<p>3:10 <i>As it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one</i>- The &ldquo;none righteous&rdquo; connects with the fact that the Gospel is for both Jew and Gentile (:9). The Jews were not &ldquo;the righteous&rdquo;, as Judaism loved to claim, because there is no single righteous person except the Lord Jesus. &lsquo;Righteousness&rsquo; is a major concept in Judaism. &ldquo;The righteous&rdquo; is a term often used about faithful Jews. But Paul is saying that not one of them is righteous. All stand in need therefore of God&rsquo;s imputed righteousness, which is given by faith in the Lord Jesus and location within Him. The source passage of the quotation in Ps. 14:1-3 is saying that from God&rsquo;s viewpoint, He sees none righteous- even though Judaism declared their saints &ldquo;righteous&rdquo;, this was not God&rsquo;s judgment. We note that Paul is quoting rather freely from the Septuagint; quotation and interpretation are so often combined in Paul, as was the custom of the rabbis. The context of Psalm 14 appears to be of thanksgiving for salvation by grace, a salvation that was not deserved, seeing all men are sinners. And this of course is exactly Paul&rsquo;s context.</p>