Genesis 6:5

New American Bible - revised edition

When the Lord saw how great the wickedness of human beings was on earth, and how every desire that their heart conceived was always nothing but evil,

Cross References

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, false witness, blasphemy.

Jeremiah 4:14

Cleanse your heart of evil, Jerusalem, that you may be saved. How long will you entertain wicked schemes?

Jeremiah 17:9

More tortuous than anything is the human heart, beyond remedy; who can understand it?

Ecclesiastes 9:3

Among all the things that are done under the sun, this is the worst, that there is one lot for all. Hence the hearts of human beings are filled with evil, and madness is in their hearts during life; and afterward—to the dead!

Ecclesiastes 7:29

But this alone I have found: God made humankind honest, but they have pursued many designs.

Genesis 8:21

When the Lord smelled the sweet odor, the Lord said to himself: Never again will I curse the ground because of human beings, since the desires of the human heart are evil from youth; nor will I ever again strike down every living being, as I have done.

Psalm 53:2

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They act corruptly and practice injustice; there is none that does good.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.

Ezekiel 8:9

Go in, he said to me, and see the evil abominations they are doing here.

Genesis 13:13

Now the inhabitants of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.

Ezekiel 8:12

Then he said to me: Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his idol chamber? They think: “The Lord cannot see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.”

Proverbs 6:18

A heart that plots wicked schemes, feet that are quick to run to evil,

Deuteronomy 29:19

the Lord will never consent to pardon them. Instead, the Lord’s burning wrath will flare up against them; every curse written in this book will pounce on them, and the Lord will blot out their names from under the heavens.

Job 15:16

How much less so is the abominable and corrupt: people who drink in iniquity like water!

Matthew 24:37

For as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

Luke 17:26

As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man;

1 Peter 3:20

who had once been disobedient while God patiently waited in the days of Noah during the building of the ark, in which a few persons, eight in all, were saved through water.

Job 22:15

Do you indeed keep to the ancient way trodden by the worthless?