Psalms 10:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.””
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“Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, Thou wilt not requireit?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, `It is not required.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 10:13 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 9:5And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
- Genesis 42:22And Reuben responded, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!”
- Numbers 11:20but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”
- Deuteronomy 29:18Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
- 2 Samuel 12:9Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
- 2 Chronicles 24:22Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”
- Job 24:12From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
- Job 24:23He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.
- Psalms 74:10How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
- Psalms 74:18Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
- Luke 10:16Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”
- Luke 11:50As a result, this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world,
- 1 Thessalonians 4:8Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
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