Psalms 36:2 Cross References

Psalms 36:2

2: In their blind conceit, they cannot see how wicked they really are.

Let none of those who hear the warnings of this curse consider themselves immune, thinking, `I am safe, even though I am walking in my own stubborn way.' This would lead to utter ruin!

In this life they consider themselves fortunate, and the world loudly applauds their success.

For they brag about their evil desires; they praise the greedy and curse the LORD.

Your clothing is stained with the blood of the innocent and the poor. You killed them even though they didn't break into your houses!
And yet you say, `I haven't done anything wrong. Surely he isn't angry with me!' Now I will punish you severely because you claim you have not sinned.

But no, the people are like crafty merchants selling from dishonest scales--they love to cheat.
Israel boasts, "I am rich, and I've gotten it all by myself! No one can say I got it by cheating! My record is spotless!"

Well then, are we Jews better than others? No, not at all, for we have already shown that all people, whether Jews or Gentiles, are under the power of sin.

I felt fine when I did not understand what the law demanded. But when I learned the truth, I realized I had broken the law and was a sinner, doomed to die.

The man wanted to justify his actions, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

And the LORD sent you on a mission and told you, `Go and completely destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, until they are all dead.'
Why haven't you obeyed the LORD? Why did you rush for the plunder and do exactly what the LORD said not to do?"
"But I did obey the LORD," Saul insisted. "I carried out the mission he gave me. I brought back King Agag, but I destroyed everyone else.
Then my troops brought in the best of the sheep and cattle and plunder to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal."
But Samuel replied, "What is more pleasing to the LORD: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Obedience is far better than sacrifice. Listening to him is much better than offering the fat of rams.

The Pharisees, who dearly loved their money, naturally scoffed at all this.
Then he said to them, "You like to look good in public, but God knows your evil hearts. What this world honors is an abomination in the sight of God.

"You say, `That's not true! We haven't worshiped the images of Baal!' But how can you say that? Go and look in any valley in the land! Face the awful sins you have done. You are like a restless female camel, desperate for a male!

"The human heart is most deceitful and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?

So Saul died because he was unfaithful to the LORD. He failed to obey the LORD's command, and he even consulted a medium
instead of asking the LORD for guidance. So the LORD killed him and turned his kingdom over to David son of Jesse.

For they don't understand God's way of making people right with himself. Instead, they are clinging to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. They won't go along with God's way.

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