But the men of Sodom were exceedingly evil and sinful before Jehovah.

And Jehovah said, The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is exceedingly heavy.

I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.

i1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] i0 par The fool has said in his heart, There is no God! They are corrupt; they have done abominable works, there is no one who does good.

They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, no, not one.

God looked down from Heaven upon the children of mankind to see if any was circumspect, seeking God.

And even as they do not like to have God in their full true knowledge, God gives them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

defamers, haters of God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

What then? Do we surpass them? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God.

Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;

Their feet are swift to shed blood;

and the way of peace they have not known.

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

And Jehovah smelled a soothing aroma. And Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground because of man, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again smite every living thing as I have done.

and so it not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he has blessed himself in his heart, thinking, I shall have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart; and thus to snatch away the watered with the thirsty.

how much more abhorrent and corrupt is man, who drinks injustice like water!

a heart that devises evil plans, feet hurrying to run to evil,

Lo, this only I have found, that God has made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to 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.

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

And He said to me, Go in, and see the evil abominations which they do there.

Then He said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the room of his idols? For they say, Jehovah does not see us, Jehovah has forsaken the land.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual perversions, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

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

All these evil things come from within and defile a man.

And you being dead in trespasses and sins,

among whom also we all formerly conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others;

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil so that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?