Ecclesiastes 7:20
There's not one good person in all the world who always does what is right and never sins.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
In Context
19Wisdom gives a wise person greater power than ten town councilors.
Cross References
1 Samuel 20:34Jonathan left the table absolutely furious. He would not eat anything on the second day of the festival, for he was so upset by the shameful way his father had treated David.
2 Chronicles 6:36If they sin against you—and there is nobody who does not sin—you may become angry with them and hand them over to an enemy who takes them away as prisoners to a foreign land, near or far.
Psalms 14:1Only fools tell themselves, “God doesn't exist.” They are completely immoral; they commit terrible sins; not a single one of them does anything good.
Psalms 130:3Lord, if you kept a list of sins, who could escape being condemned?
Proverbs 20:9Who can claim, “I've made sure my conscience is clean; I've purified myself from sin”?
Isaiah 64:6We've all become unclean, and all the good things we do are like dirty rags. We wither and die like autumn leaves, and our sins, like the wind, blow us away.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:12-23
The Advantages of Wisdom. 11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. 12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. 13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? 14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.… Read the whole commentary →