SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:12
todos se apartaron, a una fueron hechos intiles; no hay quien haga lo bueno, no hay ni aun uno;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Romans 3:12
Verse 12. They are all gone out of the way] pantev exeklinan, they have all diverged from the right way, they have either abandoned or corrupted the worship of God: the Jews, in forsaking the law and the prophets, and the Gentiles, in acting contrary to the law which God had written on their hearts. And the departure of both from the truth proves the evil propensity of human nature in general. They are together become unprofitable] hcreiwqhsan. They are useless, good for nothing; or, as the Hebrew has it, wjlan neelachu, they are putrid: he views the whole mass of mankind as slain and thrown together, to putrefy in heaps. This is what is termed the corruption of human nature; they are infected and infectious. What need of the mercy of God to save from such a state of degeneracy! There is none that doeth good] In Romans iii. 10 it is said, There is none righteous; here, There is none that doeth good: the first may refer to the want of a righteous principle; the second, to the necessary consequence of the absence of such a principle. If there be no righteousness within, there will be no acts of goodness without.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. They are all gone out of the way , etc..] In ( Psalm 14:3); it is said, they are all gone aside; as persons in debt: man had a considerable stock of righteousness, holiness, knowledge, etc.. but he has run through all, has contracted large and numerous debts, has been obliged to hide himself, has been used as a bankrupt, and turned out of house and home:
Christ indeed has undertook to pay, and he has paid all the debts of his people; and has put them into a better state than ever Adam was in: in ( Psalm 53:3), it is rendered, everyone of them is gone back; that is, from God; from his commands, and from their former state and condition: here the phrase is rendered by the apostle, they are all gone out of the way: that is, out of the way of God and his precepts, out of the way of holiness and righteousness, of light and life; into their own ways, the ways of sin, Satan, and the world of darkness, and of death: so Aben Ezra explains it, out of the right way; Kimchi and Ben Melech paraphrase it, out of the good way: and so they are together become unprofitable ; the word wjlan , in ( Psalm 14:3) and ( Psalm 53:3); is translated, they are become filthy; which R.
Aben Ezra interprets by wtjn , they are corrupt; and R. Solomon Jarchi by lwqlql wkphn , they are turned to corruption; the metaphor is taken from stinking flesh, which is tainted and corrupted, and so good for nothing, hence here rendered unprofitable; for so men being corrupted by sin, are of no use, service, and advantage to God, to men, or to themselves; but, on the contrary, nauseous to God, and to all that are good, and hurtful to themselves and others: for there is none that does good, no, not one ; and therefore must be unprofitable. There is none that can do good in a spiritual manner, without the grace of God, strength from Christ, and the assistance of the Spirit; and there is not even a spiritual man, that can do good perfectly, and without sin.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 9-18 - Here again is shown that all mankind are under the guilt of sin, as burden; and under the government and dominion of sin, as enslaved to it, to work wickedness. This is made plain by several passages of Scripture from the Old Testament, which describe the corrupt an depraved state of all men, till grace restrain or change them. Great a our advantages are, these texts describe multitudes who call themselve Christians. Their principles and conduct prove that there is no fear of God before their eyes. And where no fear of God is, no good is to be looked for.
Greek Textus Receptus
παντες 3956 A-NPM εξεκλιναν 1578 5656 V-AAI-3P αμα 260 ADV ηχρειωθησαν 889 5681 V-API-3P ουκ 3756 PRT-N εστιν 2076 5748 V-PXI-3S ποιων 4160 5723 V-PAP-NSM χρηστοτητα 5544 N-ASF ουκ 3756 PRT-N εστιν 2076 5748 V-PXI-3S εως 2193 CONJ ενος 1520 A-GSM
Vincent's NT Word Studies
12. They are together become unprofitable (ama hcreiwqhsan). Only here in the New Testament: Together carries forward the all. The Hebrew of the Psalm means have become corrupt. The Greek word is to become useless. Compare John xv. 6.Good (crhsttothta). Only in Paul's writings. The radical idea of the word is profitableness. Compare have become unprofitable. Hence it passes readily into the meaning of wholesomeness. See on, Matthew xi. 30. It is opposed by Paul' to ajpotomia abruptness, severity (Romans xi. 22). It is rendered kindness in Eph. ii. 7; Col. iii. 12; Gal. v. 22. Paul, and he only, also uses ajgaqwsunh for goodness. The distinction as drawn out by Jerome is that ajgaqwsunh represents a sterner virtue, showing itself in a zeal for truth which rebukes, corrects, and chastises, as Christ when He purged the temple. Crhstothv is more gentle, gracious, and kindly Bishop Lightfoot defines it as a kindly disposition to one's neighbor, not necessarily taking a practical form, while ajgaqwsunh energizes the crhstothv.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
3:12 {They are together become unprofitable} (hama ecrewqesan). First aorist passive indicative of achreo". Late word in Polybius and Cilician inscription of first century A.D. Some MSS. read chrei"thsan from achreios, useless (a privative and creios, useful) as in #Lu 17:10; Mt 25:30, but Westcott and Hort print as above from the rarer spelling achreos. Only here in N.T. The Hebrew word means to go bad, become sour like milk (Lightfoot). {No, not so much as one} (ouk estin hews henos). "There is not up to one."
