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But glory, honour, and peace, to euery man that worketh good, to the Iew first, and also to the Gentile.

(For not the hearers of the Law are iust before God, but the doers of the Law shalbe iustified;

For Circumcision verily profiteth if thou keepe the Law: but if thou be a breaker of the Law, thy Circumcision is made vncircumcision.

But he is a Iew which is one inwardly, and Circumcision is, that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.

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.

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

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

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

For if Abraham were iustified by workes, hee hath whereof to glory, but not before God.

Now to him that worketh, is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

But to him that worketh not, but beleeueth on him that iustifieth the vngodly; his faith is counted for righteousnesse.

How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in vncircumcision? not in circumcision, but in vncircumcision.

And the father of circumcision, to them who are not of the circumcision onely, but also walke in the steppes of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet vncircumcised.

For the promise that he should be the heire of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed through the Lawe, but through the righteousnesse of faith.

Therefore it is of faith, that it might bee by grace; to the ende the promise might be sure to all the seede, not to that onely which is of the Law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of vs all,

Hee staggered not at the promise of God through vnbeliefe: but was strong in faith, giuing glory to God:

But for vs also, to whome it shall bee imputed, if wee beleeue on him that raised vp Iesus our Lord from the dead,

And not onely so, but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience:

But God commendeth his loue towards vs, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for vs.

And not onely so, but wee also ioy in God, through our Lorde Iesus Christ, by whom we haue now receiued the atonement.