Genesis 6:1-22

(1)  When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them,

(2)  the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.

(3)  Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years."

(4)  The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

(5)  The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

(6)  And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

(7)  So the LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them."

(8)  But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

(9)  These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

(10)  And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

(11)  Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence.

(12)  And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

(13)  And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

(14)  Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

(15)  This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits.

(16)  Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks.

(17)  For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.

(18)  But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

(19)  And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

(20)  Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you to keep them alive.

(21)  Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them."

(22)  Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.

1 Corinthians 2:1-16

(1)  And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.

(2)  For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

(3)  And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling,

(4)  and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

(5)  that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

(6)  Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.

(7)  But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.

(8)  None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

(9)  But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"--

(10)  these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

(11)  For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

(12)  Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.

(13)  And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

(14)  The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

(15)  The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.

(16)  "For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

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