God Remains Faithful

1What preferment then hath the Iewe? other what a vauntageth circumcision? 2Surely very moche. Fyrst vnto them was committed the worde of God 3What then though some of them did not beleve? shall their vnbeleve make the promes of god with out effecte?

4God forbid. Let god be true and all men lyars as it is written: That thou myghtest be iustifyed in thy sayinge and shuldest overcome when thou arte iudged.

5Yf oure vnrightewesnes make the rightewesnes of God more excellent: what shall we saye? Is God vnrighteous which taketh vengeauce? I speake after the maner of me. 6God forbid. For how then shall God iudge the worlde? 7Yf the veritie of God appere moare excellent thorow my lye vnto his prayse why am I hence forth iudged as a synner? 8and saye not rather (as men evyll speake of vs and as some affirme that we saye) let vs do evyll that good maye come therof. Whose damnacion is iuste.

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 have all ready proved how that both Iewes and Gentils are all vnder synne

10as it is writte: There is none righteous no not one:

11There is none that vnderstondith there is none yt seketh after God

12they are all gone out of ye waye they are all made vnprofytable ther is none that doeth good no not one.

13Their throte is an open sepulchre with their tounges they have disceaved: the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes.

14Whose mouthes are full of coursynge and bitternes.

15Their fete are swyfte to sheed bloud.

16Destruccion and wretchednes are in their wayes.

17And the waye of peace they have not knowen.

18There is no feare of God before their eyes.

19Ye and we knowe that whatsoever ye lawe sayth he sayth it to them which are vnder the lawe. That all mouthes maye be stopped and all the worlde be subdued to god 20because that by ye dedes of the lawe shall no flesshe be iustified in the sight of God. For by the lawe commeth the knowledge of synne.

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

21Now verely is ye rigtewesnes that cometh of God declared without the fulfillinge of ye lawe havinge witnes yet of ye lawe and of the Prophetes. 22The rightewesnes no dout which is good before God cometh b y ye fayth of Iesus Christ vnto all and vpon all that beleve.Ther is no differece: 23for all have synned and lacke the prayse yt is of valoure before God: 24but are iustified frely by his grace through the redemcion that is in Christ Iesu 25whom God hath made a seate of mercy thorow faith in his bloud to shewe ye rightewesnes which before him is of valoure in yt he forgeveth ye synnes yt are passed which God dyd suffre 26to shewe at this tyme ye rightewesnes yt is alowed of him yt he myght be couted iuste and a iustifiar of him which belevith on Iesus.

27Where is then thy reioysinge? It is excluded. By what lawe? by ye lawe of workes? Naye: but by the lawe of fayth. 28For we suppose that a man is iustified by fayth without the dedes of ye lawe. 29Is he the God of the Iewes only? Is he not also the God of the Gentyls? Yes eve of the Gentyles also. 30For it is God only which iustifieth circumcision which is of fayth and vncircumcision thorow fayth.

31Do we then destroye the lawe thorow fayth? God forbid. But we rather mayntayne the lawe.