Hebrews 11:7

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Summary

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.

Warned

Things

Hebrews 11:1

Prepared

1 Peter 3:20

He condemned

Matthew 12:41

Luke 11:31

General references

Acts 5:11

Bible References

Warned

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

And Lot went out and spoke unto his sons-in-law, those who were to marry his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law.

Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.

A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and receive hurt.

A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are hurt by it.

Son of man, I have placed thee as a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth and give them warning from me.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who taught you to flee from the wrath to come?

Therefore, when ye see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, which shall stand in the holy place (whosoever reads, let him understand),

by which the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished;

Things

Faith, therefore, is the substance of things waited for, the evidence of things not seen.

Prepared

But with thee I will establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons' wives with thee.

And the LORD said unto Noah, Enter thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Go forth from the ark, thou and thy wife and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in the midst of her, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, said the Lord GOD.

which in the time past were disobedient, when once the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being made ready, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

He condemned

The men of Nineveh shall rise in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.

The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment against the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

General references

Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

And Noah went in and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

He that feared the word of the LORD among the slaves of Pharaoh made his slaves and his livestock flee into the houses;

A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are hurt by it.

then let those who are in Judaea flee into the mountains;

and let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein to take any thing out of his house;

And great fear came upon all the congregation and upon as many as heard these things.