3 9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all; for I have already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power of sin, 3 10 [ Ps.14.1-3, Ps.53.1, Ec.7.20. ] as it is written:
3 13 [ Ps.5.9, Ps.140.3. ] "Their throat is an open grave, they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips." 3 14 [ Ps.10.7. ] "Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness."
3 15 [ Is.59.7-8. ] "Their feet are swift to shed blood, 3 16 in their paths are ruin and misery, 3 17 and the way of peace they do not know." 3 18 [ Ps.36.1. ] "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
3 19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 3 20 [ Ps.143.2. ] For no human being will be justified in his sight by works of the law, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.