As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one."

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned.

Therefore no one will be declared righteous in His sight by observing the law; Rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.

Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen.