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 53:1–3The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
• Ps 14:1–3The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
• Rom 3:23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
• 1 Jn 1:8–10If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
• Mark 7:21–22For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
• Mark 10:18And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
• Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
• Eph 5:3–6But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
• 1 Tim 1:9–10Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
• 1 Pet 1:16Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
• Gal 5:19–21Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
• Col 3:5–9Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
• Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
• 2 Tim 3:2–5For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
• Eph 2:1–3And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
• Rom 3:4God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
• 1 Cor 6:9–10Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
• Job 15:16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
• Rev 22:15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
• Rev 21:8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
• Isa 8:20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
• Rom 11:8(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
• Rom 15:3–4For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

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