Jeremiah 17:9

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“Nothing can hide its evil as well as the human mind. It can be very sick, and no one really understands it.

Cross References

Matthew 15:19

All these bad things begin in the mind: evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual sins, stealing, lying, and insulting people.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

Of all the things that happen in this life, the worst thing is that all people end life the same way. But it is also very bad that people always think evil and foolish thoughts. And those thoughts lead to death.

Proverbs 28:26

It is foolish to be too confident. Those who ask for advice are wise and will escape disaster.

Hebrews 3:12

So, brothers and sisters, be careful that none of you has the evil thoughts that cause so much doubt that you stop following the living God.

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw that the people on the earth were very evil. He saw that they thought only about evil things all the time.

Genesis 8:21

The Lord smelled these sacrifices, and it pleased him. The Lord said to himself, “I will never again curse the earth as a way to punish people. People are evil from the time they are young, but I will never again destroy every living thing on the earth as I did this time.

Matthew 13:15

Yes, the minds of these people are now closed. They have ears, but they don’t listen. They have eyes, but they refuse to see. If their minds were not closed, they might see with their eyes; they might hear with their ears; they might understand with their minds. Then they might turn back to me and be healed.’ Isaiah 6:9-10

Jeremiah 16:12

But you people have sinned more than your ancestors. You are very stubborn, and you are doing only what you want to do. You are not obeying me. Because you do only what you want to do,

Psalm 51:5

I was born to do wrong, a sinner before I left my mother’s womb.

Mark 2:17

When Jesus heard this, he said to them, “It is the sick people who need a doctor, not those who are healthy. I did not come to invite good people. I came to invite sinners.”

Romans 1:21

People knew God, but they did not honor him as God, and they did not thank him. Their ideas were all useless. There was not one good thought left in their foolish minds.

Romans 7:11

Sin found a way to fool me by using the command to make me die.

Ephesians 4:22

You were taught to leave your old self. This means that you must stop living the evil way you lived before. That old self gets worse and worse, because people are fooled by the evil they want to do.

2 Samuel 11:15

In the letter David wrote: “Put Uriah on the front lines where the fighting is the hardest. Then leave him there alone, and let him be killed in battle.”

Isaiah 1:5

What good will it do to keep punishing you? You will continue to rebel. Your whole head and heart are already sick and aching.

Isaiah 1:6

From the bottom of your feet to the top of your head, every part of your body has wounds, cuts, and open sores. You have not taken care of them. Your wounds have not been cleaned and bandaged.

Isaiah 6:10

Confuse them. Make them unable to understand what they hear and see. If you don’t do this, they might really look with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their minds. Then they might come back to me and be healed!”

Psalm 64:7

But suddenly, God will shoot his arrows, and those wicked people will be hit.

Jeremiah 7:24

“But your ancestors did not listen to me. They did not pay attention to me. They were stubborn and did what they wanted to do. They did not become good. They became even more evil—they went backward, not forward.