12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-18)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. If Jew and Gentile stand so much upon the same level before God, what advantage then hath the Jew ? Hath not God often spoken with a great deal…
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