Romans 3:9-20

9What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

10just as it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one,

11there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.

12All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.”

13“Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.”

14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

15“Their feet are swift to shed blood,

16ruin and misery are in their paths,

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 says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

20For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.