Genesis 6:5
Yahweh saw that the wickedness of mankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.
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6Yahweh regretted that he had made mankind on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
Cross References
Genesis 13:13Now the men of Sodom were very wicked sinners against Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 29:19When that person hears the words of this curse, he will bless himself in his heart and say, 'I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This would destroy the wet together with the dry.
Job 22:15Will you keep the old way 1 that wicked men have walked— 1
Psalms 53:2God looks down from heaven on the children of mankind 1 to see if there are any who understand, 1 who seek after him. 1
Ecclesiastes 7:29I have discovered only this: That God created humanity upright, but they have gone away looking for many difficulties.”
Jeremiah 4:14Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you might be saved. How long will your deepest thoughts be about how to sin?
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 →