Ecclesiastes 7:29

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Ecclesiastes 7:29

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

God

Genesis 1:26

Genesis 5:1

They

Bible References

God

And God said, "Let us make humankind in our image and according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every moving thing that moves upon the earth."

This is the record of the generations of Adam. When God created Adam, he made him in the likeness of God.

They

When the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food and that it [was] a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make [one] wise, then she took from its fruit and she ate. And she gave [it] also to her husband with her, and he ate.

And Yahweh saw that the evil of humankind [was] great upon the earth, and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart [was] always only evil.

And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top [reaches to] the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

O Yahweh our God, you answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their [wrong] deeds.

Thus they provoked to anger by their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

Be appalled, heavens, at this, and shudder; be utterly desolate," {declares} Yahweh.

"For my people [are] foolish, they have not known me. They [are] foolish children, and they do not have insight. They [are] skillful at doing evil, and they do not know [how] to do good."

Look! The princes of Israel, each [one] according to his strength, they are in you {for the shedding of blood}.

Abandoning the commandment of God, you hold fast to the tradition of men."

saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods who will go on before us! For this Moses, who led us out from the land of Egypt--we do not know what has happened to him!'

For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

What then? Do we have an advantage? Not at all. For we have already charged both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience,

For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another.