Genesis 6:6

New American Standard Bible 2020

So the Lord was sorry that He had made mankind on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

Cross References

Genesis 6:7

Then the Lord said, “I will wipe out mankind whom I have created from the face of the land; mankind, and animals as well, and crawling things, and the birds of the sky. For I am sorry that I have made them.”

2 Samuel 24:16

When the angel extended his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented of the disaster and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough! Now drop your hand!” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:15

And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but as he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw and was sorry about the catastrophe, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough; now relax your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Psalm 106:45

And He remembered His covenant for their sake, 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 see the treacherous and loathe them, Because they do not keep Your word.

Psalm 78:40

¶How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness And grieved Him in the desert!

Psalm 81:13

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

Psalm 95:10

“For forty years I was disgusted with that generation, And said they are a people who err in their heart, And they do not know My ways.

Exodus 32:14

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

Isaiah 48:18

“If only you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your well-being would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled And grieved His Holy Spirit; Therefore He turned Himself to become their enemy, He fought against them.

Jeremiah 18:7

At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot it, to tear it down, or to destroy it;

Jeremiah 26:19

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah actually put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and plead for the favor of the Lord, and the Lord relented of the disaster which He had pronounced against them? But we are committing a great evil against our own lives!”

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them, ‘As I live!’ declares the Lord God, ‘I take no pleasure at all in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! Why then should you die, house of Israel?’

Hosea 11:8

¶How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned over within Me, All My compassions are kindled.

Joel 2:13

And tear your heart and not merely your garments.” Now return to the Lord your God, For He is gracious and compassionate, Slow to anger, abounding in mercy And relenting of catastrophe.

Jonah 3:10

When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their evil way, then God relented of the disaster which He had declared He would bring on them. So He did not do it.

Malachi 3:6

“For I, the Lord, do not change; therefore you, the sons of Jacob, have not come to an end.

Numbers 23:19

“God is not a man, that He would lie, Nor a son of man, that He would change His mind; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

Romans 11:29

for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Ephesians 4:30

Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Deuteronomy 32:29

“If only they were wise and they understood this; If only they would discern their future!

Deuteronomy 32:36

“For the Lord will vindicate His people, And will have compassion on His servants, When He sees that their strength is gone, And there is none remaining, bond or free.

Deuteronomy 5:29

If only they had such a heart in them, to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it would go well with them and with their sons forever!

Hebrews 3:10

“Therefore I was angry with this generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they did not know My ways’;

Hebrews 3:17

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

James 1:17

Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

1 Samuel 15:11

“I regret that I have made Saul king, because he has turned back from following Me and has not carried out My commands.” And Samuel was furious and cried out to the Lord all night.

1 Samuel 15:29

Also the Glory of Israel will not lie nor change His mind; for He is not a man, that He would change His mind.”

1 Samuel 15:35

And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, though Samuel mourned for Saul. And the Lord regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.