Ecclesiastes 7:20

Wisdom Is Valuable, But No One Is Completely Righteous

¹⁹ Wisdom makes the wise man stronger
than ten rulers of a city.
²⁰ There is certainly no righteous man on the earth
who does good and never sins. ²¹ Don’t pay attention to everything people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you,

All the Earth

Do Good

Free from Sin

On Earth

Righteous Man

No

Sin

1 Kings 8:46

When they sin against You—
for there is no one who does not sin—
and You are angry with them
and hand them over to the enemy,
and their captors deport them to the enemy’s country—
whether distant or nearby—

2 Chronicles 6:36

When they sin against You—
for there is no one who does not sin—
and You are angry with them
and hand them over to the enemy,
and their captors deport them
to a distant or nearby country,

Proverbs 20:9

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

Romans 3:23

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Psalm 143:2

Do not bring Your servant into judgment,
for no one alive is righteous in Your sight.

Job 15:14-16

What is man, that he should be pure,
or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Psalm 130:3

Yahweh, if You considered sins,
Lord, who could stand?

Isaiah 53:6

We all went astray like sheep;
we all have turned to our own way;
and the Lord has punished Him
for the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 64:6

All of us have become like something unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like a polluted garment;
all of us wither like a leaf,
and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

James 3:2

for we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body.

1 John 1:8-10

If we say, “We have no sin,” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.