Genesis 6:6

New International Version

The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.

Cross References

Isaiah 63:10

Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he turned and became their enemy and he himself fought against them.

1 Samuel 15:11

“I regret that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions.” Samuel was angry, and he cried out to the Lord all that night.

Ephesians 4:30

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Hebrews 3:10

That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’

1 Samuel 15:29

He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind; for he is not a human being, that he should change his mind.”

2 Samuel 24:16

When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was afflicting the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the Lord was then at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Numbers 23:19

God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?

Jonah 3:10

When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.

Joel 2:13

Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.

Exodus 32:14

Then the Lord relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?’

Jeremiah 26:19

“Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did not Hezekiah fear the Lord and seek his favor? And did not the Lord relent, so that he did not bring the disaster he pronounced against them? We are about to bring a terrible disaster on ourselves!”

1 Chronicles 21:15

And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the Lord saw it and relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the Lord was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Isaiah 48:18

If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your well-being like the waves of the sea.

Psalm 106:45

for their sake he remembered his covenant and out of his great love he relented.

1 Samuel 15:35

Until the day Samuel died, he did not go to see Saul again, though Samuel mourned for him. And the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.

Deuteronomy 32:36

The Lord will vindicate his people and relent concerning his servants when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.

Deuteronomy 32:29

If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their end will be!

Deuteronomy 5:29

Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!

James 1:17

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

Hebrews 3:17

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

Malachi 3:6

“I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.

Hosea 11:8

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboyim? My heart is changed within me; all my compassion is aroused.

Psalm 119:158

I look on the faithless with loathing, for they do not obey your word.

Psalm 110:4

The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.”

Psalm 95:10

For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.’

Psalm 81:13

“If my people would only listen to me, if Israel would only follow my ways,

Psalm 78:40

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the wasteland!

Romans 11:29

for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.

Genesis 6:7

So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”

Jeremiah 18:7

If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed,