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- What preferment then hath ye Iew?
or what auauntageth circumcision?
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- Much euery way.
First, for because yt vnto them were committed ye wordes of God.
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- What then though some of them dyd not beleue?
Shal their vnbeliefe make the fayth of God without effect?
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- 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.
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- 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,
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- God forbyd.
For howe then shall God iudge the worlde?
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- For yf the trueth of God hath more abounded through my lye, vnto his glory, why am I as yet iudged as a sinner?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- As it is written: There is none righteous, no not one.
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- There is none that vnderstandeth, there is none that seketh after God.
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- They are all gone out of the waye, they are all vnprofitable, there is none that doth good, no not one.
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- Their throte is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they haue deceaued, the poyso of aspes is vnder their lippes.
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- Whose mouth is full of cursyng and bytternesse.
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- Their feete are swyft to shed blood.
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- Heartes griefe & miserie are in their wayes.
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- And they way of peace haue they not knowen.
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- There is no feare of God before their eyes.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- But nowe is the righteousnes of God declared without the lawe, beyng witnessed by the testimonie of the lawe and of the prophetes.
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- The ryghteousnes of God [commeth] by the fayth of Iesus Christe, vnto all and vpon all them that beleue.
There is no difference:
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- For all haue synned, and are destitute of the glorie of God,
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- Iustified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christe Iesu:
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- 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,
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- Which God dyd suffer, to shew at this tyme his righteousnes, that he might be iuste, & the iustifier of hym which beleueth on Iesus.
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- Where is then thy boastyng?
It is excluded.
By what lawe?
Of workes?
Nay, but by the lawe of fayth.
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- Therfore, we holde that a man is iustified by fayth, without the deedes of the lawe.
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- Is he the God of the Iewes only?
Is he not also of the Gentiles?
Yes, euen of the Gentiles also.
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- For it is one God whiche shall iustifie the circumcision by fayth, and vncircumcision through fayth.
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- Do we then destroy the lawe through fayth?
God forbyd: But we rather mayntayne the lawe.
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