17 [a]For by it the righteousness of God is revealed from [b]faith to faith: [c]as it is written, (A)The just shall live by faith.

18 [d]For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against [e]all ungodliness, and unrighteousness of men, which withhold the [f]truth in unrighteousness.

19 [g]Forasmuch as that, which may be known of God, is manifest in [h]them, for God hath showed it unto them.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 1:17 The confirmation of the former proposition: we are taught in the Gospel that we are justified before God by faith which increaseth daily: and therefore also saved.
  2. Romans 1:17 From faith which increaseth daily.
  3. Romans 1:17 The proof as well of the first as the second proposition, out of Habakkuk, who attributeth and giveth unto faith both justice and life before God.
  4. Romans 1:18 Another confirmation of that principal question: All men being considered in themselves or without Christ, are guilty both of [ungodliness], and also unrighteousness, and therefore are subject to condemnation: Therefore must they needs seek righteousness in some other.
  5. Romans 1:18 Against all kinds of ungodliness.
  6. Romans 1:18 By truth, Paul meaneth all the light that is left in man since his fall, not as though they being led thereby were able to come into favor with God, but that their own reason might condemn them of wickedness both against God and man.
  7. Romans 1:19 Their ungodliness he proveth hereby, that although all men have a most clear and evident glass wherein to behold the everlasting and almighty nature of God, even in his creatures, yet have they fallen away from those principles to most foolish and sound devices of their own brains, in consituting and appointing the service of God.
  8. Romans 1:19 In their hearts.

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