Ecclesiastes 7:29
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.””
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“Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they--they have sought out many devices.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ecclesiastes 7:29 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 1:26Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
- Genesis 3:6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
- Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.
- 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 6:11Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.
- Genesis 11:4“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
- Psalms 99:8O LORD our God, You answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, yet an avenger of their misdeeds.
- Psalms 106:29So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
- Psalms 106:39They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
- Jeremiah 2:12Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 4:22“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
- Ezekiel 22:6See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood.
- Ezekiel 28:15From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways— until wickedness was found in you.
- Mark 7:8You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.”
- Acts 7:40They said to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us! As for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’
- Romans 1:21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
- Romans 3:9What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
- Ephesians 2:2in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
- Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
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