Romans 3:9-19

⁹So what about those of us that are Jewish people? Will we get a better deal than other people? No way. Both Jewish people and other people do bad things, just like I already said. We just can’t help it.

¹⁰Like we read in God’s book, “Nobody is really good, not even one person,

¹¹Nobody understands about God, nobody even tries to get to know him.

¹²Everybody turns away from God, They all go wrong, Not even one of them does good things.

¹³They say things that make big trouble for other people, Whenever they talk, they tell lies and trick people. Their mouths are like the mouths of a cheeky snakes.

¹⁴They just swear at other people and say bad things about them.

¹⁵They quickly get up and to kill other people,

¹⁶Wherever they go they hurt people and make them really sad.

¹⁷They can’t live without fighting.

¹⁸They don’t respect God or take any notice of him.”

¹⁹You know, it’s like this. God gave the law to the Jewish people and they have to do everything it says. And God is the judge of everybody in the whole world. We all have to answer to him. Nobody has kept all of that law, so nobody can argue with him. Nobody can tell God, “I have kept all those laws, so I’m all right. You can’t punish me.” We can’t say that because we all broke that law at some time. So why is the law there? It is there just to let us know that we always go wrong. That’s what it is there for.