10. As it has been written, “There is none righteous, no, not one!
11. “There is no one who is understanding, there is none who is seeking Elohim.
12. “They all have turned aside, they have together become worthless. There is none who does good, no, not one.”
13. “Their throat is an open tomb, with their tongues they have deceived,” “The poison of adders is under their lips,”
14. “Whose mouth is filled with cursing and bitterness.”
15. “Their feet are swift to shed blood,
16. ruin and wretchedness are in their ways,
17. and the way of peace they have not known.”
18. “There is no fear of Elohim before their eyes.”
19. And we know that whatever the Torah says, it says to those who are in the Torah, so that every mouth might be stopped, and all the world come under judgment before Elohim.
20. Therefore by works of Torah no flesh shall be declared right before Him, for by the Torah is the knowledge of sin.
21. But now, apart from the Torah, a righteousness of Elohim has been revealed, being witnessed by the Torah and the Prophets,