They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
Parallel translations
- KJV They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
- BSB All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
- NKJV They have all turned aside, They have together become corrupt; There is none who does good, No, not one.
- NASB They have all turned aside, together they are corrupt; There is no one who does good, not even one.
- NLT But no, all have turned away; all have become corrupt. No one does good, not a single one!
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Quick answer
All people have turned aside and become corrupt; not one does good on their own. It matters because it teaches the universal sinfulness of humanity apart from grace.
Overview
God's heavenly inspection yields a sweeping verdict: everyone has gone astray and together become corrupt, with no exception. This is one of Scripture's strongest statements of original and universal sin. Paul cites it in Romans 3:10-12 to silence all human boasting and to show that justification can come only as a gift through faith in Jesus Christ.
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- Rom 3:10–12As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.
- Isa 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- Isa 64:6For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
- Rom 3:23for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
- Ps 14:1For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.
- Isa 59:13–15transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
- Isa 59:7–8Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. desolation and destruction are in their paths.
- Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
- Ps 58:3The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
- Eph 2:3among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
- Ps 143:2Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
- Ezek 36:25I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
- 2 Pet 2:13–15receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
- Jer 2:13“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- 2 Cor 7:1Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
- Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
- Ps 38:5My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
- Eccl 7:29Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”
- Deut 1:35“Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,
- Job 15:16how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
- 1 Cor 6:5I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?
- Exod 12:30Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
- Exod 8:31Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. There remained not one.
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