Gen 6:5, Jer 3:17, 7:24, Rom 1:21-24, Eph 2:3, 4:17-19 | ESV | STEP | The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth , and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually .

Genesis 6:5

5 ^aThe Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every ^bintention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Jeremiah 3:17

17 At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord, ^cand all nations shall gather to it, ^dto the presence of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.

Jeremiah 7:24

24 ^eBut they did not obey or incline their ear, ^fbut walked in their own counsels and ^gthe stubbornness of their evil hearts, and ^hwent backward and not forward.

Romans 1:21-24

21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they ⁱbecame futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 ^jClaiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and ^kexchanged the glory of ^lthe immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

24 Therefore ^mGod gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to ⁿthe dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

Ephesians 2:3

3 among whom we all once lived in ^othe passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body ^{▼▼Greek flesh} and the mind, and ^qwere by nature ^rchildren of wrath, like the rest of mankind. ^{▼▼Greek like the rest}

Ephesians 4:17-19

The New Life

17 Now this I say and ^ttestify in the Lord, ^uthat you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, ^vin the futility of their minds. 18 They ^ware darkened in their understanding, ^xalienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to ^ytheir hardness of heart. 19 They ^zhave become callous and ^aahave given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.