Genesis 6:5
Good News Translation
When the LORD saw how wicked everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time,

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD saw that the wickedness of humankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD saw how bad the people on earth were and that everything they thought and planned was evil.

New American Bible
When the LORD saw how great the wickedness of human beings was on earth, and how every desire that their heart conceived was always nothing but evil,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,

God.

Genesis 13:13 And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond measure.

Genesis 18:20,21 And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous. . . .

Psalm 14:1-4 Unto the end, a psalm for David. The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God. They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one. . . .

Psalm 53:2 God looked down from heaven on the children of men: to see if there were any that did understand, or did seek God.

Romans 1:28-31 And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient. . . .

Romans 3:9-19 What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin. . . .

every imagination.

Genesis 8:21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

Deuteronomy 29:19 And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless himself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and will walk on in the naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume the thirsty,

Job 15:16 How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?

Proverbs 6:18 A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and him that soweth discord among brethren.

Ecclesiastes 7:29 Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word?

Ecclesiastes 9:3 This is a very great evil among all things that are done under the sun, that the same things happen to all men: whereby also the hearts of the children of men are filled with evil, and with contempt while they live, and afterwards they shall be brought down to hell.

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?

Ezekiel 8:9,12 And he said to me: Go in, and see the wicked abominations which they commit here. . . .

Matthew 15:19 For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

Mark 7:21-23 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, . . .

Ephesians 2:1-3 And you, when you were dead in your offences and sins, . . .

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

thoughts.

Jeremiah 4:14 Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?

continually.

Context
Corruption on the Earth
4Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown. 5And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,6It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,…
Cross References
Matthew 15:19
For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

Matthew 24:37
And as in the days of Noe, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Luke 17:26
And as it came to pass in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

Romans 1:28
And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient.

1 Peter 3:20
Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.

Genesis 8:21
And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

Psalm 14:1
Unto the end, a psalm for David. The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God. They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one.

Proverbs 6:18
A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and him that soweth discord among brethren.

Genesis 6:4
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