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What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin

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As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness

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Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God

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They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

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Their throat is like an open place of death with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

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Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

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Their feet are quick in running after blood

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Destruction and trouble are in their ways

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And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:

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There is no fear of God before their eyes.

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Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:

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Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.