Genesis 6:5

New International Version

The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.

Genesis 8:21

The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

Job 15:16

how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up evil like water!

Job 22:15

Will you keep to the old path that the wicked have trod?

Psalm 53:2

God looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.

Proverbs 6:18

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,

Ecclesiastes 7:29

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

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Jeremiah 4:14

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart and be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts?

Ezekiel 8:12

He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’ ”

Ezekiel 8:9

And he said to me, “Go in and see the wicked and detestable things they are doing here.”

Matthew 15:19

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

Matthew 24:37

As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

Luke 17:26

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

Deuteronomy 29:19

When such a person hears the words of this oath and they invoke a blessing on themselves, thinking, “I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way,” they will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

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.

1 Peter 3:20

to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water,