Psalms 50:17

For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

In Context

16To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?

18When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.

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Cross References

1 Kings 14:9You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.

Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Proverbs 1:29For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

Proverbs 8:36But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”

Proverbs 15:10Discipline is harsh for him who leaves the path; he who hates correction will die.

Jeremiah 8:9The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

Matthew Henry on Psalms 50:17-23

The Character of the Wicked. 16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. 18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. 20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. 21 These things hast thou done,… Read the whole commentary →

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