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
Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear. Instead they stiffened their neck (became stubborn). They did more evil than their fathers.
Jeremiah 13:10
The people of Judah are evil and stubborn. They do not listen to me. They do whatever they want and even worship other gods. When I am finished with these people, they will be good for nothing, just like this linen belt.
2 Timothy 3:13
But evil men and impostors will become worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Imagination
Jeremiah 7:24
Yet they did not obey or incline their ear. They walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart. They went backward and not forward.
Jeremiah 9:14
They have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals as their fathers taught them.
Jeremiah 13:10
The people of Judah are evil and stubborn. They do not listen to me. They do whatever they want and even worship other gods. When I am finished with these people, they will be good for nothing, just like this linen belt.
Deuteronomy 29:19
Be sure there is no one here today who hears these solemn demands and yet convinces himself that all will be well with him. He would go stubbornly on his own way. That would destroy all of you, good and evil alike.
1 Samuel 15:23
The sin of divination is rebellion. Wickedness and idolatry are arrogance. They are evil. Because you rejected the word of Jehovah, he rejects you as king.
Evil
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately corrupt. Who can understand it?
Genesis 6:5
Jehovah saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become. Every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.
Genesis 8:21
Jehovah smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: Never again will I curse the ground because of man, for the intent of his heart is evil from childhood. I will never again destroy every living creature, as I have done.
Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and he lives a long life, yet I know that it will be well with those who respect (reverence) God and worship him.
Ecclesiastes 9:3
This evil is in all things that are done under the sun. There is one event that comes to all. The heart of the sons of men is full of evil. Madness is in their heart while they live. After that they go to the dead (die).
Mark 7:21
It is from the heart that evil thoughts come such as: fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
Hebrews 3:12
Be careful, brothers and sisters, that none of you develop a wicked heart lacking faith and turning away (departing) from the living God.
General references
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately corrupt. Who can understand it?