9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that ^athey are all under sin.  ‡

10 As it is written:
^a“There is none righteous, no, not one; ‡

12 They have all turned aside;
They have together become unprofitable;
There is none who does good, no, not one.”

13 “Their^a throat is an open tomb;
With their tongues they have practiced deceit”;
^b“The poison of asps is under their lips”;  ‡