Genesis 6:6

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

Cross References

Genesis 6:7

So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”

2 Samuel 24:16

And when the angel stretched forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented of the evil, and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:15

And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but when he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw, and he repented of the evil; and he said to the destroying angel, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Psalm 106:45

He remembered for their sake his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

Psalm 110:4

The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.”

Psalm 119:158

I look at the faithless with disgust, because they do not keep thy commands.

Psalm 78:40

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

Psalm 81:13

O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

Psalm 95:10

For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who err in heart, and they do not regard my ways.”

Exodus 32:14

And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people.

Isaiah 48:18

O that you had hearkened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.

Jeremiah 18:7

If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,

Jeremiah 26:19

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, and did not the Lord repent of the evil which he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great evil upon ourselves.”

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them, As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Hosea 11:8

How can I give you up, O Ephraim! How can I hand you over, O Israel! How can I make you like Admah! How can I treat you like Zeboiim! My heart recoils within me, my compassion grows warm and tender.

Joel 2:13

and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repents of evil.

Jonah 3:10

When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them; and he did not do it.

Malachi 3:6

“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

Numbers 23:19

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfil it?

Romans 11:29

For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

Ephesians 4:30

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

Deuteronomy 32:29

If they were wise, they would understand this, they would discern their latter end!

Deuteronomy 32:36

For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none remaining, bond or free.

Deuteronomy 5:29

Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their children for ever!

Hebrews 3:10

Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.’

Hebrews 3:17

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

James 1:17

Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

1 Samuel 15:11

“I repent that I have made Saul king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry; and he cried to the Lord all night.

1 Samuel 15:29

And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”

1 Samuel 15:35

And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.