10 Bible Verses about Nothing Good
Most Relevant Verses
For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh [my human nature, my worldliness—my sinful capacity]. For the willingness [to do good] is present in me, but the doing of good is not.
“Now my days are swifter than a runner;
They vanish, they see no good.
Many are saying, “Oh, that we might see some good!”
Lift up the light of Your face upon us, O Lord.
The [empty-headed] fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt and evil, and have committed repulsive injustice;
There is no one who does good.
Every one of them has turned aside and fallen away;
Together they have become filthy and corrupt;
There is no one who does good, no, not even one.
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin
Or the leopard his spots?
Then you also can do good
Who are accustomed to evil and even trained to do it.
For the inhabitant of Maroth (Bitterness)
Writhes in pain [at its losses] and waits anxiously for good,
Because a catastrophe has come down from the Lord
To the gate of Jerusalem.
You brood of vipers, how can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.
Nathanael answered him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip replied, “Come and see.”
[and they will be] unloving [devoid of natural human affection, calloused and inhumane], irreconcilable, malicious gossips, devoid of self-control [intemperate, immoral], brutal, haters of good,