Romans 3:1-14 ▼

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.