Romans 3:5-27

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 men.

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.

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 that seketh after God

¹²they are all gone out of the 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 the 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 because that by the dedes of the lawe shall no flesshe be iustified in the sight of God.

²⁰For by the lawe commeth the knowledge of synne.

²¹Now verely is the rightewesnes that cometh of God declared without the fulfillinge of the lawe havinge witnes yet of the lawe and of the Prophetes.

²²The rightewesnes no dout which is good before God cometh by the fayth of Iesus Christ vnto all and vpon all that beleve. Ther is no difference:

²³for all have synned and lacke the prayse that is of valoure before God:

²⁴but are iustified frely by his grace through the redempcion that is in Christ Iesu

²⁵whom God hath made a seate of mercy thorow faith in his bloud to shewe the rightewesnes which before him is of valoure in that he forgeveth the synnes that are passed which God dyd suffre

²⁶to shewe at this tyme the rightewesnes that is alowed of him that he myght be counted iuste and a iustifiar of him which belevith on Iesus.

²⁷Where is then thy reioysinge? It is excluded. By what lawe? by the lawe of workes? Naye: but by the lawe of fayth.