Genesis 6:5

God's Word

The Lord saw how evil humans had become on the earth. All day long their deepest thoughts were nothing but evil.

Cross References

Matthew 15:19

Evil thoughts, murder, adultery, ⌞other⌟ sexual sins, stealing, lying, and cursing come from within.

Jeremiah 4:14

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart so that you may be rescued. Don’t continue making evil plans.

Jeremiah 17:9

“The human mind is the most deceitful of all things. It is incurable. No one can understand how deceitful it is.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is the tragedy of everything that happens under the sun: Everyone shares the same destiny. Moreover, the hearts of mortals are full of evil. Madness is in their hearts while they are still alive. After that, they join the dead.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

I have found only this: God made people decent, but they looked for many ways ⌞to avoid being decent⌟.”

Genesis 8:21

The Lord smelled the soothing aroma. He said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humans, even though from birth their hearts are set on nothing but evil. I will never again kill every living creature as I have just done.

Psalm 53:2

God looks down from heaven on Adam’s descendants to see if there is anyone who acts wisely, if there is anyone who seeks help from God.

Titus 3:3

Indeed, we, too, were once stupid, disobedient, and misled. We were slaves to many kinds of lusts and pleasures. We were mean and jealous. We were hated, and we hated each other.

Ezekiel 8:9

He said to me, “Go in, and see the wicked, disgusting things that the people of Israel are doing here.”

Genesis 13:13

(The people who lived in Sodom were very wicked. They committed terrible sins against the Lord.)

Ezekiel 8:12

God asked me, “Son of man, do you see what the leaders of the nation of Israel are doing in secret? Each of them is in the room where his god is, and each one of them is thinking, ‘The Lord doesn’t see me. The Lord has abandoned this land.’ ”

Proverbs 6:18

a mind devising wicked plans, feet that are quick to do wrong,

Deuteronomy 29:19

Someone may hear the conditions of this promise. He may think that he is so blessed that he can say, “I’ll be safe even if I go my own stubborn way. After all, ⌞the Lord would never⌟ sweep away well-watered ground along with dry ground.”

Job 15:16

how much less will he trust the one who is disgusting and corrupt, the one who drinks wickedness like water.

Matthew 24:37

“When the Son of Man comes again, it will be exactly like the days of Noah.

Luke 17:26

“When the Son of Man comes again, the situation will be like the time of Noah.

1 Peter 3:20

They are like those who disobeyed long ago in the days of Noah when God waited patiently while Noah built the ship. In this ship a few people—eight in all—were saved by water.

Job 22:15

“Are you following the old path that wicked people have taken?