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10 As it is written,

“Not even one person is righteous.
11 No one understands.
    No one searches for God.
12 All have turned away.
    They have become completely worthless.
        No one shows kindness, not even one person![a]
13 Their throats are open graves.
    With their tongues they deceive.[b]
        The venom of poisonous snakes is under their lips.[c]
14 Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.[d]
15 They run swiftly[e] to shed blood.
16 Ruin and misery characterize their lives.
17 They have not learned the path to peace.[f]
18 They don’t fear God.[g]

19 Now we know that whatever the Law says applies to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 3:12 Cf. Ps 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Eccl 7:20
  2. Romans 3:13 Cf. Ps 5:9
  3. Romans 3:13 Cf. Ps 140:3
  4. Romans 3:14 Cf. Ps 10:7
  5. Romans 3:15 Lit. Their feet are swift
  6. Romans 3:17 Cf. Isa 59:7-8; Prov 1:16
  7. Romans 3:18 Lit. God before their eyes

23 since all have sinned and continue to fall short of God’s glory.

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18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.

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Death in Adam, Life in the Messiah

12 Just as sin entered the world through one man, and death resulted from sin, therefore everyone dies, because everyone has sinned.

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23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in union with the Messiah[a] Jesus our Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 6:23 Or Christ