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What then? are we better [than they]? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, 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 are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable there is none that doeth good, no, not 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 saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

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Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin.