Genesis 6:5
Yahweh 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.
Additional Resources
Referenced Verses
- Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
- Gen 8:21 : 21 Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. 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; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
- Mark 7:21-23 : 21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, 22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."
- Rom 1:28-31 : 28 Even 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; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
- Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
- Ezek 8:9 : 9 He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.
- Ezek 8:12 : 12 Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.
- Rom 3:9-9 : 9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin. 10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous. No, not one. 11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God. 12 They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, No, not, so much as one." 13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;" 14 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness." 15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood. 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways. 17 The way of peace, they haven't known." 18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes." 19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
- Eph 2:1-3 : 1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience; 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
- Titus 3:3 : 3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
- Gen 13:13 : 13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
- Gen 18:20-21 : 20 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, 21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me. If not, I will know."
- Deut 29:19 : 19 and 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.
- Ps 14:1-4 : 1 > The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good. 2 Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, To see if there were any who did understand, Who did seek after God. 3 They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one. 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And don't call on Yahweh?
- Ps 53:2 : 2 God looks down from heaven on the children of men, To see if there are any who understood, Who seek after God.
- Prov 6:18 : 18 A heart that devises wicked schemes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,
- Eccl 7:29 : 29 Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.
- Eccl 9:3 : 3 This 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.
- Jer 4:14 : 14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
- Job 15:16 : 16 How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, A man who drinks iniquity like water!
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- Gen 6:6-72 verses82%
6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
7 Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
- Gen 6:11-133 verses82%
11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
13 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
- 77%
21 Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. 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; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
- Gen 6:1-44 verses76%
1 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
3 Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."
4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came to men's daughters. They bore children to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
- 71%
17 I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
- 71%
13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
- 71%
18 A heart that devises wicked schemes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,
- 71%
1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:
- 71%
31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
- 71%
20 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
- 71%
5 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes.
- 70%
21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, cattle, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
- 70%
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.
- 70%
2 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
- 70%
21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
- 69%
12 and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don't listen to me:
- 69%
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
- Ps 53:1-22 verses69%
1 > The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.
2 God looks down from heaven on the children of men, To see if there are any who understood, Who seek after God.
- 69%
11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
- 69%
1 > An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes."
- 69%
23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
- 69%
12 But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.
- 69%
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
- 69%
3 They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.
- 69%
3 This 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.
- 69%
16 How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, A man who drinks iniquity like water!
- 68%
26 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 birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
- 68%
4 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and the heavens.