Kapitel 3 -

CHAP. III.

1 The Iewes prerogatiue: 3 which they haue not lost: 9 Howbeit the Law conuinceth them also of sinne: 20 Therefore no flesh is iustified by the Law, 28 but all, without difference, by faith onely: 31 And yet the Law is not abolished.

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¹ What aduantage then hath the Iew? or what profit is there of Circumcision?

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² Much euery way: chiefly, because that vnto them were committed the Oracles of God.

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³ For what if some did not beleeue? shall their vnbeliefe make the faith of God without effect?

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⁴ God forbid: yea, let God be true, but euery man a lier, as it is written, ^*That thou mightest be iustified in thy sayings, and mightest ouercome when thou art iudged. [ *Psal.51.4. ]

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⁵ But if our vnrighteousnesse commend the righteousnesse of God, what shall we say? is God vnrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speake as a man)

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⁶ God forbid: for then how shall God iudge the world?

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⁷ For if the trueth of God hath more abounded through my lye vnto his glory; why yet am I also iudged as a sinner?

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⁸ And not rather as wee be slanderously reported, and as some affirme that we say, Let vs doe euill, that good may come: whose damnation is iust.

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⁹ What then? are wee better then they? No in no wise: for we haue before ⁺proued both Iewes, and Gentiles, that they are all vnder sinne,[⁺Gr. charged.]

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

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¹¹ There is none that vnderstandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

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¹² They are all gone out of the way, they are together become vnprofitable, there is none that doeth good, no not one.

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¹³ Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they haue vsed deceit, the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes:

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¹⁴ Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse:

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¹⁵ Their feet are swift to shed blood.

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¹⁶ Destruction & misery are in their wayes:

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¹⁷ And the way of peace haue they not knowen.

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¹⁸ There is no feare of God before their eyes.

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¹⁹ Now we know that what things soeuer the Law saith, it saith to them who are vnder the Law: that euery mouth may bee stopped, and all the world may become || guilty before God. [ ||Or, subiect to the iudgement of God.]

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²⁰ Therefore by the deedes of the Law, there shall no flesh be iustified in his sight: for by the Law is the knowledge of sinne.

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²¹ But nowe the righteousnesse of God without the Lawe is manifested, being witnessed by the Lawe and the Prophets.

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²² Euen the righteousnesse of God, which is by faith of Iesus Christ vnto all, and vpon all them that beleeue: for there is no difference:

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²³ For all haue sinned, and come short of the glory of God,

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²⁴ Being iustified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Iesus Christ:

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²⁵ Whom God hath || set forth to bee a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousnesse for the || remission of sinnes, that are past, through the forbearance of God. [ ||Or, foreordeined. , ||Or, passing ouer. ]

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²⁶ To declare, I say, at this time his righteousnesse: that hee might bee iust, and the iustifier of him which beleeueth in Iesus.

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²⁷ Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what Law? Of works? Nay: but by the Law of faith.

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²⁸ Therefore wee conclude, that a man is iustified by faith, without the deeds of the Law.

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²⁹ Is he the God of the Iewes only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

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³⁰ Seeing it is one God which shal iustifie the circumcision by faith, and vncircumcision through faith.

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³¹ Doe we then make void the lawe through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the Law.