Everyday words
Violence
Start with Genesis 6:11, where the Bible uses the word violence in a real sentence: “The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 6:11
“The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.”
2. Genesis 6:13
“God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.”
3. Genesis 49:5
““Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.”
4. Judges 9:24
“that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.”
5. 2 Samuel 22:3
“God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.”
6. Job 16:17
“Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.”
7. Psalms 7:16
“The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.”
8. Psalms 11:5
“Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 6:11
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
TheearthwasbeforeGod,andthewasfilledviolence.