Jeremiah 17:9
Jeremiah chapter 17 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
KJV
King James Version · 1611The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
Context
v.8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
v.9This passage
v.10I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Hebrews 3:12
Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:
- Matthew 13:15
For this people’s heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.
- James 1:14
but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
- Genesis 6:5
And Jehovah 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.
- Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
- Proverbs 28:26
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool; But whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.