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NASB | Genesis 6:9 ¶ These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 6:9 ¶ These are the records of the generations (family history) of Noah. Noah was a righteous man [one who was just and had right standing with God], blameless in his [evil] generation; Noah walked (lived) [in habitual fellowship] with God. |
Bible Question:
i think it was in the king james version, it said something like Noah's generations were perfect, or Noah was perfect in his generations my question: does Noah's "perfection" mean that he was born without original sin, or was he born "with" original sin but his "perfection" overcame that? thanks! |
Bible Answer: hic: The KJV rendering of Gen. 6:9 is thus: "These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God." The word "perfect" in this verse carries the idea of completeness or being blameless, but this does not mean sinless, and it certainly does not mean that Noah was exempt from sin imputed to all men since the Fall in Eden (see Romans 5:12-14). Man's "perfection" in no wise justifies man; only, and again I say only, the blood of Christ shed on the cross can do that. Not man's righteousness or his "perfection" or his good works. ........ Perhaps you've sung these words of a beloved old hymn: "What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus! What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. O, precious is the flow that makes me white as snow! No other fount I know. Nothing but the blood of Jesus!" ....... "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world" (John 1:29). ..... Thanks for the question, and God bless you. --Hank |