Genesis 6:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ And the Lord was sorry that he had made humans on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved at heart.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Common English Bible

⁶ The LORD regretted making human beings on the earth, and he was heartbroken.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ repented that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with a sorrow of heart,

Genesis 6:6 Cross References

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved his holy spirit; therefore he became their enemy; he himself fought against them.

1 Samuel 15:11

“I regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not carried out my commands.” Samuel was angry, and he cried out to the Lord all night.

Ephesians 4:30

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption.

Hebrews 3:10

for forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.’

1 Samuel 15:29

Moreover, the Glory of Israel will not deceive or change his mind, for he is not a mortal, that he should change his mind.”

2 Samuel 24:16

But when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented concerning the evil and said to the angel who was bringing destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” The angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

Numbers 23:19

God is not a human being, that he should lie, or a mortal, that he should change his mind. Has he promised, and will he not do it? Has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Jonah 3:10

When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them, and he did not do it.

Joel 2:13

rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from punishment.

Exodus 32:14

And the Lord changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from their ways and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Jeremiah 26:19

“Did King Hezekiah of Judah and all Judah actually put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, and did not the Lord change his mind about the disaster that he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great disaster on ourselves!”

1 Chronicles 21:15

And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but when he was about to destroy it, the Lord took note and relented concerning the calamity; he said to the destroying angel, “Enough! Stay your hand.” The angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Isaiah 48:18

O that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your prosperity would have been like a river and your success like the waves of the sea;

Psalm 106:45

For their sake he remembered his covenant and showed compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

1 Samuel 15:35

Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the Lord was sorry that he had made Saul king over Israel.

Deuteronomy 32:36

Indeed, the Lord will vindicate his people, have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, neither bond nor free remaining.

Deuteronomy 32:29

If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern what their end would be.

Deuteronomy 5:29

If only they had such a mind as this, to fear me and to keep all my commandments always, so that it might go well with them and with their children forever!

James 1:17

Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Hebrews 3:17

And with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Malachi 3:6

For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, have not perished.

Hosea 11:8

How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.

Psalm 119:158

I look at the faithless with disgust because they do not keep your commands.

Psalm 110:4

The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”

Psalm 95:10

For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they do not regard my ways.”

Psalm 81:13

O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

Psalm 78:40

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!

Romans 11:29

for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Genesis 6:7

So the Lord said, “I will blot out from the earth the humans I have created—people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air—for I am sorry that I have made them.”

Jeremiah 18:7

At one moment I may declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,