^{9 Ref} What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

^{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.