Genesis 6:6

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

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  • 1 Sam 15:11 : 11 "It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments." Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
  • Eph 4:30 : 30 Don't grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
  • Isa 63:10 : 10 But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself fought against them.
  • 2 Sam 24:16 : 16 When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, "It is enough. Now stay your hand." The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
  • Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
  • 1 Sam 15:29 : 29 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent."
  • Exod 32:14 : 14 Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.
  • Jas 1:17 : 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
  • Heb 3:10 : 10 Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, 'They always err in their heart, but they didn't know my ways;'
  • Jer 18:8-9 : 8 if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them. 9 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; 10 if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.
  • Jer 26:19 : 19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn't he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls.
  • Ezek 33:11 : 11 Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?
  • Hos 11:8 : 8 "How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
  • Joel 2:13 : 13 Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
  • Jonah 3:10 : 10 God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn't do it.
  • Mal 3:6 : 6 "For I, Yahweh, don't change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
  • Luke 19:41-42 : 41 When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
  • Rom 11:29 : 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
  • 1 Chr 21:15 : 15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, "It is enough; now stay your hand." The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
  • Ps 78:40 : 40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
  • Ps 81:13 : 13 Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
  • Ps 95:10 : 10 Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."
  • Ps 106:45 : 45 He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
  • Ps 110:4 : 4 Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."
  • Ps 119:158 : 158 I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don't observe your word.
  • Isa 48:18 : 18 Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea:
  • Heb 3:17 : 17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
  • Heb 6:17-18 : 17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
  • Deut 5:29 : 29 Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!
  • Deut 32:29 : 29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
  • Deut 32:36 : 36 For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that [their] power is gone, There is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.
  • 1 Sam 15:35 : 35 Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.

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    19 Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

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