New English Translation
Psalms 14:3
3Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!
Psalms 14:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
- New International Version (NIV)All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
- English Standard Version (ESV)They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They have all turned aside, They have together become corrupt; There is none who does good, No, not one.
Context of Psalms 14:3
1Fools say to themselves, “There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right. 2The Lord looks down from heaven at the human race, to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks God. Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one! 4All those who behave wickedly do not understand – those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the Lord. 5They are absolutely terrified, for God defends the godly.
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הַכֹּ֥ל סָר֮ יַחְדָּ֪ו נֶ֫אֱלָ֥חוּ אֵ֤ין עֹֽשֵׂה־ט֑וֹב אֵ֝֗ין גַּם־אֶחָֽד׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 14:3
- Psalms 119:176I have wandered off like a lost sheep. Come looking for your servant, for I do not forget your commands.
- Ecclesiastes 7:29This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes.
- Isaiah 53:6All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the Lord caused the sin of all of us to attack him.
- Isaiah 59:7They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.
- Jeremiah 2:13“Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”
- Romans 3:10just as it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one,
- Ephesians 2:3among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…
- 2 Peter 2:13suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.
- Psalms 38:5My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins.
- Job 15:16how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!
- Isaiah 64:6We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind.
- Ezekiel 36:25I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.
- 2 Corinthians 7:1Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.
- Psalms 14:1Fools say to themselves, “There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.
- Exodus 8:31and the Lord did as Moses asked – he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. Not one remained!
- Exodus 12:30Pharaoh got up in the night, along with all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house in which there was not someone dead.
Commentaries on Psalms 14:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3They are all gone aside - They will not walk in the straight path. They seek crooked ways; and they have departed from truth, and the God of truth. They are all together become filthy - נאלחו neelachu . They are become sour and rancid; a metaphor taken from milk that has fermented and turned sour, rancid, and worthless. There is none that doeth good, no, not one - This is not only the state of heathen Babylon! but the state of the whole inhabitants of the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3They are all gone aside - This verse states the result of the divine investigation referred to in the previous verse. The result, as seen by God himself, was, that “all” were seen to have gone aside, and to have become filthy. The word rendered “gone aside” means properly to go off, to turn aside or away, to depart; as, for example, to turn out of the right way or path, Exodus 32:8. Then it means to turn away from God; to fall away from his worship; to…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-3From heaven (Psalms 33:13; 80:14; 102:19), the Lord sees the wicked, who are clearly evil (Psalm 11:3–5). All humans lack wisdom and do not live in the way God originally intended for them (Psalm 10:4–11; see Romans 1–3).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. filthy--literally, "spoiled," or, "soured," "corrupted" (Job 15:16; Ro 3:12).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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