Psalm 53:1
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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.The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.
In other translations
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.The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.
Hebrew words
אָמַר'amarhe saysH559נָבָלnavala foolH5036בְּלִבּוֹbeliboin heart hisH3820אֵין'einthere notH369אֱלֹהִים'elohim[is] a godH430הִשְׁחִיתוּhishchituthey act corruptlyH7843וְהִתְעִיבוּvehit'ivuand they act abominablyH8581עָוֶל'avelunrighteousnessH5766אֵין'einthere notH369עֹשֵׂה־'oseh-[is one who] doesH6213טוֹב׃tov<of> goodH2896
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Psalm 10:4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
- Psalm 14:1-71 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. 2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. 3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good. 2 The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God. 3 All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one. 4 Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
- Luke 12:20But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
- Romans 3:10-3110 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one. 11 There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. 12 All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.” 13 “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
- Romans 1:28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
- Psalm 10:11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
- Psalm 10:13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”
- Job 15:16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
- 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.There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- 1 Peter 4:3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
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