Ezekiel 14:14
Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, only themselves would they keep safe by their righteousness, says the Lord.
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Ezekiel 14:14
Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, only themselves would they keep safe by their righteousness, says the Lord.
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Ezekiel 14:12
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 14:13
Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:
Ezekiel 14:14
Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, only themselves would they keep safe by their righteousness, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 14:15
Or if I send evil beasts through the land causing destruction and making it waste, so that no man may go through because of the beasts:
Ezekiel 14:16
Even if these three men were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep safe their sons or daughters, but only themselves, and the land would be made waste.
Ezekiel 14:17
Or if I send a sword against that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, cutting off from it man and beast:
Ezekiel 14:18
Even if these three men were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep safe their sons or daughters, but only themselves.
Ezekiel 14:19
Or if I send disease into that land, letting loose my wrath on it in blood, cutting off from it man and beast:
Proverbs 11:4
Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.
Jeremiah 14:12
When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.
Ezekiel 14:21
For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?
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Genesis 6:8
But Noah had grace in the eyes of God.
Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.
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