Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
No one understands [everything]. No one looks to God [all the time].
New American Standard Bible
There is none who seeks for God;
King James Version
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Holman Bible
there is no one who seeks God.
International Standard Version
No one understands. No one searches for God.
A Conservative Version
There is no man who understands. There is no man who seeks God.
American Standard Version
There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;
Amplified
“There is none who understands,
There is none who seeks for God.
Anderson New Testament
there is none that understands; there is none that seeks after God;
Bible in Basic English
Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;
Common New Testament
there is no one who understands, no one who seeks for God.
Daniel Mace New Testament
there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Darby Translation
there is not the man that understands, there is not one that seeks after God.
Godbey New Testament
there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks out God;
Goodspeed New Testament
No one understands, no one searches for God.
John Wesley New Testament
There is none that understandeth; there is none that seeketh after God.
Julia Smith Translation
There is none understanding, there is none seeking God.
King James 2000
There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[there] is no one who understands; [there] is no one who seeks God.
Modern King James verseion
there is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God."
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God,
Moffatt New Testament
no one understands, no one seeks for God.
Montgomery New Testament
There is none that understands, none that seeks for God!
NET Bible
there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.
New Heart English Bible
There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
Noyes New Testament
there is none that hath understanding, there is none that diligently seeketh God;
Sawyer New Testament
there is none that understands, there is none that seeks God;
The Emphasized Bible
There is none that discerneth, There is none that seeketh out God:
Thomas Haweis New Testament
there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Not one who understands, not one who is searching for God!
Webster
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh God.
Weymouth New Testament
There is not one who is really wise, nor one who is a diligent seeker after God.
Williams New Testament
No one understands, no one is searching for God;
World English Bible
There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
Worrell New Testament
there is none that understands; there is none that seeks after God;
Worsley New Testament
there is none that understandeth; there is none that seeketh after God.
Youngs Literal Translation
There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God.
Themes
Bigotry » Paul's argument against
Gentiles/heathen » Gentiles being under sin
Israel/jews » Jews being under sin
Eternal life » Cannot be inherited by works
Seeking God » None, by nature, are found to be engaged in
Sin » There not being a single person who does not sin
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Dullness, condemned
The fruit of righteousness » Those that do not do righteousness
Topics
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 3:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Crowds By The Sea
10 as it is written [Psa. 14:1ff; 53:1ff], "No one [always] does what is right; not even one person. 11 No one understands [everything]. No one looks to God [all the time]. 12 Everyone has turned away [from God]. All of them have become worthless. No one is [always] kind; no, not even one person."
Names
Cross References
Matthew 13:13-14
Therefore, I am speaking to them with parables because [although] they can see, they [really] do not perceive, and [although] they can hear, they [really] do not comprehend, and so they [utterly] fail to understand [what I am trying to get across].
Matthew 13:19
When anyone hears the message of the kingdom but does not understand it, the evil one [i.e., the devil] comes to him and grabs away what had been sown in his heart. This is the person who was scattered to the side of the road.
Romans 1:22
They claimed to be wise, but became fools,
Romans 1:28
And since these people refused to acknowledge God, He has allowed [or, abandoned] them to have degraded minds and to practice those things which they should not do.
Romans 8:7
This is because the one whose mind is [controlled] by the flesh is an enemy of God; for he is not obedient to God's law, and in fact, cannot obey it.
Titus 3:3
For we [Christians] were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various kinds of [evil] desires and [sinful] pleasures. [We used to] live in malice and envy, hating people and being hated by them.
1 John 5:20
And [in addition], we know that the Son of God has come [in a physical body, See 4:2] and has given us understanding, so that we can know the True One [i.e., God], and that we are in [fellowship with] the True One, even His Son Jesus Christ. This Son is the true God and eternal life.