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Romans 3:10
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The Good Book says, "No one is good enough for God—not one single cowboy.
as it is written, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;
as it is written,"There is none righteous, not even one;
As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;
according as it is written, There is not a righteous [man], not even one;
As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one;
as it is written: There is no one righteous, not even one.
As it is written, "There is no one righteous. No, not one.
As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one.
Thus it stands written, "There is not one righteous man.
As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one:
according as it has been written, "There is not a righteous one , not even one!"
As it is wrytte: There is none righteous, no not one.
as it is written, " there is none righteous, no not one:
As it is written and forever remains written, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS [none that meets God's standard], NOT EVEN ONE.
as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;
as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one;
as it is writte: There is none righteous no not one:
as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
according as it hath been written -- `There is none righteous, not even one;
As the Scriptures say: "There is no one who always does what is right, not even one.
just as it is written: " There is no one righteous , not even one ,
As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one.
The Scriptures tell us, "No one is acceptable to God!
As the Tanakh puts it, "There is no one righteous, not even one! No one understands,
as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one;
As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one.
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
As it is written, "There is no one righteous. No, not one.
As it is written,Psalm 14:1-3; 53:1;">[xr] "Not even one person is righteous.
as it is written, None is righteous, not one.
As it is written: There is none righteous; no, no one:
As the Scriptures say, "No one is righteous— not even one.
The Holy Writings say, "There is not one person who is right with God. No, not even one!
as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;
as it is written: "There is no one who is righteous, not even one;
Even as it is written - there is none righteous, not even one,
As it is written: There is not any man just.
just as it is written, "There is no one righteous, not even one;
As it is written: There is none righteous, no not one.
As the Scriptures say, "There is no one doing what is right, not even one.
as it is written: "THERE IS NO RIGHTEOUS PERSON, NOT EVEN ONE;
As the Scriptures say: "There is no one who is righteous,
as it is writun, For ther is no man iust;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
As it is: Romans 3:4, Romans 11:8, Romans 15:3, Romans 15:4, Isaiah 8:20, 1 Peter 1:16
There: Psalms 14:1-3, Psalms 53:1-3
none: Romans 3:23, Job 14:4, Job 15:14, Job 15:16, Job 25:4, Jeremiah 17:9, Matthew 15:19, Mark 7:21, Mark 7:22, Mark 10:18, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Corinthians 6:10, Galatians 5:19-21, Ephesians 2:1-3, Ephesians 5:3-6, Colossians 3:5-9, 1 Timothy 1:9, 1 Timothy 1:10, 2 Timothy 3:2-5, Titus 3:3, 1 John 1:8-10, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:15
Reciprocal: Exodus 32:24 - So they Psalms 14:3 - all gone Psalms 19:9 - The fear Psalms 33:1 - ye righteous Isaiah 53:6 - All we Isaiah 57:12 - General Isaiah 59:13 - speaking Micah 7:2 - is perished Matthew 9:13 - to call Matthew 12:34 - how John 7:19 - yet John 10:34 - in Romans 1:29 - filled James 3:2 - in James 5:16 - a righteous
Cross-References
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one. The several passages cited here, and in some following verses, are taken out of the Psalms and Isaiah; and are brought to prove, not only that the Jews are no better than the Gentiles, being equally corrupt and depraved as they; but also to show the corrupt state and condition of mankind in general: and the words are not always literally expressed, but the sense is attended to, as in this passage; for in the original text of Psalms 14:1, it is, "there is none that doth good"; from whence the apostle rightly infers, "there is none righteous"; for he that does not do good, is not righteous; and therefore if there is none on earth that does good and does not sin, there is none righteous upon earth, "no, not one" single person. The Jews allegorizing that passage in Genesis 19:31, "there is not a man in the earth to come into us", remark u on it thus,
"Urab qydu vya Nya, "there is not a righteous man in the earth"; and there is not a man that rules over his imagination.''
There is none righteous as Adam was, in a state of innocence; for all have sinned, and are filled with unrighteousness, and are enemies to righteousness; none are righteous by their obedience to the law of works; nor are there any righteous in the sight of God, upon the foot of their own righteousness, however they may appear in their own eyes, and in the sight of others; nor are any inherently righteous, for there is none without sin, sanctification is imperfect; nor is it, either in whole or in part, a saint's justifying righteousness; indeed there is none righteous, no, not one, but those who are justified by the righteousness of Christ imputed to them.
u Midrash Haneelam in Zohar in Gen. fol. 68. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
As it is written - The apostle is reasoning with Jews; and he proceeds to show from their own Scriptures, that what he had affirmed was true. The point to be proved was, that the Jews, in the matter of justification, had no advantage or preference over the Gentiles; that the Jew had failed to keep the Law which had been given him, as the Gentile had failed to keep the Law which had been given him; and that both, therefore, were equally dependent on the mercy of God, incapable of being justified and saved by their works. To show this, the apostle adduces texts to show what was the character of the Jewish people; or to show that according to their own Scriptures, they were sinners no less than the Gentiles. The point, then, is to prove the depravity of the Jews, not that of universal depravity. The interpretation should be confined to the bearing of the passages on the Jews, and the quotations should not be adduced as directly proving the doctrine of universal depravity. In a certain sense, which will be stated soon, they may be adduced as bearing on that subject. But their direct reference is to the Jewish nation. The passages which follow, are taken from various parts of the Old Testament. The design of this is to show, that this characteristic of sin was not confined to any particular period of the Jewish history, but pertained to them as a people; that it had characterised them throughout their existence as a nation. Most of the passages are quoted in the language of the Septuagint. The quotation in Romans 3:10-12, is from Psalms 14:1-3; and from Psalms 53:1-3.Psalms 53:1-6; Psalms 53:1-6 is the same as Psalms 14:1-7, with some slight variations.
(Yet if we consult Psalms 14:1-7 and Psalms 53:1-6, from which the quotations in Romans 3:10-12 are taken, we shall be constrained to admit that their original application is nothing short of universal. The Lord is represented as looking down from heaven, (not upon the Jewish people only, but upon the “children of men” at large, “to see if there were any that did understand and seek God);” and declaring, as the result of his unerring scrutiny, “there is “none” that doeth good, no, not one.”
That the apostle applies the passages to the case of the Jews is admitted, yet it is evident more is contained in them than the single proof of Jewish depravity. They go all the length of proving the depravity of mankind, and are cited expressly with this view. “We have before proved both Jews and Gentiles,” says Paul in Romans 3:9, “that they are all under sin.” Immediately on this, the quotations in question are introduced with the usual formula, “as it is written,” etc. Now since the apostle adduces his Scripture proofs, to establish the doctrine that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin,” we cannot reasonably decide against him by confining their application to the Jews only.
In Romans 3:19 Paul brings his argument to bear directly on the Jews. That they might not elude his aim, by interpreting the universal expressions he had introduced, of all the pagan only, leaving themselves favorably excepted; he reminds them that” whatsoever things the law saith, it saith to them that were under it.” Not contented with having placed them alongside of the Gentiles in Romans 3:9; by this second application of the general doctrine of human depravity, to their particular case, he renders escape or evasion impossible. The scope of the whole passage then, is, that all people are depraved, and that the Jews form no exception. This view is further strengthened by the apostle’s conclusion in Romans 3:20. “Therefore, by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his (God’s) sight.”
“If the words,” says President Edwards, “which the apostle uses, do not most fully and determinately signify an universality, no words ever used in the Bible are sufficient to do it. I might challenge any man to produce any one paragraph in the scriptures, from the beginning to the end, where there is such a repetition and accumulation of terms, so strongly, and emphatically, and carefully, to express the most perfect and absolute universality, or any place to be compared to it.” - “Edwards on Original Sin, - Haldane’s Commentary.”
There is none righteous - The Hebrew Psalms 14:1 is, there is none that doeth good. The Septuagint has the same. The apostle quotes according to the sense of the passage. The design of the apostle is to show that none could be justified by the Law. He uses an expression, therefore, which is exactly conformable to his argument, and which accords in meaning with the Hebrew, “there is none just,” δίκαιος dikaios.
No, not one - This is not in the Hebrew, but is in the Septuagint. It is a strong universal expression, denoting the state of almost universal corruption which existed in the time of the psalmist. The expression should not be interpreted to mean that there was not literally “one pious man” in the nation; but that the characteristic of the nation was, at that time, that it was exceedingly corrupt. Instead of being righteous, as the Jew claimed, because they were Jews, the testimony of their own Scriptures was, that they were universally wicked.
(The design of the apostle, however, is not to prove that there were few or none pious. He is treating of the impossibility of justification by works, and alleges in proof that, according to the judgment of God in the Psalms 14:1 Psalm, there were none righteous, etc., in regard to their natural estate, or the condition in which man is, previous to his being justified. In this condition, all are deficient in righteousness, and have nothing to commend them to the divine favor. What people may afterward become by grace is another question, on which the apostle does not, in this place, enter. Whatever number of pious people, therefore, there might be in various places of the world, the argument of the apostle is not in the least affected. It will hold good even in the millennium!)
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Romans 3:10. As it is written — See Psalms 14:1-3; from which this and the two following verses are taken.
There is none righteous — This is true, not only of the Jews, but of the Gentiles; of every soul of man, considered in his natural and practical state, previously to his receiving the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no righteous principle in them, and, consequently, no righteous act can be expected from them; see on Romans 3:12. God himself is represented as looking down from heaven to see if there were any that feared and sought after him; and yet he, who cannot be deceived, could find none! And therefore we may safely conclude there was none to be found.
