Psalm 14:1

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Summary

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} 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.

No

They are

Abominable

Bible References

No

In all his scheming,
the wicked arrogantly thinks:
“There is no accountability,
since God does not exist.”

Yet you say: “What does God know?
Can He judge through thick darkness?

And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.

At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

They are

For the choir director. A psalm of David, the Lord’s servant.An oracle within my heart
concerning the transgression of the wicked person:
There is no dread of God before his eyes,

They pour out arrogant words;
all the evildoers boast.

When the Lord saw that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil all the time,

Oh sinful nation,
people weighed down with iniquity,
brood of evildoers,
depraved children!
They have abandoned the Lord;
they have despised the Holy One of Israel;
they have turned their backs on Him.

Abominable

how much less one who is revolting and corrupt,
who drinks injustice like water?

Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

“This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.

They profess to know God, but they deny Him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified for any good work.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”