Romans:3:9-20
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As it is written ,
There is none righteous ,
no not one .
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There is none that vnderstandeth :
there is none that seeketh God .
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They haue all gone out of the way :
they haue bene made altogether vnprofitable :
there is none that doeth good ,
no not one .
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Their throte is an open sepulchre :
they haue vsed their tongues to deceit :
the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes .
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Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse .
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Their feete are swift to shead blood .
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Destruction &
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calamity are in their waies ,
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And the (
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An innocent and peaceable life .(:
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way of peace have they not known :
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The feare of God is not before their eies .
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Therefore by the (
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By those deeds by which the law can be done by us .(:
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deeds of the law there shall no Flesh is here taken for man ,
as in many other places ,
and furthermore has greater force here :
for it is given to show the contrast between God and man :
as if one would say , «
Man ,
who is nothing else but a piece of flesh defiled with sin ,
and God ,
who is most pure and most perfect in himself .»
flesh be Absolved before the judgment seat of God .
justified in his Paul has in mind a contrasting of the righteousness of before men ,
be they ever so just ,
against the justice which can stand before God :
now there is no righteousness that can stand before God ,
except the righteousness of Christ alone .
sight :
for by the law [
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the knowledge of sin .