Psalm 14:3
“They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
KJV
Read in Psalm 14Meaning
The language that all have turned aside is sweeping poetic indictment, not permission to erase moral distinctions or to dehumanize people.
God searches for understanding and faithfulness
The psalm broadens from an individual portrait to humanity under divine scrutiny, stressing the scarcity of true understanding and God-seeking.
Read carefully
The language that all have turned aside is sweeping poetic indictment, not permission to erase moral distinctions or to dehumanize people. Keep the verse within its literary unit.
Reflection
Let this verse examine conduct and trust without turning biblical moral categories into labels for modern groups.