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

{With bald-faced pride} [the] wicked will not seek [God]. There is no God in any of his thoughts.

And you ask, 'What does God know? Can he judge through deep gloom?

And just as they did not see fit {to recognize God}, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do the things [that are] not proper,

that you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope, and without God in the world.

They are

An oracle: the wicked has rebellion in the midst of his heart. There is no fear of God before his eyes.

{They gush words} unrestrained. All [the] evildoers boast.

And Yahweh saw that the evil of humankind [was] great upon the earth, and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart [was] always only evil.

Ah, sinful nation, a people heavy [with] iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly. They have forsaken Yahweh; they have despised the holy one of Israel. They are estranged [and gone] backward.

Abominable

{How much less} he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water.

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things [when you] are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

For from the heart come evil plans, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, abusive speech.

And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny [him], [because they] are detestable and disobedient, and unfit for every good deed.

For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another.

But [as] for the cowards and unbelievers and detestable persons and murderers and sexually immoral people and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share [is] in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.