Romans 3

¹What is then the preferment of the Iewe? or what is the profite of circumcision?

²Much euery maner of way: for chiefly, because vnto them were of credite committed the oracles of God.

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

⁴God forbid: yea, let God be true, and euery man a lyar, as it is written, That thou mightest be iustified in thy words, and ouercome, when thou art iudged.

⁵Now if our vnrighteousnes comend the righteousnes of God, what shall we say? Is God vnrighteous which punisheth? (I speake as a man.)

⁶God forbid: els how shall God iudge ye world?

⁷For if the veritie of God hath more abounded through my lye vnto his glorie, why am I yet condemned as a sinner?

⁸And (as we are blamed, and as some affirme, that we say) why doe we not euil, that good may come thereof? whose damnation is iust.

⁹What then? are we more excellent? No, in no wise: for we haue alreadie prooued, that all, both Iewes and Gentiles are vnder sinne,

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

¹¹There is none that vnderstandeth: there is none that seeketh God.

¹²They haue all gone out of the way: they haue bene made altogether vnprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no not one.

¹³Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.