Romans 3:1-18 ▼

1 What preferment then hath the Iewe? other what a vauntageth circumcision?

2 Surely very moche. Fyrst vnto them was committed the worde of God

3 What then though some of them did not beleve? shall their vnbeleve make the promes of god with out effecte?

4 God forbid. Let god be true and all men lyars as it is written: That thou myghtest be iustifyed in thy sayinge and shuldest overcome when thou arte iudged.

5 Yf 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 me.

6 God forbid. For how then shall God iudge the worlde?

7 Yf the veritie of God appere moare excellent thorow my lye vnto his prayse why am I hence forth iudged as a synner?

8 and 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.

9 What 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

10 as it is writte: There is none righteous no not one:

11 There is none that vnderstondith there is none yt seketh after God

12 they are all gone out of ye waye they are all made vnprofytable ther is none that doeth good no not one.

13 Their throte is an open sepulchre with their tounges they have disceaved: the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes.

14 Whose mouthes are full of coursynge and bitternes.

15 Their fete are swyfte to sheed bloud.

16 Destruccion and wretchednes are in their wayes.

17 And the waye of peace they have not knowen.

18 There is no feare of God before their eyes.