Genesis 6:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The Lord saw that the wickedness of humans was great in the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

Now the people of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.

Genesis 8:21

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of humans, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.

Job 15:16

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!

Job 22:15

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

Psalm 53:2

God looks down from heaven on humankind to see if there are any who are wise, who seek after God.

Proverbs 6:18

a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that hurry to run to evil,

Ecclesiastes 7:29

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

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that happens under the sun, that the same fate comes to everyone. Moreover, the hearts of humans are full of evil; madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse— who can understand it?

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?

Ezekiel 8:12

Then he said to me, “Mortal, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’ ”

Ezekiel 8:9

He said to me, “Go in and see the vile abominations that they are committing here.”

Matthew 15:19

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

Matthew 24:37

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

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

All who hear the words of this oath and bless themselves, thinking in their hearts, ‘We are safe even though we go our own stubborn ways’ (thus sweeping away the moist with the dry)—

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.

1 Peter 3:20

who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight lives, were saved through water.