Charles Spurgeon Commentary Romans 3:16-19

"Destruction and misery are in their ways; And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes. Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:" — Romans 3:16-19 (ASV)

Destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace have they not known; there is no fear of God before their eyes. Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law:

All these passages, which Paul has put together in this dreadful mosaic, are taken from the Old Testament, so they apply to the Jews; and he had already proved, in the first chapter, the intolerable vice of the Gentiles, so that he has now shown that both Jews and Gentiles are guilty.