^{10 Ref} As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;

^{11 Ref} Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

^{12 Ref} They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

^{13 Ref} Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

^{14 Ref} Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

^{15 Ref} Their feet are quick in running after blood;

¹⁶ Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

^{17 Ref} And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:

^{18 Ref} There is no fear of God before their eyes.

^{19 Ref} Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:

^{20 Ref} Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

^{21 Ref} But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;

^{22 Ref} That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another,

^{23 Ref} For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God;