13. ‘Their throats are open graves;their tongues practise deceit.’‘The poison of vipers is on their lips.’
14. ‘Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.’
15. ‘Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16. ruin and misery mark their ways,
17. and the way of peace they do not know.’
18. ‘There is no fear of God before their eyes.’
19. Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
20. Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.