Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
Evil
General references
Bible References
Worse
Jeremiah 7:26
However, they wouldn’t listen to Me or pay attention but became obstinate; they did more evil than their ancestors.
Jeremiah 13:10
These evil people, who refuse to listen to Me, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who have followed other gods to serve and worship—they will be like this underwear, of no use at all.
2 Timothy 3:13
Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Imagination
Jeremiah 7:24
Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention but followed their own advice and according to their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.
Jeremiah 9:14
Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and followed after the Baals as their fathers taught them.”
Jeremiah 13:10
These evil people, who refuse to listen to Me, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who have followed other gods to serve and worship—they will be like this underwear, of no use at all.
Deuteronomy 29:19
When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt, thinking, ‘I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.’ This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.
1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination,
and defiance is like wickedness and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
He has rejected you as king.
and defiance is like wickedness
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
He has rejected you as king.
Evil
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is more deceitful than anything else,
and incurable—who can understand it?
and incurable—who can understand it?
Genesis 6:5
When the Lord saw that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil all the time,
Genesis 8:21
When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, He said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, even though man’s inclination is evil from his youth. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.
Ecclesiastes 8:12
Although a sinner commits crime a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I also know that it will go well with God-fearing people, for they are reverent before Him.
Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one fate for everyone. In addition, the hearts of people are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live—after that they go to the dead.
Mark 7:21 For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,
Hebrews 3:12
Watch out, brothers, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God.
General references
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is more deceitful than anything else,
and incurable—who can understand it?
and incurable—who can understand it?