Moffatt(i)
9 Well now, are we Jews in a better position? Not at all. I have already charged all, Jews as well as Greeks, with being under sin —
10 as it is written, None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands, no one seeks for God.
12 All have swerved, one and all have gone wrong, no one does good, not a single one.
13 Their throat is an open grave, they are treacherous with their tongues, the venom of an asp lies under their lips.
14 Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness,
15 their feet are swift for bloodshed,
16 their ways bring destruction and calamity,
17 they know nothing of the way of peace;
18 there is no reverence for God before their eyes.
19 Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God;
20 for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.
21 But now we have a righteousness of God disclosed apart from law altogether; it is attested by the Law and the prophets,
22 but it is a righteousness of God which comes by believing in Jesus Christ. And it is meant for all who have faith. No distinctions are drawn.
23 All have sinned, all come short of the glory of God,
24 but they are justified for nothing by his grace through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God put forward as the means of propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to demonstrate the justice of God in view of the fact that sins previously committed during the time of God's forbearance had been passed over;