Psalms 14:6 — Bible Verse (KJV)

Psalms 14:6 in Context — Psalms 14

⁴ Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.

⁵ There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

⁶ Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.

⁷ Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

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What Does Psalms 14:6 Mean?

John 14:6 — 'I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me' — is the most exclusive claim Jesus ever made, and one of the most contested statements in human history. Spoken to his disciples in the Upper Room on the night of his betrayal, it was their comfort against his departure. Thomas had just asked 'Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?' Jesus's answer is astonishing: he does not give a way, a set of teachings, or a spiritual practice — he claims to BE the way. The three titles are deeply theological: the Way — the only path of access to God the Father (contra any route of human religious achievement); the Truth — not merely a teacher of true things but the personal embodiment of all truth and reality; the Life — not a guide to the good life but the source of life itself (cf. John 1:4, 'In him was life'). The exclusionary clause — 'no man cometh unto the Father, but by me' — is what makes this verse controversial. Jesus's claim is not that all religions are false, but that he himself, in his person and redemptive work, is the only means of the intimate filial relationship with God (coming to 'the Father') that humanity was created for.

Psalms 14:6 is from the Book of Psalms (Old Testament), chapter 14. Available translations: King James Version (1611), World English Bible (2000), American Standard Version (1901), Young's Literal Translation (1862), Darby Translation (1890), Geneva Bible (1599). Read Psalms 14 in full context →