Genesis 6:5

God sees that human wickedness is great and that the inclinations of the human heart are continually evil. This sweeping diagnosis explains why the flood is coming.

Cross-references · 20

• Matt 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
• Rom 1:28–31And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
• Mark 7:21–23For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
• Jer 4:14O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
• Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
• Eph 2:1–3And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
• Eccl 9:3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
• Gen 8:21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
• Eccl 7:29Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
• Ps 53:2God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
• 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.
• Ps 14:1–4The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
• 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;
• Gen 13:13But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
• Gen 18:20–21And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
• Ezek 8:9And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
• Ezek 8:12Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
• Prov 6:18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
• Deut 29:19And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
• Job 15:16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

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