Ecclesiastes 7:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;
  • 2 Chr 6:36 : 36 If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them, and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away prisoners to a land far off or near;
  • Rom 3:23 : 23 For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God;
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.
  • 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us. 9 If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil. 10 If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.
  • Prov 20:9 : 9 Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.
  • Isa 64:6 : 6 And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.
  • Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright? 15 Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes; 16 How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 3:9-12
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    9What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

    10As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;

    11Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

    12They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

  • Mic 7:2
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    2The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.

  • Ps 14:3
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    3They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.

  • Eccl 7:15
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    15These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

  • Ps 53:1-3
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    1<To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath. Maschil. Of David.> The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

    2God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

    3Every one of them has gone back; they are unclean: there is not one who does good, no, not one.

  • Rom 7:17-21
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    17So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

    18For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.

    19For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.

    20But if I do what I have no mind to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

    21So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.

  • 1 John 5:17
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    17All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.

  • Prov 20:9
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    9Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?

  • Ps 14:1
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    1<To the chief music-maker. Of David.> The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

  • Eccl 8:14
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    14There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.

  • Prov 24:16
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    16For an upright man, after falling seven times, will get up again: but trouble is the downfall of the evil.

  • Job 14:4
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    4If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

  • Eccl 6:1
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    1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;

  • Prov 20:6
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    6Most men make no secret of their kind acts: but where is a man of good faith to be seen?

  • Jas 4:17
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    17The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

  • Prov 17:26
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    26To give punishment to the upright is not good, or to give blows to the noble for their righteousness.

  • Ps 143:2
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    2Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

  • Prov 13:6
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    6Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

  • Job 8:20
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    20Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.

  • Job 33:27
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    27He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

  • Ps 52:7
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    7See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.

  • Prov 29:6
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    6In the steps of an evil man there is a net for him, but the upright man gets away quickly and is glad.

  • Ps 1:5
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    5For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

  • Eccl 3:12
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    12I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.

  • 2 Chr 6:36
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    36If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them, and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away prisoners to a land far off or near;

  • Job 10:7
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    7Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

  • Eccl 3:16
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    16And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.

  • Ps 36:1
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    1<To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord. Of David.> The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes.

  • Eccl 7:21
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    21Do not give ear to all the words which men say, for fear of hearing the curses of your servant.

  • 1 John 1:10
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    10If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.

  • Eccl 9:2
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    2Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.

  • Eccl 1:15
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    15That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.

  • 1 John 1:8
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    8If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

  • Prov 11:31
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    31If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!

  • Ezek 18:5
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    5But if a man is upright, living rightly and doing righteousness,

  • Rom 3:20
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    20Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Ps 36:3
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    3In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

  • Job 7:20
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    20If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

  • Prov 29:27
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    27An evil man is disgusting to the upright, and he who is upright is disgusting to evil-doers.

  • Ps 32:2
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    2Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

  • 1 John 3:7
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    7My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;