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Romans 3:10-12 KJV
Romans · chapter 3 · verses 10–12
10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.Romans 3:10-12 · King James Version
What Romans 3:10-12 means
Paul is quoting the Psalms back at religious people who assumed the verdict was about somebody else. The repetition is deliberate: no, not one, said twice. This is the bottom of his argument, and everything he says about grace afterwards depends on it landing.
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Romans 3:10-12 in context
8And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Commentary
Cross references
- Psalms 53:1-3
- Psalms 14:1-3
- Romans 3:23
- 1 John 1:8-10
- Job 15:14
- Job 25:4
- Mark 7:21-22
- Mark 10:18
- Psalms 14:2-4
- Psalms 53:2
- Psalms 14:3
- Ecclesiastes 7:20
Key words (Strong's)
- understandethsyniēmito set or bring together, in a hostile sense, of combatants, to put the perception with…G4920 →
- unprofitableachreioōmake useless, render unserviceable, of characterG889 →
- righteousdikaiosrighteous, observing divine laws, in a wide sense, upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping…G1342 →
- togetherhamaat the same time, at once, together, together withG260 →
- writtengraphōto write, with reference to the form of the letters, to delineate letters on a tablet…G1125 →
- writtenhotithat, because, sinceG3754 →
- afterekzēteōto seek out, search for, to seek outG1567 →
- doethpoieōto make, with the names of things made, to produce, construct, form, fashion, etc., to be…G4160 →
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I. Here the apostle answers several objections, which might be made, to clear his way. No truth so plain and evident but wicked wits and corrupt carnal hearts will have something to say against it; but divine truths must be cleared from cavil. Object. 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-18