Ecclesiastes 7:29

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

See, this alone I found, that God made human beings straightforward, but they have devised many schemes.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish; they do not know me; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good.”

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.

Genesis 5:1

This is the list of the descendants of Adam. When God created humans, he made them in the likeness of God.

Psalm 106:39

Thus they became unclean by their acts and prostituted themselves in their doings.

Psalm 106:29

they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

Psalm 99:8

O Lord our God, you answered them; you were a forgiving God to them but an avenger of their wrongdoings.

Ecclesiastes 8:1

Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? Being wise makes one’s face shine, but arrogance changes one’s face.

Ezekiel 28:15

You were blameless in your ways from the day that you were created, until iniquity was found in you.