:6-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight. The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them. You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.