¹ And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,

² The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.

³ And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.

⁴ There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.

⁵ And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

⁶ And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.

⁷ And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.

⁸ But Noah had grace in the eyes of God.

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.

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

¹¹ And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.

¹² And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.

¹³ And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.

¹⁴ Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out.

¹⁵ And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

¹⁶ You are to put a window in the ark, a cubit from the roof, and a door in the side of it, and you are to make it with a lower and second and third floors.

¹⁷ For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.

¹⁸ But with you I will make an agreement; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.

¹⁹ And you will take with you into the ark two of every sort of living thing, and keep them safe with you; they will be male and female.

²⁰ Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.

²¹ And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.

²² And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.

¹ Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

² Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.

³ For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

⁴ though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

⁵ circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

⁶ concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

⁷ However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

⁸ Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

⁹ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

¹⁰ that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;

¹¹ if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

¹² Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

¹³ Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

¹⁴ I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

¹⁶ Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind.

¹⁷ Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

¹⁸ For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

²⁰ For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

²¹ who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.