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

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)

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

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

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

There is no feare of God before their eyes.

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.

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

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:

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

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.

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

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

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

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

For what saith the Scripture? Abraham beleeued God, and it was counted vnto him for righteousnes.

Euen as Dauid also describeth the blessednesse of the man, vnto whom God imputeth righteousnesse without works:

(As it is written, I haue made thee a father of many nations) before him whom he beleeued, euen God who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which bee not, as though they were,

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