THEOSISJeremiah 17:9Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?
עָקֹ֥ב הַלֵּ֛ב מִכֹּ֖ל וְאָנֻ֣שׁ ה֑וּא מִ֖י יֵדָעֶֽנּוּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
- Mark 7:22Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
- Matt 15:19For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.
- Prov 28:26He that trusteth in his own heart, is a fool: but he that walketh wisely, he shall be saved.
- Eccl 9:3This is a very great evil among all things that are done under the sun, that the same things happen to all men: whereby also the hearts of the children of men are filled with evil, and with contempt while they live, and afterwards they shall be brought down to hell.
- Heb 3:12Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God.
- Gen 6:5And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,
- Jas 1:14But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.