Genesis 6:6

Modern English Version

The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him in His heart.

Cross References

Genesis 6:7

So the Lord said, “I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—both man and beast, and the creeping things, and the birds of the sky, for I am sorry that I have made them.”

2 Samuel 24:16

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the calamity. He said to the angel who was annihilating the people, “Enough! Now stay your hand.” The angel of the Lord was at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:15

And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he prepared to destroy it, the Lord looked and relented from the calamity. And He said to the angel bringing the destruction, “It is enough. Remove your hand.” The angel of the Lord was then standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Psalm 106:45

For their sake He remembered His covenant, and relented according to the greatness of His mercy.

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 119:158

I look at the transgressors and grieve, because they keep not Your word.

Psalm 78:40

How often they provoked Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

Psalm 81:13

“Oh, that My people would listen to Me, and Israel would walk in My ways!

Psalm 95:10

For forty years I loathed that generation, and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they do not know My ways.”

Exodus 32:14

Then the Lord relented of the harm which He said He would do to His people.

Isaiah 48:18

Oh, that you had listened to My commandments! Then your peace would have been as a river and your righteousness as the waves of the sea.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; therefore, He turned Himself to be their enemy, and He fought against them.

Jeremiah 18:7

At one moment I may speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it.

Jeremiah 26:19

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the Lord, and the Lord relented of the disaster which He had pronounced against them? Thus we might procure great evil against ourselves.”

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, O house of Israel?

Hosea 11:8

How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboyim? My heart churns within Me; My compassion is stirred.

Joel 2:13

Rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and He relents from punishing.

Jonah 3:10

When God saw their actions, that they turned from their evil ways, He changed His mind about the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.

Malachi 3:6

For I am the Lord, I do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

Numbers 23:19

God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He spoken, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

Romans 11:29

For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.

Ephesians 4:30

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you are sealed for the day of redemption.

Deuteronomy 32:29

Would that they were wise, so that they understood this, so that they would comprehend their future!

Deuteronomy 32:36

For the Lord will judge His people, and relent in regard to His servants, when He sees that their power is gone and there is no one left, whether restrained or free.

Deuteronomy 5:29

O that there were such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Hebrews 3:10

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.’

Hebrews 3:17

And with whom was He grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no change or shadow of turning.

1 Samuel 15:11

“I regret that I have set up Saul to be king because he has turned back from following Me, and he has not carried out My words.” And it grieved Samuel, and he cried to the Lord all night.

1 Samuel 15:29

Also the Strength of Israel will not lie or repent, for He is not a man, that He should repent.”

1 Samuel 15:35

Now Samuel did not see Saul up to the day of his death. But Samuel mourned for Saul and the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.