Scripture Declares: "None Understand" Do You Understand? Really Understand, That You Can Lose Your Eternal Soul?! A Point To Ponder . . . !

A Devotional Reading for June 16, 2025

From my most recently released devotional book, Daily Reading with John Bunyan

Scripture Declares:

"None Understand"

“As it is written: ‘None is righteous, no not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one’”

Romans 3: 10-12.

These words have respect to a righteousness which is justified by the law; and they conclude that none by his own performances is righteous with such a righteousness; and it is concluded from five reasons—

1. Because they are not good; for a man must be good before he does good, and perfectly good before he does good and sins not.

2. Because they understand not. How then should they do good? for a man must know before he does, else how should he divert himself to do?

3. Because they want a heart; they seek not after God according to the way of his own appointment.

4. They are all gone out of the way; how then can they walk therein?

5. They are altogether become unprofitable. What worth or value then can there be in any of their doings? These are the reasons by which he prove that there is “none righteous, no, not one.”

Now, as he concludes from these five reasons that not one indeed is righteous, so he concludes by five more that none can do good to make him so—

1. For that internally they are as an open sepulcher, as full of dead men’s bones. Their minds and consciences are defiled; how then can sweet and good proceed from there? (v 13).

2. Their throat is filled with this stink; all their vocal duties therefore smell thereof.

3. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; how then can there be found one word that should please God?

4. Their tongue, which should present their praise to God, has been used to work deceit. How then, until it is made a new one, should it speak in righteousness?

5. The poison of asps is under their lips; therefore whatever comes from them must be polluted.