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Genesis 6

Genesis 6:5-8

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time. And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth — every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air — for I am grieved that I have made them.” Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible · public domain

Judgment is not impersonal — God is grieved. Mercy arrives in the same paragraph: Noah found grace. The flood narrative is the Bible's first preview of judgment and salvation running together.

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