Psalms 50:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?”
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“To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?”
King James Version · Public Domain“But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth,”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee--to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 50:16 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 25:14The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.
- Psalms 78:36But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.
- Proverbs 26:7Like lame legs hanging limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
- Isaiah 1:11“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
- Isaiah 29:13Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
- Isaiah 48:1“Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, who invoke the God of Israel— but not in truth or righteousness—
- Isaiah 48:22“There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”
- Isaiah 55:6Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
- Isaiah 58:1“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.
- Jeremiah 7:4Do not trust in deceptive words, chanting: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
- Ezekiel 18:27But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.
- Ezekiel 20:37I will make you pass under the rod and will bring you into the bond of the covenant.
- Matthew 7:3Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
- Matthew 7:22Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’
- John 4:24God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”
- Acts 19:13Now there were some itinerant Jewish exorcists who tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those with evil spirits. They would say, “I bind you by Jesus, whom Paul proclaims.”
- Romans 2:17Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
- 1 Corinthians 9:27No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
- Hebrews 8:9It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not abide by My covenant, and I disregarded them, declares the Lord.
- 2 Peter 2:15They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
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