Romans 3:9-20
Christian Standard Bible
The Whole World Guilty before God
9 What then? Are we any better off?[a] Not at all! For we have already charged that both Jews(A) and Greeks(B) are all under sin,[b](C) 10 as it is written:
There is no one righteous, not even one.
11 There is no one who understands;
there is no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned away;
all alike have become worthless.
There is no one who does what is good,
not even one.[c](D)
13 Their throat is an open grave;
they deceive with their tongues.[d](E)
Vipers’ venom is under their lips.[e](F)
14 Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.[f](G)
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 ruin and wretchedness are in their paths,
17 and the path of peace they have not known.[g](H)
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.[h](I)
19 Now we know that whatever the law says,(J) it speaks to those who are subject to the law,[i](K) so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.[j](L) 20 For no one will be justified[k] in his sight by the works of the law,(M) because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.(N)
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- 3:9 Are we Jews any better than the Gentiles?
- 3:9 Under sin’s power or dominion
- 3:10–12 Ps 14:1–3; 53:1–3; Ec 7:20
- 3:13 Ps 5:9
- 3:13 Ps 140:3
- 3:14 Ps 10:7
- 3:15–17 Is 59:7–8
- 3:18 Ps 36:1
- 3:19 Lit those in the law
- 3:19 Or become guilty before God, or may be accountable to God
- 3:20 Or will be declared righteous, or will be acquitted
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