Psalms 53:1

The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that does good.

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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.

In Context

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

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Cross References

Genesis 6:11The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Deuteronomy 12:31You shall not do so unto the LORD your God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hates, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

1 Kings 14:24And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

Job 15:16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity like water?

Psalms 10:6He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

Psalms 10:13Wherefore does the wicked contemn God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 53:1

God speaks once, yea, twice, and it were well if man would even then perceive it; God, in this psalm, speaks twice, for this is the same almost verbatim with the fourteenth psalm. The scope of it is to convince us of our sins, to set us a blushing and trembling because of them; and this is what we are with so much difficulty brought to that there is need of line upon line to this purport. The word, as a convincing word, is compared to a hammer, the strokes whereof must be frequently repeated. God, by the psalmist… Read the whole commentary →

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