Genesis 6:5
The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
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6The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
Cross References
Genesis 13:13Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the LORD.
Deuteronomy 29:19and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.
Job 22:15Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
Psalms 53:2God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.
Ecclesiastes 7:29Behold, I have only found this: that God made mankind upright; but they search for many inventions.”
Jeremiah 4:14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within 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 →