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Psalm 50:16-22

Asaph · ~1000 BC · Status: Future · Confidence: 60%
“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? Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.”
King James Version · the opening — all 7 verses are below
More of Psalm 50 on this sitePsalm 50:3-6

God rebuking hypocritical worship without transformed lives, pointing to the final reckoning for the unrepentant.

Read the whole passage — all 7 verses (KJV)

50:16But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

50:17Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

50:18When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

50:19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

50:20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.

50:21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

50:22Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

Fulfillment References

Matthew 7:21-23 Romans 2:21-24

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