He. 4. 2. c ch. 9. 6. than Gentiles. are all under sin; 10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that 3 For what if b some A. D. 60. | Gentiles, that they did not believe? shall their unbelief b ch. 10. 16. make the faith of God without effect? 4 d God yea, let God be true, but fevery man ad liar; as it is written, That s thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. forbid : & 11. 29. 2 Ti. 2. 13. e Job 40. 8. Ps. 62. 9. & 116. 11. com g Ps. 51. 4. h ch. 6. 19. Ga. 3. 15. i Ge. 18. 25. & 34. 17. 5 But if our unrighteousness mend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God k ch. 5. 20. unrighteous who tak & 6.1.15. eth vengeance? (h1tGr. chargspeak as a man) for 6 God forbid then i how shall God judge the world? ed. ch. 1. 28. 7 For if the truth of God hath more m Ps. 14. 1, abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? & 53. 1. Ps. 5. 9. Je. 5. 16. o Ps. 140. 3. Is. 59.7, 8. 8 And not rather, (as we be slanderous-P Ps. 10. 7. ly reported, and as q Pr. 1. 16. some affirm that we say,) k Let us do evil, r Ps. 36. 1. that good may come? whose damnation is s Jno. 10. 34. just. & 15. 25. 9 What then? are t ch 1. 20. we better than they? & 2. 1. No, in no wise for we have before +proved both Jews and Job 5. 16. good, no, not none that Their throat is an open sepulchre ; their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: 14 P Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: 15 9 Their feet are swift to shed blood: 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways: 17 And the way of peace have they not known: 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, of sin. z Ac. 15. 11. 21 But Ph. 3.9. now z the He. 11.4. righteousness of God without the law is a Jno. 5. 46. manifested, a being b1 Pe. 1. 10. witnessed by the law c ch. 4. and b the prophets; throughout. 22 Even the righ-d Ga. 3. 28. teousness of God Col. 3. 11. which is by faith of e Ga. 3. 22. Jesus Christ unto all f Ep. 2. 8. Tit. 3. 5. and upon all them that believe : for thered there is no difference: 23 For e all have g Ep. 1.7. Col. 1. 14. He. 9. 12. 1 Pe. 1. 18. comet Or, foreordained. sinned, and short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely f by his grace the through g demption that is in Christ Jesus: re 25 Whom God hath 1 He. 9. 15. set forth h to be a m1 Co. 1. 29. Ep. 2. 9. propitiation through faith i in his blood, to n Ga. 2. 16. declare his righteous-o Ga. 3. 8. ness k for the 6 remis-a Is. 51. 2. sion of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, Ib ch. 3. 20. say, at this time his by the law. righteousness : that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. 27 m Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore conclude n that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. we 29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: 30 Seeing it is one shall God, which justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. then we SI Do make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. CHAP. IV. 1 WHAT shall we then say that a Abraham, our father as to the pertaining flesh, hath found? 2 For if Abraham b justified by works, he hath where of to glory; but not before God. were 3 For what saith Jo. 24. 2. g Ga. 3. 7. i Ge.. 17. 4. Ga. 3. 29. by faith. Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. * 11 And g he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be k Ga. 3. 18. not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: 1 ch. 3. 20. & 5.13.20. & 7. 8. 10, 1 Co. 15. 56. 2 Co. 3. 7. 12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the 9. circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. Ga. 3. 10. sion was a ing in covenant with God. It was also a pledge 9 Cometh this bless- of the proedness then upon the ing his spimise respectcircumcision only, or ritual seed of upon the uncircum-true believcision also? for we ers. It is called a seal, say that faith was in allusion to reckoned to Abraham the custom of for righteousness. affixing seals 10 How was it then to written reckoned? when he covenants, to was in circumcision, binding. or in uncircumcision? render them 13 For the promise, that he should be the heiri of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For kif they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: 15 Because I the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, of faith, that it might n Ga. 3. 22. Is. 51. 2. might be sure to all p Ge. 17. 5. be m by grace; n to o ch. 9.8. the end the promise unto him. q ch. 8. 11. Ep. 2. 1.5. r ch. 9. 26. the seed; not to that + Or, like only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; o who is the father of us all, 17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) + before him whom he believed, even God, 9 who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. 1 Co. 1. 28. 1 Pe. 2.10 Ge. 15. 5. t Ge. 17. 17 He. 11. 11, 12. Ps. 115. 3. 45. He. 11. 19. 1 ch. 15. 4. 1 Co. 10. 6. 11. 18 Who against y Ac. 2. 24. hope believed in & 13. 30. nope, that he might z Is. 53.5, 6. become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. 19 And being not weak in faith, the considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: 2 Co. 5. 21. Ga. 1. 4. 1 Pe. 2. 24. He. 9. 28. and extent lof God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; a1 Co.15. 17. 1 Pe. 1. 21. a b Is. 32. 17. Jno. 16. 33. Ep. 2. 14. Col. 1. 20. Jno. 10. 9. 1 Co. 15. 1. He. 3. 6. f Ma. 5. 11. 20 He staggered g Ja. 1. 3. not at the promise! 21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, " he was able also to perform. 22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. 23 Now x it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; 24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe y on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and a was raised again for our justification. CHAP. V. 1 THEREFORE a being justified by faith, we have b peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but f we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tri Of justification ROMANS V. bulation worketh pa- A. D. 60. tience; 4 h And patience, h Ja. 1. 12. experience; and ex-i Ph. 1. 20. perience, hope: 5 i And hope maketh not ashamed; k be. cause the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. k 2 Co. 1. 22. Ep. 1. 3. Ga. 4 4. 1 ch. 4. 25. by faith. Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the ‡atonement. as 12 Wherefore, byt one man sin entered into the world, and u death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, that all have sinned: 13 (For until the for 6 For when we were mJno. 15.13. law sin was in the yet without strength, int due time I Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 1 Pe. 3. 18. 1 Jno. 4. 9. n Ep. 2. 13. He. 9. 14. 1 Jno. 1.7. o1 Th. 1. 10. p ch. 8. 32. q 2 Co. 5. 18. Ep. 2.16. Col. 1. 20. 8 But God com-r Jno. 5. 26. mendeth his love to. ward us, in that, while we were yet s sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by n his blood, wet shall be saved from wrath through him. 10 For pif, when were enemies, we & 14. 19. 2 Co. 5. 18. Or, in ch. 4. 15. weg were reconciled 11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our 1 Jno. 3. 4. y1 Co. 15.21, 22.45. world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, y who is the figure of him that was to come. 15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded z unto many. 16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift Ma. 20. 28. & 26. 28. is of many offences unto justification. z Is. 53. 11. |