Genesis 6:13
“And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.”
KJV
Read in Genesis 6Meaning
The announcement connects judgment explicitly with a world filled with violence and corruption.
Read carefully
This is God's judgment within the flood narrative and cannot be turned into authorization for human destruction or collective punishment.
Reflection
The verse keeps violence at the center of the moral diagnosis rather than treating the flood as arbitrary catastrophe.