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For before God, they are not righteous, which heare ye lawe: but they that do the lawe, shalbe iustified.

in the daye whan God shal iudge the secretes of men by Iesus Christ, acordinge to my Gospell.

But take hede, thou art called a Iewe, and trustest in the lawe, & makest thy boost of God,

Thou sayest, that a man shulde not breake wedlocke, and thou breakest wedlocke. Thou abhorrest ymages, and robbest God of his honoure.

Thou makest thy boost of the lawe, and thorow breakynge of the lawe thou dishonorest God.

For thorow you is the name of God euell spoken of amonge the Gentyles, as it is wrytten.

But he is a Iewe, which is hydd within. And the circumcision of ye hert is the circumcision, which is done in the sprete and not in the letter: Whoseprayse is not of men, but of God.

Surely very moch. First Vnto them was commytted what God spake.

But where as some of them dyd not beleue theron, what then? Shulde their vnbeleue make the promes of God of none effecte?

God forbyd. Let it rather be thus, that God is true, and all me lyers. As it is wrytten: That thou mayest be iustified in thy sayenges, and shuldest ouercome, wha thou art iudged.

But yf it be so, that oure vnrighteousnes prayseth ye righteousnes of God, what shal we saye? Is God then vnrighteous, that he is angrie therfore? (I speake thus after the maner off men)

God forbyd. How mighte God the iudge ye worlde?

For yf the trueth of God be thorow my lye the more excellent vnto his prayse, why shulde I the be iudged yet as a synner?

There is none yt vnderstondeth, there is none that seketh after God.

There is no feare of God before their eyes.

But we knowe, yt, what soeuer the lawe sayeth, it sayeth it vnto them which are vnder the lawe, yt euery mouthe maye be stopped, & yt all the worlde maye be detter vnto God,

But now without addinge to of ye lawe is the righteousnes which avayleth before God, declared, hauynge witnesse of ye lawe and the prophetes:

but I speake of ye righteousnes before God, which cometh by the faith on Iesus Christ, vnto all, and vpo all them that beleue.For here is no difference.

For they are all synners, and wate the prayse that God shulde haue of the,

whom God hath set forth for a Mercyseate thorow faith in his bloude, to shewe the righteousnes which avayleth before him, in that he forgeueth the synnes, which were done before vnder the sufferaunce of God, which he suffred,