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 come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
• Rom 1:28–31Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
• Mark 7:21–23For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
• Jer 4:14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
• Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
• Eph 2:1–3You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
• Eccl 9:3This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes 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 8:21Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
• Eccl 7:29Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”
• Ps 53:2God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.
• 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.
• Ps 14:1–4For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.
• 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.
• Gen 13:13Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
• Gen 18:20–21Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
• Ezek 8:9He said to me, “Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.”
• Ezek 8:12Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’”
• Prov 6:18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
• Deut 29:19and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.”
• Job 15:16how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

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