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CAP. III.

[verse 1] Therfore what is more to a Jew, or what profyt of circumcisioun? [verse 2] Moche by alle maner; first sothli, for [Om. X.] the spekyngis of God ben [weren V.] bitakun to hem. [verse 3] What sothli if summe of hem bileueden not? Wher [Whether S passim X.] the vnbileue of hem hath auoydid [anoyed Q.] the feith of God? [verse 4] Fer be it. Forsoth God is trewe, `or sothfast [Om. OQX.] , sothli ech man a lyere, `or vnstable [Om. OX.] ; as is [it is O.] writun, That thou be iustifyed, `or founden trewe [Om. X.] , in thi wordis, and ouercome, whanne thou ert demed. [verse 5] Forsoth if oure [ȝour G pr. m.] wickidnesse, `or vnequyte [Om. GMOPX. or vnquyet Y.] , comende the riȝtwysnesse [riȝtfulnesse V.] of God, what schulen we seie? Wher [Whether X passim.] God is wickid, that bryngeth in wraththe? [verse 6] Vp man I seie. Fer be it. Ellis how `God schal [shal God MPV.] deme this world? [verse 7] Forsoth [For V.] if the [Om. P.] treuthe of God hath haboundid [abounden WY.] , `or be plenteuous [Om. OX.] , in my lesynge, in to the glorie of hym, what and [Om. O.] ȝit am I demed as a synnere? [verse 8] And not as we ben blasfemyd, and as summe seyen vs for [Om. SX.] to seye, Do we yuele thingis, that goode thingis come. Whos dampnacioun is iust. [verse 9] What ther|fore? Passen we hem? Nay; sothli [for V.] we han schewid by skile, Jewis [the Jewis W.] and Greekis [verse 10] alle [as W.] for [Om. SX.] to be vndir synne, as it is writun, [verse 11] For ther is not ony man iust; ther is not a man vndirstondinge, neither sekinge God. [verse 12] Alle bowedyn a wey, to gidere thei ben maad [maked O.] vnprofitable; ther is not that doith [don N. do SX.] good thing [Om. X.] , ther is not til to oon. [verse 13] `A sepulcre openynge [An opin sepulcre V.] is the throte of hem; with her tungis thei diden gilyngly [gylfully V. gilendeli X.] , `or trecherously [Om. O.] ; the venym of eddris [snakes V.] , `that ben clepid aspis [that is, aspis M. Om. OV. aspis X.] , vndur [is vndur V.] her lippis. [verse 14] The mouth of whom [which V.] is ful of cursyng, `or wa|riyng [Om. NOVX.] , [verse 15] and bitternesse; the feet of hem ben [Om. OSX.] swift for [Om. G pr. m. MPSWX.] to schede out blood. [verse 16] Con|tricioun [Sorwe V.] , `or defoulyng [Om. OV.] togidere [Om. V.] , and

`infelicite, or cursidnesse [vnhappynesse O. cursidnesse V. infelicite X.] , in [ben in V.] the weies of [verse 17] hem, and thei knewen not the wey [weiyes MO.] of [verse 18] pees; the drede of God is not bifore her yȝen. [verse 19] Forsothe we witen, for [that V.] what euere thingis the lawe spekith, it spekith to hem that ben in the lawe, that ech mouth be stoppid, and ech world be [Om. N.] maad suget to God. [verse 20] For of the workis of lawe ech fleisch [man V.] , `that is, mankynde [Om. OVX.] , schal not be iustifyed bifore him; forsothe [for V.] by [Om. O.] the lawe is knowinge of synne. [verse 21] Forsothe now withouten the lawe the riȝtwysnesse of God is schewid, witnessid of the lawe and [of K.] prophetis. [verse 22] Sothli the riȝtwysnesse of God is by the [Om. PW.] feith of Jhesu Crist on [into alle and on N. into alle men and on V.] alle [alle men V.] that bileuen in to hym; forsoth [For V pr. m.] ther is no [not G sec. m.] distynccioun [diffinycioun M.] , `or departynge [Om. OX.] . [verse 23] For alle men synneden, and han nede to [verse 24] the glorie of God; thei iustified freely bi his grace, by the redemcioun [aȝenbiyng O.] `or the aȝenbiyng [or aȝein|biyng GMV. Om. NOX.] , that is purposid [Om. AGMNOPQSVWXY.] in Jhesu Crist. [verse 25] Whom God purposide [purposide, or ordeyned AGMNPQSVY. ordeyned O.] an helpere by feith in his blood, to the schewinge of his riȝtwysnesse, for [for the V.] remiscioun [redempcioun W.] of [of his O.] `bi|fore [verse 26] goynge [biforn goende X.] synnes, in the sustentacioun [beringe up O. susteyninge V.] , `or beringe vp [Om. OX.] , of God, to the schewynge of his riȝtwysnesse in this tyme, that he be iust, and iustifyinge^v him that is of the feith of Jhesu Crist. [verse 27] Where is [Om. V pr. m.] therfore thi gloriynge [glorifyinge W.] ? It is excludid [put out O.] , `or put out [Om. OX.] . By what lawe? Of dedis doynge? Nay, but by the lawe of feith. [verse 28] Forsothe we demen a man for [Om. SX.] to be iustifyed by feith [the feith W.] , withouten workis of lawe [the law AGMNOPQSVWXY.] . [verse 29] Wher [Whether MP.] of Jewis is God oonly? Wher [Whether M. Whether and X.] he is not and [Om. MPQSX. also V.] of hethene [hethen men AQSV.] ? Ȝis, and of hethene [hethen men G pr. m. OSV.] . [verse 30] For sothely oon is God, that iustifyeth circumcisioun of [bi V.] feith, and prepucie, `or hethen men [Om. OX.] , by feith. [verse 31] Therfore distrye we the lawe by the [Om. MOPX.] feith? Fer be it; but we stablischen [stablen GMP.] the lawe [lawe bi feith GMP.] .