God Remains Faithful

1What furtheraunce then haue the Iewes? Or what avauntageth circucision? 2Surely very moch. First Vnto them was commytted what God spake. 3But where as some of them dyd not beleue theron, what then? Shulde their vnbeleue make the promes of God of none effecte?

4God forbyd. Let it rather be thus, that God is true, and all me lyers. As it is wrytten: That thou mayest be iustified in thy sayenges, and shuldest ouercome, wha thou art iudged.

5But yf it be so, that oure vnrighteousnes prayseth ye righteousnes of God, what shal we saye? Is God then vnrighteous, that he is angrie therfore? (I speake thus after the maner off men) 6God forbyd. How mighte God the iudge ye worlde? 7For yf the trueth of God be thorow my lye the more excellent vnto his prayse, why shulde I the be iudged yet as a synner? 8& not rather to do thus (as we are euell spoken of, and as some reporte, that we shulde saye) Let vs do euell, yt good maye come therof. Whose danacio is inste.

There Is No One Righteous
(Psalm 14:1–7; Psalm 53:1–6; Isaiah 59:1–17)

9What saye we then? Are we better then they? No, in no wyse: for we haue proued afore, yt both the Iewes and Grekes are all vnder synne.

10As it is wrytte: There is none righteous, no not one.

11There is none yt vnderstondeth, there is none that seketh after God.

12They are all gone out of the waye, they are alltogether become vnprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no not one.

13Their throte is an open sepulcre, with their tunges they haue disceaued, the poyson off Aspes is vnder their lippes.

14Their mouth is full of cursynge and bytternesse.

15Their fete are swifte to shed bloude.

16Destruccion & wrechidnes are in their wayes,

17and ye waye of peace haue they not knowne.

18There is no feare of God before their eyes.

19But we knowe, yt, what soeuer the lawe sayeth, it sayeth it vnto them which are vnder the lawe, yt euery mouthe maye be stopped, & yt all the worlde maye be detter vnto God, 20because yt by ye dedes of the lawe no flesh maye be iustified in his sighte. For by the lawe commeth but the knowlege of synne.

Righteousness through Faith in Christ
(Philippians 3:1–11)

21But now without addinge to of ye lawe is the righteousnes which avayleth before God, declared, hauynge witnesse of ye lawe and the prophetes: 22but I speake of ye righteousnes before God, which cometh by the faith on Iesus Christ, vnto all, and vpo all them that beleue.For here is no difference. 23For they are all synners, and wate the prayse that God shulde haue of the, 24but without deseruynge are they made righteous eue by his grace, thorow the redempcion that is done by Christ Iesu, 25whom God hath set forth for a Mercyseate thorow faith in his bloude, to shewe the righteousnes which avayleth before him, in that he forgeueth the synnes, which were done before vnder the sufferaunce of God, which he suffred, 26that at this tyme he mighte shewe ye righteousnes which avayleth before him: yt he onely mighte be righteous, & the righteous maker of him which is of the faith on Iesus.

27Where is now then thy reioysinge? It is excluded. By what lawe? By the lawe of workes? Nay, but by the lawe of faith. 28We holde therfore that a man is iustified by faith, without the workes of the lawe. 29Or is God the God of the Iewes onely? Is he not also the God of the Heythen? Yes verely the God of the Heythen also, 30for so moch as he is the God onely that iustifieth the circumcision which is of faith, and the vncircucision thorow faith.

31Destroye we then the lawe thorow faith? God forbyd. But we mantayne the lawe.