Psalms 53:1 Cross References - BBE

¹ To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath. Maschil. Of David. The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

⁵ And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil. ⁶ And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.

¹¹ And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways. ¹² And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth. ¹³ And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.

²⁴ Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean: ²⁵ And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it. ²⁶ So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you: ²⁷ For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them; ²⁸ So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you. ²⁹ For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people. ³⁰ So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

³¹ Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

²⁶ And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will go back to the family of David:

²⁴ And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

⁴ If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

¹⁶ How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

⁴ The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

⁶ He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble.

¹¹ He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

¹³ Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?

¹ To the chief music-maker. Of David. The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good. ² The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God. ³ They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one. ⁴ Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord. ⁵ Then were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the upright. ⁶ You have put to shame the thoughts of the poor, but the Lord is his support. ⁷ May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.

¹ A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite. O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

⁶ A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in.

⁴⁷ Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways.

⁵¹ And Samaria has not done half your sins; but you have made the number of your disgusting acts greater than theirs, making your sisters seem more upright than you by all the disgusting things which you have done.

²² But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire.

²⁰ But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

²¹ Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.

²⁸ And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

¹⁰ As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness; ¹¹ Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God; ¹² They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one: ¹³ Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips: ¹⁴ Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words: ¹⁵ Their feet are quick in running after blood; ¹⁶ Destruction and trouble are in their ways; ¹⁷ And of the way of peace they have no knowledge: ¹⁸ There is no fear of God before their eyes. ¹⁹ Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God: ²⁰ Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin. ²¹ But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets; ²² That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another, ²³ For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God; ²⁴ And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus: ²⁵ Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment; ²⁶ And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus. ²⁷ What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith. ²⁸ For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law. ²⁹ Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles: ³⁰ If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision. ³¹ Do we, then, through faith make the law of no effect? in no way: but we make it clear that the law is important.

¹² For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words.

³ Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;