All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
Parallel translations
- WEB They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
- KJV They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not 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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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.
Cross-references & the web
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- Rom 3:10–12As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
- Isa 53:6We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
- Isa 64:6Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
- Rom 3:23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
- Ps 14:1For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
- Isa 59:13–15rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
- Isa 59:7–8Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.
- Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
- Ps 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
- Eph 2:3All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
- Ps 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
- Ezek 36:25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
- 2 Pet 2:13–15The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.
- Jer 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
- 2 Cor 7:1Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
- Ps 119:176I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
- Ps 38:5My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
- Eccl 7:29Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
- Deut 1:35“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
- Job 15:16how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
- 1 Cor 6:5I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers?
- Exod 12:30During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.
- Exod 8:31and the LORD did as Moses requested. He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh and his officials and his people; not one fly remained.
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