¹ What shall we saye then that Abraham oure father as pertayninge to ye flesshe dyd finde?

² If Abraham were iustified by dedes the hath he wherin to reioyce: but not with god.

³ For what sayth the scripture? Abraham beleved god and it was counted vnto him for rightewesnes.

⁴ To him that worketh is the rewarde not reckened of favour: but of duty.

⁵ To him that worketh not but beleveth on him that iustifieth the vngodly is his fayth counted for rightewesnes.

⁶ Even as David describeth the blessedfulnes of the man vnto whom god ascribeth rihgtewesnes without dedes.

⁷ Blessed are they whose vnrightewesnes are forgeven and whose synnes are covered.

⁸ Blessed is that ma to whom the Lorde imputeth not synne.

⁹ Came this blessednes then vpon the circumcised or vpon the vncircucised? We saye verely how that fayth was rekened to Abraham for rightewesnes.

¹⁰ How was it rekened? in the tyme of circumcision? or in the tyme before he was circumcised? Not in tyme of circucision: but when he was yet vncircumcised.

¹¹ And he receaved the signe of circumcision as a seale of yt rightewesnes which is by fayth which fayth he had yet beynge vncircucised: that he shuld be the father of all them that beleve though they be not circumcised that rightewesnes myght be imputed to them also:

¹² and that he myght be the father of the circumcised not because they are circumcised only: but because they walke also in the steppes of that fayth yt was in oure father Abraham before the tyme of circumcision.

¹³ For the promes that he shuld be the heyre of the worlde was not geven to Abraha or to his seed thorow the lawe: but thorow ye rightewesnes which cometh of fayth.

¹⁴ For yf they which are of the lawe be heyres then is fayth but vayne and the promes of none effecte.

¹⁵ Because the lawe causeth wrathe. For where no lawe is there is no trasgression.

¹⁶ Therfore by fayth is the inheritauce geven that it myght come of faveour: and the promes myght be sure to all the seed. Not to them only which are of the lawe: but also to them which are of the fayth of Abraham which is the father of vs all.

¹⁷ As it is wrytten: I have made the a father to many nacions even before god whom thou hast beleved which quyckeneth the deed and called those thinges which be not as though they were.

¹⁸ Which Abraham contrary to hope beleved in hope that he shuld be the father of many nacions accordynge to that which was spoken:

¹⁹ So shall thy seed be. And he faynted not in the fayth nor yet consydered hys awne body which was now deed even when he was almost an hondred yeare olde: nether yet that Sara was past chyldeberinge.

²⁰ He stackered not at the promes of God thorow vnbelefe: but was made stronge in the fayth and gave honour to God

²¹ full certifyed that what he had promised that he was able to make good.

²² And therfore was it reckened to him for rightewesnes.

²³ It is not written for him only that it was reckened to him for rightewesnes:

²⁴ but also for vs to whom it shalbe counted for rightewesnes so we beleve on him that raysed vp Iesus oure Lorde from deeth.

²⁵ Which was delivered for oure synnes and rose agayne forto iustifie vs.