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Ecclesiastes 7
The 2026 edition cites 2 passages touching Ecclesiastes 7, each printed here in the KJV with every place in the Constitution that cites it.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Cited by 4 places in the Constitution
Westminster Confession of Faith 1
- CF 6.5
This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated; and although it be, through Christ, pardoned and mortified, yet both…
Testimony of the RPCNA 1
- T 15.2
Although a believer is freed from the penalty of sin by justification, he is still bound to give perfect obedience to God’s law. Because of incomplete…
Larger Catechism 1
- LC 149
No man is able, either of himself, or by any grace received in this life, perfectly to keep the commandments of God; but doth daily break them in thought…
Shorter Catechism 1
- SC 82
No mere man since the fall is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but doth daily break them in thought, word, and deed.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Cited by 7 places in the Constitution
Westminster Confession of Faith 4
- CF 4.2
After God had made all other creatures, He created man, male and female, with reasonable and immortal souls, endued with knowledge, righteousness, and true…
- CF 6.2
By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of…
- CF 9.2
Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which was good, and well pleasing to God; but yet mutably, so that he might fall…
- CF 19.1
God gave to Adam a law, as a covenant of works, by which He bound him and all his posterity to personal, entire, exact, and perpetual obedience; promised life…
Larger Catechism 2
- LC 17
After God had made all other creatures, he created man, male and female; formed the body of the man of the dust of the ground, and the woman of the rib of the…
- LC 21
Our first parents being left to the freedom of their own will, through the temptation of Satan, transgressed the commandment of God, in eating the forbidden…
Shorter Catechism 1
- SC 13
Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.