1 Thessalonians 3 Cross References - Coverdale

¹ Wherfore sence we coulde no longer forbeare, we thoughte it good to remayne at Athens alone, ² & sent Timotheus oure brother and mynister of God, and oure helper in ye gospell of Christ, to stablysh you and to comforte you in youre faith, ³ that noman shulde be moued in these troubles: (for ye youre selues knowe, that we are euen appoynted there vnto. ⁴ And whan we were with you, we tolde you before, that we shulde suffre tribulacion, euen as it is come to passe, & as ye knowe.) ⁵ For this cause seynge I coulde no longer forbeare, I sent, that I mighte haue knowlege of youre faith, lest happly the tempter had tempted you, and lest oure laboure had bene in vayne. ⁶ But now that Timotheus is come fro you vnto vs, and hath shewed vs of youre faith and loue, & how that ye haue allwaye good remembraunce of vs, desyringe to se vs as we also longe to se you: ⁷ therfore brethren we haue consolacion in you in all oure trouble and necessite thorow youre faith. ⁸ For now are we alyue, yf ye stonde stedfast in ye LORDE. ⁹ For what thankes can we recompece to God agayne for you, because of this ioye that we haue concernynge you before oure God? ¹⁰ We praye exceadingly daye and nighte, that we mighte se you presently, and fulfill that which is lackynge in yor faith. ¹¹ God himselfe or father & or LORDE Iesus Christ gyde oure iourney vnto you. ¹² But the LORDE increace you, & make you flowe ouer in loue one towarde another, and towarde all men (euen as we do towarde you) ¹³ that yor hertes maye be stable and vnblameable in holynes before God oure father, at the commynge of oure LORDE Iesus Christ with all his sayntes.

² Destroye all the places, wherin ye Heithen (who ye shal conquere) haue serued their goddes, whether it be vpo hye mountaynes, vpo hilles, or amonge grene trees.

¹⁸ but before the LORDE thy God shalt thou eate them, in the place which the LORDE thy God choseth, thou & thy sonne, and thy doughter, thy seruaunt, thy mayde, and the Leuite that is within yi gates, & thou shalt reioyse before ye LORDE thy God, ouer all yt thou puttest thine hande vnto.

¹¹ and shalt reioyse before the LORDE thy God, thou and thy sonne, thy doughter, thy seruaunt, thy mayde, and the Leuite that is within thy gates, ye straunger, the fatherlesse, and the wedowe, that are amonge you, in the place which ye LORDE thy God hath chosen, that his name maye dwell there.

² and saide: The LORDE came from Sinai, and rose vp vnto the from Seir. He appeared fro mount Paran, and came wt many thousande sayntes. At his righte hande is there a lawe of fyre for them:

⁶ & saye: Good lucke, peace be wt the & thine house, & with all yt thou hast.

²¹ But Dauid saide vnto Michol: I wil playe before ye LORDE, which hath chosen me afore yi father, and afore all his house, because he hath commaunded me to be the prynce ouer the people of the LORDE, euen ouer Israel,

¹⁸ kynge Dauid came and sat him downe before the LORDE, and sayde: O LORDE God, who am I? and what is my house, yt thou hast broughte me thus farre? ¹⁹ This O LORDE God hast thou thoughte to litle also, but hast spoken of the house of thy seruaunt yet loge for to come. O LORDE God, is that the lawe of men? ²⁰ And what shall Dauid speake vnto the? thou knowest thy seruaunt O LORDE God,

²¹ And euen there at the water besyde Aheua, caused I a fastinge to be proclamed, yt we mighte humble oure selues before oure God, to seke of him a righte waye for us, & oure children and all oure substaunce. ²² For I was ashamed to require of the kynge, soudyers & horsmen, to helpe us agaynst the enemye in the waye. For we had sayde vnto the kynge: The hande of oure God is for the best vpon all them that seke him, and his violence and wrath vpon all them that forsake him. ²³ So we fasted, and soughte this at oure God, and he herde us.

⁵ And the Leuites, Iesua, Cadmiel, Bani, Hasabenia, Serebia, Hodia, Sebania, Pethahia, sayde: Stonde vp, prayse the LORDE oure God for euer: and let thankes be geue vnto the name of thy glorye, which excelleth all thankesgeuynge and prayse.

⁵ For his wrath endureth but the twincklinge of an eye, and his pleasure is in life: heuynesse maye well endure for a night, but ioye commeth in the mornynge.

³ But the rightuous shal be glad & reioyse before God, they shalbe mery & ioyful.

¹⁴ Let me go in (o LORDE God) & I wil make mencion of thy power and rightuousnesse only. ¹⁵ Thou (o God) hast lerned me fro my youth vp vntill now, therfore wil I tell of yi wonderous workes.

¹² Let the felde be ioyfull and all that is in it, let all the trees of the wodd leape for ioye. ¹³ Before the LORDE, for he commeth: for he cometh to iudge the earth: yee with rightuousnesse shal he iudge the worlde, and ye people with his trueth.

⁸ Let the see make a noyse and all yt therin is, yee the whole worlde & all that dwell therin. ⁹ Let the floudes clappe their hondes, and let all the hilles be ioyfull together. Before the LORDE, for he is come to iudge the earth. Yee with rightuousnes shall he iudge the worlde, and the people with equite.

⁶ For he shal neuer be moued, the rightuous shal be had in an euerlastinge remembraunce.

⁴ Their ymages are but syluer and golde, euen the worke of mens hodes.

⁵ Put thy trust in ye LORDE with all thine herte, and leane not vnto thine owne vnderstondinge. ⁶ In all thy wayes haue respecte vnto him, and he shal ordre thy goinges.

²⁵ A good reporte out of a farre countre, is like colde water to a thyrstie soule.

⁴ Then answerde I: I shal lese my laboure, I shal spende my strength in vayne. Neuertheles, I wil commytte my cause and my worke vnto the LORDE my God.

⁷ O how bewtiful are the fete of the Embassitoure, yt bringeth the message fro the mountayne, & proclameth peace: yt brigeth the good tydinges, & preacheth health, & saieth vnto Sion: Thy God is the kinge.

¹⁶ Yet art thou or father: For Abraham knoweth vs not, nether is Israel acquanted with vs. But thou LORDE art oure father and redemer, and thy name is euer lastinge.

⁹ Wherfore, I thought from hence forth, not to speake of him, ner to preach eny more in his name. But the worde off the LORDE was a very burnynge fyre in my hert and in my bones, which when I wolde haue stopped, I might not.

⁹ They departed from hence in heuynes, but with ioye will I bringe them hither agayne. I will lede them by the ryuers of water in a straight waye, where they shall not stomble: For I will be Israels father, and Epraim shalbe my firstborne.

²² In so moch, that the LORDE might no longer suffre the wickednes off youre inuencions, and the abhominable thynges which ye dyd? Is not youre londe desolate & voyde, yee and abhorred, so that no ma dwelleth therin enymore, as it is come to passe this daye?

⁵ And ye shall fle vnto the valley of my hilles, for the valley off the hylles shal reach vnto Asal. Yee fle shall ye. like as ye fled for the earthquake in the dayes off Osias kynge of Iuda. And the LORDE my God shal come, and all sanctes with him.

⁶ Shulde not a sonne honoure his father, and a seruaut his master? Yf I be now a father, where is myne honoure? Yf I be the LORDE, where am I feared? sayeth the LORDE of hoostes. Now to you prestes, that despise my name. And yf ye saye: wherin haue we despised thy name?

³ And the tepter came to him and sayde: yf thou be the sonne of God, commaunde, that these stones be made breed.

⁴ that thine almes maye be secrete: and thy father which seith in secrete, shall rewarde the openly.

⁶ But when thou prayest, entre in to thy chamber, and shut thy dore to the, & praye to thy father which is in secrete: and thy father which seith in secrete, shall rewarde the openly.

⁸ Be not ye lyke them therfore. For youre father knoweth where of ye haue nede, before ye axe of him. ⁹ After thys maner therfore shall ye praye:O oure father which art in heauen, halowed be thy name.

¹⁴ For yf ye forgeue other men their treaspases, youre heauenly father shall also forgeue you.

¹⁸ that it appeare not vnto men, that thou fastest: but vnto thy father which is in secrete: and thy father which seyth in secrete, shal rewarde the openly.

²⁶ Beholde the foules of ye ayer: for they sowe not, nether reepe, nor yet cary in to the barnes: and yet youre heauely father fedeth the. Are ye not moch better the they?

³² After all soch thynges do the heithen seke. For youre heauenly father knoweth, that ye haue nede of all these thynges.

¹² Therfore what soeuer ye wolde that me shulde do to you, eue so do ye to them. This ys the lawe and the Prophetes.

¹⁶ Beholde, I sende you forth as shepe amoge wolues. Be ye therfore wyse as serpentes, and innocent as doues. ¹⁷ Beware of men, for they shall deliuer you vp to the cousels, and shal scourge you in their synagoges. ¹⁸ And ye shall be brought before prynces and kynges for my sake, in witnes to them and to the gentyls.

³⁹ As for the seconde, it is like vnto it: Thou shalt loue thy neghboure as thy self.

⁹ Then shal they put you to trouble, & shal kyll you, and ye shalbe hated of all people for my names sake. ¹⁰ The shal many be offended, and shal betraye one another, and shal hate one the other.

³ The voyce of a cryer is in the wyldernes: Prepare the waye of the LORDE, make his pathes straight.

³⁷ & had now bene a wedowe aboute foure score & foure yeares, which came neuer fro the teple, seruynge God wt fastynge and prayenge, daye and night:

³⁰ The Heithen in the worlde seke after all soch thinges.

³² Feare not thou litle flocke, for it is youre fathers pleasure to geue you the kyngdome.

⁵ And the Apostles sayde vnto ye LORDE: Increace oure faith.

¹² But before all these, they shal laye handes vpon you, and persecute you, and delyuer you vp in to their synagoges and presons, and brynge you before kynges & prynces for my names sake.

³¹ Yf ye contynue in my worde, then are ye my very disciples,

⁴ Byde ye in me, and I in you. Like as ye braunch can not brynge forth frute of it self excepte it byde in the vyne, Euen so nether ye also, excepte ye abyde in me.

⁷ Yf ye abyde in me, and my wordes abyde in you, ye shal axe what ye wyl, & it shal be done vnto you.

¹⁹ Yf ye were of the worlde, the worlde wolde loue his awne. Howbeit because ye are not of the worlde, but I haue chosen you from the worlde, therfore the worlde hateth you. ²⁰ Remembre my worde, that I sayde vnto you: The seruaunt is not greater then his lorde. Yf they haue persecuted me, they shal persecute you also: Yf they haue kepte my worde, they shal kepe yours also. ²¹ But all this shal they do vnto you for my names sake, because they knowe not him yt sent me.

¹ These thinges haue I sayde vnto you, that ye shulde not be offended. ² They shal excomunicate you. The tyme commeth, that who soeuer putteth you to death, shal thynke that he doth seruyce vnto God.

² They shal excomunicate you. The tyme commeth, that who soeuer putteth you to death, shal thynke that he doth seruyce vnto God. ³ And soch thinges shal they do vnto you, because they haue nether knowne ye father ner yet me.

³³ These thinges haue I spoken vnto you, that in me ye might haue peace. In ye worlde haue ye trouble, but be of good comforte, I haue ouercome the worlde.

¹⁷ Iesus sayde vnto her: Touche me not, for I am not yet ascended vnto my father. But go thou yi waye vnto my brethre & saye vnto the: I ascede vp vnto my father and yor father: to my God, & yor God.

²⁵ For Dauid speaketh of him: Afore honde haue I set the LORDE allwayes before me, for he is on my right hode, that I shulde not be moued.

¹⁶ I wil shewe him, how greate thinges he must suffre for my names sake.

²³ Which whan he was come thither, & sawe the grace of God, he was glad, and exorted them all, that with purpose of hert they wolde contynue in the LORDE.

²² strengthinge the soules of ye disciples, and exortinge the to cotynue in the faith: and that we thorow moch tribulacion must entre in to the kyngdome of God.

²² strengthinge the soules of ye disciples, and exortinge the to cotynue in the faith: and that we thorow moch tribulacion must entre in to the kyngdome of God. ²³ And wha they had ordeyned them Elders by eleccion thorow all the congregacions, they prayed and fasted, and comended them vnto the LORDE, on whom they beleued.

³⁶ Neuertheles after certayne dayes Paul sayde vnto Barnabas: let vs go agayne, and vyset oure brethren thorow all the cities (wherin we haue shewed the worde of the LORDE) how they do.

¹ He came vnto Derba and to Lystra, and beholde, a certayne disciple was there named Timotheus, the sonne of a Iewish woman, which beleued, but his father was a Greke:

⁵ The were the congregacions stablyshed in the faith, and increased in nombre daylie.

¹ As they made their iourney thorow Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagoge of the Iewes.

⁴ And some of the beleued, and were ioyned vnto Paul and Sylas, a greate multitude also of the deuoute Grekes, and of the chefe wemen not a fewe. ⁵ But the styffnecked Iewes had indignacion, and toke vnto them certayne euell men which were vagabundes, and gathered a company, and set the cite in a rore, and preassed vnto the house of Iason, and soughte to brynge them out vnto the comon people.

⁵ But the styffnecked Iewes had indignacion, and toke vnto them certayne euell men which were vagabundes, and gathered a company, and set the cite in a rore, and preassed vnto the house of Iason, and soughte to brynge them out vnto the comon people. ⁶ But whan they founde them not, they drue Iason, and certayne brethren vnto the rulers of the cite, and cryed: These that trouble all the worlde, are come hither also,

⁶ But whan they founde them not, they drue Iason, and certayne brethren vnto the rulers of the cite, and cryed: These that trouble all the worlde, are come hither also, ⁷ whom Iason hath receaued preuely. And these all do contrary to the decrees of the Emperoure, sayenge, that there is another kynge, one Iesus.

⁷ whom Iason hath receaued preuely. And these all do contrary to the decrees of the Emperoure, sayenge, that there is another kynge, one Iesus. ⁸ They troubled the people, and the rulers of the cite, that herde this.

⁸ They troubled the people, and the rulers of the cite, that herde this. ⁹ And whan they had receaued a sufficient answere of Iason and of the other, they let them go.

⁹ And whan they had receaued a sufficient answere of Iason and of the other, they let them go. ¹⁰ But the brethren immediatly sent awaye Paul and Sylas by night vnto Berea. Whan they came there, they wete in to the synagoge of the Iewes

¹³ But whan the Iewes off Thessalonica had knowlege, that the worde off God was preached off Paul at Berea, they came, and moued the people there also. ¹⁴ Howbeit the brethren sent Paul awaye then immediatly, to go vnto the see. As for Sylas and Timotheus, they abode there styll. ¹⁵ They that conueyed Paul, brought him vnto Athens. And whan they had receaued a commaundement vnto Sylas and Timotheus, that they shulde come vnto him in all the haist, they wente their waye.

¹⁵ They that conueyed Paul, brought him vnto Athens. And whan they had receaued a commaundement vnto Sylas and Timotheus, that they shulde come vnto him in all the haist, they wente their waye.

¹ After that departed Paul fro Athens, and came to Corinthum,

⁵ Whan Sylas and Timotheus were come fro Macedonia, Paul was constrayned by the sprete to testifye vnto ye Iewes, that Iesus was very Christ.

²³ but yt the holy goost witnesseth in euery cite, and sayeth, that bondes and troubles abyde me there. ²⁴ But I regarde none of them, nether counte I my life dearer then my selfe, that I maye fulfyll my course with ioye, and the office yt I haue receaued of the LORDE Iesu, to testifye the Gospell of the grace of God.

²⁴ But I regarde none of them, nether counte I my life dearer then my selfe, that I maye fulfyll my course with ioye, and the office yt I haue receaued of the LORDE Iesu, to testifye the Gospell of the grace of God.

¹¹ Wha he was come vnto vs, he toke Pauls gerdell, and bounde his hades and fete, and sayde: Thus sayeth ye holy goost: The man whose gerdell this is, shal the Iewes bynde thus at Ierusalem, and shal delyuer him in to the handes of the Heythe.

¹³ Then answered Paul and sayde: What do ye, wepynge, and breakynge my hert? For I am redye not onely to be bounde, but also to dye at Ierusalem for ye name of the LORDE Iesu.

⁷ vnto the which (promes) oure twolue trybes hope to come, seruynge God instatly daye and nighte. For the which hopes sake (O kynge Agrippa) I am accused of the Iewes.

³ off his sonne, which was begotte of ye sede of Dauid after the flesh:

¹⁰ that I mighte once haue a prosperous iourney ( by the will off God) to come vnto you. ¹¹ For I longe to se you, that I mighte bestowe vpon you some spirituall gifte to stregth you ¹² (that is)that I mighte be conforted with you, thorow yor faith & myne, which we haue together.

³ Not onely yt, but we reioyse also i troubles, for so moch as we knowe, yt trouble bryngeth paciece,

³⁵ Who will separate vs from the loue of God? Trouble? or anguysh? or persecucio? or honger? or nakednesse? or parell? or swerde? ³⁶ As it is wrytten: For thy sake are we kylled all the daye longe, we are counted as shepe appoynted to be slayne. ³⁷ Neuerthelesse in all these thinges we ouercome farre, for his sake that loued vs.

⁸ Owe nothinge to eny man, but to loue one another. For he that loueth another, hath fulfylled the lawe.

⁴ Who art thou, that iudgest another mans seruaut? He stondeth or falleth vnto his LORDE: Yee he maye well stode, for God is able to make hi stode.

³⁰ I beseke you brethren thorow oure LORDE Iesu Christ, and thorow the loue of the sprete, yt ye helpe me in my busynes with youre prayers vnto God for me, ³¹ that I maye be delyuered from the vnbeleuers in Iewrye and that this my seruyce which I do to Ierusalem, maye be accepted of the sayntes, ³² yt I maye come vnto you with ioye by ye wyll of God, and refreshe my selfe with you.

²¹ Timotheus my helper, & Lucius, & Iason, & Sopater my kynsme salute you.

²⁵ To him yt is of power to stablyshe you, acordinge to my Gospell & preachinge of Iesu Christ, wherby is vttered ye mystery which hath bene kepte secrete, sence ye worlde begane,

⁷ so that ye wante nothinge in eny gifte, and wayte but for the appearinge of oure LORDE Iesus Christ: ⁸ which shal strength you also vnto ye ende, that ye maye be blamelesse in the daye of oure LORDE Iesus Christ.

⁹ Me thynketh that God hath set forth vs Apostles for the lowest off all, euen as those that are appoynted vnto death. For we are a gasynge stocke vnto ye worlde and to the angels, and vnto men.

⁹ Me thynketh that God hath set forth vs Apostles for the lowest off all, euen as those that are appoynted vnto death. For we are a gasynge stocke vnto ye worlde and to the angels, and vnto men. ¹⁰ We are fooles for Christes sake, but ye are wyse in Christ: We weake, but ye stroge: Ye honorable, but we despysed. ¹¹ Euen vnto this daye we hoger and thyrst, and are naked, and are boffetted with fystes, and haue no certayne dwellinge place, ¹² and laboure and worke with oure awne handes. We are reuyled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffre it: ¹³ We are euell spoken of, and we praye: We are become as it were the very outswepinges of ye worlde, yee the of scowringe of all men vnto this tyme.

¹⁷ For this cause haue I sent vnto you Timotheus (which is my deare sonne, and faithfull in the LORDE) that he maye put you in remembraunce of my wayes, which are in Christ, eue as I teach euery where in all congregacions.

⁵ Withdrawe not yor selues one fro another, excepte it be with the consent of both for a tyme, that ye maye geue youre selues vnto fastinge and prayer, and the come together agayne, lest Sathan tempte you for yor incontynecye.

² brethren, that ye remembre me in all poyntes, and kepe the ordinaunces, eue as I delyuered them vnto you.

¹ Though I spake with the tunges of men and angels, and yet had not loue, I were euen as sowndinge brasse, or as a tynklinge Cymball. ² And though I coulde prophecy, & vnderstode all secretes, and all knowlege, and had all faith, so that I coulde moue moutaynes out of their places, and yet had not loue, I were nothinge. ³ And though I bestowed all my goodes to fede ye poore, and though I gaue my body euen that I burned, and yet haue not loue, it profiteth me nothinge. ⁴ Loue is pacient & curteous, loue envyeth not, loue doth not frowardly, is not puft vp, dealeth not dishonestly, ⁵ seketh not hir awne, is not prouoked vnto anger, thynketh not euell, ⁶ reioyseth not ouer iniquyte, but reioyseth in the trueth, ⁷ beareth all thinges, beleueth all thinges, hopeth all thinges, suffreth all thinges. ⁸ Though prophecienges fayle, or tunges ceasse, or knowlege perishe, yet loue falleth neuer awaye. ⁹ For oure knowlege is vnparfecte, and oure prophecienge is vnparfecte. ¹⁰ But wha that which is perfecte, commeth, then shal the vnparfecte be done awaye. ¹¹ Whan I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I vnderstode as a childe, I ymagined as a childe. But as soone as I was a man, I put awaye childishnes. ¹² Now we se thorow a glasse in a darke speakynge, but the shal we se face to face. Now I knowe vnperfectly: but the shal I knowe eue as I am knowne. ¹³ Now abydeth faith, hope, loue, these thre: but the greatest of these is loue.

¹³ Now abydeth faith, hope, loue, these thre: but the greatest of these is loue.

²³ but euery one in his order. The first is Christ, then they that beloge vnto Christ, whan he commeth.

⁵⁸ Therfore my deare brethre, be ye stedfast, vnmoueable, & all waye riche in the worke of the LORDE, for as moch as ye knowe, that youre laboure is not in vayne in the LORDE.

¹⁰ Yf Timotheus come, se that he be without feare with you, for he worketh ye worke of the, LORDE as I do. ¹¹ Let no man therfore despyse him, but conuaye him forth in peace, that he maye come vnto me, for I loke for him with the brethren. ¹² As for brother Apollo, be ye sure, that I greatly desyred him to come vnto you with the brethre. And his mynde was not at all to come at this tyme,but he wyl come wha he hath oportunyte. ¹³ Watch ye, stonde fast in the faith, quyte you like men, and be stronge:

¹ Paul an Apostle of Iesu Christ, by the will of God, and brother Timotheus. Vnto the congregacion of God which is at Corinthu, with all the sayntes which are i all Achaia.

⁴ which comforteth vs in all oure trouble: in so moch yt we are able to comforte them that are in eny maner of trouble, with the same comforte wher with we oure selues are comforted of God.

¹⁵ And in this confidence was I mynded the other tyme to come vnto you (that ye mighte haue yet another pleasure more)

¹⁹ For Gods sonne Iesus Christ, which was preached amonge you by vs (namely, by me and Siluanus and Timotheus) was not yee and naye, but in him it was yee.

²⁴ Not that we are lordes ouer youre faith, but we are helpers of youre ioye, for ye stonde in faith.

¹¹ lest we shulde be preuented of Sathan. For his thoughtes are not vnknowne vnto vs.

¹³ I had no rest in my sprete, because I founde not Titus my brother: but I toke my leue of them, and wente awaye in to Macedonia. ¹⁴ Yet thankes be vnto God, which all waye geueth vs the victory in Christ, and openeth ye fauoure of his knowlege by vs in euery place.

¹⁸ & be youre father, & ye shalbe my sonnes and doughters, sayeth ye Allmightie LORDE.

⁵ For whan we were come into Macedonia, oure flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on euery syde: outwarde was fightinge, inwarde was feare. ⁶ Neuertheles God that comforteth the abiecte, comforted vs by the comynge of Titus. ⁷ Not onely by his commynge, but also by the cosolacion wherwith he was coforted of you, whan he tolde vs yor desyre, youre wepynge, yor feruet mynde for me, so yt I now reioyse ye more.

¹³ Therfore are we comforted, because ye are comforted: but exceadingly the more ioyed we, for the ioye of Titus, because his sprete was refresshed of you all.

¹ I do you to wit (brethren) the grace of God, which is geue in the congregacions of Macedonia. ² For their reioysinge was most abundaunt, whan they were tryed by moch trouble: & though they were exceadinge poore, yet haue they geue exceadinge richely, and that in synglenesse.

²³ And this haue we done in greate hope towarde you, whether it be for Titus sake (which is my felowe and helper amonge you) or for oure brethre (which are Apostles of the cogregacions, & the prayse of Christ.)

¹⁰ He that geueth sede vnto the sower, shal mynistre bred also for fode, and shal multiplye youre sede, and increase the frutes of yor righteousnes,

¹⁵ Thankes be vnto God for his vnoutspeakeable gifte.

² For I am gelous ouer you wt godly gelousy. For I haue maried you vnto one ma, to brynge a chaste virgin vnto Christ. ³ But I feare, lest as ye serpet begyled Eue wt his sutteltie, eue so yor wyttes shulde be corrupte from the synglenesse that is in Christ.

¹³ For soch false Apostles & disceatfull workers fashion them selues like vnto the Apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And that is no maruell: for Sathan himfelfe is chaunged in to ye fashion of an angell of light. ¹⁵ Therfore is it no greate thinge, though his mymisters fashion them selues as though they were the preachers of righteousnes, whose ende shalbe acordinge to their dedes.

²³ They are the mynisters of Christ (I speake as a fole) I am more: in laboures more abudaunt, in strypes aboue measure, in presonmentes more plenteously, in death oft. ²⁴ Of the Iewes receaued I fyue tymes fortye strypes, one lesse. ²⁵ Thryse was I beaten with roddes. I was once stoned, I suffred thryse shypwracke: nighte and daye haue I bene in the depe of the see: ²⁶ I haue oft iourneyed: I haue bene oft in parels of waters, in parels amonge murthurers, in parels amonge the Iewes, in parels amonge the Heythen, in parels in cities, in parels in the wylderners, in parels vpon the See, in parels amonge false brethre, ²⁷ in laboure & trauayle, in moch watchinges, in honger and thyrst, in moch fastinges in colde and nakednesse: ²⁸ Besyde those thynges which are outwarde, namely my daylie combraunce, my daylie care for all cogregacions. ²⁹ Who is weake, and I be not weake? Who is offended, & I burne not? ³⁰ Yf I must nedes make my boast, I wil boast my selfe of myne infirmyte.

⁹ We are glad whan we are weake, & ye stronge: & the same also we wysshe for, namely yor perfectnesse.

¹¹ Fynally brethren, reioyse, be parfecte, coforte yor selues, be of one mynde, be peaceable, and the God of loue and peace shalbe wt you.

⁴ which gaue him selfe for oure synnes, that he mighte delyuer vs from this present euel worlde, acordinge to the wyll of God oure father,

⁶ I maruell yt ye are so soone turned (from him that called you in the grace of Christ) vnto another Gospell: ⁷ which is nothinge els, but that there be some, which trouble you, and intende to peruerte the Gospell of Christ. ⁸ Neuertheles though we oure selues, or an angell from heaue preach vnto you eny other Gospel, the yt which we haue preached vnto you, the same be acursed. ⁹ As we haue sayde afore, so saye we now agayne: Yf eny ma preach vnto you eny other thinge, the yt ye haue receaued, ye same be acursed.

² But I wente vp by reuelacion, and commened with the of ye Gospell, which I preach amonge the Heythe: but specially with the which were in reputacion, lest I shulde runne or had runne in vayne.

¹¹ I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed laboure on you in vayne.

¹ Stonde fast therfore in the libertye wherwith Christ hath made vs fre, and be not wrapped agayne in the yocke off bondage.

⁶ For in Christ Iesu nether is circumcision eny thinge worth ner vncircumcision, but faith which by loue is mightie in operacion.

¹³ But brethre, ye are called vnto liberty, onely let not youre libertie be an occasion vnto the flesh, but by loue serue one another. ¹⁴ For all the lawe is fulfylled in one worde, namely in this: loue thy neghboure as thy selfe.

²² But the frute of the sprete, is loue, ioye, peace, longe sufferinge, getlenes, goodnesse, faithfulnes,

¹³ Wherfore I desyre that ye faynte not because of my tribulacions, yt I suffre for you, which is youre prayse.

¹⁷ that Christ maye dwell in youre hertes by faith, that ye beynge roted and grounded in loue,

¹⁴ that we be nomore children, waueringe & caried aboute with euery wynde of doctryne thorow the wickednes of men and craftynes, wherby they laye awayte for vs to disceaue vs. ¹⁵ But let vs folowe the trueth in loue, and in all thinges growe in him, which is the heade, euen Christ, ¹⁶ in whom all the body is coupled together, and one membre hangeth by another thorow out all ye ioyntes. Wherby one mynistreth vnto another (acordinge to the operacion as euery membre hath his measure) and maketh, that ye body groweth to the edifienge of it selfe in loue.

²⁷ to make it vnto himselfe a glorious congregacion, hauynge no spot ner wrynkle, ner eny soch thinge, but that it shulde be holy and without blame.

¹³ For this cause take ye the armoure of God, yt ye maye be able to resiste in the euell daye, and stonde perfecte in all thinges. ¹⁴ Stonde therfore, and youre loynes gyrde aboute with the trueth, hauynge on the brest plate of righteousnes,

²¹ But that ye maye also knowe, what case I am in, and what I do, Tichicus my deare brother and faithfull mynister in the LORDE, shal shewe you all: ²² whom I haue sent vnto you for the same cause, that ye mighte knowe what case I stonde in, and that he mighte comforte youre hertes.

⁸ For God is my recorde, how I loge after you all euen fro the very hert rote in Iesus Christ. ⁹ And for the same I praye, yt yor loue maye increace more & more in all maner of knowlege and in all experience, ¹⁰ yt ye maye proue what is best, that ye maye be pure, & soch as hurte no mans conscience, vnto the daye of Christ:

²¹ For Christ is to me life, & death is to me auautage.

²⁵ And this am I sure of, that I shal abyde, and contynue with you all, for the furtheraunce and ioye of youre faith,

²⁷ Onely let youre conuersacion be as it becommeth the Gospell of Christ, that whether I come & se you, or els be absent, I maye yet heare of you that ye cotynue in one sprete and one soule, labourynge (as we do) to mayntayne the faith of the Gospell, ²⁸ and in nothinge fearinge youre aduersaries, which is to them a token off perdicion, but vnto you of saluacion, and that of God.

¹⁶ holdinge fast the worde of life, vnto my reioysinge in the daye of Christ, that I haue not runne in vayne, nether laboured in vayne.

¹⁹ I trust in the LORDE Iesus, to sende Timotheus shortly vnto you, that I also maye be of good comforte, whan I knowe what case ye stonde in. ²⁰ For I haue no man that is so like mynded to me, which with so pure affeccio careth for you: ²¹ for all other seke their awne, not that which is Iesus Christes. ²² But ye knowe the profe of him: for as a childe vnto the father, so hath he mynistred vnto me in the Gospell. ²³ Him I hope to sende, as soone as I knowe how it wyll go with me. ²⁴ But I trust in the LORDE, that I also my selfe shal come shortly. ²⁵ Neuertheles I thoughte it necessary to sende vnto you the brother Ephraditus, which is my companyon in laboure and felowe soudyer, and youre Apostell, and my mynister at my nede,

¹ Wherfore my brethre dearly beloued & longed for, my ioye & my crowne contynue so in the LORDE ye beloued.

¹ Paul an Apostle of Iesu Christ by the will of God, and brother Timotheus. ² To ye sayntes which are at Colossa and brethren that beleue in Christ. Grace be with you and peace from God oure father & fro the LORDE Iesus Christ.

⁴ (sence we herde of youre faith in Christ Iesu, and of youre loue to all sayntes)

⁷ as ye learned of Epaphras oure deare felowe seruaunt, which is a faithfull mynister of Christ for you,

²² in the body of his flesh thorow death, to make you holy, and vnblameable & with out faute in his awne sighte, ²³ yf ye contynue grounded and stablished in the faith, and be not moued awaye from ye hope of the Gospell, wherof ye haue herde: which is preached amonge all creatures yt are vnder heauen, wherof I Paul am made a mynister.

²⁸ who we preach, and warne all men, and teach all men in all wyssdome, to make euery man parfecte in Christ Iesu:

⁹ with one Onesimus a faithfull and beloued brother, which is one of you: they shal shewe you of all thinges, which are adoynge here

¹² Epaphras a seruaunt of Christ, which is one of you, saluteth you, & allwaye laboureth feruently for you in prayers, yt ye maye stonde perfecte and full, in all that is the wil of God.

¹⁸ My salutacion with the hnade of me Paul. Remembre my bodes. Grace be with you, Amen.

² We geue thankes vnto God allwaye for you all, makynge mesion of you in or prayers ³ without ceassynge, and call to remembraunce youre worke in the faith, and youre laboure in loue, & youre pacience in hope, which is oure LORDE Iesus Christ before God oure father:

³ without ceassynge, and call to remembraunce youre worke in the faith, and youre laboure in loue, & youre pacience in hope, which is oure LORDE Iesus Christ before God oure father:

¹ For ye youre selues (brethren) knowe of oure intrauce vnto you, how that it was not in vayne, ² but as we had suffred afore, & were shamefully intreated at Philippos (as ye knowe) we were bolde in oure God, to speake vnto you ye Gospel of God with moch stryuynge.

⁸ euen so had we hartely affeccion towarde you, and wolde with good wyl haue dealte vnto you, not onely the Gospell of God, but oure lyues also, because ye were deare vnto vs. ⁹ Ye remembre brethren oure laboure and trauayle. For daye and nighte wroughte we (because we wolde not be chargeable vnto eny of you) and preached the Gospell of God amonge you.

¹⁴ For ye brethren are become the folowers off the congregacions off God which in Iewry are in Christ Iesu, so that ye haue suffred euen like thinges of youre kynsmen, as they haue suffred of the Iewes.

¹⁷ But we (brethren) for as moch as we haue bene kepte from you for a season, as concernynge the bodely presence, but not in the hert, we haue haisted the more with greate desyre to se you personally.

¹⁷ But we (brethren) for as moch as we haue bene kepte from you for a season, as concernynge the bodely presence, but not in the hert, we haue haisted the more with greate desyre to se you personally. ¹⁸ Therfore wolde we haue come vnto you, (I Paul) two tymes, but Sathan withstode vs. ¹⁹ For who is oure hope, or ioye, or crowne of reioysinge? are not ye it in ye sighte of oure LORDE Iesus Christ at his commynge?

¹ Wherfore sence we coulde no longer forbeare, we thoughte it good to remayne at Athens alone, ² & sent Timotheus oure brother and mynister of God, and oure helper in ye gospell of Christ, to stablysh you and to comforte you in youre faith,

⁵ For this cause seynge I coulde no longer forbeare, I sent, that I mighte haue knowlege of youre faith, lest happly the tempter had tempted you, and lest oure laboure had bene in vayne. ⁶ But now that Timotheus is come fro you vnto vs, and hath shewed vs of youre faith and loue, & how that ye haue allwaye good remembraunce of vs, desyringe to se vs as we also longe to se you: ⁷ therfore brethren we haue consolacion in you in all oure trouble and necessite thorow youre faith. ⁸ For now are we alyue, yf ye stonde stedfast in ye LORDE.

⁸ For now are we alyue, yf ye stonde stedfast in ye LORDE. ⁹ For what thankes can we recompece to God agayne for you, because of this ioye that we haue concernynge you before oure God?

⁹ For what thankes can we recompece to God agayne for you, because of this ioye that we haue concernynge you before oure God? ¹⁰ We praye exceadingly daye and nighte, that we mighte se you presently, and fulfill that which is lackynge in yor faith. ¹¹ God himselfe or father & or LORDE Iesus Christ gyde oure iourney vnto you.

¹³ that yor hertes maye be stable and vnblameable in holynes before God oure father, at the commynge of oure LORDE Iesus Christ with all his sayntes.

¹ Fvrthermore we beseke you brethren and exhorte you in the LORDE Iesus, that ye increace more and more, euen as ye haue receaued of vs how ye oughte to walke and to please God.

⁹ But as touchinge brotherly loue, ye nede not that I wryte vnto you, for ye youre selues are taught of God to loue one another: ¹⁰ yee and that thinge ye do vnto all the brethre, which are thorow out all Macedonia. But we beseke you brethren that ye increace yet more and more,

¹⁵ For this we saye vnto you in the worde of the LORDE, that we which lyue and are remaynynge in the comynge of the LORDE, shal not come yer they which slepe.

⁹ For God hath not appoynted vs vnto wrath, but to optayne saluacion by ye meanes of oure LORDE Iesu Christ,

¹⁵ Se that none recompence euell for euell vnto eny man: but euer folowe that which is good, both amoge youre selues and to all men.

²³ The very God of peace sanctifye you thorow out. And I praye God, that youre whole sprete, soule & body be kepte blameles vnto ye comynge of oure LORDE Iesus Christ.

³ We are bounde to thanke God allwayes for you brethren, as it is mete: because that youre faith groweth exceadingly, and the loue of euery one of you increaseth towarde another amoge youre selues, ⁴ so that we oure selues make oure boast of you (in the congregacions of God) of youre paciece and faith in all youre persecucions and troubles that ye suffre,

⁴ so that we oure selues make oure boast of you (in the congregacions of God) of youre paciece and faith in all youre persecucions and troubles that ye suffre, ⁵ which is a token of the righteous iudgment of God, that ye are counted worthy of the kyngdome of God, for the which ye also suffre. ⁶ For it is a righteous thinge with God, to recopence tribulacion vnto the yt trouble you:

¹⁰ whan he shal come to be glorified in his sayntes, and to become maruelous in all them that beleue: because ye haue beleued oure testimony vnto you of the same daye. ¹¹ Wherfore we praye allwayes for you, that oure God make you worthy of ye callynge, and fulfill all delectacion of goodnes, and the worke of faith in power,

¹ We beseke you brethren by the commynge of or LORDE Iesus Christ, and in that we shal assemble vnto him,

¹⁶ But oure LORDE Iesus Christ himselfe, and God oure father, which hath loued vs and geuen vs euerlastinge consolacion, and a good hope thorow grace,

¹⁶ But oure LORDE Iesus Christ himselfe, and God oure father, which hath loued vs and geuen vs euerlastinge consolacion, and a good hope thorow grace, ¹⁷ comforte youre hertes, and stablysh you in all doctryne & good doynge.

⁵ The LORDE gyde youre hertes vnto the loue of God and pacience of Christ.

⁵ For ye chefe summe of the commaundement is loue of a pure hert, and of a good coscience, and of faith vnfayned.

³ I thanke God, whome I serue fro my fore elders in a pure conscience, that without ceassynge I make mencion of the in my prayers night and daye:

⁸ Be not thou asshamed therfore of ye testimony of or LORDE, nether of me, which am his presoner: but suffre thou aduersite also wt the Gospell, acordinge to the power of God

¹⁰ But thou hast sene the experience of my doctryne, my fasshion of lyuynge, my purpose, my faith, my longsufferynge, my loue, my pacience, ¹¹ my persecucions, my affliccions, which happened vnto me at Antioche, at Iconium, at Lystra, which persecucions I suffred paciently, and from the all the LORDE delyuered me. ¹² Yee and all they that wil lyue godly in Christ Iesu, must suffre persecucion.

⁵ (for so moch as I heare of thy loue and faith which thou hast on the LORDE Iesu, and towarde all sayntes)

²² Morouer prepare me lodginge, for I hope that thorow youre prayers I shalbe geuen vnto you.

¹⁴ For we are become partakers of Christ, yf we kepe sure vnto ye ende the begynnynge of the substace,

¹⁴ Seynge then that we haue a greate hye prest, eue Iesus ye sonne of God, which is entred in to heauen, let vs holde oure profession.

²³ and let vs kepe the profession of oure hope without wauerynge (for he is faithfull that hath promysed)

³ Remembre them that are in bondes, eue as though ye were bounde with them: and be myndefull off them which are in aduersite, as ye which are also in the bodye.

⁷ Remembre the which haue the ouersighte of you, which haue declared vnto you the worde of God. The ende of whose couersacion se that ye loke vpon, and folowe their faith.

¹³ Let no man saye when he is tempted, yt he is tempted of God. For God tepteth not vnto euell, nether tepteth he eny man. ¹⁴ But euery ma is tepted, drawne awaye, & entysed of his awne cocupiscece.

¹⁷ Euery good gifte, & euery parfait gift, is from aboue, and cometh downe from ye father of light, with whom is no variablenes, nether is he chaunged vnto darcknes.

²¹ For here vnto are ye called, for so moch as Christ also suffred for vs, leauynge vs an ensample, that ye shulde folowe his fotesteppes,

¹² Derely beloued, maruell not at this heate (which is come amoge you to trye you) as though some strauge thinge happened vnto you: ¹³ but reioyce, in as moch as ye are partakers of Christes passios, yt wha his glory appeareth, ye maye be mery & glad. ¹⁴ Yf ye be reuyled for ye name of Christ, blessed are ye, for ye sprete (which is ye sprete of glory & of God) resteth vpon you. On their parte he is euell spoken of, but on yor parte he is praysed.

¹⁰ But ye God of all grace, which hath called you to his euerlastinge glory in Christ Iesu, shal his owne selfe make you perfecte, which suffre a litle season: eue he shal settle, strength, and stablish you.

⁷ in godlynes, brotherly loue: in brotherly loue, generall loue.

¹⁷ Ye therfore beloued, seynge ye knowe it before hande, bewarre, lest ye also be plucte awaye thorow the erroure of ye wicked, and fall from yor owne stedfastnes. ¹⁸ But growe in grace, and in the knowlege of oure LORDE and Sauioure Iesus Christ. To him be prayse now and for euer, Amen.

¹ Beholde what loue the father hath shewed on vs, yt we shulde be called the childre of God. Therfore ye worlde knoweth you not, because it knoweth not him.

¹¹ For this is the tydinges which ye haue herde from the begynnynge, that ye shulde loue one another, ¹² not as Cain, which was of the wicked, and slewe his brother. And wherfore slewe he him? euen because his awne workes were euell, and his brothers righteous. ¹³ Maruayle not (my brethren) though the worlde hate you. ¹⁴ We knowe yt we are traslated from death vnto life, because we loue the brethren. He that loueth not his brother, abydeth in death. ¹⁵ Who soeuer hateth his brother, is a mansleyer. And ye knowe that a mansleyer hath not eternall life abydinge in him. ¹⁶ Hereby haue we perceaued loue, that he gaue his life for vs, and therfore ought we also to geue oure lyues for the brethre. ¹⁷ But he yt hath this worldes good, & seyth his brother haue nede, and shutteth vp his hert fro him, how dwelleth the loue of God in him? ¹⁸ My litle children, let vs not loue with worde nether with tonge, but with ye dede, and with the trueth. ¹⁹ Hereby knowe we, that we are of the verite, and can quyete oure hertes before him. ²⁰ But yf oure hert condemne vs, God is greater the oure hert, and knoweth all thinges. ²¹ Dearly beloued, yf oure hert condemne vs not, then haue we a fre boldnes to God warde.

²³ And this is his comaundement, that we beleue on ye name of his sonne Iesus Christ, and loue one another, as he gaue commaundement.

⁷ Dearly beloued, let vs loue one another, for loue commeth of God. And euery one yt loueth, is borne of God, and knoweth God. ⁸ He that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue. ⁹ By this appeared the loue of God to vs warde, because that God sent his onely begotten sonne in to this worlde, that we mighte lyue thorow him. ¹⁰ Herein is loue, not that we loued God, but that he loued vs, and sent his sonne to make agremet for oure synnes. ¹¹ Dearly beloued, yf God so loued vs, we oughte also to loue one another. ¹² No man hath sene God at eny tyme. Yf we loue one another, God dwelleth in vs, and his loue is perfecte in vs. ¹³ Hereby knowe we that we dwell in him, and he in vs, because he hath geuen vs of his sprete. ¹⁴ And we haue sene, & testifye that the father sent the sonne to be the Sauioure of the worlde. ¹⁵ Whosoeuer now confesseth yt Iesus is the sonne of God in him dwelleth God, and he in God: ¹⁶ and we haue knowne and beleued the loue that God hath to vs. God is loue, and he that dwelleth in loue dwelleth in God, and God in him.

⁴ I am greatly reioysed, that I haue founde amonge thy children, them that walke in ye trueth, as we haue receaued a commaundement of the father.

¹⁴ Enoch the seuenth from Adam prophecied before of suche, saienge: Beholde, the LORDE shal come with thousandes of sayntes,

²⁴ Vnto him that is able to kepe you, that ye faule not, and to present you fautlesse before ye presence of his glory with ioye,

¹⁰ Feare none of tho thinges which thou shalt soffre. Beholde, ye deuell shal cast of you in to preson, to tempte you, and ye shal haue tribulacion x. dayes. Be faithfull vnto the deeth, and I wil geue ye a crowne of life.

¹³ I knowe thy workes, and where thou dwellest, euen where Sathans seat is, and thou kepest my name, & hast not denyed my faith. And in my dayes Antipas was a faithfull witnes of myne, which was slayne amonge you, where Sathan dwelleth.

³ Remember therfore how thou hast receaued and hearde, and holde fast, and repent. Yf thou shalt not watche, I wil come on the as a thefe, and thou shalt not knowe what houre I wil come vpon ye

¹¹ Beholde, I come shortly. Holde that which thou hast, that no ma take awaye thy crowne.

⁸ And the foure beestes had eche one off them vj. wynges aboute him, and they were full of eyes with in. And they had no rest daye nether night, sayenge: holy, holy, holy, is the LORDE God almyghty, which was, and is, and is to come.

¹⁵ therfore are they in the presence of the seate of God and serue him daye and night in his temple, and he that sytteth in the seate, wyll dwell amonge them.