Psalms 14:1
To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The foole hath said in his heart, There is no God: they haue corrupted, and done an abominable worke: there is none that doeth good.
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Genesis 6:5When the Lord sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill continually,
1 Samuel 25:25Let not my lorde, I pray thee, regard this wicked man Nabal: for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and follie is with him: but I thine handmayde sawe not the yong men of my lord whom thou sentest.
Job 22:13But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?
Psalms 36:1To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid, the servant of the Lord. Wickedness sayeth to the wicked man, euen in mine heart, that there is no feare of God before his eyes.
Psalms 53:1To him that excelleth on Mahalath. A Psalme of David to give instruction. The foole hath saide in his heart, There is no God. they haue corrupted and done abominable wickednes: there is none that doeth good.
Psalms 92:6An vnwise man knoweth it not, and a foole doeth not vnderstand this,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 14:1
It does not appear upon what occasion this psalm was penned nor whether upon any particular occasion. Some say David penned it when Saul persecuted him; others, when Absalom rebelled against him. But they are mere conjectures, which have not certainty enough to warrant us to expound the psalm by them. The apostle, in quoting part of this psalm ( Rom. iii. 10 , &c.) to prove that Jews and Gentiles are all under sin ( ver. 9 ) and that all the world is guilty before God ( ver. 19 ), leads us to understand it, in… Read the whole commentary →