Ecclesiastes 7:29

Absolute Wisdom Is Unattainable

²⁸ which my soul continually searches for but does not find: among a thousand people I have found one true man, but among all these I have not found a true woman. ²⁹ Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright, but they pursued many schemes.”

God Created

God Made

Genesis 3:6-7

Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Genesis 1:26-27

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”

Genesis 5:1

These are the family records of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God;

Genesis 6:5-6

When the Lord saw that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil all the time,

Genesis 6:11-12

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness.

Genesis 11:4-6

And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

Psalm 99:8

Lord our God, You answered them.
You were a forgiving God to them,
an avenger of their sinful actions.

Psalm 106:29

They provoked the Lord with their deeds,
and a plague broke out against them.

Psalm 106:39

They defiled themselves by their actions
and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

Jeremiah 2:12-13

Be horrified at this, heavens;
be shocked and utterly appalled.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are fools;
they do not know Me.
They are foolish children,
without understanding.
They are skilled in doing what is evil,
but they do not know how to do what is good.”

Ezekiel 22:6-13

“Look, every prince of Israel within you has used his strength to shed blood.

Mark 7:8-9

Disregarding the command of God, you keep the tradition of men.”

Acts 7:40-43

They told Aaron:

Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what’s happened to him.

Romans 1:21-32

For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.

Romans 3:9-19

What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin,

Ephesians 2:2-3

in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler who exercises authority over the lower heavens, the spirit now working in the disobedient.

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.