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Psalms 10:13
Psalms 10:13 is verse 13 of Psalms chapter 10, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”
King James Version
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
World English Bible
Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account”?
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Psalms 10:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible
11 He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
12 Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.
13 Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”
14 But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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.
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?’”
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 Samuel 12:10Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
Luke 10:16Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”
1 Thessalonians 4:8Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
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!”
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.”
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,
Luke 11:51from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, all of it will be charged to this generation.