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[1]What preferment then hath ye Iew? or what auauntageth circumcision
[2]Much euery way. First, for because yt vnto them were committed ye wordes of God
[3]What then though some of them dyd not beleue? Shal their vnbeliefe make the fayth of God without effect
[4]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
[5]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
[6]God forbyd. For howe then shall God iudge the worlde
[7]For yf the trueth of God hath more abounded through my lye, vnto his glory, why am I as yet iudged as a sinner
[8]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
[9]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
[10]As it is written: There is none righteous, no not one
[11]There is none that vnderstandeth, there is none that seketh after God
[12]They are all gone out of the waye, they are all vnprofitable, there is none that doth good, no not one
[13]Their throte is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they haue deceaued, the poyso of aspes is vnder their lippes
[14]Whose mouth is full of cursyng and bytternesse
[15]Their feete are swyft to shed blood
[16]Heartes griefe & miserie are in their wayes
[17]And they way of peace haue they not knowen
[18]There is no feare of God before their eyes
[19]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
[20]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
[21]But nowe is the righteousnes of God declared without the lawe, beyng witnessed by the testimonie of the lawe and of the prophetes
[22]The ryghteousnes of God [commeth] by the fayth of Iesus Christe, vnto all and vpon all them that beleue. There is no difference
[23]For all haue synned, and are destitute of the glorie of God
[24]Iustified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christe Iesu
[25]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
[26]Which God dyd suffer, to shew at this tyme his righteousnes, that he might be iuste, & the iustifier of hym which beleueth on Iesus
[27]Where is then thy boastyng? It is excluded. By what lawe? Of workes? Nay, but by the lawe of fayth
[28]Therfore, we holde that a man is iustified by fayth, without the deedes of the lawe
[29]Is he the God of the Iewes only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, euen of the Gentiles also
[30]For it is one God whiche shall iustifie the circumcision by fayth, and vncircumcision through fayth
[31]Do we then destroy the lawe through fayth? God forbyd: But we rather mayntayne the lawe
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