Genesis 6:6

New American Bible - revised edition

the Lord regretted making human beings on the earth, and his heart was grieved.

Cross References

Genesis 6:7

So the Lord said: I will wipe out from the earth the human beings I have created, and not only the human beings, but also the animals and the crawling things and the birds of the air, for I regret that I made them.

2 Samuel 24:16

But when the angel stretched forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord changed his mind about the calamity, and said to the angel causing the destruction among the people: Enough now! Stay your hand. The angel of the Lord was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:15

God also sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but as the angel was on the point of destroying it, the Lord saw and changed his mind about the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, “Enough now! Stay your hand!” Ornan’s Threshing Floor. 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 in his abundant mercy,

Psalm 110:4

The Lord has sworn and will not waver: “You are a priest forever in the manner of Melchizedek.”

Psalm 119:158

I view the faithless with loathing because they do not heed your promise.

Psalm 78:40

How often they rebelled against God in the wilderness, grieved him in the wasteland.

Psalm 81:13

So I thrust them away to the hardness of their heart; ‘Let them walk in their own machinations.’

Psalm 95:10

Forty years I loathed that generation; I said: “This people’s heart goes astray; they do not know my ways.”

Exodus 32:14

So the Lord changed his mind about the punishment he had threatened to inflict on his people.

Isaiah 48:18

If only you would attend to my commandments, your peace would be like a river, your vindication like the waves of the sea,

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved his holy spirit; So he turned to become their enemy, and warred against them.

Jeremiah 18:7

At one moment I may decree concerning a nation or kingdom that I will uproot and tear down and destroy it;

Jeremiah 26:19

Did Hezekiah, king of Judah, and all Judah condemn him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, so that the Lord had a change of heart regarding the evil he had spoken against them? We, however, are about to do great evil against ourselves.” The Fate of Uriah.

Ezekiel 33:11

Answer them: As I live—oracle of the Lord God—I swear I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! Why should you die, house of Israel?

Hosea 11:8

How could I give you up, Ephraim, or deliver you up, Israel? How could I treat you as Admah, or make you like Zeboiim? My heart is overwhelmed, my pity is stirred.

Joel 2:13

Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the Lord, your God, For he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting in punishment.

Jonah 3:10

When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way, he repented of the evil he had threatened to do to them; he did not carry it out.

Malachi 3:6

For I, the Lord, do not change, and you, sons of Jacob, do not cease to be.

Numbers 23:19

God is not a human being who speaks falsely, nor a mortal, who feels regret. Is God one to speak and not act, to decree and not bring it to pass?

Romans 11:29

For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable. Triumph of God’s Mercy.

Ephesians 4:30

And do not grieve the holy Spirit of God, with which you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Deuteronomy 32:29

If they had insight they would realize this, they would understand their end:

Deuteronomy 32:36

Surely, the Lord will do justice for his people; on his servants he will have pity. When he sees their strength is gone, and neither bond nor free is left,

Deuteronomy 5:29

Would that they might always be of such a mind, to fear me and to keep all my commandments! Then they and their descendants would prosper forever.

Hebrews 3:10

for forty years. Because of this I was provoked with that generation and I said, “They have always been of erring heart, and they do not know my ways.”

Hebrews 3:17

With whom was he “provoked for forty years”? Was it not those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?

James 1:17

all good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no alteration or shadow caused by change.

1 Samuel 15:11

I regret having made Saul king, for he has turned from me and has not kept my command. At this Samuel grew angry and cried out to the Lord all night.

1 Samuel 15:29

The Glory of Israel neither deceives nor repents, for he is not a mortal who repents.”

1 Samuel 15:35

Never again, as long as he lived, did Samuel see Saul. Yet he grieved over Saul, because the Lord repented that he had made him king of Israel.