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, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
• Ps 14:1–7For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.
• Luke 12:20“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared — whose will they be?’
• Rom 3:10–31As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.
• Rom 1:28Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
• Ps 10:13Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?”
• Job 15:16how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
• 1 Kgs 14:24There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.
• Ps 10:11He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”
• Lev 18:24–30“‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.
• Deut 12:31You shall not do so to Yahweh your God; for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
• 1 Kgs 12:26Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to David’s house.
• Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
• Eph 5:12For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.
• Gen 6:11–13The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
• Gen 6:5–6Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
• Matt 5:22But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment; and whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
• Rom 1:21Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
• 1 Pet 4:3For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
• Ps 10:6He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”
• Ps 88:1A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
• Ps 92:6A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:
• Ezek 16:51Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.
• Ezek 16:47Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

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