Psalms 53:3
\53:2\God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.
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Job 15:16How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
Isaiah 53:6We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.
Jeremiah 8:5Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.
Zephaniah 1:6And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.
2 Corinthians 7:1Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.
3 John 1:11My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 53:2-6
Human Depravity. 1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. 2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. 3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God. 5 There were… Read the whole commentary →