Jeremiah 17:9

Webster's Bible (1833)

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

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  • Mark 7:21-22 : 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.
  • Prov 28:26 : 26 One who trusts in himself is a fool; But one who walks in wisdom, he is kept safe.
  • Heb 3:12 : 12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
  • 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.
  • Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
  • Gen 6:5 : 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.
  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.
  • 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.
  • Ps 53:1-3 : 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. 3 Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
  • Matt 13:15 : 15 For this people's heart has grown callous, Their ears are dull of hearing, They have closed their eyes; Or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their heart, And should turn again; And I would heal them.'
  • Jer 16:12 : 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:
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
  • Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? He who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight: 16 How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, A man who drinks iniquity like water!

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