2 WYC Myche bi al wise; first, for the spekyngis of God `weren bitakun to hem. BSB BSB: Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
3 WYC And what if summe of hem bileueden not? Whethir the vnbileue of hem hath auoidid the feith of God? BSB BSB: What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
4 WYC God forbede. For God is sothefast, but ech man a liere; as it is writun, That thou be iustified in thi wordis, and ouercome, whanne thou art demed. BSB BSB: Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
5 WYC But if oure wickidnesse comende the riytwisnesse of God, what shulen we seie? Whether God is wickid, that bryngith in wraththe? BSB BSB: But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.
6 WYC Aftir man Y seie. God forbede. Ellis hou schal God deme this world? BSB BSB: Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?
7 WYC For if the treuthe of God hath aboundid in my lessyng, in to the glorie of hym, what yit am Y demed as a synner? BSB BSB: However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?
8 WYC And not as we ben blasfemed, and as summen seien that we seien, Do we yuele thingis, that gode thingis come. Whos dampnacioun is iust. BSB BSB: Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!
9 WYC What thanne? Passen we hem? Nay; for we han schewid bi skile, that alle bothe Jewis and Grekis ben vndur synne, BSB BSB: What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
10 WYC as it is writun, For ther is no man iust; BSB BSB: As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
11 WYC ther is no man vndurstondynge, nethir sekynge God. BSB BSB: There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
12 WYC Alle bowiden a wey, togidere thei ben maad vnprofitable; ther is noon that doith good thing, there is noon `til to oon. BSB BSB: All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
13 WYC The throte of hem is an opyn sepulcre; with her tungis thei diden gilefuli; the venym of snakis is vndur her lippis. BSB BSB: “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
14 WYC The mouth of whiche is ful of cursyng and bitternesse; BSB BSB: “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
15 WYC the feet of hem ben swifte to schede blood. BSB BSB: “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 WYC Sorewe and cursidnesse ben in the weies of hem, BSB BSB: ruin and misery lie in their wake,
17 WYC and thei knewen not the weie of pees; BSB BSB: and the way of peace they have not known.”
18 WYC the drede of God is not bifor her iyen. BSB BSB: “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
19 WYC And we witen, that what euere thingis the lawe spekith, it spekith to hem that ben in the lawe, that ech mouth be stoppid, and ech world be maad suget to God. BSB BSB: Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
20 WYC For of the werkis of the lawe ech fleisch schal not be iustified bifor hym; for bi the lawe ther is knowyng of synne. BSB BSB: Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
22 WYC And the riytwisnesse of God is bi the feith of Jhesu Crist in to alle men and on alle men that bileuen in hym; for ther is no departyng. BSB BSB: And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
24 WYC and ben iustified freli bi his grace, bi the ayenbiyng that is in `Crist Jhesu. BSB BSB: and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
26 WYC in the beryng up of God, to the schewyng of his riytwisnesse in this tyme, that he be iust, and iustifyynge hym that is of the feith of Jhesu Crist. BSB BSB: He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.
29 WYC Whethir of Jewis is God oneli? Whether he is not also of hethene men? Yhis, and of hethene men. BSB BSB: Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
30 WYC For `oon God is, that iustefieth circumcisioun bi feith, and prepucie bi feith. BSB BSB: since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
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