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Romans 3:12-24 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

12. All have gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even one.

13. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongues, they have been acting deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

14. Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.

15. Their feet are swift to shed blood.

16. Grief and unhappiness are in their ways.

17. And the way of peace they have not known.

18. There is no fear of God before their eyes."

19. But we know that whatever the law speaks, it speaks to those who are in the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the entire world may be subject to God.

20. For in his presence no flesh shall be justified by the works of the law. For knowledge of sin is through the law.

21. But now, without the law, the justice of God, to which the law and the prophets have testified, has been made manifest.

22. And the justice of God, though the faith of Jesus Christ, is in all those and over all those who believe in him. For there is no distinction.

23. For all have sinned and all are in need of the glory of God.

24. We have been justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

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