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12 All have turned away;
    all have become useless.
No one does good,
    not a single one.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:10-12 Pss 14:1-3; 53:1-3 (Greek version).

But no, all have turned away;
    all have become corrupt.[a]
No one does good,
    not a single one!

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Footnotes

  1. 14:3 Greek version reads have become useless. Compare Rom 3:12.

20 Not a single person on earth is always good and never sins.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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25 Once you were like sheep
    who wandered away.
But now you have turned to your Shepherd,
    the Guardian of your souls.

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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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Footnotes

  1. 11 Onesimus means “useful.”

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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God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 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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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.

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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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Footnotes

  1. 1:17a Greek from above, from the Father of lights.
  2. 1:17b Some manuscripts read He never changes, as a shifting shadow does.

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