Psalm 53:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; they commit abominable acts; there is no one who does good.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THE [empty-headed] fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt and evil are they, and doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ 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.

Common English Bible

¹ Fools say in their hearts, There’s no God. They are corrupt and do horrible deeds; not one of them does anything good.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Unto the end. In verses, the understanding of David,

Psalm 53:1 Cross References

Psalm 10:4

In the pride of their countenance the wicked say, “God will not seek it out”; all their thoughts are, “There is no God.”

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

Job 15:16

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!

1 Kings 14:24

there were also illicit priests in the land. They committed all the abominations of the nations that the Lord had driven out before the people of Israel.

1 Peter 4:3

You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

Ephesians 5:12

For it is shameful even to mention what such people do secretly,

Matthew 5:22

But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgment, and if you insult a brother or sister, you will be liable to the council, and if you say, ‘You fool,’ you will be liable to the hell of fire.

Psalm 10:13

Why do the wicked renounce God and say in their hearts, “You will not call us to account”?

Psalm 10:11

They think in their heart, “God has forgotten; he has hidden his face; he will never see it.”

Psalm 10:6

They think in their heart, “We shall not be moved; throughout all generations we shall not meet adversity.”

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one can.

1 Kings 12:26

Then Jeroboam said to himself, “Now the kingdom may well revert to the house of David.

Deuteronomy 12:31

You must not do the same for the Lord your God, because every abhorrent thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods. They would even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

Romans 1:21

for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

Ezekiel 16:51

Samaria has not committed half your sins; you have committed more abominations than they and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.

Ezekiel 16:47

You not only followed their ways and acted according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

Psalm 92:6

The dullard cannot know; the stupid cannot understand this:

Psalm 88:1

O Lord, God of my salvation, at night, when I cry out before you,