Romans 3:12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
there is no one who shows kindness;
there is not even one.”
Psalm 14:3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 They have all gone astray; they are all alike perverse;
there is no one who does good,
no, not one.(A)
Ecclesiastes 7:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 Surely there is no one on earth so righteous as to do good without ever sinning.(A)
Read full chapter
Isaiah 64:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth.
We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.(A)
Isaiah 59:8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 The way of peace they do not know,
and there is no justice in their ways.
Their roads they have made crooked;
no one who walks in them knows peace.(A)
Isaiah 53:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have all turned to our own way,
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.(A)
Ecclesiastes 7:29
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
29 See, this alone I found, that God made human beings straightforward, but they have devised many schemes.(A)
Read full chapter
1 Peter 2:25
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
25 For you were going astray like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.[a](A)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 2.25 Or lives
Philemon 11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful[a] to[b] you and to me.
Read full chapter
Ephesians 2:3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,(A)
Read full chapter
Ephesians 2:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God— 9 not the result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we may walk in them.(A)
Read full chapter
Genesis 1:31
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
31 God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.(A)
Read full chapter
James 1:16-17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers and sisters. 17 Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.[a](A)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1.17 Other ancient authorities read variation due to a shadow of turning
Titus 2:13-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior,[a] Jesus Christ.(A) 14 He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.(B)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 2.13 Or of the great God and our Savior
Philippians 2:12-13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Shining as Lights in the World
12 Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence but much more now in my absence, work on your own salvation with fear and trembling,(A) 13 for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Read full chapter
Matthew 25:30
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
30 As for this worthless slave, throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’(A)
Read full chapter
Jeremiah 2:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 for my people have committed two evils:
they have forsaken me,
the fountain of living water,
and dug out cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns
that can hold no water.(A)
Psalm 53:1
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Psalm 53
Denunciation of Godlessness
To the leader: according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.
1 Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt; they commit abominable acts;
there is no one who does good.(A)
Exodus 32:8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’ ”(A)
Read full chapter
Genesis 6:6-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 And the Lord was sorry that he had made humans on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.(A) 7 So the Lord said, “I will blot out from the earth the humans I have created—people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air—for I am sorry that I have made them.”
Read full chapterNew Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.