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¹ Therfore canst thou not excuse thyselfe (O ma) who soeuer thou be that iudgest: for loke wherin thou iudgest another, thou condemnest thy selfe, in so moch as thou that iudgest, doest euen the same.² For we are sure that the iudgment of God is (acordinge to the trueth) ouer them that do soch.³ But thinkest thou this O thou man, that iudgest them which do soch thinges, and doest euen the very same thy selfe, that thou shalt escape ye iudgmet of God?⁴ Or despysest thou the riches of his goodnesse, pacience, and loge sufferinge? Knowest thou not, that ye louynge kyndnesse of God leadeth the to repentaunce?⁵ But thou after thine harde and impenitent hert, heapest vnto thy selfe a treasure of wrath, agaynst the daye of wrath and of the openynge of the righteous iudgment of God,⁶ which shal rewarde euery man acordinge to his dedes:⁷ namely, prayse & honoure, and vncorrupcion, vnto them that with pacience in doinge good, seke euerlastinge life:⁸ But vnto them that are contencious & not obedient vnto the trueth, but obeye vnrighteousnes, shal come indignacion and wrath,⁹ trouble and anguysh vpo all the soules of me that do euell, of the Iewe first and also of the Greke:¹⁰ But vnto all the that do good (shal come) prayse and honoure, and peace, vnto the Iewe first, and also to the Greke.¹¹ For there is no respecte of personnes before God: Who so euer haue synned without lawe,¹² shal perish also without lawe: and whosoeuer haue synned in the lawe, shalbe iudged by the lawe.¹³ For before God, they are not righteous, which heare ye lawe: but they that do the lawe, shalbe iustified.¹⁴ For yf the Gentyles which haue not the lawe, do of nature the thinges conteyned in the lawe, then they hauynge not the lawe, are a lawe vnto them selues,¹⁵ in that they shewe, that the worke of ye lawe is wrytte in their hertes: whyle their conscience beareth witnesse vnto the, and also the thoughtes which accuse or excuse them amonge them selues,¹⁶ in the daye whan God shal iudge the secretes of men by Iesus Christ, acordinge to my Gospell.

¹⁷ But take hede, thou art called a Iewe, and trustest in the lawe, & makest thy boost of God,¹⁸ and knowest his will: & for so moch as thou art enfourmed out of ye lawe,¹⁹ thou prouest what is best to do, and presumest to be a leader of the blynde: a lighte of them yt are in darcknes:²⁰ an enformer of ye vnwyse: a teacher of ye symple: which hast the ensample of knowlege & of the trueth in the lawe.²¹ Now teachest thou other, and teachest not thy selfe. Thou preachest that a man shulde not steale, and thou stealest.²² Thou sayest, that a man shulde not breake wedlocke, and thou breakest wedlocke. Thou abhorrest ymages, and robbest God of his honoure.²³ Thou makest thy boost of the lawe, and thorow breakynge of the lawe thou dishonorest God.²⁴ For thorow you is the name of God euell spoken of amonge the Gentyles, as it is wrytten.²⁵ The circucision verely avayleth, yf thou kepe the lawe: but yf thou breake the lawe, then is thy circumcision become vncircumcision.²⁶ Therfore yf the vncircumcision kepe the righte thinges conteyned in the lawe, shal not his vncircumcision be counted for circumcision?²⁷ And so it that of nature is vncircumcision, and fulfilleth the lawe shal iudge the, which vnder the letter and circumcision trasgressest the lawe.²⁸ For he is not a Iew which is a Iewe outwarde: nether is that circucision which is done outwardly in ye flesh:²⁹ But he is a Iewe, which is hydd within. And the circumcision of ye hert is the circumcision, which is done in the sprete and not in the letter: Whoseprayse is not of men, but of God.