Romans 5:1-9:33 Because therfore that we are iustified by faith, we haue peace with God thorow oure LORDE Iesus Christ

Coverdale⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Because therfore that we are iustified by faith, we haue peace with God thorow oure LORDE Iesus Christ ² by who also we haue an intraunce in faith vnto this grace, wherin we stonde, & reioyse in the hope of ye glorye for to come, which God shal geue. ³ Not onely yt, but we reioyse also i troubles, for so moch as we knowe, yt trouble bryngeth paciece, ⁴ paciece bryngeth experiece, experiece bryngeth hope: ⁵ As for hope, is letteth vs not come to cofusion, because the loue of God is shed abrode in oure hertes, by the holy goost which is geuen vnto vs. ⁶ For whan we were yet weake acordinge to the tyme, Christ dyed for vs vngodly. ⁷ Now dyeth there scace eny man for the righteous sake: Peraduenture for a good man durst one dye. ⁸ Therfore doth God set forth his loue towarde vs, in yt Christ dyed for vs,whan we were yet synners: ⁹ Moch more then shal we be saued from wrath by him seynge we are now made righteous thorow his bloude. ¹⁰ For yf we were recocyled vnto God by ye death of his sone, wha we were yet enemies: moch more shal we be saued by him, now yt we are reconcyled. ¹¹ Not onely that, but we reioyse also in God thorow oure LORDE Iesus Christ, by whom we haue now receaued the attonement. ¹² Wherfore as by one man synned entred in to the worlde, and death by ye meanes off synne: ¹³ euen so wente death also ouer all men, in so moch as they all haue synned. For synne was in ye worlde vnto the lawe: but where no lawe is, there is not synne regarded. ¹⁴ Neuertheles death reigned from Adam vnto Moses, euen ouer them also that synned not with like trangression as dyd Adam, which is ye ymage of him yt was to come. ¹⁵ But it is not with the gifte as with the synne: for yf thorow the synne of one many be deed, yet moch more plenteously came the grace and gifte of God vpon many by the fauoure that belonged vnto one man Iesus Christ. ¹⁶ And the gifte is not onely ouer one synne, as death came thorow one synne of one that synned. For the iudgment came of one synne vnto condempnacion, but the gifte to iustifye fro many synnes. ¹⁷ For yf by ye synne of one, death raigned by the meanes of one, moch more shal they which receaue the abudaunce of grace and of the gifte vnto righteousnes, raigne in life by ye meanes of one Iesus Christ. ¹⁸ Likewyse the as by the synne of one, condemnacion came on all men, euen so also by the righteousness of one, came the iustififienge off life vpon all men. ¹⁹ For as by the disobedience of one, many became synners, euen so by the obedience of one shal many be made righteous. ²⁰ But the lawe in the meane tyme entred, that synne shulde increace. Neuertheles where abundaunce of synne was, there was yet more plenteousnes of grace: ²¹ that, like as synne had reigned vnto death, eue so mighte grace reigne also thorow righteousnes to euerlastinge life by the meanes of Iesus Christ. ⁶ ¹ What shal we saye then? Shal we contynue in synne, that there maye be abundaunce of grace? ² God forbyd. How shal we lyue in synne, yt are deed from it? ³ Knowe ye not, that all we which are baptysed into Iesu Christ, are baptysed in to his death? ⁴ Therfore are we buried wt him by baptyme in to death, that, like as Christ was raysed vp from the deed by the glory of the father, euen so we also shulde walke in a new life. ⁵ For yf we be grafted wt him vnto like death, then shal we be like the resurreccion also: ⁶ For so moch as we knowe, that oure olde man is crucified with him, that the synfull body mighte ceasse, that hence forth we shulde serue synne no more. ⁷ For he that is deed, is made righteous fro synne ⁸ But yf we be deed with Christ, we beleue, that we shal lyue also with him, ⁹ and are sure, that Christ raysed from the deed, dyeth nomore: Death shal haue nomore power ouer him. ¹⁰ For as touchinge that he dyed, he dyed cocernynge synne once: but as touchinge that he lyueth, he lyueth vnto God. ¹¹ Likewyse ye also, counte youre selues to be euen deed concernynge synne, and to lyue vnto God thorow Iesus Christ oure LORDE. ¹² Let not synne reigne therfore in youre mortall bodye, that ye shulde obeye vnto the lustes of it. ¹³ ether geue ye ouer youre membres vnto synne to be wapens of vnrighteousnes, but geue ouer youre selues vnto God, as they that off deed are become lyuynge, and youre membres vnto God to be wapes off righteousnes. ¹⁴ For synne shal not haue power ouer you, in so moch as ye are not vnder the lawe, but vnder grace. ¹⁵ How then? Shal we synne, because we are not vnder ye lawe, but vnder grace? God forbyd. ¹⁶ Knowe ye not, that loke vnto who ye geue ouer youre selues as seruauntes to obeye, his seruauntes ye are to whom ye obey, whether it be of synne vnto death, or of obediece vnto righteousnes? ¹⁷ But God be thanked, that though ye haue bene the seruauntes of synne, ye are now yet obedient of herte to the ensample off the doctryne, whervnto ye are commytted. ¹⁸ For now that ye are made fre from synue, ye are become the seruauntes of righteousnes. ¹⁹ I wil speake grosly, because of the weaknes of youre flesh. Like as ye haue geuen ouer youre membres to the seruyce of vnclennesse, from one wickednesse to another: Eue so now also geue ouer youre membres to the seruyce of righteousnesse, that they maye be holy. ²⁰ For whan ye were the seruauntes of synne, ye were lowse from righteousnes. ²¹ What frute had ye at that tyme in those thinges, wherof ye are now ashamed? For the ende of soch thinges is death. ²² But now that ye be fre from synne, and are become the seruauntes of God, ye haue youre frute that ye shulde be holy: but the ende is euerlastinge life. ²³ For death is the rewarde of synne, but the gifte of God is euerlastinge life. ⁷ ¹ Knowe ye not brethren (for I speake vnto them that knowe the lawe) how that ye lawe hath power vpon a man as longe as he lyueth? ² For the woman yt is in subieccion to the man, is bounde vnto the lawe whyle the man lyueth: but yf the man dye, then is she lowsed from the lawe that concerneth the man. ³ Yf she be now with another man, whyle the man lyueth, she shal be called a wedlocke breaker. But yf the man be deed, then is she fre from the lawe, so that she is no wedlocke breaker, yf she be with another man. ⁴ Euen so my brethren, ye also are deed vnto the lawe by the body of Christ, that ye shulde be with another (namely wt him which is raysed vp from the deed) that we shulde brynge forth frute vnto God. ⁵ For whan we were in the flesh, the synfull lustes (which were stered vp by the lawe) were mightie in oure membres to brynge forth frute vnto death. ⁶ But now are we lowsed from the lawe, and deed vnto it, that helde vs captyue, so that we shulde serue in a new conuersacion of the sprete, and not in the olde conuersacion of the letter. ⁷ What shal we saye then? Is the lawe synne? God forbyd: Neuertheles I knewe not synne, but by ye lawe. For I had knowne nothinge of lust, yf the lawe had not sayde: Thou shalt not lust. ⁸ But then toke synne occasion at the commaundement, and stered vp in me all maner of lust. For without the lawe synne was deed. ⁹ As for me, I lyued some tyme without lawe. Howbeit whan the commaundement came, synne reuyued, but I was deed. ¹⁰ And the very same commaundement that was geuen me vnto life, was founde to be vnto me on occasion of death. ¹¹ For synne toke occasion at the comaundement, and disceaued me, and slewe me by the same commaundement. ¹² The lawe in dede is holy, and the commaundement holy, iust and good. ¹³ Is that then which is good, become death vnto me? God forbyd. But synne, that it mighte appeare how yt it is synne, hath wroughte me death thorow good: that synne mighte be out of measure synfull by the commaundement. ¹⁴ For we knowe, that the lawe is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder synne: ¹⁵ because I knowe not what I do. For I do not yt I will, but what I hate, yt do I. ¹⁶ Yf I do now that which I wil not, the graunte I, that the lawe is good. ¹⁷ So then it is not I that do it, but synne that dwelleth in me: ¹⁸ for I knowe that in me (yt is, in my flesh) there dwelleth no good thinge.To wyll is present wt me, but to perfourme yt which is good, ¹⁹ I fynde not. For ye good that I wyll, do I not: but the euell which I wil not, that do I. ²⁰ Yf I do now that I wil not, then is it not I that do it, but synne that dwelleth in me. ²¹ Thus fynde I now by the lawe, yt whan I wyl do good, euell is present with me. ²² For I delite in the lawe of God after the inwarde man: ²³ but I se another lawe in my membres, which stryueth agaynst ye lawe of my mynde, and taketh me presoner in ye lawe of synne, which is in my membres. ²⁴ O wretched man that I am, who shal delyuer me from the body of this death? ²⁵ I thanke God thorow Iesus Christ oure LORDE. So then wt the mynde I serue ye lawe of God, but with the flesh the lawe of synne. ⁸ ¹ Then is there now no damnacion vnto the that are in Christ Iesu, which walke not after the flesh, but after ye sprete. ² For ye lawe of ye sprete (yt bryngeth life i Christ Iesu) hath made me fre fro the lawe of synne & death. ³ For what vnpossible was vnto ye lawe (in as moch as it was weake because of the flesh) yt perfourmed God, & sent his sonne in ye similitude of synfull flesh, ⁴ & by synne daned synne in ye flesh: that the righteousnes requyred of the lawe, mighte be fulfylled in vs, which walke not after the flesh, but after the sprete. ⁵ For they that are fleshly, are fleshly mynded: but they that are goostly, are goostly mynded. ⁶ To be fleshly mynded, is death: but to be goostly mynded, is life and peace. ⁷ For to be fleshly mynded is enemyte agaynst. God, syth it is not subdued vnto ye lawe of God, for it can not also. ⁸ As for the that are fleshlye, they can not please God. ⁹ Howbeit ye are not fleshly, but goostly, yf so be that the sprete of God dwell in you. But who so hath not the sprete of Christ, the same is not his. ¹⁰ Neuertheles yf Christ be in you, then is the body deed because of synne. But the sprete is life for righteousnes sake. ¹¹ Wherfore yf the sprete of him, that raysed vp Iesus from the deed, dwell in you, then shal euen he also that raysed vp Christ from the deed, quycke youre mortal bodies, because yt his sprete dwelleth in you. ¹² Therfore brethre we are now detters, not to the flesh, ¹³ to lyue after the flesh: for yf ye lyue after ye fleshe, ye must dye: but yf ye mortyfye the dedes of the body thorow the sprete, ye shal lyue. ¹⁴ For who so euer are led by the sprete of God, ¹⁵ are Gods childre: for ye haue not receaued the sprete of bondage to feare eny more, but ye haue receaued ye sprete of adopcion, wherby we crye: Abba, deare father. ¹⁶ The same sprete certifieth oure sprete, that we are the childre of God. ¹⁷ Yf we be childre, then are we heyres also, namely the heyres of God, and heyres annexed with Christ, yf so be that we suffer together, that we maye be also glorified together. ¹⁸ For I suppose, that the affliccions off this tyme, are not worthy of ye glorye, which shalbe shewed vpon vs. ¹⁹ For the feruent loginge of ye creature loketh for the appearinge of the children of God, ²⁰ because the creature is subdued vnto vanyte agaynst hir will, but for his wyll that hath subdued her vpon hope. ²¹ For the creature also shal be fre from the bondage of corrupcion, vnto the glorious libertye of the childre of God. ²² For we knowe, that euery creature groneth, and trauayleth with vs in payne vnto the same tyme. ²³ Not they only, but we oure selues also, which haue the first frutes of the sprete, grone within in oure selues for the childshippe, and loke for ye delyueraunce of oure bodye. ²⁴ For we are saued i dede, howbeit i hope: but ye hope that is sene, is no hope: for how can a man hope for that which he seyeth? ²⁵ But yf we hope for that which we se not, the do we thorow pacience abyde for it. ²⁶ Likewyse the sprete also helpeth oure weaknesse: for we knowe not what we shulde desyre as we oughte: neuertheles ye sprete it selfe maketh intercession mightely for vs with vnoutspeakable gronynges. ²⁷ Howbeit he yt searcheth the hert, knoweth what the mynde of the sprete is: for he maketh intercession for the sayntes acordinge to the pleasure of God. ²⁸ But sure we are, that all thinges serue for the best vnto them that loue of God, which are called of purpose. ²⁹ For those whom he knewe before, hath he ordeyned also before, yt they shulde be like fashioned vnto ye shappe of his sonne, yt he mighte be the first begotte amoge many brethre. ³⁰ As for those whom he hath ordeyned before, them hath he called also: and whom he hath called, the hath he also made righteous: and whom he hath made righteous, them hath he glorified also. ³¹ What shal we saye then vnto these thinges? Yff God be on oure syde, who can be agaynst vs. ³² Which spared not his owne sonne, but hath geuen him for vs all: how shal he not with him geue vs all thinges also? ³³ Who wyl laye enythinge to ye charge of Gods chosen? Here is God that maketh righteous, ³⁴ who wil then condemne? Here is Christ that is deed, yee rather which is raysed vp agayne, which is also on ye righte hande of God, and maketh intercession for vs. ³⁵ Who will separate vs from the loue of God? Trouble? or anguysh? or persecucio? or honger? or nakednesse? or parell? or swerde? ³⁶ As it is wrytten: For thy sake are we kylled all the daye longe, we are counted as shepe appoynted to be slayne. ³⁷ Neuerthelesse in all these thinges we ouercome farre, for his sake that loued vs. ³⁸ For sure I am, that nether death ner life, nether angell, ner rule, nether power, nether thinges present, nether thinges to come, ³⁹ nether heyth, ner loweth, nether eny other creature shalbe able to separate vs from the loue of God, which is in Christ Iesu oure LORDE. ⁹ ¹ I saye the trueth in Christ, and lye not (wherof my conscience beareth me witnesse in the holy goost) ² that I haue greate heuynesse & contynuall sorowe in my hert. ³ I haue wysshed my selfe to be cursed from Christ for my brethren, that are my kynsmen after the flesh, ⁴ which are off Israel: vnto whom pertayneth the childshippe, and the glory, and the couenauntes and lawe, and the seruyce of God, and the promyses: ⁵ whose are also the fathers, off whom (after the flesh) commeth Christ, which is God ouer all, blessed for euer, Ame. ⁶ But I speake not these thinges, as though the worde of God were of none effecte: for they are not all Israelites, which are of Israel: ⁷ nether are they all children, because they are the sede of Abraham: but in Isaac shal the sede be called ⁸ vnto the, that is, They which are children after the flesh, are not the children of God, but the children of the promes are counted for the sede. ⁹ For this is a worde of the promes, where he sayeth: Aboute this tyme wyl I come, and Sara shal haue a sonne. ¹⁰ Howbeit it is not so with this onely, but also whan Rebecca was with childe by one (namely by oure father Isaac) ¹¹ or euer the childre were borne, & had done nether good ner bad (that the purpose of God might stode acordinge to the eleccion, not by the deseruynge of workes, but by the grace of the caller) ¹² it was sayde thus vnto her: The greater shal serue the lesse. ¹³ As it is wrytten: Iacob haue I loued, but Esau haue I hated. ¹⁴ What shal we saye then? Is God then vnrighteous? God forbyd. ¹⁵ For he sayeth vnto Moses: I shewe mercy, to whom I shewe mercy: and haue copassion, ¹⁶ on who I haue compassion. So lyeth it not then in eny mans wyll or runnynge, but in the mercy of God. ¹⁷ For the scripture sayeth vnto Pharao: For this cause haue I stered the vp, euen to shewe my power on the, that my name mighte be declared in all lodes. ¹⁸ Thus hath he mercy on whom he wyl: and whom he wyl, he hardeneth. ¹⁹ Thou wilt saye then vnto me: Why blameth he vs yet? For who can resiste his will? ²⁰ O thou man, who art thou, that disputest with God? Sayeth the worke to his workman: Why hast thou made me on this fashion? ²¹ Hath not the potter power, out of one lompe of claye to make one vessell vnto honoure, and another vnto dishonoure? ²² Therfore whan God wolde shewe wrath, and to make his power knowne, he broughte forth with greate pacience the vessels off wrath, which are ordeyned to damnacion: ²³ that he mighte declare the riches off his glorye on ye vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared vnto glorye, ²⁴ whom he hath called (namely vs) not onely of the Iewes, but also of the Gentyles. ²⁵ As he sayeth also by Osee: I wil call that my people, which is not my people: and my beloued, which is not ye beloued. ²⁶ And it shal come to passe in ye place, where it was sayde vnto them: Ye are not my people, there shal they be called the children of the lyuynge God. ²⁷ But Esay crieth ouer Israel: Though the nombre of the children of Israel be as the sonde of the see, yet shal there but a remnaunt be saued. ²⁸ For there is the worde, that fynisheth and shorteneth in righteousnes: for a shorte worde shal God make vpon earth. ²⁹ And as Esay sayde before: Excepte the LORDE of Sabbaoth had lefte vs sede, we shulde haue bene as Sodoma, and like vnto Gomorra. ³⁰ What shal we saye then? This wil we saye: The Heythen which folowed not righteousnes, haue ouertaken righteousnes: but I speake of the righteousnes that commeth of faith. ³¹ Agayne, Israel folowed the lawe of righteousnes, and attayned not vnto the lawe of righteousnes. ³² Why so? Euen because they soughte it not out of faith, but as it were out of the deseruynge of workes. For they haue stombled at the stomblinge stone. ³³ As it is wrytten: Beholde, I laye in Sion a stone to stoble at, and a rocke to be offended at: and who so euer beleueth on him, shal not be confounded.