Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

There is none who understands,
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 understands;
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.

An Understandable Version

No one understands [everything]. No one looks to God [all the time].

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
There is
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585

οὐ 
Ou 
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032
Usage: 1032

συνίημι 
suniemi 
Usage: 14

there is
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585

ἐκζητέω 
Ekzeteo 
Usage: 5

Context Readings

Crowds By The Sea

10 as it is written,
There is none righteous, not even one;
11 There is none who understands,
There is none who seeks for God;
12 All have turned aside, together they have become useless;
There is none who does good,
There is not even one.”



Cross References

Psalm 14:2-4

The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men
To see if there are any who understand,
Who seek after God.

Psalm 53:2

God has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men
To see if there is anyone who understands,
Who seeks after God.

Psalm 94:8

Pay heed, you senseless among the people;
And when will you understand, stupid ones?

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O naive ones, will you love being simple-minded?
And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing
And fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:29-30

Because they hated knowledge
And did not choose the fear of the Lord.

Isaiah 9:13

Yet the people do not turn back to Him who struck them,
Nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 27:11

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off;
Women come and make a fire with them,
For they are not a people of discernment,
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them.
And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

Isaiah 31:1

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help
And rely on horses,
And trust in chariots because they are many
And in horsemen because they are very strong,
But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek the Lord!

Isaiah 55:6

Seek the Lord while He may be found;
Call upon Him while He is near.

Isaiah 65:1

“I permitted Myself to be sought by those who did not ask for Me;
I permitted Myself to be found by those who did not seek Me.
I said, ‘Here am I, here am I,’
To a nation which did not call on My name.

Jeremiah 4:22

For My people are foolish,
They know Me not;
They are stupid children
And have no understanding.
They are shrewd to do evil,
But to do good they do not know.”

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.

Hosea 7:10

Though the pride of Israel testifies against him,
Yet they have not returned to the Lord their God,
Nor have they sought Him, for all this.

Matthew 13:13-14

Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

Matthew 13:19

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road.

Romans 1:22

Professing to be wise, they became fools,

Romans 1:28

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,

Romans 8:7

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,

Titus 3:3

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

Job 21:15-16

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,
And what would we gain if we entreat Him?’

Psalm 53:4

Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge,
Who eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God?

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