Psalms 53:1

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel.

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who tells fortunes, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,

As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will not be on you.

The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.

But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.

You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

“ ‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable.

He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in Yahweh’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through fire to Molech, which I didn’t command them. It didn’t even come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.”

As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.

While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

You shall not do so to Yahweh your God; for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, they have done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to David’s house.

There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?”

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done their abominations; but soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

Samaria hasn’t committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.