Genesis 8:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Smelled

Curse

Neither

Genesis 9:11

Isaiah 54:9

As i

2 Peter 3:6

General references

Isaiah 54:9

Jeremiah 17:9

Bible References

Smelled

But its inside parts and its legs are to be washed with water, and it will all be burned on the altar by the priest for a burned offering, an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the Lord.

And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;

How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

See, it is recorded before me, says the Lord: I will not keep back my hand, till I have sent punishment,

I will take pleasure in you as in a sweet smell, when I take you out from the peoples and get you together from the countries where you have been sent in flight; and I will make myself holy in you before the eyes of the nations.

Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.

For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction;

And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.

Curse

And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.

And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God.

For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.

Neither

And I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction.

For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you.

As i

And that the world which then was came to an end through the overflowing of the waters.

General references

The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?