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Romans 3:11

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There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
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  1. Psalms 14:2–4Rank 1 from verse 11
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    2The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

    3They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

    4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.

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    2God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

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    3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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    6¶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

  5. Romans 8:7Rank 5 from verse 11
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    7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

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Romans 3:11

COMBINED MEANING

understandeth

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Third-person singular present form of understand, meaning to comprehend, perceive, discern, or know the meaning or significance of something.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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after

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1. Later than or following in time or order. 2. Behind. 3. In pursuit of.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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3:9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

3:10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

3:11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

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3:12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

3:13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

3:14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

3:15Their feet are swift to shed blood:

3:16Destruction and misery are in their ways:

3:17And the way of peace have they not known:

3:18There is no fear of God before their eyes.

3:19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

3:20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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