Bible verses about "faithlessness" | Bishops

¹ What preferment then hath ye Iew? or what auauntageth circumcision ² Much euery way. First, for because yt vnto them were committed ye wordes of God ³ What then though some of them dyd not beleue? Shal their vnbeliefe make the fayth of God without effect ⁴ God forbyd. Yea let God be true, and euery man a lyer, as it is writte: That thou myghtest be iustified in thy sayinges, and ouercome when thou art iudged ⁵ But yf our vnrighteousnes setteth foorth the righteousnes of God, what shall we saye? Is God vnryghteous which taketh vengeaunce? I speake after the maner of men ⁶ God forbyd. For howe then shall God iudge the worlde ⁷ For yf the trueth of God hath more abounded through my lye, vnto his glory, why am I as yet iudged as a sinner ⁸ And not rather (as men speake euyll of vs, and as some affirme that we say) let vs do euyll, that good may come therof? Whose dampnation is iuste ⁹ What then? Are we better [then they?] No, in no wise. For we haue alredy proued, howe that both Iewes and Gentiles are all vnder sinne ¹⁰ As it is written: There is none righteous, no not one ¹¹ There is none that vnderstandeth, there is none that seketh after God ¹² They are all gone out of the waye, they are all vnprofitable, there is none that doth good, no not one ¹³ Their throte is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they haue deceaued, the poyso of aspes is vnder their lippes ¹⁴ Whose mouth is full of cursyng and bytternesse ¹⁵ Their feete are swyft to shed blood ¹⁶ Heartes griefe & miserie are in their wayes ¹⁷ And they way of peace haue they not knowen ¹⁸ There is no feare of God before their eyes ¹⁹ Nowe we knowe that what thynges so euer the lawe saith, it saith it to them which are vnder the lawe: That all mouthes maye be stopped, and that al ye world may be indaungered to God ²⁰ Because that by the deedes of the lawe, there shall no flesshe be iustified in his syght. For by the lawe, commeth the knowledge of sinne ²¹ But nowe is the righteousnes of God declared without the lawe, beyng witnessed by the testimonie of the lawe and of the prophetes ²² The ryghteousnes of God [commeth] by the fayth of Iesus Christe, vnto all and vpon all them that beleue. There is no difference ²³ For all haue synned, and are destitute of the glorie of God ²⁴ Iustified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christe Iesu ²⁵ Whom God hath set foorth to be a propitiatio, through fayth in his blood, to declare his ryghteousnes, in that he forgeueth the sinnes that are past ²⁶ Which God dyd suffer, to shew at this tyme his righteousnes, that he might be iuste, & the iustifier of hym which beleueth on Iesus ²⁷ Where is then thy boastyng? It is excluded. By what lawe? Of workes? Nay, but by the lawe of fayth ²⁸ Therfore, we holde that a man is iustified by fayth, without the deedes of the lawe ²⁹ Is he the God of the Iewes only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, euen of the Gentiles also ³⁰ For it is one God whiche shall iustifie the circumcision by fayth, and vncircumcision through fayth ³¹ Do we then destroy the lawe through fayth? God forbyd: But we rather mayntayne the lawe

¹⁴ What profiteth it my brethren, though a man say he hath fayth, and hath not deedes? Can fayth saue hym ¹⁵ If a brother or a sister be naked, and destitute of dayly foode ¹⁶ And one of you say vnto them, depart in peace, be you warmed and fylled: notwithstandyng, ye geue them not those thinges which are nedefull to, the body, what shall it profite ¹⁷ Euen so, fayth, yf it haue not deedes, is dead in it selfe ¹⁸ But some man wyll say, thou hast fayth and I haue deedes: shewe me thy fayth by thy deedes, and I wyll shewe thee my faith by my deedes ¹⁹ Beleuest thou that there is one God? Thou doest well. The deuyls also beleue, and tremble ²⁰ But wylt thou knowe, O thou vayne man, that that fayth which is without workes, is dead ²¹ Was not Abraham our father iustified through workes, when he had offered Isaac his sonne vpon the aulter ²² Seest thou not, howe ye faith wrought with his deedes, and through ye deedes was the fayth made perfect ²³ And the scripture was fulfylled, which sayth: Abraham beleued God, and it was reputed vnto hym for ryghteousnesse: And he was called the friende of God ²⁴ Ye see then, howe that of deedes a man is iustified, and not of fayth only ²⁵ Lykewyse also, was not Rahab the harlot iustified through workes, when she had receaued the messengers, and had sent them out another way ²⁶ For as the body without the spirite is dead: euen so, fayth without workes, is dead [also

²³ For he that maketh conscience, is damned yf he eate, because [he eateth] not of fayth: For whatsoeuer is not of fayth, is sinne

⁸ But the fearefull and vnbeleuing, and the abhominable, and murtherers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, & all lyers, shall haue their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brymstone: which is the seconde death