Psalms 14:1

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; there is none that doeth good.

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

In Context

2The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek after God.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:5And the LORD 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.

1 Samuel 25:25Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: hut I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.

Job 22:13And thou sayest, What doth God know? can he judge through the thick darkness?

Psalms 36:1The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.

Psalms 53:1The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity; there is none that doeth good.

Psalms 92:6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand 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 →

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