They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Parallel translations
- WEB They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”
- BSB All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
- NKJV They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.”
- NASB They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt; There is no one who does good, There is not even one.”
- NLT All have turned away; all have become useless. No one does good, not a single one.”
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Quick answer
All people have turned away from God and become corrupt, with no one doing true good. It underscores the total reach of sin across humanity.
Overview
Paul completes the quotation from Psalm 14, stressing that humanity has universally 'turned aside' from God's way and become unprofitable. The repeated 'no, not one' echoes verse 10, framing the human condition as comprehensively fallen. This sober diagnosis prepares the reader to receive the good news that righteousness comes as a gift through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 19
- Ps 14:3They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
- Eccl 7:20For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
- Isa 59:8The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
- Isa 64:6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
- Isa 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- Eccl 7:29Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
- Eph 2:3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
- 1 Pet 2:25For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
- Phlm 1:11Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
- Eph 2:8–10For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
- Gen 1:31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
- Exod 32:8They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
- Titus 2:13–14Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
- Jas 1:16–17Do not err, my beloved brethren.
- Jer 2:13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- Gen 6:6–7And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
- Ps 53:1The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
- Matt 25:30And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Phil 2:12–13Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
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