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What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin

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as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one

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There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God

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They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:

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Their throat is an open sepulchre With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

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Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

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Their feet are swift to shed blood

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Destruction and misery are in their ways

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And the way of peace have they not known:

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There is no fear of God before their eyes.

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Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:

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because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.