Corruption on the Earth

(Matthew 24:36–51)

Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men [were] beautiful, and they took as wives vvv whomever they chose.

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So the LORD said,“My Spirit {will} not contend with man forever,[fn] for he [is] mortal; his days {shall} be120 years.”

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The Nephilim were on the earth in those days— and afterward as well when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them [children] who [became] the mighty men of old, men of renown.

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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. 6 And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7 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.”

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