Genesis 6:5

New English Translation

But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

(Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the Lord.)

Genesis 8:21

And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

Job 15:16

how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!

Job 22:15

Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked –

Psalm 53:2

God looks down from heaven at the human race, to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks God.

Proverbs 6:18

a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift to run to evil,

Ecclesiastes 7:29

This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is the unfortunate fact about everything that happens on earth: the same fate awaits everyone. In addition to this, the hearts of all people are full of evil, and there is folly in their hearts during their lives – then they die.

Jeremiah 17:9

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

Jeremiah 4:14

“Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?

Ezekiel 8:12

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 the chamber of his idolatrous images? For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’”

Ezekiel 8:9

He said to me, “Go in and see the evil abominations they are practicing here.”

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

Matthew 24:37

For just like the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.

Luke 17:26

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.

Deuteronomy 29:19

When such a person hears the words of this oath he secretly blesses himself and says, “I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.” This will destroy the watered ground with the parched.

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

1 Peter 3:20

after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.