10 Bible Verses about Nothing Good
Most Relevant Verses
I know that good does not live in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it.
My days are swifter than a runner! They flee away and see no good.
Many are saying: Who will show us good? Lift up the light of your countenance (face) (presence) upon us, O Jehovah!
([Psalm of David]) The fool has said in his heart: There is no God (Jehovah)*. They are corrupt and have done abominable (detestable) iniquity. There are none who do good. (*Possible deliberate scribal change from YHWH to Elohim)
Every one of them has gone back: they are totally corrupted (filthy). None do good, no, not one.
Can Ethiopians change the color of their skin or leopards change their spots? Can you do good when you are taught to do wrong?
The inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because bad came down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.
You offspring of vipers. How can you who are evil speak good things? Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
And Nathanael said to him: Could any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip said: Come and see.
unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, despisers of those who are good,