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Psalms 14:1

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.

KJV

Psalmus David. Domine, quis habitabit in tabernaculo tuo ? aut quis requiescet in monte sancto tuo ?

Vulgate

Ψαλμὸς τῷ Δαυείδ. Κύριε, τίς παροικήσει ἐν τῷ σκηνώματί σου; καὶ τίς κατασκηνώσει ἐν τῷ ὄρει τῷ ἁγίῳ σου;

LXX

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.

ASV

לַ/מְנַצֵּ֗חַ לְ/דָ֫וִ֥ד אָ֘מַ֤ר נָבָ֣ל בְּ֭/לִבּ/וֹ אֵ֣ין אֱלֹהִ֑ים הִֽשְׁחִ֗יתוּ הִֽתְעִ֥יבוּ עֲלִילָ֗ה אֵ֣ין עֹֽשֵׂה טֽוֹב

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵ֥ין
'yn
noun · 787×
דָּוִ֔ד
dvd
proper_noun · 1067×
הּ
h
verb · 147×
ו
v
noun · 24×
ט֣וֹב
tvb
verb · 562×
י
y
noun · 591×
יַּ֥עַשׂ
y'sh
verb · 2621×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
מְנַצֵּ֥חַ
mntsch
verb · 65×
נִי
ny
verb · 22×
נָבָ֖ל
nbl
adjective · 18×

Intertextual echoes

Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.

  • Rom 3:10 · paraphrase
    "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:"
    Psalm 14: there is none righteous — Paul chains OT texts on human depravity

Themes

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Chapter 9.—Concerning the Foreknowledge of God and the Free Will of Man, in Opposition to the Definition of Cicero. The manner in which Cicero addresses himself to the task of refuting the Stoics, shows that he did not think he could effect anything against them in argument unless he had first demolished divination.194194 De Divinat.ii. And this he attempts to accomplish by den…
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Calvin shows that Paul's conclusion is devastating: there is none righteous, no not one. The advantage of the Jew lay in having the oracles of God, but this did not exempt them from condemnation. By the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified, for the law is a mirror that shows sin, not a ladder to climb to righteous…

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 25:25 — Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom
  • Eph 2:1 — And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
  • Eph 2:12 — That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
  • Gen 6:5 — And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
  • Gen 6:5 — And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
  • Gen 6:11 — The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
  • Gen 6:12 — And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
  • Jer 4:22 — For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
  • Job 5:2 — For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
  • Jude 1:18 — How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
  • Luke 12:20 — But 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?
  • Mark 7:21 — For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
  • Matt 12:34 — O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
  • Matt 15:19 — For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
  • Mic 7:2 — The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
  • Prov 1:7 — The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
  • Prov 27:22 — Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
  • Ps 5:5 — The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
  • Ps 10:4 — The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
  • Ps 10:4 — The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
  • Ps 10:6 — He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
  • Ps 14:3 — They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
  • Ps 17:4 — Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
  • Ps 53:1 — 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.
  • Ps 53:1 — 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.
  • Ps 92:6 — A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
  • Ps 92:6 — A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
  • Ps 94:4 — How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
  • Ps 107:17 — Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
  • Rom 1:21 — Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
  • Rom 3:10 — As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
  • Rom 3:10 — As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
  • Titus 3:3 — For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.