Bible verses about "theology" | Coverdale

⁸ For by grace are ye saued thorow faith, and that not of youre selues, For it is ye gifte of God, ⁹ not of workes, lest eny ma shulde boast him selfe.

¹ Wherfore let vs leaue the doctryne pertaynynge to the begynnynge of a Christen life, and let vs go vnto perfeccion: and now nomore laye ye foundacion of repetaunce from deed workes, and of faith towarde God, ² of baptyme, of doctryne, of layenge on of hades, of resurreccion of the deed, & of eternall iudgment. ³ And so wil we do yf God permytte. ⁴ For it is not possible, that they which were once lighted, and haue taisted of the heauely gyfte, and are become partakers of the holy goost, ⁵ & haue taisted of ye good worde of God, and of the power of the worlde to come, ⁶ yf they fall awaye (and concernynge them selues crucifye the sonne of God afresshe, and make a mocke off him) that they shulde be renued agayne vnto repentaunce. ⁷ For the earth, that drynketh in the rayne, which commeth oft vpon it, and bringeth forth herbes mete for them that dresse it, receaueth blessynge of God: ⁸ But yt grounde which beareth thornes and thistles, is nothinge worth, and nye vnto cursynge: whose ende is to be brent. ⁹ Neuertheles (ye dearly beloued) we trust to se better of you, and yt saluacio is nyer, though we thus speake. ¹⁰ For God is not vnrighteous, that he shulde forget youre worke and laboure of loue, which ye shewed in his name, whan ye mynistred vnto the sayntes, and yet mynister. ¹¹ Yee and we desyre, that euery one of you shewe the same diligence, to the stablyshinge of hope euen vnto the ende, ¹² that ye faynte not, but folowe them which thorow faith and paciece inheret the promyses. ¹³ For whan God made promes to Abraham, because he had none greater to sweare by, he sware by himselfe, ¹⁴ and sayde: Surely I wil blesse the and multiplye ye in dede. ¹⁵ And so he abode pacietly, and optayned the promes. ¹⁶ As for men, they sweare by him that is greater then them selues: and the ooth is the ende of all stryfe to confirme the thinge amoge them. ¹⁷ But God, wyllinge very abundauntly to shewe vnto the heyres of promes the stablenes of his councell, added an ooth ¹⁸ yt by two immutable thinges (in the which it is vnpossible yt God shulde lye) we mighte haue a stronge consolacion: euen we, which are fled to holde fast the hope that is set before vs, ¹⁹ which (hope) we haue as a sure and stedfast anker of oure soule. Which (hope) also entreth in, in to those thinges that are within ye vayle, ²⁰ whither the foreruner is for vs entred in, eue Iesus, which is made an hye prest for euer after ye order of Melchisedech.

¹ In the begynnynge was the worde, and the worde was with God, and God was ye worde. ² The same was in the begynnynge wt God. ³ All thinges were made by the same, and without the same was made nothinge that was made. ⁴ In him was the life, and the life was the light of men: ⁵ and the light shyneth in the darknesse, and the darknesse comprehended it not. ⁶ There was sent from God a man, whose name was Ihon. ⁷ The same came for a witnesse, to beare wytnesse of ye light, that thorow him they all might beleue. ⁸ He was not that light, but that he might beare witnesse of ye light. ⁹ That was the true light, which lighteth all men, that come in to this worlde. ¹⁰ He was in the worlde, & the worlde was made by him, and ye worlde knewe him not. ¹¹ He came in to his awne, and his awne receaued him not. ¹² But as many as receaued him, to them gaue he power to be the children of God: euen soch as beleue in his name. ¹³ Which are not borne of bloude, ner of the wyl of the flesh, ner of the wyl of man, but of God. ¹⁴ And the worde became flesh, and dwelt amonge vs: and we sawe his glory, a glory as of the onely begotte sonne of the father, full of grace and trueth.

³ For first of all I delyuered vnto you that which I also receaued, how that Christ dyed for oure synnes acordinge to the scriptures,

¹⁶ For all scripture geue by inspiracion of God, is profitable to teach, to improue, to amende, and to instructe in righteousnes,