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 4:22“For my people are foolish, they don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”
• Gen 6:11–12The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
• Mark 7:8–9“For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men — the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”
• Gen 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.
• Titus 3:3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Gen 6:5–6Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
• Jer 2:12–13“Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” says Yahweh.
• Eph 2:2–3in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
• Gen 1:26–27God 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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
• Ps 106:39Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
• Ps 99:8You answered them, Yahweh our God. You are a God who forgave them, although you took vengeance for their doings.
• Gen 3:6–7When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
• Ps 106:29Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.
• Gen 11:4–6They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
• Rom 3:9–19What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
• Acts 7:40–43saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’
• Rom 1:21–32Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
• Ezek 22:6–13“‘“Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.

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