Ecclesiastes 7:29

The Preacher's one firm finding: God made humanity upright, but people have invented countless crooked schemes. The fault lies in human sin, not in the Creator.

Cross-references · 18

• Jer 4:22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
• Gen 6:11–12The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
• Mark 7:8–9For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
• Gen 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
• Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Gen 6:5–6And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
• Jer 2:12–13Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
• Eph 2:2–3Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
• Gen 1:26–27And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
• Ps 106:39Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
• Ps 99:8Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.
• Gen 3:6–7And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
• Ps 106:29Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
• Gen 11:4–6And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
• Rom 3:9–19What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
• Acts 7:40–43Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
• Rom 1:21–32Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
• Ezek 22:6–13Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.

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