Genesis 6:5
“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.”
KJV
Read in Genesis 6Meaning
The flood narrative grounds judgment in pervasive moral corruption rather than in ordinary human growth or culture.
Read carefully
The verse describes the moral crisis of this narrative and should not be reduced to a slogan that erases its flood context.
Reflection
Genesis locates the crisis in the persistent moral direction of human life and the human heart.