Everyday words
Righteous
Start with Genesis 6:9, where the Bible uses the word righteous in a real sentence: “This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 6:9
“This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.”
2. Genesis 18:23
“Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?”
3. Genesis 18:24
“What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?”
4. Genesis 18:25
“Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?””
5. Genesis 18:26
“Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.””
6. Genesis 18:28
“What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.””
7. Genesis 20:4
“Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?”
8. Genesis 38:26
“Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 6:9
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
ThisisthehistoryoftheofNoah:Noahwasarighteousman,blamelessamongthepeopleofhistime.withGod.