Romans 3:7-18

⁷For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

⁸Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let’s do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.

⁹What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

¹⁰As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

¹¹There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

¹²They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

¹³“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

¹⁴“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

¹⁵“Their feet are swift to shed blood.

¹⁶Destruction and misery are in their ways.

¹⁷The way of peace, they haven’t known.”

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