Genesis 6:5

Modern English Version

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was continually only evil.

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the Lord.

Genesis 8:21

The Lord smelled a soothing aroma; and the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his youth, nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

Job 15:16

How much more abhorred and corrupt is man, who drinks iniquity like water!

Job 22:15

Will you keep to the old way, that wicked men have trod?

Psalm 53:2

God looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.

Proverbs 6:18

a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil,

Ecclesiastes 7:29

Observe, this thing alone I have discovered, that God made people upright, but they have gone after many schemes.”

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same fate comes to all people. Moreover, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live; after that they go to the place of the dead.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is more deceitful than all things and desperately wicked; who can understand it?

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Ezekiel 8:12

Then He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us. The Lord has forsaken the land.’ ”

Ezekiel 8:9

He said to me, “Enter and notice the wicked abominations that they do here.”

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies.

Matthew 24:37

As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Luke 17:26

“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

Deuteronomy 29:19

and it happens that, when he hears the words of this covenant, he blesses himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” thus destroying the watered ground with the dry.

Titus 3:3

We also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in evil and envy, filled with hatred and hating each other.

1 Peter 3:20

who in times past were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.