Romans 3:10-18

‘As it is written,

There is none righteous,

No, not one,

There is none who understands,

There is none who seeks after God,

They have all turned aside,

They are together become unprofitable,

There is none who does good,

No, not, so much as one. (Psalms 14:1 b, Psalms 14:2-3)

Their throat is an open sepulchre,

With their tongues they have used deceit, (Psalms 5:9)

The poison of asps is under their lips (Psalms 140:3),

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness, (Psalms 10:7)

Their feet are swift to shed blood, (Psalms 59:7-8)

Destruction and misery are in their ways,

And the way of peace have they not known. (Isaiah 59:7 ff)

There is no fear of God before their eyes.’ (Psalms 36:1)

It will be noted that this citation is in fact a miscellany of quotations taken from different parts of Scripture, and that it can be divided up into two sections. The first section is a general description of man’s sinfulness ending up with the fact that not a single person does good. It is a paraphrase of Psalms 14:1 b, Psalms 14:2-3. The second section is a series of citations which particularise individual sins.