Romans 3:1-18 ▼

1 What is then the preferment of the Iewe? Or what is the profite of circumcision?

2 Much euery maner of way: for chiefly, because vnto them were of credite committed the oracles of God.

3 For what, though some did not beleeue? Shall their vnbeliefe make the faith of God without effect?

4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, and euery man a lyar, as it is written, That thou mightest be iustified in thy words, and ouercome, when thou art iudged.

5 Now if our vnrighteousnes comend the righteousnes of God, what shal we say? Is God vnrighteous which punisheth? (I speake as a man.)

6 God forbid: els how shal God iudge ye world?

7 For if the veritie of God hath more abounded through my lye vnto his glorie, why am I yet condemned as a sinner?

8 And (as we are blamed, & as some affirme, that we say) why doe we not euil, that good may come thereof? whose damnation is iust.

9 What then? Are we more excellent? No, in no wise: for we haue alreadie prooued, that all, both Iewes and Gentiles are vnder sinne,

10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one.

11 There is none that vnderstandeth: there is none that seeketh God.

12 They haue all gone out of the way: they haue bene made altogether vnprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no not one.

13 Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.

14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.

15 Their feete are swift to shead blood.

16 Destruction & calamity are in their waies,

17 And ye way of peace they haue not knowen.

18 The feare of God is not before their eies.