Ecclesiastes 7:20

World English Bible (2000)

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.

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  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
  • 2 Chr 6:36 : 36 "If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that 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 doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
  • 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 righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we haven't 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 pure. I am clean and without sin?"
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
  • Isa 64:6 : 6 For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
  • Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight; 16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 3:9-12
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    9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

    10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

    11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

    12 They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one."

  • 2 The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

  • 3 They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.

  • 15 All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

  • Ps 53:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

    1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

    2 God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.

    3 Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

  • Rom 7:17-21
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    17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

    18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

    19 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.

    20 But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

    21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

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

  • 9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

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

  • 14 There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous 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.

  • 16 for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

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

  • 1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:

  • 6 Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

  • 17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

  • 26 Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity.

  • 2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

  • 6 Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • 20 "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.

  • 27 He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me.

  • 7 "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."

  • 6 An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.

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

  • 12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

  • 36 "If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

  • 7 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

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

  • 1 An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes."

  • 21 Also don't take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;

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

  • 2 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

  • 15 That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.

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

  • 31 Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth; how much more the wicked and the sinner!

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

  • 20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

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

  • 20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

  • 27 A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

  • 2 Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn't impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

  • 7 Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.