What Does the Bible Say About Flood Gates?

Genesis 7:11 ESV / 24 helpful votes

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Genesis 8:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes

The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,

Genesis 7:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

Genesis 1:6-7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so.

Malachi 3:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

Psalm 40:1-3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord.

Genesis 8:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.

Genesis 8:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.

Psalm 139:15-16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Genesis 7:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

Genesis 7:1-24 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth. For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him. ...

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Ephesians 3:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes

To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Romans 5:18-19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.

Mark 1:1-45 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’” John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. ...

Psalm 40:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord.

Jude 1:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—

2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

Mark 16:15-16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Genesis 7:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.

Genesis 7:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.

Genesis 7:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

Genesis 6:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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.

Genesis 6:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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.

2 Thessalonians 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.

Mark 7:1-37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” ...

Mark 5:1-43 ESV / 4 helpful votes

They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. ...

Mark 4:1-41 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil. ...

Job 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

Genesis 8:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

Genesis 7:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.

Genesis 7:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

Genesis 7:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.

Genesis 6:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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.”

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

2 Thessalonians 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.

Luke 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.

Isaiah 24:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

Psalm 29:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord sits enthroned as king forever.

Malachi 3:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord. Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years. “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts. ...

Genesis 7:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.

Genesis 7:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters.

Genesis 7:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,

Genesis 6:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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.

Genesis 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Genesis 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

After Noah was 500 years old, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

51 Bible Verses about Flood Gates

Genesis 7:11 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 8:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 7:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:6-7 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Malachi 3:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 40:1-3 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 8:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 8:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 139:15-16 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 7:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 7:1-24 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 3:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 5:18-19 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 1:1-45 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 40:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jude 1:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 16:15-16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 7:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 7:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 7:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 7:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 6:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 6:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Thessalonians 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 7:1-37 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 5:1-43 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 4:1-41 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 8:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 7:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 7:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 7:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 7:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 6:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Thessalonians 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 24:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 29:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Malachi 3:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 7:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Genesis 6:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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