Genesis 6:5

New Century Version

The Lord saw that the human beings on the earth were very wicked and that everything they thought about was evil.

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

Now the people of Sodom were very evil and were always sinning against the Lord.

Genesis 8:21

The Lord was pleased with these sacrifices and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of human beings. Their thoughts are evil even when they are young, but I will never again destroy every living thing on the earth as I did this time.

Job 15:16

How much less pure is one who is terrible and rotten and drinks up evil as if it were water!

Job 22:15

Are you going to stay on the old path where evil people walk?

Psalm 53:2

God looked down from heaven on all people to see if anyone was wise, if anyone was looking to God for help.

Proverbs 6:18

a mind that thinks up evil plans, feet that are quick to do evil,

Ecclesiastes 7:29

One thing I have learned: God made people good, but they have found all kinds of ways to be bad.”

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is something wrong that happens here on earth: What happens to one happens to all. So people’s minds are full of evil and foolish thoughts while they live. After that, they join the dead.

Jeremiah 17:9

“More than anything else, a person’s mind is evil and cannot be healed. Who can understand it?

Jeremiah 4:14

People of Jerusalem, clean the evil from your hearts so that you can be saved. Don’t continue making evil plans.

Ezekiel 8:12

Then he said to me, “Human, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the dark? Have you seen each man in the room of his own idol? They say, ‘The Lord doesn’t see us. The Lord has left the land.’ ”

Ezekiel 8:9

Then he said to me, “Go in and see the hateful, evil things they are doing here.”

Matthew 15:19

Out of the mind come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual sins, stealing, lying, and speaking evil of others.

Matthew 24:37

When the Son of Man comes, it will be like what happened during Noah’s time.

Luke 17:26

When the Son of Man comes again, it will be as it was when Noah lived.

Deuteronomy 29:19

These are the kind of people who hear these curses but bless themselves, thinking, “We will be safe even though we continue doing what we want to do.” Those people may destroy all of your land, both wet and dry.

Titus 3:3

In the past we also were foolish. We did not obey, we were wrong, and we were slaves to many things our bodies wanted and enjoyed. We spent our lives doing evil and being jealous. People hated us, and we hated each other.

1 Peter 3:20

who refused to obey God long ago in the time of Noah. God was waiting patiently for them while Noah was building the boat. Only a few people—eight in all—were saved by water.