Ecclesiastes 7:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.

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  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 If they sin against you, (for there is no man that does not sin,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives to the land of the enemy, far or near;
  • 2 Chr 6:36 : 36 If they sin against you, (for there is no man who does not sin,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;
  • Rom 3:23 : 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
  • 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
  • Prov 20:9 : 9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living shall be justified.
  • Isa 64:6 : 6 But 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.
  • Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, He puts no trust in His saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in His sight. 16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who can stand?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 3:9-12
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    9What then? Are we better than they? Not at all: for we have already charged both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

    10As it is written, 'There is none righteous, no, not one:'

    11'There is none who understands, there is none who seeks after God.'

    12'They have all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one.'

  • 2The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt each his brother with a net.

  • 3They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.

  • 15All things have I seen in the days of my vanity; there is a just man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his wickedness.

  • Ps 53:1-3
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    1The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.

    2God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought God.

    3Every one of them has turned back; they have altogether become filthy; there is none who does good, no, not one.

  • Rom 7:17-21
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    17Now then it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

    18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) nothing good dwells: for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.

    19For the good that I want to do, I do not do; but the evil I do not want to do, that I do.

    20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

    21I find then a law, that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

  • 17All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

  • 9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

  • 1The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they have done abominable deeds, there is none who does good.

  • 14There is a vanity which is done upon the earth: there are just men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

  • 16For a just man falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

  • 4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

  • 1There is an evil I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

  • 6Most men will proclaim each his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find?

  • 17Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

  • 26Also, to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for their uprightness.

  • 2And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living shall be justified.

  • 6Righteousness guards him who is upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • 20Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, nor will He help the evildoers:

  • 27He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned and perverted what was right, and it did not profit me;

  • 7Look, this is the man that did not make God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

  • 6In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare; but the righteous sing and rejoice.

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    5Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

  • 12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives.

  • 36If they sin against you, (for there is no man who does not sin,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

  • 7You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of Your hand.

  • 16Moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

  • 1The transgression of the wicked speaks within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

  • 21Also, do not take to heart everything people say, lest you hear your servant curse you.

  • 10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

  • 2All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrifices, and to him that does not sacrifice; as is the good, so is the sinner; and he who swears, as he who fears an oath.

  • 15That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is lacking cannot be counted.

  • 8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

  • 31Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed on earth, much more the wicked and the sinner.

  • 5But if a man is just and does what is lawful and right,

  • 20Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

  • 3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

  • 20I have sinned; what shall I do unto you, O preserver of men? Why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?

  • 27An unjust man is an abomination to the just; and he who is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.

  • 2Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not count iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

  • 7Little children, let no one deceive you: he who does righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.