Genesis 6:11 KJV
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 6:11 MKJV
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 6:11 NKJV
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 6:11 KJV 2000
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
British Family Bible
The earth also was corrupt – It is remarkable that our Lord, speaking of this generation, chiefly insists upon their carnality, or worldly-mindedness, as the door at which all other abominations entered. “In the days of Noah,” says he, “they were eating and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage:” thereby intimating, that when we see a people wholly immersed in the cares of the world, and the pleasure of sense, regardless of that heavenly country to which they are travelling, it is a sure sign of approaching destruction. So was it in the days of Noah: so was it in the days of Lot: and so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man. Let every reader of this examine his own heart in this particular, and take heed lest at any time it “be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life, and so that day, “the day either of particular or general judgment, “come upon him unawares.” Bp. Horne.
— violence. – Cruelty, outrage, and injustice of every kind. Men were corrupt, that is, irreligious towards God; and unjust to one another. Bp. Kidder. Uncleanness, covetousness, and oppression were the special causes which occasioned the flood. Bp. Latimer.
In the period between the creation of the world and the flood, all mankind had, or might have had, a perfect knowledge of the will of God, and of their duty, had it not been their own fault: for Methuselah lived with Adam two hundred and forty-three years, and with Noah six hundred: so that no man needed to want information of the Creation, &c. that had a mind to be informed. Bp. Wilson.