Romans 3:12
New Living Translation
12 All have turned away;
all have become useless.
No one does good,
not a single one.”[a]
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- 3:10-12 Pss 14:1-3; 53:1-3 (Greek version).
Psalm 14:3
New Living Translation
3 But no, all have turned away;
all have become corrupt.[a]
No one does good,
not a single one!
Ecclesiastes 7:20
New Living Translation
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
New Living Translation
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
New Living Translation
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
New Living Translation
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
New Living Translation
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
New Living Translation
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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