A Song or Psalm for the Sons of Karah. To the Chief Musician upon mahanath leannoth. A maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one.

There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

A senseless man knows not; neither does a fool understand this.

But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, You fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

But God said unto him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you: then whose shall those things be, which you have prepared?

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in any of his thoughts.

He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it.

Why does the wicked renounce God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it.

And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:

Because, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not proper;

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled withviolence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? no one.

How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

Defile not you yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourns among you:

That the land vomit you not out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

Therefore shall you keep my ordinance, that you commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that you defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.

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

And there were also male prostitutes in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

Yet have you not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they in all your ways.

Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done.

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

For the time past of our life will suffice us to have done the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in licentiousness, lusts, excess of wine, reveling, carousing, and abominable idolatries:

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

Destruction and misery are in their ways:

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Even the righteousness of God which is by faith in Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus.

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Seeing it is one God, who shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.