Genesis 6:5

Good News Translation

When the Lord saw how wicked everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time,

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

whose people were wicked and sinned against the Lord.

Genesis 8:21

The odor of the sacrifice pleased the Lord, and he said to himself, “Never again will I put the earth under a curse because of what people do; I know that from the time they are young their thoughts are evil. Never again will I destroy all living beings, as I have done this time.

Job 15:16

And we drink evil as if it were water; yes, we are corrupt; we are worthless.

Job 22:15

Are you determined to walk in the paths that evil people have always followed?

Psalm 53:2

God looks down from heaven at people to see if there are any who are wise, any who worship him.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

This is all that I have learned: God made us plain and simple, but we have made ourselves very complicated.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

One fate comes to all alike, and this is as wrong as anything that happens in this world. As long as people live, their minds are full of evil and madness, and suddenly they die.

Jeremiah 17:9

“Who can understand the human heart? There is nothing else so deceitful; it is too sick to be healed.

Jeremiah 4:14

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart, so that you may be saved. How long will you go on thinking sinful thoughts?

Ezekiel 8:12

God asked me, “Mortal man, do you see what the Israelite leaders are doing in secret? They are all worshiping in a room full of images. Their excuse is: ‘The Lord doesn't see us! He has abandoned the country.’”

Ezekiel 8:9

He told me, “Go in and look at the evil, disgusting things they are doing there.”

Matthew 15:19

For from your heart come the evil ideas which lead you to kill, commit adultery, and do other immoral things; to rob, lie, and slander others.

Matthew 24:37

The coming of the Son of Man will be like what happened in the time of Noah.

Luke 17:26

As it was in the time of Noah so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man.

Deuteronomy 29:19

Make sure that there is no one here today who hears these solemn demands and yet convinces himself that all will be well with him, even if he stubbornly goes his own way. That would destroy all of you, good and evil alike.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and wrong. We were slaves to passions and pleasures of all kinds. We spent our lives in malice and envy; others hated us and we hated them.

1 Peter 3:20

These were the spirits of those who had not obeyed God when he waited patiently during the days that Noah was building his boat. The few people in the boat—eight in all—were saved by the water,