Psalm 53:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Fool

Matthew 5:22

Luke 12:20

Said

Psalm 10:4

1 Kings 12:26

Romans 1:21

Have done

There is

Romans 3:10

General references

Jeremiah 17:9

Bible References

Fool

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire.

But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

Said

The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will go back to the family of David:

Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.

Have done

Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways.

For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words.

Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

There is

As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;

General references

The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?