📜WEB · Romans 3:9

What does Romans 3:9 mean?

"What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin."

— Romans 3:9 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

6

May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

7

For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

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Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let us do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.

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What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

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As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

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There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

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They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

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