Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

There is no one who understands;
there is no one who seeks God.

New American Standard Bible

There is none who understands,
There is none who seeks for God;

King James Version

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

International Standard Version

No one understands. No one searches for God.

A Conservative Version

There is no man who understands. There is no man who seeks God.

American Standard Version

There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;

Amplified


There is none who understands,
There is none who seeks for God.

An Understandable Version

No one understands [everything]. No one looks to God [all the time].

Anderson New Testament

there is none that understands; there is none that seeks after God;

Bible in Basic English

Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

Common New Testament

there is no one who understands, no one who seeks for God.

Daniel Mace New Testament

there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

Darby Translation

there is not the man that understands, there is not one that seeks after God.

Godbey New Testament

there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks out God;

Goodspeed New Testament

No one understands, no one searches for God.

John Wesley New Testament

There is none that understandeth; there is none that seeketh after God.

Julia Smith Translation

There is none understanding, there is none seeking God.

King James 2000

There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[there] is no one who understands; [there] is no one who seeks God.

Modern King James verseion

there is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God."

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God,

Moffatt New Testament

no one understands, no one seeks for God.

Montgomery New Testament

There is none that understands, none that seeks for God!

NET Bible

there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.

New Heart English Bible

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

Noyes New Testament

there is none that hath understanding, there is none that diligently seeketh God;

Sawyer New Testament

there is none that understands, there is none that seeks God;

The Emphasized Bible

There is none that discerneth, There is none that seeketh out God:

Thomas Haweis New Testament

there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Not one who understands, not one who is searching for God!

Webster

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh God.

Weymouth New Testament

There is not one who is really wise, nor one who is a diligent seeker after God.

Williams New Testament

No one understands, no one is searching for God;

World English Bible

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

Worrell New Testament

there is none that understands; there is none that seeks after God;

Worsley New Testament

there is none that understandeth; there is none that seeketh after God.

Youngs Literal Translation

There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
There is
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585

οὐ 
Ou 
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032
Usage: 1032

συνίημι 
suniemi 
Usage: 14

there is
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585

ἐκζητέω 
Ekzeteo 
Usage: 5

Context Readings

Crowds By The Sea

10 as it is written:

There is no one righteous, not even one.
11 There is no one who understands;
there is no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned away;
all alike have become useless.
There is no one who does what is good,
not even one.



Cross References

Psalm 14:2-4

The Lord looks down from heaven on the human race
to see if there is one who is wise,
one who seeks God.

Psalm 53:2

God looks down from heaven on the human race
to see if there is one who is wise,
one who seeks God.

Psalm 94:8

Pay attention, you stupid people!
Fools, when will you be wise?

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the Lord
is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, foolish ones, will you love ignorance?
How long will you mockers enjoy mocking
and you fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:29-30

Because they hated knowledge,
didn’t choose to fear the Lord,

Isaiah 9:13

The people did not turn to Him who struck them;
they did not seek the Lord of Hosts.

Isaiah 27:11

When its branches dry out, they will be broken off.
Women will come and make fires with them,
for they are not a people with understanding.
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them,
and their Creator will not be gracious to them.

Isaiah 31:1

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help
and who depend on horses!
They trust in the abundance of chariots
and in the large number of horsemen.
They do not look to the Holy One of Israel
and they do not seek the Lord’s help.

Isaiah 55:6

Seek the Lord while He may be found;
call to Him while He is near.

Isaiah 65:1

“I was sought by those who did not ask;
I was found by those who did not seek Me.
I said: Here I am, here I am,
to a nation that was not called by My name.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are fools;
they do not know Me.
They are foolish children,
without understanding.
They are skilled in doing what is evil,
but they do not know how to do what is good.”

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I will reject you from serving as My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I will also forget your sons.

Hosea 7:10

Israel’s arrogance testifies against them,
yet they do not return to Yahweh their God,
and for all this, they do not seek Him.

Matthew 13:13-14

For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.

Matthew 13:19

When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one sown along the path.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools

Romans 1:28

And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.

Romans 8:7

For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true One. We are in the true One—that is, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Job 21:15-16

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,
and what will we gain by pleading with Him?”

Psalm 53:4

Will evildoers never understand?
They consume My people as they consume bread;
they do not call on God.

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