Psalms 14:1

The practical atheist who lives as if there is no God is a moral fool, and such denial corrupts the whole life. It matters because rejecting God is at root a problem of the heart, not merely the intellect.

Cross-references · 29

• Ps 10:4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
• Ps 53:1The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
• Rom 3:10–12As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
• Rom 1:21–32Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
• Ps 92:6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
• Eph 2:1–3And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
• Prov 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
• Matt 12:34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
• Gen 6:5And 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.
• Luke 12:20But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
• Ps 94:4–8How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
• Prov 13:19The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
• Gen 6:11–12The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
• Prov 27:22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
• Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• John 3:19–20And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
• Eph 2:12That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
• 1 Sam 25:25Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
• Ps 36:1–4The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
• Isa 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
• Titus 1:16They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
• Ps 107:17Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
• Ps 52:1–6Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
• Rev 21:8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
• Job 22:13And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
• Prov 1:22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
• Job 15:16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
• Ps 73:3For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

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