Romans 3:10

Paul opens a chain of Old Testament quotations proving that no human being is righteous before God. It matters because it dismantles any claim to innate goodness.

Cross-references · 27

• Ps 53:1–3For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.
• Ps 14:1–3For 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.
• Rom 3:23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
• 1 Jn 1:8–10If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
• Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
• Mark 7:21–22For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
• Mark 10:18“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus replied. “No one is good except God alone.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
• Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
• Eph 5:3–6But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
• 1 Tim 1:9–10We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,
• 1 Pet 1:16for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
• Gal 5:19–21The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
• Col 3:5–9Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
• Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
• 2 Tim 3:2–5For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
• Eph 2:1–3And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
• Rom 3:4Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
• 1 Cor 6:9–10Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
• Job 15:16how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
• Rev 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
• Rev 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
• Isa 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
• Rom 11:8as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”
• Rom 15:3–4For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.”

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