Genesis 6:5

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Summary

And GOD 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.

God

Every imagination

General references

Jeremiah 17:9

Bible References

God

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before Jehovah, exceedingly so.

And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God! They acted corruptly; they have done abominable works, there is none who does good.

God looked down from Heaven on the sons of mankind to see if any was discerning, who was seeking God.

And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right,

What then? Do we excel? No, in no way; for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks all with being under sin,

Every imagination

And Jehovah smelled a sweet odor. And Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. And I will not again smite every living thing as I have done.

and it happens when he hears the words of this curse, that he shall bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to snatch away the drunken with the thirsty.

How much more hateful and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

a heart that plots wicked plans, feet hurrying to run to evil,

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

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea, 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.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

And he said to me. Go in and see the evil abominations that they do here.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies;

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

And He has made you alive, who were once dead in trespasses and sins,

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

General references

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?