9What then? Are we better off? Not at all. For we have already accused both Jews and Greeks that all are under sin.10As it is written, there is no one righteous, not even one.11There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.12All have turned aside together; they have become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.13Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they deceive; the poison of asps is under their lips.14Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.15Their feet are swift to shed blood.16Ruin and misery are in their paths.17And they have not known the way of peace.18There is no fear of God before their eyes.19Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be closed and the whole world may become accountable to God.20Because by works of the law no flesh will be justified before him; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.