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¹ What preferment then hath ye Iew? or what auauntageth circumcision?² Much euery way. First, for because yt vnto them were committed ye wordes of God.³ What then though some of them dyd not beleue? Shal their vnbeliefe make the fayth of God without effect?⁴ God forbyd. Yea let God be true, and euery man a lyer, as it is writte: That thou myghtest be iustified in thy sayinges, and ouercome when thou art iudged.⁵ But yf our vnrighteousnes setteth foorth the righteousnes of God, what shall we saye? Is God vnryghteous which taketh vengeaunce? I speake after the maner of men,⁶ God forbyd. For howe then shall God iudge the worlde?⁷ For yf the trueth of God hath more abounded through my lye, vnto his glory, why am I as yet iudged as a sinner?⁸ And not rather (as men speake euyll of vs, and as some affirme that we say) let vs do euyll, that good may come therof? Whose dampnation is iuste.⁹ What then? Are we better [then they?] No, in no wise. For we haue alredy proued, howe that both Iewes and Gentiles are all vnder sinne.¹⁰ As it is written: There is none righteous, no not one.¹¹ There is none that vnderstandeth, there is none that seketh after God.¹² They are all gone out of the waye, they are all vnprofitable, there is none that doth good, no not one.¹³ Their throte is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they haue deceaued, the poyso of aspes is vnder their lippes.¹⁴ Whose mouth is full of cursyng and bytternesse.¹⁵ Their feete are swyft to shed blood.¹⁶ Heartes griefe & miserie are in their wayes.¹⁷ And they way of peace haue they not knowen.¹⁸ There is no feare of God before their eyes.

¹⁹ Nowe we knowe that what thynges so euer the lawe saith, it saith it to them which are vnder the lawe: That all mouthes maye be stopped, and that al ye world may be indaungered to God.²⁰ Because that by the deedes of the lawe, there shall no flesshe be iustified in his syght. For by the lawe, commeth the knowledge of sinne.²¹ But nowe is the righteousnes of God declared without the lawe, beyng witnessed by the testimonie of the lawe and of the prophetes.²² The ryghteousnes of God [commeth] by the fayth of Iesus Christe, vnto all and vpon all them that beleue. There is no difference:²³ For all haue synned, and are destitute of the glorie of God,²⁴ Iustified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christe Iesu:²⁵ Whom God hath set foorth to be a propitiatio, through fayth in his blood, to declare his ryghteousnes, in that he forgeueth the sinnes that are past,²⁶ Which God dyd suffer, to shew at this tyme his righteousnes, that he might be iuste, & the iustifier of hym which beleueth on Iesus. ²⁷ Where is then thy boastyng? It is excluded. By what lawe? Of workes? Nay, but by the lawe of fayth.²⁸ Therfore, we holde that a man is iustified by fayth, without the deedes of the lawe.²⁹ Is he the God of the Iewes only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, euen of the Gentiles also.³⁰ For it is one God whiche shall iustifie the circumcision by fayth, and vncircumcision through fayth.³¹ Do we then destroy the lawe through fayth? God forbyd: But we rather mayntayne the lawe.