Ecclesiastes 7:29

New International Version

This only have I found: God created mankind upright, but they have gone in search of many schemes.”

Cross References

Genesis 5:1

This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

Psalm 106:29

they aroused the Lord’s anger by their wicked deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

Psalm 106:39

They defiled themselves by what they did; by their deeds they prostituted themselves.

Psalm 99:8

Lord our God, you answered them; you were to Israel a forgiving God, though you punished their misdeeds.

Ecclesiastes 8:1

Who is like the wise? Who knows the explanation of things? A person’s wisdom brightens their face and changes its hard appearance.

Jeremiah 4:22

“My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.”

Ezekiel 28:15

You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you.

Titus 3:3

At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.