Romans 3:10-23

¹⁰As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one;

¹¹there is none that hath understanding, there is none that diligently seeketh God;

¹²they have all turned aside from the right way, they have become worthless together; there is none that doeth good, not even one.

¹³Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have practised deceit. The poison of asps is under their lips.

¹⁴Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

¹⁵Swift are their feet to shed blood;

¹⁶destruction and misery are in their ways;

¹⁷and the way of peace they know not.

¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

¹⁹Now we know that whatever the Law saith, it saith to those who are under the Law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become subject to condemnation before God.

²⁰Because by works of the Law no flesh shall be accepted as righteous: for by the Law is the knowledge of sin.

²¹But now, apart from the Law, the righteousness which is of God, to which the Law and the Prophets bear testimony,

²²even the righteousness which is of God through faith in Jesus Christ, hath been made manifest to all and for all believers. For there is no distinction.

²³For all have sinned, and fail of obtaining the glory which cometh from God;