Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can under…”

Jeremiah 17:9

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

The heart is deceitfull and wicked aboue all things, who can knowe it?

Darby Translation

The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it?

Young's Literal Translation

Crooked [is] the heart above all things, And it [is] incurable — who doth know it?

Bible in Basic English

The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?

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Cross references

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

Matthew 15:19 Ecclesiastes 9:3 Proverbs 28:26 Hebrews 3:12 Genesis 6:5 Genesis 8:21

Matthew 15:19 · BSB

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.

Ecclesiastes 9:3 · BSB

This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.

Proverbs 28:26 · BSB

He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.

Hebrews 3:12 · BSB

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.

Genesis 6:5 · BSB

Then 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 8:21 · BSB

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all l…

Also

Matthew 13:15

Matthew 13:15 · BSB

For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.

10I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

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