9 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;
10 as it is written, There is no one righteous, no, not one; 11 there is no one that understands; there is no one that seeks after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way; they are together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, no, not one. 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips, 14 whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; 15 their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 destruction and misery are in their ways, 17 and the way of peace they have not known; 18 there is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that all that the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may submit themselves unto God. 20 For by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by the law is the knowledge of sin.