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Gen 7:23 — And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained [alive], and they that [were] with him in the ark.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

every living substance		The most incontestable evidence has been afforded of the universality of this fact: the moose deer, a native of America, has been found buried in Ireland; elephants, native of Asia and Africa, in the midst of England; crocodiles, natives of the Nile, in the heart of Germany; and shell fish, never known in any but the American seas, with the entire skeletons of whales, in the most inland counties of England. Gen 7:21,22; Job 22:15-17; Isa 24:1-8; Mat 24:37-39; Luk 17:26,27; 1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 2:5
and Noah		Exd 14:28-30; Job 5:19; Psa 91:1,9,10; Pro 11:4; Eze 14:14-20; Mal 3:17,18; Mat 25:46; Hbr 11:7; 1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 2:5,9; 2Pe 3:6

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every living substance

	Gen 7:21	And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
	Gen 7:22	All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land], died.
	Job 22:15	Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
	Job 22:16	Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
	Job 22:17	Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
	Isa 24:1	Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
	Isa 24:2	And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
	Isa 24:3	The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
	Isa 24:4	The earth mourneth [and] fadeth away, the world languisheth [and] fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
	Isa 24:5	The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
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	Mat 24:37	But as the days of Noe [were], so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
	Mat 24:38	For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
	Mat 24:39	And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
	Luk 17:26	And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
	Luk 17:27	They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
	1Pe 3:20	Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
	2Pe 2:5	And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth [person], a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

and Noah

	Exd 14:28	And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, [and] all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
	Exd 14:29	But the children of Israel walked upon dry [land] in the midst of the sea; and the waters [were] a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
	Exd 14:30	Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
	Job 5:19	He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
	Psa 91:1	He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
	Psa 91:9	Because thou hast made the LORD, [which is] my refuge, [even] the most High, thy habitation;
	Psa 91:10	There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
	Pro 11:4	Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
	Eze 14:14	Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver [but] their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
	Eze 14:15	If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
	Eze 14:16	[Though] these three men [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
	Eze 14:17	Or [if] I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
	Eze 14:18	Though these three men [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.
	Eze 14:19	Or [if] I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
	Eze 14:20	Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall [but] deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
	Mal 3:17	And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
	Mal 3:18	Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
	Mat 25:46	And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
	Hbr 11:7	By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
	1Pe 3:20	Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
	2Pe 2:5	And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth [person], a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
	2Pe 2:9	The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
	2Pe 3:6	Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

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