Genesis 6:5 · WEB
“Yahweh 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.”
— Genesis 6:5
Era
Patriarchs (~2000 BC)
Emotion
grieving
Type
narrative
Emotional genome
Comfort power
Quotability
Memorability
Crisis relevance
Standalone
human depravitysindivine observationmoral corruption
This verse is part of Genesis 6. The full chapter reveals the story around it.
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