Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
⛓ Read Genesis 6 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Jesus relocates defilement to the heart: 'from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts.' Genesis 6:5 ('every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually') is the foundational OT diagnosis of the heart as the source of evil intent. Strong thematic coherence; the vice-list in 7:21-22 unpacks this anthropology.
Medium confidence'Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil' — anthropological root of Jesus' claim that defilement proceeds from the heart, source of 'evil thoughts' (Mt 15:19).
Medium confidenceEcho8
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The catalog of human depravity in the 'last days' draws on the antediluvian corruption tradition, where the wickedness of mankind was great and every imagination of the heart was only evil continually. The eschatological intensification of vice echoes the primeval flood-generation's total moral collapse.
Medium confidenceThe verdict that human wickedness was great and every intention only evil supplies the moral indictment implicit in the days-of-Noah comparison: heedless wickedness met by sudden judgment. Strengthens the Coherence of the flood typology.
Medium confidence"Evil desire" and the inventory of corrupt members recall the prophetic-Pentateuchal diagnosis that the inclination of the human heart is only evil continually. Faint; the vice list is a Hellenistic-Jewish form and contact is conceptual (the earthly members, depraved passion) rather than lexical.
Low confidence'Doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind' echoes the flood-era verdict that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil. The OT yetzer-language of corrupt human imagination coheres with Paul's 'desires of the mind.'
Low confidence'Their works were evil' (3:19) faintly recalls the flood-judgment verdict that human deeds were continually evil; low volume, judgment register.
Low confidenceThe heedless eating, drinking, and marrying corresponds to the corrupt complacency of Noah's generation (Gen 6:5,11-12), heightening the contrast with the abrupt judgment.
Low confidence'Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil' as the flood-era summary of total depravity; faint background to 'filled with all unrighteousness.' Little verbal contact, contested.
Low confidence'In my flesh dwells no good thing' (7:18) resonates with the antediluvian verdict that 'every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil continually'—the OT root of the doctrine of indwelling evil impulse.
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