Romans 3:12
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12 All have turned away;
all have become useless.
No one does good,
not a single one.”[a]
Footnotes
- 3:10-12 Pss 14:1-3; 53:1-3 (Greek version).
Psalm 14:3
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3 But no, all have turned away;
all have become corrupt.[a]
No one does good,
not a single one!
Ecclesiastes 7:20
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20 Not a single person on earth is always good and never sins.
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Isaiah 64:6
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6 We are all infected and impure with sin.
When we display our righteous deeds,
they are nothing but filthy rags.
Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall,
and our sins sweep us away like the wind.
Isaiah 59:8
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8 They don’t know where to find peace
or what it means to be just and good.
They have mapped out crooked roads,
and no one who follows them knows a moment’s peace.
Isaiah 53:6
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6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
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29 But I did find this: God created people to be virtuous, but they have each turned to follow their own downward path.”
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1 Peter 2:25
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25 Once you were like sheep
who wandered away.
But now you have turned to your Shepherd,
the Guardian of your souls.
Philemon 11
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11 Onesimus[a] hasn’t been of much use to you in the past, but now he is very useful to both of us.
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- 11 Onesimus means “useful.”
Ephesians 2:3
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3 All of us used to live that way, following the passionate desires and inclinations of our sinful nature. By our very nature we were subject to God’s anger, just like everyone else.
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Ephesians 2:8-10
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8 God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. 10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
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Genesis 1:31
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31 Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!
And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day.
James 1:16-17
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16 So don’t be misled, my dear brothers and sisters. 17 Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens.[a] He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.[b]
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Titus 2:13-14
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13 while we look forward with hope to that wonderful day when the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, will be revealed. 14 He gave his life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us his very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds.
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Philippians 2:12-13
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Shine Brightly for Christ
12 Dear friends, you always followed my instructions when I was with you. And now that I am away, it is even more important. Work hard to show the results of your salvation, obeying God with deep reverence and fear. 13 For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.
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Matthew 25:30
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30 Now throw this useless servant into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
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Jeremiah 2:13
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13 “For my people have done two evil things:
They have abandoned me—
the fountain of living water.
And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns
that can hold no water at all!
Psalm 53:1
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Psalm 53
For the choir director: A meditation; a psalm[a] of David.
1 Only fools say in their hearts,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and their actions are evil;
not one of them does good!
Footnotes
- 53:Title Hebrew According to mahalath; a maskil. These may be literary or musical terms.
Exodus 32:8
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8 How quickly they have turned away from the way I commanded them to live! They have melted down gold and made a calf, and they have bowed down and sacrificed to it. They are saying, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”
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Genesis 6:6-7
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6 So the Lord was sorry he had ever made them and put them on the earth. It broke his heart. 7 And the Lord said, “I will wipe this human race I have created from the face of the earth. Yes, and I will destroy every living thing—all the people, the large animals, the small animals that scurry along the ground, and even the birds of the sky. I am sorry I ever made them.”
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