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Jeremiah 17:9

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The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?

The heart {H3820} is deceitful {H6121} above all things, and desperately wicked {H605}: who can know {H3045} it?

"The heart is more deceitful than anything else and mortally sick. Who can fathom it?

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

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Cross-References

  • Mark 7:21 (77 votes)

    For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

  • Mark 7:22 (77 votes)

    Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

  • Matthew 15:19 (64 votes)

    For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

  • Proverbs 28:26 (53 votes)

    ¶ He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:3 (53 votes)

    This [is] an evil among all [things] that are done under the sun, that [there is] one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

  • Hebrews 3:12 (52 votes)

    Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

  • Genesis 6:5 (46 votes)

    And GOD 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.