Psalm 10:4
New Living Translation
4 The wicked are too proud to seek God.
They seem to think that God is dead.
Psalm 14:1-2
New Living Translation
Psalm 14
For the choir director: A psalm of David.
1 Only fools say in their hearts,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and their actions are evil;
not one of them does good!
2 The Lord looks down from heaven
on the entire human race;
he looks to see if anyone is truly wise,
if anyone seeks God.
Romans 1:28
New Living Translation
28 Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.
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Acts 8:22
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22 Repent of your wickedness and pray to the Lord. Perhaps he will forgive your evil thoughts,
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Genesis 6:5
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5 The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil.
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Romans 1:21
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21 Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused.
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Isaiah 65:2
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2 All day long I opened my arms to a rebellious people.[a]
But they follow their own evil paths
and their own crooked schemes.
Footnotes
- 65:1-2 Greek version reads I was found by people who were not looking for me. / I showed myself to those who were not asking for me. / All day long I opened my arms to them, / but they were disobedient and rebellious. Compare Rom 10:20-21.
Psalm 53:1
New Living Translation
Psalm 53
For the choir director: A meditation; a psalm[a] of David.
1 Only fools say in their hearts,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and their actions are evil;
not one of them does good!
Footnotes
- 53:Title Hebrew According to mahalath; a maskil. These may be literary or musical terms.
Job 22:17
New Living Translation
17 For they said to God, ‘Leave us alone!
What can the Almighty do to us?’
Deuteronomy 8:14
New Living Translation
14 Do not become proud at that time and forget the Lord your God, who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt.
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Exodus 5:2
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2 “Is that so?” retorted Pharaoh. “And who is the Lord? Why should I listen to him and let Israel go? I don’t know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.”
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Ephesians 2:12
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12 In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope.
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Mark 7:21
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21 For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
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Zephaniah 2:3
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3 Seek the Lord, all who are humble,
and follow his commands.
Seek to do what is right
and to live humbly.
Perhaps even yet the Lord will protect you—
protect you from his anger on that day of destruction.
Daniel 5:22-23
New Living Translation
22 “You are his successor,[a] O Belshazzar, and you knew all this, yet you have not humbled yourself. 23 For you have proudly defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!
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- 5:22 Aramaic son.
Jeremiah 4:14
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14 O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart
that you may be saved.
How long will you harbor
your evil thoughts?
Jeremiah 2:31
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31 “O my people, listen to the words of the Lord!
Have I been like a desert to Israel?
Have I been to them a land of darkness?
Why then do my people say, ‘At last we are free from God!
We don’t need him anymore!’
Isaiah 59:7
New Living Translation
7 Their feet run to do evil,
and they rush to commit murder.
They think only about sinning.
Misery and destruction always follow them.
Isaiah 3:9
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9 The very look on their faces gives them away.
They display their sin like the people of Sodom
and don’t even try to hide it.
They are doomed!
They have brought destruction upon themselves.
Isaiah 2:11
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11 Human pride will be brought down,
and human arrogance will be humbled.
Only the Lord will be exalted
on that day of judgment.
Proverbs 30:13
New Living Translation
13 They look proudly around,
casting disdainful glances.
Proverbs 30:9
New Living Translation
9 For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?”
And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God’s holy name.
Proverbs 21:4
New Living Translation
4 Haughty eyes, a proud heart,
and evil actions are all sin.
Proverbs 6:17
New Living Translation
17 haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that kill the innocent,
Psalm 101:5
New Living Translation
5 I will not tolerate people who slander their neighbors.
I will not endure conceit and pride.
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