Ecclesiastes 7:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Surely there is no one on earth so righteous as to do good without ever sinning.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth who does good and never sins. [Isa. 53:6; Rom. 3:23.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Remember: there’s no one on earth so righteous as to do good only and never make a mistake.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Wisdom has strengthened the wise more than ten princes of a city.

Ecclesiastes 7:20 Cross References

Romans 3:23

since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

James 3:2

For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is mature, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle.

1 Kings 8:46

“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,

Proverbs 20:9

Who can say, “I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin”?

2 Chronicles 6:36

“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far off or near,

Isaiah 64:6

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Psalm 143:2

Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.

Psalm 130:3

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?

Job 33:12

“But in this you are not right. I will answer you: God is greater than any mortal.

Leviticus 13:39

the priest shall make an examination, and if the spots on the skin of the body are of a dull white, it is a rash that has broken out on the skin; he is clean.

1 Samuel 20:34

Jonathan sprang up from the table in fierce anger and ate no food on the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David and because his father had disgraced him.

Psalm 14:1

Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; they do abominable deeds; there is no one who does good.

Psalm 14:3

They have all gone astray; they are all alike perverse; there is no one who does good, no, not one.