Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
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Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
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Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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(53-4) Every one of them is unclean, they are together become impure; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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Passages linked to Psalms 53:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Romans 3:12 They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”
- Isaiah 64:6 For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
- Psalms 14:3 They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
- Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- Jeremiah 8:5-6 Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return. I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
- 3 John 1:11 Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.
- 2 Samuel 20:2 So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.
- Job 15:16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
- Ezekiel 36:25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.
- Zephaniah 1:6 those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
- 2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
- 1 John 2:29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
- Revelation 22:11 He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 53:3 Every one of them is gone back:…
Psa 53:3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
Ver. 3. Every one of them is gone back] Diogenes in a great assembly going backward of purpose, and seeing every one laughing him to scorn, asked them aloud, if they were not ashamed so to do? since he went backwards but once, they did so all the days of their life.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Every one of them is gone back,.... From God,…
Every one of them is gone back,.... From God, and the way of his commandments. In Psa 14:3, it is, "they are all gone aside"; See Gill on Psa 14:3;
they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good,
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no, not one. What follows in this verse is the same as Psa 14:3.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Every one of them is gone back - See…
Every one of them is gone back - See the notes at Psa 14:3. The only variation here in the two psalms is in the substitution of the word - סג sâg, for סור sûr - words almost identical in form and in sense. The only difference in meaning is, that the former word - the word used here - means “to draw back,” or “to go back;” the other, the word used in Psa 14:1-7, means “to go off, to turn aside.” Each of them indicates a departure from God; a departure equally fatal and equally guilty, whether people turn “back” from following him, or turn “aside” to something else. Both of these forms of apostasy occur with lamentable frequency.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 3. Every one of them—The distributive, each one, denoted…
3. Every one of them—The distributive, each one, denoted by the suffix pronoun instead of the collective, the all, the totality, denoted by the prefix article in Psa_14:3. The two passages, taken together, furnish the most literal declaration of universal, total, depravity, that words can give.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 3. The result of His investigation. Every one of…
3. The result of His investigation. Every one of them had gone back (Psa_44:18) from following God (in Psa_14:3 turned aside from the path of right): together had they become tainted, a word which in Arabic means to go bad or turn sour, but in Heb. is used only in a moral sense, here and in Job_15:16. On the interpolation in the P.B.V. of Psalms 14 after Psa_53:3 see note there.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (3) There are two unimportant variations from Psalms 14…
(3) There are two unimportant variations from Psalms 14 here: “every one,” instead of “the whole,” and “gone back” (sag) for “gone aside” (sar).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain For "they are all gone aside" (rs lKh) in…
For "they are all gone aside" (rs lKh) in Psalm 14, the present psalm has, "every one of them is gone back" (gs wOKL) a difference which may be due to corruption, and which is, at any rate, of no importance.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 3. Every one of them is gone back.…
Ver. 3. Every one of them is gone back. The whole mass of manhood, all of it, is gone back. In the fourteenth Psalm it was said to turn aside, which was bad enough, but here it is described as running in a diametrically opposite direction. The life of unregenerate manhood is in direct defiance of the law of God, not merely apart from it but opposed to it.
They are altogether become filthy. The whole lump is soured with an evil leaven, fouled with an all pervading pollution, made rank with general putrefaction. Thus, in God's sight, our atheistic nature is not the pardoned thing that we think it to be. Errors as to God are not the mild diseases which some account them, they are abominable evils. Fair is the world to blind eyes, but to the all seeing Jehovah it is otherwise.
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There is none that doeth good, no, not one. How could there be, when the whole mass was leavened with so evil a leaven? This puts an end to the fictions of the innocent savage, the lone patriarch, "the Indian whose untutored mind, "etc. Pope's verse--
"Father of all, in every age;
In every clime adored,
By saint, by savage, or by sage,
Jehovah, Jove, or Lord, "
evaporates in smoke. The fallen race of man, left to its own energy, has not produced a single lover of God or doer of holiness, nor will it ever do so. Grace must interpose, or not one specimen of humanity will be found to follow after the good and true. This is God's verdict after looking down upon the race. Who shall gainsay it?
Ver. 3. They are altogether become filthy. wxlag neelachu. They are become sour and rancid; a metaphor taken from milk that has fermented and turned sour, rancid, and worthless. Adam Clarke, 1760-1832.
Ver. 3. (second clause). The word wxlag, rendered they are become filthy, might be read, they have become rotten or putrid. John Morison, 1829.
Ver. 3. (last clause). Evil men are not only guilty of sins of commission, having done abominable iniquity, but they are guilty of many sins of omission. In fact, they have never done one holy act. They may be moral, decent, amiable, they may belong to the church; but there is none that doeth good, no, not one. William S. Plumer.
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