Romans 3

v.13-14

“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The poison of vipers is on their lips.” 14”Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

v.23

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

I further suggest that the meaning of the rest of the verse is that sin has caused us to lack in some degree the glory of God—that is, the divine glory with which humanity was stamped in Eden, the imago dei, was defaced, disfigured, deformed.

DaneOrtlund

v.25

God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—