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Romans 3:10

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

KJV

καθὼς γέγραπται ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν δίκαιος οὐδὲ εἷς,

Greek NT

sicut scriptum est : Quia non est justus quisquam :

Vulgate

as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;

ASV

As it is written: There is not any man just.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γράφω
grapho
verb · 192×
δίκαιος
dikaios
adjective · 79×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
καθώς
kathos
adverb · 181×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὐδέ
oude
conjunction · 137×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Intertextual echoes

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

  • Ps 14:1 · paraphrase
    "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good."
    Psalm 14: there is none righteous — Paul chains OT texts on human depravity

Themes

Historic Christian voices

10 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Calvin shows that Paul's conclusion is devastating: there is none righteous, no not one. The advantage of the Jew lay in having the oracles of God, but this did not exempt them from condemnation. By the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified, for the law is a mirror that shows sin, not a ladder to climb to righteous…
Heidelberg Catechism · 3 passages
Q. What must you know to live and die in the joy of this comfort? A. Three things: first, how great my sin and misery are; second, how I am set free from all my sins and misery; third, how I am to thank God for such deliverance.
Q. Can you live up to all this perfectly? A. No. I have a natural tendency to hate God and my neighbor.
Q. How are you right with God? A. Only by true faith in Jesus Christ. Even though my conscience accuses me of having grievously sinned against all God's commandments and of never having kept any of them, and even though I am still inclined toward all evil, nevertheless, without my deserving it at all, out of sheer grace, God grants and credits to me the perfect satisfaction, ri…
Canons of Dort · 2 passages
Human beings were originally created in the image of God and were furnished in mind with a true and salutary knowledge of their Creator and of all things spiritual, in will and heart with righteousness, and in all emotions with purity; indeed, the whole human being was holy. But rebelling against God at the devil's instigation and by their own free will, they deprived themselve…
The Synod rejects the errors of those who teach that unregenerate humanity is not really or totally dead in sins or deprived of all capacity for spiritual good but is able to hunger and thirst for righteousness or life and to offer the sacrifice of a broken and contrite spirit which is pleasing to God.
We believe that man was created in holiness, under the law of his Maker; but by voluntary transgression fell from that holy and happy state; in consequence of which all mankind are now sinners, not by constraint but choice; being by nature utterly void of that holiness required by the law of God, positively inclined to evil, and therefore under just condemnation to eternal ruin…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 6:9 — Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
  • 1John 1:8 — If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
  • 1Pet 1:16 — Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
  • 1Tim 1:9 — Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of moth
  • 2Tim 3:2 — For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
  • Col 3:5 — Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
  • Eph 2:1 — And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
  • Eph 5:3 — But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
  • Gal 5:19 — Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
  • Isa 53:6 — 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.
  • Isa 57:12 — I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
  • Jas 3:2 — For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
  • Jas 5:16 — Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
  • Jer 17:9 — The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
  • Job 14:4 — Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
  • Job 15:14 — What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
  • Job 15:16 — How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
  • Job 25:4 — How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
  • Mark 7:21 — For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
  • Mark 10:18 — And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
  • Matt 9:13 — But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
  • Matt 12:34 — O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
  • Matt 15:19 — For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
  • Matt 15:19 — For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
  • Ps 14:1 — The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
  • Ps 14:1 — The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
  • Ps 14:3 — They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
  • Ps 33:1 — Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
  • Ps 53:1 — The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
  • Ps 53:1 — The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
  • Rev 22:15 — For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
  • Rom 3:4 — God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
  • Rom 3:23 — For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
  • Titus 3:3 — For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.