Jeremiah 17:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?”
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“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
King James Version · Public Domain“The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Crooked <FI>is<Fi> the heart above all things, And it <FI>is<Fi> incurable--who doth know it?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 17:9 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 6:5Then 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.
- Genesis 8:21When 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.
- Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- Psalms 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
- Psalms 53:1The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.
- Psalms 64:7But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.
- Proverbs 28:26He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.
- Ecclesiastes 9:3This 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 7:24Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
- Jeremiah 16:12And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
- Matthew 13:15For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
- Matthew 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
- Mark 7:21For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
- Hebrews 3:12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
- James 1:14But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.
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