Psalms 14:2

"Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God. They are all gone aside, they are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no not one."

"The point of these two verses is that the arrogant materialist of Psalms 14:1, is but an example of man in general."[5] "What is lamented here is not the corruption of Israel and not that of the heathen, but the universal corruption of man."[6]

In Romans 3:10-18, we have the following from the apostle Paul:

"We laid to the charge of both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin;

As it is written,

There is none righteous, no not one;

There is none that understandeth,

There is none that seeketh after God;

They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable;

There is none that doeth good, no, not so much as one:

Their throat is an open sepulchre;

With their tongues they have used deceit:

The poison of asps is under their lips:

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Destruction and misery are in their ways;

And the way of peace they have not known:

Their is no fear of God before their eyes."

One may read every line of this almost verbatim in the LXX and in two or three other ancient versions as pointed out by Dummelow; and Paul's use of these words to describe the condition of judicially hardened mankind in the days of the Messiah is the only proof needed that we have a description of exactly the same condition here.

We do not know how to account for the omission of some of this material from the Hebrew text of the Old Testament and from our version; but Paul's declaration that, "It is written," certainly identifies all of the material as Scripture.