Genesis 6:5

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Genesis 6:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.

5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

6 And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

7 So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

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Genesis 13:13

But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 18:20

Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,

Genesis 18:21

I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”

Psalms 14:1

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.

Psalms 14:2

The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.

Psalms 14:3

All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Psalms 14:4

Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.

Psalms 53:2

God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.

Romans 1:28

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

Romans 1:29

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

Romans 1:30

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.

Romans 1:31

They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

Romans 3:9

What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.

Romans 3:10

As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.

Romans 3:11

There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.

Romans 3:12

All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”

Romans 3:13

“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”

Romans 3:14

“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

Romans 3:15

“Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Romans 3:16

ruin and misery lie in their wake,

Romans 3:17

and the way of peace they have not known.”

Romans 3:18

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

Genesis 8:21

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

Deuteronomy 29:19

because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

Job 15:16

how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

Proverbs 6:18

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,

Ecclesiastes 7:29

Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Ezekiel 8:9

Then He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked abominations they are committing here.”

Ezekiel 8:12

“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.

Mark 7:21

For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

Mark 7:22

greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

Mark 7:23

All these evils come from within, and these are what defile a man.”

Ephesians 2:1

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

Ephesians 2:2

in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

Titus 3:3

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

Jeremiah 4:14

Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?