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And why not say, "Let us do evil that good may come"?--as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.
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What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.
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As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one;
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There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God.
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They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one."
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"Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit"; "The poison of asps is under their lips";
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"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."
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"Their feet are swift to shed blood;
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Destruction and misery are in their ways;
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And the way of peace they have not known."
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"There is no fear of God before their eyes."