Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Surely there is no one righteous on the earth who [continually] does good and never sins.
New American Standard Bible
Indeed,
King James Version
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Holman Bible
who does good and never sins.
International Standard Version
For there is not a single righteous man on earth who practices good and does not sin.
A Conservative Version
Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth that does good, and sins not.
American Standard Version
Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Amplified
Indeed, there is not a righteous man on earth who always does good and who never sins.
Bible in Basic English
There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
Darby Translation
Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.
Julia Smith Translation
For not a just man in the earth, who shall do good and not sin.
King James 2000
For there is not a just man upon earth, that does good, and sins not.
Modern King James verseion
For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For there is not one just upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.
NET Bible
For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.
New Heart English Bible
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.
The Emphasized Bible
For, as for men, there is none righteous in the earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Webster
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
World English Bible
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.
Youngs Literal Translation
Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.
Themes
Fall of man » Man in consequence of » Unrighteous
The law of God » Man cannot render perfect obedience to
Topics
Interlinear
'erets
References
Easton
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 7:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Wisdom Is Valuable, But No One Is Completely Righteous
19 Wisdom gives more strength to the wise than ten rulers who are in the city. 20 Surely there is no one righteous on the earth who [continually] does good and never sins. 21 Do not pay attention to everything people say, lest you hear your own servant curse you.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46
"If they sin against you (for there is not a person who does not sin) and you are angry with them and you give them to an enemy and they take them captive to the land of the enemy far or near,
2 Chronicles 6:36
When they sin against you--for there is no person who does not sin--and you become angry with them and place them before their enemy that they carry them away as captives to a land far or near,
Proverbs 20:9
Who will say "I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?
Romans 3:23
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Psalm 143:2
And do not enter into judgment with your servant, because no one alive [is] righteous before you.
Job 15:14-16
"What [is] a human being, that he can be clean, or that [one] born of a woman can be righteous?
Psalm 130:3
If you, O Yah, should {keep track of} iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
Isaiah 53:6
All of us have wandered about like sheep; we each have turned to his own way; and Yahweh let fall on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 64:6
And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a menstrual cloth, And we all wither like leaf, and our iniquities take 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 perfect individual, able to hold in check his whole body also.
1 John 1:8-10
If we say that we do not have sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.