Psalms 14:1 Cross References - ISV

¹ To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.
The Fool and God’s Response Fools say to themselves, “There is no God.” They are corrupt and commit evil deeds; not one of them practices what is good.

⁵ God Decides to Destroy the WorldThe LORD saw that human evil was growing more and more throughout the earth, with every inclination of people’s thoughts becoming only evil on a continuous basis.

¹¹ By this time, the earth had become ruined in God’s opinion and filled with violence. ¹² God looked at the earth, observing how corrupt its population had become, because the entire human race had corrupted itself.

²⁵ Please, your majesty, don’t pay attention to this worthless man Nabal, for he’s just like his name. Nabal is his name and folly is his constant companion. But I, your servant, didn’t see your majesty’s young men whom you sent.

¹⁶ then how much less is one who is abhorred and corrupted, such as a man who drinks injustice like water?”

¹³ You’ve asked, ‘What does God know? Can he sort through pitch black darkness?’

⁴ With haughty arrogance, the wicked thinks, “God will not seek justice.” He always presumes “There is no God.”

¹ To the Director: By the servant of the LORD, David.
An Oracle from the LORD An oracle that came to me about the transgressions of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes. ² He flatters himself too much to discover his transgression and hate it. ³ The words from his mouth are vain and deceptive. He has abandoned behaving wisely and doing good. ⁴ He devises iniquity on his bed and is determined to follow a path that is not good. He does not resist evil.

¹ To the Director: A Davidic instruction about Doeg, the Edomite, when he went to Saul and told him, “David went to the house of Abimelech.”
A Rebuke to the Deceitful Why do you make evil the foundation of your boasting, mighty one? God’s gracious love never ceases. ² Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things and crafts treachery. ³ You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking uprightly. Interlude ⁴ You love all words that destroy, you deceitful tongue! ⁵ But God will tear you down forever; he will take you away, even snatching you out of your tent! He will uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude ⁶ The righteous will fear when they see this, but then they will laugh at him, saying,

¹ To the Director: Upon machalath. A Davidic instruction.
The Fool and God’s Response Fools say to themselves “There is no God.” They are corrupt and commit iniquity; not one of them practices what is good.

³ For I was envious of the proud when I observed the prosperity of the wicked.

⁶ A stupid man doesn’t know, and a fool can’t comprehend this:

⁴ When they speak, they spew arrogance. Everyone who practices iniquity brags about it. ⁵ LORD, they have crushed your people, afflicting your heritage. ⁶ The wicked kill widows and foreigners; they murder orphans. ⁷ They say, “The LORD cannot see, and the God of Jacob will not notice.” ⁸ Pay attention, you dull ones among the crowds! You fools! Will you ever become wise?

¹⁷ Because of their rebellious ways, fools suffered for their iniquities.

⁷ The Major ThemeThe fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

²² “You naïve ones, how long will you love naiveté? And how long will scoffers delight in scoffing or fools hate knowledge?”

¹⁹ Fulfilled longing is sweet to the soul, but avoiding evil is detestable to the fool.

²² Though you crush a fool in a mortar and pestle as someone might crush grain, his stupidity still won’t leave him.

⁴ “Oh, you sinful nation! You people burdened down by iniquity! You offspring of those who keep practicing what is evil! You corrupt children! “They’ve abandoned the LORD; they’ve despised the Holy One of Israel; in their estrangement, they’ve walked away from me.

³⁴ You children of serpents! How can you say anything good when you are evil? The mouth speaks about what overflows from the heart.

¹⁹ It is out of the heart that evil thoughts come, as well as murder, adultery, sexual immorality, stealing, false testimony, and slander.

²⁰ But God told him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you. Now who will get the things you’ve accumulated?’

¹⁹ And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil. ²⁰ Everyone who practices wickedness hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his actions may not be exposed.

²¹ For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him. Instead, their thoughts turned to worthless things, and their senseless hearts were darkened. ²² Though claiming to be wise, they became fools ²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images that looked like mortal human beings, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.
²⁴ For this reason, God delivered them to sexual impurity as they followed the lusts of their hearts and dishonored their bodies with one another. ²⁵ They exchanged God’s truth for a lie and worshipped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
²⁶ For this reason, God delivered them to degrading passions as their females exchanged their natural sexual function for one that is unnatural. ²⁷ In the same way, their males also abandoned their natural sexual function toward females and burned with lust toward one another. Males committed indecent acts with males, and received within themselves the appropriate penalty for their perversion.
²⁸ Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to keep knowing God fully, God delivered them to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done. ²⁹ They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness. They are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, God-haters, haughty, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to their parents, ³¹ foolish, faithless, heartless, and ruthless. ³² Although they know God’s just requirement—that those who practice such things deserve to die—they not only do these things but even applaud others who practice them.

¹⁰ As it is written, “Not even one person is righteous. ¹¹ No one understands. No one searches for God. ¹² All have turned away. They have become completely worthless. No one shows kindness, not even one person!

¹ God Has Brought Us from Death to LifeYou used to be dead because of your offenses and sins ² that you once practiced as you lived according to the ways of this present world and according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now active in those who are disobedient. ³ Indeed, all of us once behaved like them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we were destined for wrath, just like everyone else.

¹² At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from citizenship in Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise. You had no hope and were in the world without God.

¹⁶ They claim to know God, but they deny him by their actions. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified to do anything good.

³ After all, we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and misled. We were slaves to many kinds of lusts and pleasures, spending our days in malice and jealousy. We were despised, and we hated one another.

⁸ But people who are cowardly, unfaithful, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselves in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”