Jeremiah 17:9

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

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.

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.

2 Samuel 11:15

He wrote in the message, “Send Uriah to the front of the line where the fighting is heaviest then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and die.”

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

Psalm 64:7

But God will shoot an arrow at them; suddenly they will be wounded.

Proverbs 28:26

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

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.

Isaiah 1:5

Why should you be beaten again, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it. Wounds, bruises, and open sores; they have not been closed, nor bandaged, nor soothed with oil.

Isaiah 6:10

Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn and be healed.”

Jeremiah 16:12

And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the imaginations of his evil heart, so that they do not listen to Me.

Jeremiah 7:24

But they did not listen, nor incline their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

Matthew 13:15

for this people’s heart has grown dull. Their ears have become hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I should heal them.’

Matthew 15:19

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

Mark 2:17

When Jesus heard it, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Romans 1:21

Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him or give thanks to Him as God, but became futile in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Romans 7:11

For sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and killed me through it.

Ephesians 4:22

that you put off the former way of life in the old nature, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,

Hebrews 3:12

Be attentive, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, and you depart from the living God.