Psalms 53:1

The fool denies God in his heart and lives corruptly, for no one naturally does good. It exposes the moral consequence of practical atheism.

Cross-references · 24

• Ps 10:4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
• Ps 14:1–7The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
• 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?
• Rom 3:10–31As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
• Rom 1:28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
• Ps 10:13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
• Job 15:16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
• 1 Kgs 14:24And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
• Ps 10:11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
• Lev 18:24–30Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
• Deut 12:31Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
• 1 Kgs 12:26And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:
• Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
• Eph 5:12For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
• Gen 6:11–13The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
• Gen 6:5–6And 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.
• Matt 5:22But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
• Rom 1:21Because 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.
• 1 Pet 4:3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
• Ps 10:6He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
• Ps 88:1O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
• Ps 92:6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
• Ezek 16:51Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
• Ezek 16:47Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

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