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1 We also as helpers exhorte you that ye receaue not the grace of God in vayne.
2 For he sayth: I haue heard the in a tyme accepted: and in the daye of saluacyon, haue I suckered the. Beholde, now is that accepted tyme: beholde, now is that daye of saluacyon.
3 Lett vs geue no occasyon of euyll, that in oure offyce be founde no faute:
4 but in all thynges let vs behaue oure selues as the minysters of God. In moch pacience, in affliccyons, in necessitees in anguysshes,
5 in strypes, in presonmentes: in stryfes: in laboures, in watchynges, in fastynges,
6 in purenes, in knowledge, in longe suffring, in kyndenes, in the holy ghost, in loue vnfayned,
7 in the worde of trueth, in the power of God, by the armoure of ryghtewesnes of the ryght hande & on the lyfte
8 be honoure and dishonoure: be euyll reporte & good reporte: as desceauers, and yet true,
9 as vnknowen, and yet knowen: as dyinge, and beholde, we lyue: as chastened, and not kylled:
10 as sorowing, & yet alwaye merye: as poore, and yet make many ryche: as hauinge nothyng, & yet possessyng all thynges.
11 O ye Corynthyans, oure mouth is open vnto you. Oure hert is made large:
12 ye are in no strayte in vs, but are in a strayte in youre awne bowelles:
13 I promyse vnto you lyke reward, as vnto chyldren.
14 Set your selues at large, and beare not ye the yoke wt the vnbeleuers. For what fellyship hath ryghtewesnes with vnryghtewesnes? Or what company hath lyght wt darknes?
15 Or what concorde hath Christ with Beliall? Ether what parte hath he that beleueth, with an infidell?
16 Or how agreeth the temple of God with Images for ye are the temple of the lyuinge God, as sayde God? I wyll dwell amonge them, & walcke amonge them, and wylbe their God: & they shalbe my people.
17 Wherfore come out from amonge them, and separate youre selues from them (sayth the Lorde) and touche none vncleane thynge: so wyll I receaue you,
18 and wylbe a father vnto you, and ye shalbe my sonnes & daughters, sayth the Lorde allmyghty.