Psalm 53:1

Good News Translation

Fools say to themselves, “There is no God.” They are all corrupt, and they have done terrible things; there is no one who does what is right.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:26

He said to himself, “As things are now, if my people go to Jerusalem and offer sacrifices to the Lord in the Temple there, they will transfer their allegiance to King Rehoboam of Judah and will kill me.”

1 Kings 14:24

Worst of all, there were men and women who served as prostitutes at those pagan places of worship. The people of Judah practiced all the shameful things done by the people whom the Lord had driven out of the land as the Israelites advanced into the country.

Job 14:4

Nothing clean can ever come from anything as unclean as human beings.

Job 15:16

And we drink evil as if it were water; yes, we are corrupt; we are worthless.

Psalm 10:11

The wicked say to themselves, “God doesn't care! He has closed his eyes and will never see me!”

Psalm 10:13

How can the wicked despise God and say to themselves, “He will not punish me”?

Psalm 10:4

The wicked do not care about the Lord; in their pride they think that God doesn't matter.

Psalm 10:6

They say to themselves, “We will never fail; we will never be in trouble.”

Psalm 88:1

Lord God, my savior, I cry out all day, and at night I come before you.

Psalm 92:6

This is something a fool cannot know; someone who is stupid cannot understand:

Ezekiel 16:47

Were you satisfied to follow in their footsteps and copy their disgusting actions? No, in only a little while you were acting worse than they were in everything you did.

Ezekiel 16:51

“Samaria did not sin half as much as you have. You have acted more disgustingly than she ever did. Your corruption makes your sisters look innocent by comparison.

Matthew 5:22

But now I tell you: if you are angry with your brother you will be brought to trial, if you call your brother ‘You good-for-nothing!’ you will be brought before the Council, and if you call your brother a worthless fool you will be in danger of going to the fire of hell.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself?’”

Romans 1:21

They know God, but they do not give him the honor that belongs to him, nor do they thank him. Instead, their thoughts have become complete nonsense, and their empty minds are filled with darkness.

Romans 1:28

Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.

Ephesians 5:12

It is really too shameful even to talk about the things they do in secret.)

Deuteronomy 12:31

Do not worship the Lord your God in the way they worship their gods, for in the worship of their gods they do all the disgusting things that the Lord hates. They even sacrifice their children in the fires on their altars.

1 Peter 4:3

You have spent enough time in the past doing what the heathen like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lust, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols.