The truth is not about what suits you. You have to go beyond that kind of superficiality in your reading of the bible.
Unlike my detractors, I always base biblical doctrines by seeing from multiple angles ...both from the OT and the NT...from prophecy to fulfillment. I can't help it if people want to have a superficial understanding. I can't impart the same care I take to have God confirm His word.
That one verse has many others that say the same thing.
Here is another example among too many to list.
1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
There seems to be a great difficulty in reading what the bible says by so many. Either no one is saved in the world or everyone. No balance. Only an argumentative slant based on an extremist view. The modern church has not yet discovered balance. This could be remedied but for the many ego ministries that have lifted up the carnal religious man...rather than consigning him to the cross.
Whoever doesn't understand how God sees righteousness...needs to start over and read the bible with an open mind and an open heart. An arduous process...but a necessary one to avoid iniquity and future judgment.
Remember that the Pharisees also said they saw (understood)...when they didn't.
How does God see righteousness?
Romans 3:
9 What then? Are we better
than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.
10 As it is written:
“There is none righteous, no, not one;
11 There is none who understands;
There is none who seeks after God.
12 They have all turned aside;
They have together become unprofitable;
There is none who does good, no, not one.”
13 “Their throat
is an open [
d]tomb;
With their tongues they have practiced deceit”;
“The poison of asps
is under their lips”;
14 “Whose mouth
is full of cursing and bitterness.”
15 “Their feet
are swift to shed blood;
16 Destruction and misery
are in their ways;
17 And the way of peace they have not known.”
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become [
e]guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law
is the knowledge of sin.
God’s Righteousness Through Faith
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all [
f]and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for
all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified [g]freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a [h]propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Oh that's right, that is Paul.. Lets reject Paul.
Was it not Jesus who said there is no one good but God?