9. What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:
10. according as it is written, There is not a righteous man, not even one;
11. there is not the man that understands, there is not one that seeks after God.
12. All have gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there is not so much as one:
13. their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; asps' poison is under their lips:
14. whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
15. swift their feet to shed blood;
16. ruin and misery are in their ways,