Genesis 6:5
Then God, seeing that the wickedness of men was great upon the earth and that every thought of their heart was intent upon evil at all times,
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6repented that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with a sorrow of heart,
Cross References
Genesis 13:13But the men of Sodom were very wicked, and they were sinners before the Lord beyond measure.
Deuteronomy 29:19And if he were to hear the words of this oath, he would bless himself in his own heart saying: ‘There will be peace for me, and I will walk in the depravity of my heart.’ And so, the one who is inebriated would consume the one who is thirsty.
Job 22:15Do you not want to tend the path of the ages, which wicked men have spurned?
Psalms 53:2when the Ziphites had arrived and they said to Saul, “Has not David been hidden with us?”
Ecclesiastes 7:29which my soul still seeks and has not found. One man among a thousand, I have found; a woman among them all, I have not found.
Jeremiah 4:14Wash your heart from malice, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will harmful thoughts abide in you?
Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:5-6
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. 5 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. We have here a further account of the corruption of the old world. When the sons of God had matched with the daughters of men, though it was very… Read the whole commentary →