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Published: Jan. 5, 2010, 5:55 p.m.

Romans 3:9-20 (English Standard Version)

No One Is Righteous

 ⁹What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, ¹⁰as it is written:

    "None is righteous, no, not one;
 ¹¹no one understands;
   no one seeks for God.
¹²All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
   no one does good,
   not even one."
¹³ "Their throat is an open grave;
   they use their tongues to deceive."
"The venom of asps is under their lips."
 ¹⁴ "Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness."
¹⁵ "Their feet are swift to shed blood;
 ¹⁶in their paths are ruin and misery,
¹⁷and the way of peace they have not known."
 ¹⁸ "There is no fear of God before their eyes."

 ¹⁹Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. ²⁰For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.