Proverbs 21 Cross References - Coverdale

¹ The kynges hert is in the hande of the LORDE, like as are the ryuers of water: he maye turne it whyther so euer he wyll. ² Euery man thinketh his owne waye to be right, but the LORDE iudgeth ye hertes. ³ To do rightuousnesse and iudgmet is more acceptable to the LORDE the sacrifice. ⁴ A presumptuous loke, a proude stomacke, & the lanterne of the vngodly is synne. ⁵ The deuyses of one that is diligent, brynge plenteousnes: but he yt is vnaduysed, commeth vnto pouerte. ⁶ Who so hoordeth vp riches wt ye disceatfulnes of his tonge, he is a foole, & like vnto them that seke their owne death. ⁷ The robberies of the vngodly shalbe their owne destruccion, for they wolde not do the thynge that was right. ⁸ The wayes of the frowarde are straunge, but ye workes of him yt is cleane, are right. ⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner vnder ye house toppe, then with a braulinge woman in a wyde house. ¹⁰ The soule of the vngodly wysheth euell, and hath no pitie vpon his neghboure. ¹¹ When the scornefull is punyshed, the ignoraunt take ye better hede: & when a wyse man is warned, he wil receaue the more vnderstondinge. ¹² The rightuous enfourmeth the house of the vngodly, but ye vngodly go on still after their owne wickednesse. ¹³ Who so stoppeth his eare at the criege of the poore, he shal crie himself and not be herde. ¹⁴ A preuy rewarde pacifieth displeasure, and a gifte in the bosome stilleth furiousnesse. ¹⁵ The iust delyteth in doynge the thynge that is right, but the workers of wickednesse abhorre the same. ¹⁶ The man that wandreth out of the waye of wy?dome, shal remayne in the cogregacion of ye deed. ¹⁷ He yt hath pleasure in banckettes, shal be a poore man: Who so delyteth in wyne and delicates, shal not be riche. ¹⁸ The vngodly shalbe geuen for the rightuous, & the wicked for the iust. ¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a wyldernesse, the with a chydinge and an angrie woman. ²⁰ In a wyse mans house there is greate treasure and plenteousnesse, but a foolish body spendeth vp all. ²¹ Who so foloweth rightuousnesse and mercy, fyndeth both life, rightuousnesse and honor. ²² A wyse man wynneth the cite of the mightie, and as for the strength yt they trust in, he bryngeth it downe. ²³ Who so kepeth his mouth and his tonge, the same kepeth his soule from troubles. ²⁴ He yt is proude & presumptuous, is called a scornefull ma, which in wrath darre worke maliciously. ²⁵ The voluptuousnesse of the slouthfull is his owne death, for his hades wyll not labor. ²⁶ He coueteth and desyreth all the daye longe, but the rightuous is allwaye geuynge & kepeth nothinge backe. ²⁷ The sacrifice of the vngodly is abhominacion, for they offre the thinge yt is gotten wt wickednes. ²⁸ A false wytnesse shal perishe, but he yt wilbe content to heare, shal allwaye haue power to speake himself. ²⁹ An vngodly man goeth forth rashly, but the iust refourmeth his owne waye. ³⁰ There is no wy?dome, there is no vnderstondinge, there is no councell agaynst the LORDE. ³¹ The horse is prepared agaynst ye daye of battayll, but the LORDE geueth the victory.

⁵ But whan the LORDE sawe yt the wickednes of man was increased vpon ye earth, and that all ye thought and imaginacion of their hert was but onely euell contynually, ⁶ it repented him, that he had made man vpon the earth, and he sorowed in his hert,

¹² Then God loked vpon ye earth: and lo, it was corrupte (for all flesh had corrupte his waye vpon the earth.)

²⁹ For whan God destroyed ye cities of the region, he thought vpon Abraham, and conueyed Lot out of the cities which he ouerthrew, wherin Lot dwelt.

²⁰ and saye vnto him also: Beholde, yi seruaut Iacob is behynde vs. For he thought: I wyll reconcyle him with the present that goeth before me, after warde wyll I se him my self, peraduenture he shall receaue me to grace.

¹¹ Then sayde Israel their father vnto the: Yf it must nedes be so, then do this: take of the best frutes of the lande in youre sackes, and brynge the man a present: a curtesy balme, and hony, and spyces, and myrre, and dates, and almondes.

¹ Thou shalt not accepte a vayne tale, that thou woldest manteyne the vngodly, and be a false wytnesse.

³⁴ And all Israel yt were aboute the, fled at ye crye of the, for they sayde: That ye earth swalowe not vs also.

¹¹ yt all Israel maye heare, and feare him, and do nomore soch euell amonge you.

⁷ Whan one of thy brethre is waxed poore in eny cite within thy londe, which ye LORDE yi God shal geue ye, thou shalt not harden thine hert, ner withdrawe thine hande from thy poore brother: ⁸ but shalt open thine hande vnto him, and lende him, acordinge as he hath nede. ⁹ Bewarre, that there be not a poynte of Belial in thine hert, that thou woldest saye: The seuenth yeare, the yeare of Fredome is at honde. For yf thou lokest not fredly vpo thy poore brother, and geuest him nothinge then shall he crye ouer the vnto the LORDE, and it shall be synne vnto the: ¹⁰ But thou shalt geue him, and let it not greue thine hert that thou geuest him. For because of it, shall the LORDE thy God blesse the in all thy workes, and in all that thou puttest thine hande vnto. ¹¹ The londe shal neuer be without poore, therfore commaunde I the and saye, that thou open thine hande vnto thy brother, which is neady and poore in thy londe.

¹⁶ But yf an vnrighteous wytnesse stonde vp agaynst eny man, to testifye eny trespace vpon him, ¹⁷ then shall both the men that stryue together, stonde before the LORDE, before the prestes and Iudges, which shall be at the same tyme. ¹⁸ And the iudges shall make diligent inquisicion: & yf the witnesse be founde false, and hath geue false witnesse agaynst his brother, ¹⁹ then shall ye do vnto him, euen as he thoughte to do vnto his brother: that thou mayest put awaye the euell from the that

²¹ Then shal all the men of ye same cite stone him to death: and thus shalt thou put awaye the euell fro the, that all Israel maye heare and feare.

¹² Then sayde I. Now shall the Philistynes come downe to me vnto Gilgal, and I haue not besoughte the face of the LORDE: & so I boldened my selfe, & offred a burntofferynge. ¹³ Samuel sayde vnto Saul: Thou hast done foolishly, and not kepte the commaundement of the LORDE thy God, which he commaunded the. For (yf thou haddest not done this) he had prospered thy kyngdome vpo Israel for euer:

²¹ but ye people haue take of the spoyle, shepe & oxen, and ye best amoge the damned, to offer vnto ye LORDE thy God in Gilgall. ²² Samuel saide: Hath the LORDE pleasure in sacrifices and burntofferynges, as in obeynge the voyce of the LORDE? Beholde, obedience is better then offerynge, and to herken is better then the fat of rammes.

²² Samuel saide: Hath the LORDE pleasure in sacrifices and burntofferynges, as in obeynge the voyce of the LORDE? Beholde, obedience is better then offerynge, and to herken is better then the fat of rammes. ²³ For disobedience is as ye synne of witchcrafte, and rebellion is as the blasphemy of Idolatrye. In so moch now as thou hast refused the worde of the LORDE, he hath refused the also, that thou shuldest not be kynge.

⁷ But ye LORDE sayde vnto Samuel: loke not vpon his countenaunce, ner vpon the tallnesse of his person, For I iudge not after the sighte of man. A man hath respecte vnto the thinge that is before his eyes, but the LORDE loketh vpon the hert.

⁸ Axe thy yonge men, they shal tell the, and let thy yonge men fynde fauoure in yi sighte: for we are come in a good daye, geue thy seruauntes & thy sonne Dauid what thy hande fyndeth. ⁹ And wha Dauids yonge men came, and spake all these wordes on Dauids behalfe vnto Nabal, they lefte of. ¹⁰ But Nabal answered Dauids seruauntes, & sayde: What is he yt Dauid? & who is the sonne of Isai? There are many seruauntes now yt runne awaye from their masters. ¹¹ Shulde I take my bred, water and flesh, that I haue slayne for my clyppers, & geue it vnto me whom I knowe not whence they are?

³⁵ So Dauid toke of hir hade what she had broughte him, and sayde vnto her: Go vp in peace vnto yi house: beholde, I haue herkened vnto yi voyce, and accepted thy personne.

⁶ And the kynge wente with his men to Ierusalem, agaynst the Iebusites, which dwelt in the londe. Neuertheles they sayde vnto Dauid: Thou shalt not come hither but the blynde and lame shal dryue ye awaie. (They thoughte planely, that Dauid shulde not come in.) ⁷ Howbeit Dauid wanne the castell of Sion, which is the cite of Dauid. ⁸ Then sayde Dauid the same daye: Who so euer smyteth the Iebusites, and optayneth the perquellies, the lame & the blynde, which (Iebusites) Dauids soule hateth. Herof cometh the prouerbe: Let no blynde ner lame come in to the house. ⁹ So Dauid dwelt in ye castell, and called it the cite of Dauid. And Dauid builded roude aboute fro Millo and within.

¹⁶ Then cried there a wyse woma out of ye cite: Heare, heare, saye vnto Ioab that he come hither, I wyl speake with him. ¹⁷ And wha he came to her, the woman sayde: Art thou Ioab? He sayde: Yee. She sayde vnto him: Heare the wordes of thy handmayden. He sayde: I heare. ¹⁸ She sayde: The comonsayenge was somtyme: Who so wyll axe, let him axe at Abel, and so came it to a good ende. ¹⁹ This is ye noble and faithfull cite in Israel, and wilt thou destroye the cite and the mother in Israel? Why wilt thou swalowe vp the enheritaunce of the LORDE? ²⁰ Ioab answered and sayde: That be farre, that be farre fro me, that I shulde swalowe vp and destroye. ²¹ The matter is not so, but a certayne man of mount Ephraim named Seba the sonne of Bichri, hath lifte vp him selfe agaynst kynge Dauid, delyuer him onely, and I wyl departe from the cite. The woman sayde vnto Ioab: Beholde, his heade shal be cast vnto the ouer the wall. ²² And the woman came in to all the people with hir wysdome. And they smote of the heade of Seba the sonne of Bichri, and cast it vnto Ioab. Then blewe he the trompe, and they departed from the cite, euery one vnto his tent. But Ioab came agayne to Ierusalem vnto the kynge.

²² & helde the feast of vnleueded bred seuen dayes with ioye: for the LORDE had made them glad, and turned the hert of the kynge of Assur vnto the, so that their handes were strengthed in the worke of the house of God, which is ye God of Israel.

²⁷ Praysed be the LORDE God of oure fathers, which so hath inspyred ye kynges hert to garnysh the house of God at Ierusalem: ²⁸ and hath enclyned his mercy vnto me in the presence of the kynge, and his councelers, and before all the kynges hye estates. And I was comforted (acordinge to the hade of the LORDE my God ouer me) and so gathered I the heades of Israel together, yt they mighte go vp with me.

¹¹ O LORDE, let thine eares marke the prayer of thy seruaunt, & the prayer of thy seruauntes, whose desyre is to feare thy name, & let thy seruaunt prospere this daye, & graunte him mercy in the sight of this man: for I was the kynges butlar.

⁴ Then sayde the kynge vnto me: What is the thy request? Then made I my prayer to the God of heaue,

¹ And there arose a greate complaynte of ye people, & of their wyues against their brethren the Iewes. ² And there were some yt sayde: oure sonnes and doughters are to many, let vs take corne for the, & eate, that we maye lyue. ³ Some saide: Let vs set or londes, vynyardes & houses to pledge, & take vp corne in the derth. ⁴ But some saide: Let vs borowe money of the kinge vpo vsury for oure londes and vynyardes. ⁵ Now are oure brethrens bodies as oure awne bodies, and their children as oure children: els shulde we subdue oure sonnes and doughters vnto bondage, and some of oure doughters are subdued allready, and no strength is there in oure handes, and other men shal haue oure londes and vynyardes.

¹³ And I shoke my lappe, and sayde: God shake out euery man after the same maner fro his house and laboure, that maynteyneth not this worde: euen thus be he shaken out, and voyde. And all ye congregacion sayde: Amen, and praysed the LORDE. And the people dyd so.

⁵ And wha Aman sawe, that Mardocheus bowed not the knee vnto him, ner worshipped him, he was full of indignacion & despyte, ⁶ that he shulde laye hondes onely on Mardocheus: for they had shewed him ye people of Mardocheus, but he sought to destroye the people of Mardocheus, and all the people that were in the whole empyre of Ahasuerus.

³ I haue sene my self, when the foolish was depe roted, that his bewty was sodely destroyed:

¹⁵ He leeneth him vpo his house, but he shal not stonde: he holdeth him fast by it, yet shal he not endure.

¹⁴ What is man, that he shulde be vncleane? what hath he (which is borne of a woman) wherby he might be knowne to be rightuous? ¹⁵ Beholde, he hath founde vnfaithfulnesse amoge his owne sanctes: yee the very heauens are vnclene in his sight. ¹⁶ How moch more then an abhominable and vyle ma, which dryncketh wickednesse like water?

¹⁴ All his comforte and hope shalbe roted out of his dwellynge, very fearfulnesse shall brynge him to the kynge. ¹⁵ Other men shall dwel in his house (which now is none of his) and brymstone shalbe scatered vpon his habitacion. ¹⁶ His rotes shalbe dryed vp beneth, & aboue shall his haruest be cut downe. ¹⁷ His remembraunce shall perish from the earth, & his name shall not be praysed in the stretes: ¹⁸ he shalbe dryuen from the light into darcknesse, and be cast clene out of the worlde. ¹⁹ He shall nether haue children ner kyn?folkes amonge his people, no ner eny posterite in his countre: ²⁰ yonge & olde shalbe astonyshed at his death. ²¹ Soch are now the dwellynges of the wicked, and this is ye place of him that knoweth not God.

¹⁵ The riches yt he deuoureth, shall he perbreake agayne, for God shal drawe them out of his bely.

¹⁸ But laboure shal he, & yet haue nothinge to eate. Greate trauayle shal he make for riches, but he shal not enioye them.

²⁸ For ye saye: where is the prynces palace? where is the dwellynge of the vngodly: ²⁹ Axe eny man that goeth by the waye, and (yf ye will not regarde their tokens & dedes) he shal tell you, ³⁰ that the wicked is kepte vnto the daye of destruccion, and that the vngodly shalbe brought forth in the daye of wrath.

¹³ sayege: This is the porcion that the wicked shall haue of God, & the heretage that Tyrauntes shal receaue of ye Allmightie. ¹⁴ Yf he get many childre, they shal perish wt the swearde, & his posterite shall haue scarcenesse of bred. ¹⁵ Loke whom he leaueth behinde him, they shal dye & be buried, & no man shall haue pite of his wyddowes. ¹⁶ Though he haue as moch money as the dust of the earth, & raymet as ready as the claye, ¹⁷ he maye well prepare it: but the godly shal put it vpon him, and the innocet shal deale out the money. ¹⁸ His house shal endure as the moth, & as a bothe that the watch man maketh. ¹⁹ When the rich man dyeth, he carieth nothinge with him: he is gone in ye twincklynge of an eye. ²⁰ Destruccion taketh holde vpo him as a water floude, & ye tepest stealeth him awaye in the night season. ²¹ A vehement wynde carieth him hence, & departeth: a storme plucketh him out of his place. ²² It ru?sheth in vpon him, and spareth him not, he maye not escape from the power therof. ²³ Than clappe me their hodes at him, yee and ieast of him, whe they loke vpon his place.

¹² For I delyuered ye poore whe he cried, & the fatherlesse yt wanted helpe. ¹³ He yt shulde haue bene lost, gaue me a good worde, & ye widdowes hert praised me. ¹⁴ And why? I put vpon me rightuousnes, which couered me as a garmet, & equite was my crowne. ¹⁵ I was an eye vnto the blynde, & a fote to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father vnto the poore, & whe I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligetly. ¹⁷ I brake the chaftes of ye vnrightuous, & plucte the spoyle out of their teth.

¹ O blessed is ye man, yt goeth not in the councell of ye vngodly: yt abydeth not in the waye off synners, & sytteth not in ye seate of the scornefull.

³ Sela But thou (o LORDE) art my defender, my worshipe, ad the lifter vp of my heade.

⁸ Helpe belongeth vnto the LORDE, therfore let thy blessynge be vpon thy people.

¹⁶ For his vnhappynes shall come vpon his owne heade, & his wickednes shall fall vpon his owne pate.

¹⁶ Thus ye LORDE is knowne to execute true iudgment, whe the vngodly is trapped in the workes of his owne handes.

⁴ The vngodly is so proude and full of indignacio, that he careth not: nether is God before his eyes.

² The LORDE loked downe fro heaue vpo the children of men, to se yf there were eny, that wolde vnderstonde & seke after God. But they are all gone out of the waye, they are alltogether become vnprofitable: there is none that doth good, no not one. ³ Their throte is an open sepulcre, with their tonges they haue disceaued, the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes.

⁴¹ They cried, but there was none to helpe the: yee euen vnto the LORDE, but he herde the not.

⁷ Some put their trust in charettes, & some in horses: but we wil remebre ye name of the LORDE oure God.

⁵ Thou preparest a table before me agaynst mine enemies: thou anoyntest my heade with oyle, & fyllest my cuppe full.

¹⁷ A horse is but a vayne thynge to saue a man, it is not the power of his stregth that can delyuer him. ¹⁸ Beholde, the eye of the LORDE loketh vnto them that feare him, & put their trust in his mercy.

² For he dyssembleth before his face, so longe till his abhominable synne be founde out.

⁴ He ymagineth myschefe vpon his bedde, he will come in no good waye, ner refuse the thinge that is euell.

²⁶ The rightuous is euer mercifull, & ledeth getly, therfore shal his sede be blessed.

³⁵ Hope thou in the LORDE, & kepe his waye: & he shal so promote the, that thou shalt haue the lode by enheritauce, & se, when the vngodly shall perishe. ³⁶ I myself haue sene the vngodly in greate power, & florishinge like a grene baye tre:

⁸ In the begynnynge of the boke it is written of me, that I shulde fulfill thy wil O my God, & that am I contet to do: yee thy lawe is within my hert.

¹⁴ Sela. They lye in the hell like shepe, death shal gnawe vpon them, & the rightuous shal haue dominacion of them in the mornynge by tymes: their stregth shal consume, & hell shalbe their dwellinge.

⁸ I reproue the not because of thy sacrifice, yi burntofferinges are allwaye before me.

⁸ I reproue the not because of thy sacrifice, yi burntofferinges are allwaye before me. ⁹ I wil take no bullockes out of thy house, ner gotes out of thy foldes. ¹⁰ For all the beestes of the felde are myne, and thousandes of catell vpon the hilles. ¹¹ I knowe all the foules vpon the mountaynes, and the wilde beastes of the felde are in my sight. ¹² Yf I be hongrie, I wil not tell the: for ye whole worlde is myne, and all that therin is. ¹³ Thynkest thou, that I wil eate the flesh of oxen, or drynke the bloude of goates?

² Where as the goodnesse of God endureth yet daylie. ³ Thy tonge ymagineth wickednesse, and with lyes it cutteth like a sharpe rasoure.

⁵ Sela. Thou louest to speake all wordes yt maye do hurte, O thou false toge.

⁶ Lo, then wolde I get me awaye farre of, and remayne in the wildernesse. ⁷ Sela. I wolde make haist to escape, from the stormy wynde and tempest.

⁴ They are as furious as the serpent, euen like the deaf Adder that stoppeth hir eares.

⁷ But God shall sodenly shute with an arowe, yt they shall be wounded. ⁸ Yee their owne tunges shall make them fall, In so moch that who so seyth the, shal laugh the to scorne. ⁹ And all men that se it, shal saye: this hath God done for they shal perceaue, yt it is his worke.

²⁰ Sela. The God yt is or Sauior, eue God the LORDE by who we escape death.

¹⁵ Thou smytest the heades of Leuiathan in peces, & geuest him to be meate for the people in the wildernesse.

⁴ The floudes aryse (o LORDE) the floudes lift vp their noyse, ye floudes lift vp their wawes.

²⁵ Whose hert turned, so that they hated his people, and dealt vntruly with his seruauntes.

⁴⁶ Yee he made all those yt had led them awaye captiue, to pitie them.

⁴³ Who so is wyse, and pondreth these thinges well, shall vnderstonde the louynge kyndnesses of the LORDE.

¹ Blessed is the man yt feareth the LORDE, & hath greate delite in his commaundementes.

³ Riches & pleteousnesse shalbe in his house, & his rightuousnes endureth for euer.

⁵ Wel is him that is mercifull, & lendeth gladly, & podreth his wordes wt discrecion.

⁹ He hath sparsed abrode, & geue to the poore, his rightuousnes remayneth for euer, his horne shalbe exalted wt honor.

³ The see sawe that, and fled, Iordan turned backe.

⁵ What ayled the (o thou see) that thou fleddest? and thou Iordan, that thou turnedest backe?

⁵ O that my wayes were stablished to kepe thy statutes.

¹⁶ My delite shalbe in thy statutes, I will not forget thy wordes.

⁵⁹ I call myne owne wayes to remembraunce, and turne my fete in to thy testimonies.

⁹² Yf my delyte were not in thy lawe, I shulde perishe in my trouble.

⁵ Wo is me yt my banishmet endureth sologe: I dwell in the tabernacles of the soroufull. ⁶ My soule hath loge dwelt amonge them, that be enemies vnto peace.

⁵ As for soch as turne backe vnto their owne wickednesse, the LORDE shal lede them forth with the euell doers: but peace be vpon Israel.

¹⁰ Thou that geuest victory vnto kynges, and hast delyuered Dauid thy seruaunt from the parell of the swerde.

¹⁰ He hath no pleasure in the strength of an horse, nether delyteth he in eny mas legges.

⁵ By hearinge, the wyse ma shal come by more wysdome: and by experience,

¹⁸ Yee they the selues laye wayte one for anothers bloude, and one of the wolde slaye another. ¹⁹ These are the wayes of all soch as be couetous, that one wolde rauysh anothers life.

²² O ye childre, how loge wil ye loue childyshnesse? how longe wil ye scorners delyte in scornynge, & ye vnwyse be enemies vnto knowlege?

²⁸ Then shal they call vpo me, but I wil not heare: they shal seke me early, but they shal not fynde me:

¹⁵ whose wayes are croked, and their pathes slaunderous.

¹⁸ For hir house is enclyned vnto death, and hir pathes vnto hell. ¹⁹ All they that go in vnto her, come not agayne, nether take they holde of the waye of life.

²⁹ where as thou hast now to geue him. Intende no hurte vnto thy neghboure, seynge he hopeth to dwell in rest by the.

¹⁰ That other men be not fylled with thy goodes, & that thy labours come not in a straunge house. ¹¹ Yee that thou mourne not at the last (when thou hast spent thy body and goodes)

²⁰ My sonne, why wilt thou haue pleasure in an harlot, and embrace the bosome of another woma?

⁶ Go to the Emmet (thou slogarde) cosidre hir wayes, & lerne to be wyse. ⁷ She hath no gyde, no teacher, no leder: ⁸ yet in the sommer she prouideth hir meate, & gathereth hir foode together i ye haruest. ⁹ How loge wilt thou slepe, thou slogish ma? Wha wilt thou aryse out of thy slepe? ¹⁰ Yee slepe on still a litle, slober a litle, folde thine handes together yet a litle, that thou mayest slepe: ¹¹ so shal pouerte come vnto the as one yt trauayleth by the waye, & necessite like a wapened man.

¹⁷ A proude loke, a dyssemblynge tonge, hades that shed innocent bloude,

¹⁹ a false wytnesse yt bringeth vp lyes, & soch one as soweth discorde amonge brethren.

²⁶ For many one hath she wouded and cast downe, yee many a stronge ma hath she slayne. ²⁷ Hir house is the waye vnto hell, where men go downe to the chambers of death.

¹³ With me is the feare of the LORDE, and ye eschuynge of euell. As for pryde, disdayne, an euell waye, & a mouth that speaketh wicked thiges, I vtterly abhorre the.

³⁶ But who so offendeth agaynst me, hurteth his owne soule. All they that hate me, are the louers of death.

⁹ Geue a discrete man but an occasion, & he wilbe the wyser: teach a rightuous man, and he wil increase.

¹⁸ But they cosider not that death is there, and that hir gestes go downe to hell.

² Treasures that are wickedly gotten, profit nothinge, but rightuousnesse delyuereth from death.

⁴ An ydle hande maketh poore, but a quycke laboringe hande maketh riche.

⁶ Louynge and fauorable is the face of the rightuous, but ye fore heade of the vngodly is past shame, and presumptuous.

¹⁹ Where moch bablinge is, there must nedes be offence: he that refrayneth his lippes, is wysest of all.

²² The blessynge of the LORDE maketh rich me, as for carefull trauayle, it doth nothinge therto.

²⁹ The waye of the LORDE geueth a corage vnto ye godly, but it is a feare for wicked doers.

³ The innocent dealynge of the iust shal lede them, but the vnfaithfulnesse of the despysers shalbe their owne destruccion. ⁴ Riches helpe not in the daye of vengeaunce, but rightuousnesse delyuereth fro death. ⁵ The rightuousnes of ye innocent ordreth his waye, but the vngodly shal fall in his owne wickednesse.

⁵ The rightuousnes of ye innocent ordreth his waye, but the vngodly shal fall in his owne wickednesse.

⁸ The rightuous shalbe delyuered out of trouble, & the vngodly shal come in his steade.

⁴ A stedfast woman is a crowne vnto hir hu?bonde: but she that behaueth herself vnhonestly, is a corrupcion in his bones.

¹² The desyre of ye vngodly hunteth after myschefe, but the rote of the righteous bryngeth forth frute. ¹³ The wicked falleth in to the snare thorow ye malyce of his owne mouth, but the iust shal escape out of parell.

¹⁹ A true mouth is euer constat, but a dyssemblinge toge is soone chaunged.

²⁴ A diliget hande shal beare rule, but the ydle shal be vnder tribute.

²⁷ A disceatfull man shal fynde no vautage, but he that is content wt that he hath, is more worth the golde.

³ He that kepeth his mouth, kepeth his life: but who so speaketh vnaduysed, fyndeth harme. ⁴ The slogarde wolde fayne haue, and can not get his desyre: but the soule of the diligent shal haue plenty.

⁶ Righteousnesse kepeth the innocet in the waye, but vngodlynesse shal ouerthrowe the synner.

¹¹ Hastely gotte goodes are soone spent, but they that be gathered together with the hande, shal increase.

²⁰ He that goeth in the company of wyse men, shal be wyse: but who so is a copanyo of fooles, shal be hurte.

¹¹ The houses of the vngodly shalbe ouerthrowne, but the tabernacles of ye righteus shal florishe.

²⁹ Pacience is a token of wi?dome, but wrath and haistie displeasure is a token of foolishnesse.

³² The vngodly is afrayed of euery parell, but the rightuous hath a good hope eue in death.

⁶ In the house of the rightuous are greate riches, but in the increase of the vngodly there is mysordre.

⁸ The LORDE abhorreth ye sacrifice of the vngodly, but the prayer of the rightuous is acceptable vnto him. ⁹ The waye of the vngodly is an abhominacio vnto ye LORDE, but who so foloweth righteousnes, him he loueth.

¹⁴ A wyse herte wil seke after knowlege, but ye mouth of fooles medleth with foolishnesse.

¹⁷ Better is a meace of potage with loue, then a fat oxe wt euell will.

¹⁹ The waye of ye slouthfull is full of thornes, but ye strete of the rightuous is well clensed.

²⁶ The LORDE abhoreth ye ymaginacions of ye wicked, but pure wordes are pleasaunt vnto him.

¹ A man maye well purpose a thinge in his harte, but ye answere of ye tonge cometh of ye LORDE. ² A ma thinketh all his waies to be clene, but it is ye LORDE yt fashioneth ye myndes.

⁹ A ma deuyseth a waye in his herte, but it is ye LORDE yt ordreth his goinges.

¹⁸ Presumptuousnes goeth before destruccion, and after a proude stomake there foloweth a fall.

²⁵ There is a waye yt men thinke to be right, but the ende therof leadeth vnto death.

¹ Better is a drye morsell wt quyetnesse, the a full house and many fatt catell wt stryfe.

⁸ Liberalite is a precious stone vnto him that hath it, for where so euer he becometh, he prospereth.

²³ The vngodly taketh giftes out of the bosome, to wraist the wayes of iudgment.

²⁷ He is wyse and discrete, yt tempereth his wordes: and he is a ma of vnderstodinge, yt maketh moch of his sprete. ²⁸ Yee a very foole (when he holdeth his tonge) is counted wyse, and to haue vnderstodinge, when he shutteth his lippes.

¹ Who so hath pleasure to sowe discorde, piketh a quarell in euery thinge.

¹² After pryde cometh destruccio, and honor after lowlynes.

¹⁵ A wyse herte laboureth for knowlege, and a prudent eare seketh vnderstondinge. ¹⁶ Liberalite bryngeth a man to honor and worshipe, & setteth him amonge greate men.

²¹ Death and life stonde in the power of the tonge, he that loueth it, shal enioye the frute therof.

⁵ A false wytnesse shal not remayne vnpunyshed, and he that speaketh lyes shal not escape. ⁶ The multitude hageth vpo greate men, & euery man fauoureth him that geueth rewardes.

⁹ A false wytnesse shal not remayne vnpunyshed, & he yt speaketh lyes shal perishe.

¹³ An vndiscrete sonne is ye heuynes of his father, & a braulynge wife is like the topp of an house, where thorow it is euer droppynge.

²¹ There are many deuices in a mas herte, neuertheles the coucell of ye LORDE shal stode.

²⁴ A slouthfull body shuteth his honde in to his bosome, so yt he can not put it to his mouth. ²⁵ Yf thou smytest a scorneful personne, the ignoraut shal take better hede: & yf thou reprouest one yt hath vnderstondinge, he wil be ye wyser.

²⁹ Punyshmentes are ordened for the scornefull, and stripes for fooles backes.

⁴ A slouthfull body wyl not go to plowe for colde, therfore shal he go abegginge in Sommer, and haue nothinge.

⁶ Many there be that are called good doers, but where shal one fynde a true faithful ma?

¹⁴ It is naught, It is naught (saye men) whan they haue it, but whan it is gone, they geue it a good worde.

²¹ The heretage that commeth to haistely at the first, shal not be praysed at the ende.

²⁴ The LORDE ordreth euery mas goinges, for what is he, that vnderstondeth his owne wayes?

⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner vnder ye house toppe, then with a braulinge woman in a wyde house.

¹² The rightuous enfourmeth the house of the vngodly, but ye vngodly go on still after their owne wickednesse. ¹³ Who so stoppeth his eare at the criege of the poore, he shal crie himself and not be herde.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a wyldernesse, the with a chydinge and an angrie woman. ²⁰ In a wyse mans house there is greate treasure and plenteousnesse, but a foolish body spendeth vp all. ²¹ Who so foloweth rightuousnesse and mercy, fyndeth both life, rightuousnesse and honor.

²⁷ The sacrifice of the vngodly is abhominacion, for they offre the thinge yt is gotten wt wickednes.

⁴ The ende of lowlynes & the feare of God, is riches, honor, prosperite and health.

⁸ He yt soweth wickednesse, shal reape sorowe, & the rodde of his plage shal destroye him.

¹³ The slouthfull body sayeth: there is a lyo wt out, I might be slayne in ye strete.

²² Se yt thou robbe not ye poore because he is weake, and oppresse not ye simple in iudgment: ²³ for ye LORDE himself wyl defende their cause, and do violence vnto them yt haue vsed violence.

²¹ for soch as be dronckardes and ryotous, shal come to pouerte, & he that is geuen to moch slepe, shal go wt a ragged cote.

⁵ A wyse ma is stroge, yee a ma of vnderstodinge is better, the he yt is mightie of stregth.

¹² Yf thou wilt saye: I knewe not of it. Thynkest thou yt he which made ye hertes, doth not cosidre it? & yt he which regardeth yi soule, seith it not? Shal not he recopence euery man acordinge to his workes?

³⁰ I wente by ye felde of ye slouthfull, & by ye vynyarde of the foolish ma. ³¹ And lo, it was all couered wt nettels, & stode full of thistles, & ye stone wall was broke downe. ³² This I sawe, & cosidered it wel: I loked vpo it, & toke it for a warnynge. ³³ Yee slepe on still a litle, slobre a litle, folde thine hodes together yet a litle: ³⁴ so shall pouerte come vnto the as one yt trauayleth by ye waye, & necessite like a wapened man.

¹⁸ Who so beareth false wytnesse agaynst his neghboure, he is a very speare, a swearde & a sharpe arowe.

²⁴ It is better to syt in a corner vnder the rofe, then wt a braulynge woman in a wyde house.

¹³ The slouthfull sayeth: there is a leoparde in ye waye, and a lyon in ye myddest of the stretes.

¹⁶ The slogarde thinketh him self wyser, then vij. men that sytt and teach.

¹⁵ A brawlynge woman and the rofe of the house droppynge in a raynie daye, maye well be compared together. ¹⁶ He that refrayneth her, refrayneth the wynde, and holdeth oyle fast in his hode.

²³ Se yt thou knowe the nombre of thy catell thy self, and loke well to thy flockes. ²⁴ For riches abyde not allwaye, & the crowne endureth not for euer. ²⁵ The hay groweth, ye grasse cometh vp, & herbes are gathered in ye mountaines. ²⁶ The lambes shal clothe the, & for the goates thou shalt haue money to yi hu?bondry. ²⁷ Thou shalt haue goates mylck ynough to fede the, to vpholde thy husholde, & to susteyne thy maydens.

⁹ He that turneth awaye his eare from hearinge ye lawe, his prayer shalbe abhorred.

¹⁴ Well is him that stodeth allwaye in awe: as for him that hardeneth his herte, he shal fall in to mischefe.

²² He that will be rich all to soone, hath an euell eye, and considereth not, that pouerte shall come vpon him.

²⁷ He that geueth vnto the poore, shal not wante: but he that turneth awaye his eyes from soch as be in necessite, shall suffre greate pouerte himself.

¹ He that is stiffnecked & wyll not be refourmed, shal sodenly be destroyed wt out eny helpe.

⁸ Remoue fro me vanite and lyes: geue me nether pouerte ner riches, only graunte me a necessary lyuynge.

¹² The generacion that thynke them selues cleane, shal not be clensed from their fylthynesse. ¹³ There are people yt haue a proude loke, and cast vp their eye lyddes.

¹² So I perceaued, yt in these thinges there is nothinge better for a man, the to be mery & to do well so longe as he lyueth.

¹⁹ For vnto whom so euer God geueth riches, goodes and power, he geueth it him to enioye it, to take it for his porcion, and to be refreshed of his laboure: this is now the gifte of God.

⁸ The ende of a thinge is better then the begynnynge. The pacient of sprete is better then the hie mynded. ⁹ Be not haistely angrie in yi mynde, for wrath resteth in the bosome of a foole.

¹¹ Wy?dome is better then riches, yee moch more worth then the eye sight.

¹⁹ Wy?dome geueth more corage vnto the wyse, then ten mightie men of the citie:

²⁹ Lo, this onely haue I founde, that God made man iust & right, but they seke dyuerse sotylties,

³ Amonge all thinges yt come to passe vnder the Sonne, this is a misery, that it happeneth vnto all alyke. This is the cause also that the hertes of men are full of wickednesse, & madd foolishnesse is in their hertes as longe as they lyue, vntill they dye.

¹¹ So I turned me vnto other thinges vnder ye Sonne, and I sawe, that in runnynge, it helpeth not to be swift: in batayll, it helpeth not to be stronge: to fedynge, it helpeth not to be wyse: to riches, it helpeth not to be sutyll: to be had in fauoure, it helpeth not to be connynge: but that all lyeth in tyme & fortune.

¹³ This wi?dome haue I sene also vnder ye Sone, & me thought it a greate thinge. ¹⁴ There was a litle cite, & a few me within it: so there came a greate kynge & beseged it, & made greate bulworkes agaynst it. ¹⁵ And in the cite there was founde a poore man (but he was wyse) which wt his wy?dome delyuered the cite: yet was there no body, yt had eny respecte vnto soch a symple man. ¹⁶ Then sayde I: wy?dome is better then strength. Neuertheles, a symple mans wy?dome is despysed, & his wordes are not herde. ¹⁷ A wise mans councell that is folowed in sylence, is farre aboue the crienge of a captaine amoge fooles. ¹⁸ For wy?dome is better then harnesse: but one vnthrift alone destroyeth moch good.

¹⁹ Meate maketh men to laugh, and wyne maketh them mery: but vnto money are all thinges obedient.

¹¹ Why offre ye so many sacrifices vnto me? I am discontent for the brentoffringes of wethers, and with ye fatnesse offedbeastes. I haue no pleasure in the bloude of bullockes, lambes and gootes.

¹¹ Why offre ye so many sacrifices vnto me? I am discontent for the brentoffringes of wethers, and with ye fatnesse offedbeastes. I haue no pleasure in the bloude of bullockes, lambes and gootes. ¹² When ye apeare before me, who requyreth you to treade within my porches?

¹² When ye apeare before me, who requyreth you to treade within my porches? ¹³ Offre me no mo oblacions, for it is but lost laboure. I abhorre youre incense. I maye not awaye with youre newmoones, youre Sabbathes and solempne dayes. Youre fastinges are also in vayne.

¹³ Offre me no mo oblacions, for it is but lost laboure. I abhorre youre incense. I maye not awaye with youre newmoones, youre Sabbathes and solempne dayes. Youre fastinges are also in vayne. ¹⁴ I hate youre new holy dayes and fastinges, euen fro my very harte. They make me weery, I can not abyde them.

¹⁴ I hate youre new holy dayes and fastinges, euen fro my very harte. They make me weery, I can not abyde them. ¹⁵ Though ye holde out yor hondes, yet turne I myne eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet heare I nothinge at all, for youre hondes are full of bloude.

¹⁵ Though ye holde out yor hondes, yet turne I myne eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet heare I nothinge at all, for youre hondes are full of bloude. ¹⁶ Wash you, make you clene, put awaye yor euell thoughtes out of my sight, cease from doinge of euell and violence.

¹⁶ Wash you, make you clene, put awaye yor euell thoughtes out of my sight, cease from doinge of euell and violence. ¹⁷ Lerne to do right, applie youre selues to equyte, delyuer the oppressed, helpe the fatherlesse to his right, let the wydowes complaynte come before you.

²³ Thy prynces are traytours and companyons of theues. They loue giftes altogether, and folowe rewardes. As for the fatherles, they helpe him not to his right, nether wil they let the wydowes causes come before them. ²⁴ Therfore speaketh the LORDE God of hostes the mighty one of Israel: Ah I must ease me of myne enemies, and a venge me vpo the.

¹¹ Which casteth downe ye high lokes of presumptuous personnes, and bryngeth lowe the pryde of ma, and he only shall be exalted in ye daye.

¹⁷ And it shall bringe downe the pryde of man, and laye mans presumptuousnesse full lowe, and the LORDE shal only haue the victory in that daye.

¹⁶ Morouer thus saieth ye LORDE: Seinge the doughters of Sion are become so proude, and come in with stretched out neckes, and with vayne wanton eyes: seinge they come in trippinge so nycely with their fete:

⁵ because that the Kynge of Siria Ephraim and Romelies sonne haue wekedly conspyred agaynst the, ⁶ sayenge: We will go downe in to Iuda, vexe the, and brynge them vnder vs, and set a Kynge there, euen the sonne of Taball. ⁷ For thus saieth the LORDE God ther to, It shall not so go forth, nether come so to passe:

⁹ Go together ye people, and gather you, herken to all ye of farre countrees. Mustre you, and gather you: mustre you and gather you, ¹⁰ take youre councel together, yet must youre councel come to nought: go in honde withal, yet shal it not prospere. Excepte Emanuel: (that is God) be with

²⁷ For yf the LORDE of hoostes determe a thinge, who wyl dysanulle it? And yf he stretch forth his honde, who wil holde it in agayne?

⁶ As for Moabs pride (shal they answere) it is wel knowne. And all though they be excellent, proude, arrogant, & hie mynded: yet is their strength nothinge like.

¹ Wo vnto them that go downe in to Egipte for helpe, and trust in horses, and conforte them selues in Charettes, because they be many, and in horse me because they be lustie and stronge. But they regarde not the holy one of Israel, and they aske no question at the LORDE.

⁶ But the churle wil be churlishly mynded, and his hert wil worke euell and playe the ypocrite, and ymagyn abhominacios agaynst God, to make the hungrie leane, and to withholde drinke from the thurstie: ⁷ These are the perlous weapons of the cuvetous, these be his shameful councels: that he maye begyle the poore with disceatful workes, yee euen there as he shulde geue sentence with the poore. ⁸ But the liberall person ymagineth honest thinges, and commeth vp with honesty.

³ For I am the LORDE thy God, the holyone of Israel, thy Sauioure. I gaue Egipte for yi delyueraunce, the Moryas and the Sabees for the: ⁴ because thou wast deare in my sight, and because I set by the, and loued the. I pilled all men for the, and delyuered vp all people for thy sake,

¹⁹ Therfore beholde, I shal make a new thinge, and shortly shall it apeare: Ye shall well knowe it, I tolde it you afore, but I will tell it you agaane. I will make stretes in the deserte, and ryuers of water in the wildernesse.

²⁷ I saye to the grounde: be drie. And I drie vp thy water floudes.

¹⁰ In the begynnynge of a thinge, I shewe the ende therof: and I tel before, thinges that are not yet come to passe. With one worde is my deuyce accomplished, & fulfilleth all my pleasure. ¹¹ I call a byrde out of the east, and all that I take in honde, out of farre countrees. As soone as I commaunde, I bringe it hither: as soone as I thinke to deuyse a thinge, I do it.

¹ Herken vnto me, ye that holde of rightuousnes, ye that seke the LORDE. Take hede vnto the stone, wherout ye are hewen, and to the graue wherout ye are digged.

⁴ Howbeit (of a treuth) he only taketh awaye oure infirmite, & beareth oure payne: Yet we shal iudge him, as though he were plaged and cast downe of God: ⁵ where as he (not withstodinge) shal be wouded for oure offences, & smytten for oure wickednes. For the payne of or punyshmet shalbe layde vpo him, & wt his stripes shal we be healed.

⁸ For thus saieth the LORDE: My thoughtes are not youre thoughtes, & youre wayes are not my wayes: ⁹ But as farre as the heauens are hyer then the earth, so farre do my waies exceade yours, & my thoughtes yours

⁶ But this fastinge pleaseth not me, till ye tyme be thou lowse him out of bondage, that is in thy daunger: that thou breake the ooth of wicked bargaynes, that thou let the oppressed go fre, and take from them all maner of burthens. ⁷ It pleaseth not me, till thou deale thy bred to the hongrie, & brynge the poore fatherlesse home in to thy house, when thou seist the naked that thou couer him, and hyde not thy face fro thine owne flesh. ⁸ Then shal thy light breake forth as ye mornynge, and thy health florish right shortly: thy rightuousnesse shal go before the, and ye glory of the LORDE shal embrace the. ⁹ Then yf thou callest, the LORDE shal answere the: yf thou criest, he shal saye: here I am. Yee yf thou layest awaye thy burthens, and holdest thy fyngers, and ceasest from blasphemous talkinge,

⁵ Thou helpest him that doth right with cherefulnesse, and them that thynke vpon thy wayes. But lo, thou art angrie, for we offende, and haue bene euer in synne, and there is not one whole.

³ For who so slayeth an oxe for me, doth me so greate dishonoure, as he yt kylleth a ma. He that kylleth a shepe for me, choketh a dogge. He that bringeth me meatoffringes, offreth swynes bloude: Who so maketh me a memoriall of Incense, prayseth the thinge yt is vnright. Yet take they soch wayes in honde, and their soule deliteth in these abhominacions.

² Lift vp thine eyes on euery syde, and loke, yf thou be not defyled. Thou hast waited for them in the stretes, and as a murtherer in the wildernesse. Thorow thy whordome and shamefull blasphemies, is the londe defyled. ³ This is the cause, that the rayne and euenynge dew hath ceased. Thou hast gotten the an whores foreheade, and canst not be ashamed.

²³ The hilles fall, and all the hie pryde of the mountaynes, but the health of Israel stondeth only vpon God oure LORDE.

³ Where as thou (o LORDE) lokest only vpon faith and treuth. Thou hast scourged them, but they toke no repentaunce: thou hast correcte them for amendemet, but they refused thy correction. They made their faces harder then a stone, and wolde not amende.

²⁰ Wherfore bringe ye me incense from Saba, & swete smellinge Calamus from farre countrees? Youre burnt offeringes displease me, and I reioyse not in youre sacrifices.

⁹ For when ye haue stolle, murthured, committed aduoutrie, and periury: Whe ye haue offred vnto Baal, folowinge straunge & vnknowne goddes: ¹⁰ Then come ye, and stonde before me in this house (which hath my name geuen vnto it) and saye: Tush, we are absolued quyte, though we haue done all these abhominacions. ¹¹ What? thinke you this house that beareth my name, is a denne of theues? And these thinges are not done priuely, but before myne eyes, saieth the LORDE.

¹¹ What? thinke you this house that beareth my name, is a denne of theues? And these thinges are not done priuely, but before myne eyes, saieth the LORDE. ¹² Go to my place in Silo, where vnto I gaue my name afore tyme, and loke well what I dyd to the same place, for the wickednes of my people of Israel.

¹⁵ And I shal thrust you out of my sight, as I haue cast out all youre brethren the whole sede of Ephraim.

²¹ Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes, the God of Israel: Ye heape vp youre burntoffringes with youre sacrifices, & eate ye flesh. ²² But when I brought youre fathers out of Egipte, I spake no worde vnto them of burntoffringes and sacrifices: ²³ but this I commaunded them, sayenge: herken and obeye my voyce, and I shalbe youre God and ye shal be my people: so that ye walke in all the wayes, which I haue comaunded you, that ye maye prospere.

¹² Fye for shame, how abhominable thinges do they? And yet they be not ashamed, yee they knowe of no shame. Wherfore in the tyme of their visitacion, they shal fall amonge the deed bodies, saieth the LORDE.

² Wolde God that I had a cotage some where farre from folke, that I might leaue my people, and go from the: for they be all aduoutrers and a shrenckinge sorte.

²³ Morouer, thus saieth the LORDE: Let not the wise man reioyse in his wisdome, ner the stronge man in his strength, nether the rich man in his riches:

¹⁰ Euen I the LORDE ripe out the grounde off the hert, ad search the reynes and rewarde euery ma acordinge to his wayes, and acordinge to the frute off his councels. ¹¹ The disceatfull maketh a nest, but bringeth forth no yonge: He commeth by riches, but not rightuously. In the myddest off his life must he leaue them behinde him, and at the last be founde a very foole.

¹⁶ But yet ye haue turned youre selues agayne, and blasphemed my name: In this, yt euery man hath requyred his seruaunt and handemayden agayne, whom ye had letten go quyte and fre, and compelled them to serue you agayne, and to be youre bonde men. ¹⁷ And therfore thus saieth the LORDE: Ye haue not obeyed me, euery man to proclame fredome vnto his brother and neghbor: wherfore, I will call you vnto a fredome, saieth the LORDE: euen vnto the swearde, to the pestilence, and to honger, and will make you to be plaged in all the kyngdomes of the earth.

⁸ Amonge these lxxx. me there were ten, yt sayde vnto Ismael: Oh slaye vs not, for we haue yet a greate treasure in the felde, off wheate, barley, oyle and hony. So he spared the, and slewe them not with their brethren.

¹⁶ As for the wordes that thou hast spoken vnto vs in the name of the LORDE, we will in no wyse heare them: ¹⁷ but what so euer goeth out of oure owne mouth, that wil we do: We will do sacrifice, and offre oblacions vnto the Quene off heauen: like as we and or forefathers, oure kynges and oure heades haue done in the cities off Iuda, and in the stretes and feldes of Ierusalem. For then had we plenteousnesse off vytales, then were we in prosperite, and no my?fortune came vpon vs.

²⁹ As for Moabs pryde, we haue herde off it, she is very hie mynded. I knowe hir stoutnesse, hir boostinge, hir arogacy and the pryde off hir stomack, saieth the LORDE.

¹⁸ As for his father: because he oppressed and spoyled his brother, and dyd wyckedly amonge his people: lo, he is deed in his owne synne.

²⁸ For in so moch as he remembreth himself, and turneth him from all the vngodlynes, that he hath vsed, he shall lyue, and not dye.

³¹ Cast awaye fro you all youre vngodlynesse, that ye haue done: make you new hertes and a new sprete. Wherfore wil ye dye, O ye house of Israel?

¹³ Beholde, I haue smytten my hondes vpo thy couetousnesse, that thou hast vsed, and vpon the bloude which hath bene shed in the. ¹⁴ Is thy herte able to endure it, or maye thy hondes defende them selues, in the tyme that I shall bringe vpon the? Euen I the LORDE that speake it, will bringe it also to passe.

³⁵ in comparyson off whom, all they that dwell vpon the earth, are to be reputed as nothinge. He handleth acordinge to his will, amoge ye powers of heauen & amonge the inhabitours of the earth: and there is none that maye resiste his honde, or saye: what doest thou?

¹⁰ & many shalbe purified, clensed & tried. But the vngodly shall lyue wickedly, and those wicked (as many of the as they be) shal haue no vnderstondinge. As for soch as haue vnderstondinge, they shal regarde it.

³ Then shal we haue vnderstondinge, & endeuoure oure selues to knowe the LORDE. He shal go forth as the sprynge of the daye, and come vnto vs as the euenynge and mornynge rayne vpon the earth.

⁶ For I haue pleasure in louynge kyndnesse, and not in offerynge: Yee in the knowlege of God, more then in burntsacrifice.

⁹ Who so is wyse, shal vnderstonde this: & he yt is right enstructe, wil regarde it. For ye wayes of the LORDE are rightuous, soch as be godly wil walke in them: As for the wicked, they wil stomble therin.

¹¹ Some off you haue I ouerthrowen? as I ouerthrewe Sodome & Gomorre: so that ye were as a brande plucte out of the fyre. Yet will ye not turne vnto me, sayeth the LORDE.

²¹ I hate and abhorre youre holy dayes, ad where as ye cense me when ye come together I will not accepte it. ²² And though ye offre me brentofferinges and meatofferinges, yet haue I no pleasure therin: As for youre fat thankofferynges, I wil not loke vpon them.

¹³ Neuerthelesse, the men assayed with rowinge, to brynge the shippe to lode: but it wolde not be, because the see wrought so, & was so troublous agaynst them.

² But ye hate the good, and loue the euell: ye plucke of mens skynnes, and the flesh from their bones: ³ Ye eate the flesh of my people, ad flay of their skynne: ye breake their bones, ye choppe them in peces as it were in to a cauldron, ad as flesh into a pot.

⁹ O heare this ye rulers of the house of Iacob, and ye iudges of the house off Israel: ye that abhorre the thinge that is laufull, and wraist asyde the thinge that is straight: ¹⁰ Ye that buylde vp Sion with bloude, and Ierusalem with doynge wronge. ¹¹ O ye iudges, ye geue sentence for giftes: O ye preastes, ye teach for lucre: O ye prophetes, ye prophecy for money. Yet wil they be take as those that holde vpon God, and saye: Is not the LORDE amonge vs? Tush, there can no misfortune happen vs. ¹² Therfore shal Sion (for youre sakes) be plowed like a felde: Ierusale shall become an heape of stones, and the hill of ye temple shal be turned to an hye wodde.

⁶ What acceptable thynge shal I offre vnto the LORDE? shall I bowe mykne to the hye God? Shal I come before him wt brentofferinges, and with calues of a yeare olde? ⁷ Hath the LORDE a pleasure in many thousand rammes, or innumerable streames of oyle? Or shal I geue my firstborne for myne offences, and the frute of my body for the synne of my soule? ⁸ I wil shewe the (O ma) what is good, and what the LORDE requyreth off the: Namely, to do right, to haue pleasure in louynge kyndnesse, to be lowly, and to walke with thy God:

⁹ Wo vnto him, that couetously gathereth euell gotten goodes in to his house: that he maye set his nest an hye, to escape from the power of mysfortune. ¹⁰ Thou hast deuysed ye shame of thine owne house, for thou hast slayne to moch people, and hast wilfully offended: ¹¹ so that the very stones of the wall shal crie out of it, and the tymbre that lieth betwixte the ioyntes of the buyldinge shall answere. ¹² Wo vnto him, yt buyldeth the towne with bloude, and maynteneth ye cite with vnrightuousnes.

⁶ which starte a backe from ye LORDE, and nether seke after the LORDE, ner regarde him.

⁵ Considre now youre owne wayes in youre hertes (saieth ye LORDE of hoostes)

⁷ Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes: Cosidre youre owne wayes in youre hertes,

¹⁵ And now (I praye you) cosidre from this daye forth, and how it hath gone with you afore: or euer there was layed one stone vpo another in the temple of the LORDE:

¹⁸ Considre then from this daye forth and afore, namely, from the xxiiij. daye of the ix. moneth, vnto the daye that the foundacion of the LORDES temple was layed: Marck it well, ¹⁹ Is not the sede yet in the barne? haue not the vynes, the fygetrees, the pomgranates and olyue trees bene yet vnfrutefull? but fro this daye forth, I shal make them to prospere.

³ Then sayde he vnto me: This is the curse, yt goeth forth ouer the whole earth: For all theues shalbe iudged after this boke, & all swearers shalbe iudged acordinge to the same. ⁴ I wil bringe it forth (saieth the LORDE of hoostes) so yt it shal come to the house of the thefe, & to the house of him, that falsely sweareth by my name: & shal remayne in his house, & cosume it, with the tymbre & stones therof.

⁹ Thus saieth ye LORDE of hoostes: Execute true iudgment: shewe mercy and louynge kyndnesse, euery man to his brother: ¹⁰ Do the wyddowe, the fatherlesse, the straunger, and poore no wronge: and let no man ymagen euell agaynst his brother in his hert. ¹¹ Neuertheles they wolde not take hede, but turned their backes, and stopped their eares, that they shulde not heare. ¹² yee they made their hertes as an Adamant stone, lest they shulde heare the lawe & wordes, which the LORDE of hoostes sent in his holy sprete by the prophetes afore tyme. Wherfore the LORDE of hoostes was very wroth at them. ¹³ And thus is it come to passe, that like as he spake and they wolde not heare: euen so they cried, and I wolde not heare (saieth the LORDE of hoostes)

¹⁶ Then Herod perceauynge yt he was disceaued of the wyse men, was excedynge wroth, and sent forth, and slue all the chyldren that were in Bethleem, and in all the coastes there of, as many as were two yere olde and vnder, accordynge to the tyme which he had diligently searched out of the wyse men.

⁶ Blessed are they which honger & thyrst for rightewesnes: for they shalbe filled.

⁸ Blessed are the pure in herte: for they shall se God.

⁴² Geue to hym that axeth: and from hym that wolde borowe, turne not awaye.

³ But whe thou doest almes, let not thy lefte hande knowe, what thy righte hande doth; ⁴ that thine almes maye be secrete: and thy father which seith in secrete, shall rewarde the openly.

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

¹⁹ Se that ye gather you not treasure vpon the earth, where rust and mothes corrupte, and where theues breake through and steale. ²⁰ But gather you treasure together in heauen, where nether rust nor mothes corrupte, and where theues nether breake vp nor yet steale.

² For as ye iudge, so shal ye be iudged. And with what measure ye meete, with the same shall it be measured to you agayne.

²³ And then will I knowlege vnto them: I neuer knewe you, Departe fro me, ye workers of iniquite.

³³ Either make the tre good and his frute good also, or els make the tre euel & his frute euel also. For the tre is knowne by the frute.

⁴¹ The sonne of man shal sende forth his angels, & they shal gather out of his kingdome all thinges yt offende, & the yt do iniquyte, ⁴² & shal cast the in to a fornace of fyre, there shalbe waylinge and gnasshinge of teth.

³⁰ Neuertheles, he wolde not, but wente and cast him in to preson, tyll he shulde paye the dett. ³¹ Whan his felowes sawe what was done, they were very sory, and came and tolde their lorde all that had happened. ³² Then his lorde called for him, and sayde vnto him: O thou wicked seruaut, I forgaue the all this dett, because thou praydest me: ³³ shuldest not thou then haue had compassion also vpon thy felowe, euen as I had pytie vpon the? ³⁴ And his lorde was wroth, and delyuered him vnto the iaylers, tyll he payed all that he ought. ³⁵ So shal my heauenly father do also vnto you, yf ye euery one of you fro youre hertes, forgeue not his brother his trespaces.

¹³ Wo vnto you Scrybes and Pharises, ye ypocrytes, that shut vp the kyngdome of heauen before men: Ye come not in youre selues, nether suffre ye them to enter, that wolde be in.

³ The foolish toke their lapes, neuertheles they toke none oyle with them. ⁴ But the wyse toke oyle in their vessels with their lampes.

⁸ But the foolish sayde vnto the wyse: geue vs of youre oyle, for oure lapes are gone out.

²⁶ But his lorde answered, and sayde vnto him: Thou euell and slouthfull seruaunt, knewest thou that I reape where I sowed not, and gather where I strawed not?

⁴¹ Then shal he saye also vnto them that shalbe on the left hande: Departe fro me ye cursed in to the euerlastinge fyre, which is prepared for the deuell and his angels. ⁴² For I was hogrie, and ye gaue me no meate: I was thirstye, and ye gaue me no drynke: ⁴³ I was herbourlesse, and ye lodged me not: I was naked, and ye clothed me not: I was sicke and in preson, and ye vysited me not. ⁴⁴ Then shal they also answere hi, and saye: LORDE, when sawe we the hogrie, or thyrstie, or herbourlesse, or naked, or sicke, or in preson, and haue not mynistred vnto the? ⁴⁵ The shal he answere them, and saye: Verely I saye vnto you: Loke what ye haue not done vnto one of the leest of these, the same haue ye not done vnto me. ⁴⁶ And these shal go in to euerlastinge payne, but the righteous in to euerlastinge life.

²¹ that defyleth the man. For from within out of the hert of man proceade euell thoughtes, aduoutrye, whordome, murthur, ²² theft, coueteousnes, wickednes, disceate, vnclennes, a wicked eye, blasphemy, pryde, foolishnes.

³³ and to loue him with all the hert, with all the mynde, with all the soule, and with all the strength, and to loue a mans neghboure as himself, is more then brent sacrifices and all offerynges.

³⁰ Who so euer axeth of the, geue him: and who so taketh awaye thyne, axe it not agayne. ³¹ And as ye wolde that men shulde do vnto you, euen so do ye vnto them likewyse. ³² And yf ye loue them that loue you, what thake haue ye therfore? For synners also loue their louers. ³³ And yf ye do good for youre good doers, what thanke haue ye therfore? For synners also do euen the same. ³⁴ And yf ye lende vnto them, of who ye hope to receaue what thake haue ye ther fore? For synners also lende vnto synners, that they maye receaue as moch agayne. ³⁵ But rather loue ye yor enemies, do good, and lende, lokynge for nothinge therof agayne: so shal yor rewarde be greate, and ye shalbe the children of the Hyest, for he is kynde, euen to the vnthankfull and to the euell. ³⁶ Be ye therfore mercifull, as youre father also is mercifull.

⁴⁵ A good ma out of ye good treasure of his hert, bryngeth forth yt which is good: and an euell ma out of the euell treasure of his hert, bryngeth forth that which is euell. For of the abundaunce of the hert, the mouth speaketh.

²⁵ From that tyme forth, whan the good man of the house is rysen vp, and hath shut the dore, then shal ye begynne to stonde without, and to knocke at ye dore, and saye: LORDE LORDE, open vnto vs. And he shal answere, and saye vnto you: I knowe you not whence ye are.

²⁷ And he shal saye: I tell you, I knowe you not whence ye are. Departe fro me all ye workers of iniquyte. ²⁸ There shalbe wepynge and gnasshinge of teth, when ye shal se Abraham, and Isaac, and Iacob and all the prophetes in ye kyngdome of God, and youre selues thrust out,

¹³ And not longe therafter, gathered the yonger sonne all together, & toke his iourney in to a farre countre, and there waisted he his goodes with ryotous lyuynge. ¹⁴ Now whan he had spent all that he had, there was a greate derth thorow out all the same lode. And he begane to lacke,

¹⁴ Now whan he had spent all that he had, there was a greate derth thorow out all the same lode. And he begane to lacke, ¹⁵ and wente his waye, and claue to a cytesin of that same countre, which sent him in to his felde, to kepe swyne. ¹⁶ And he wolde fayne haue fylled his bely with the coddes, that the swyne ate. And no man gaue him them. ¹⁷ Then came he to him self, and sayde: How many hyred seruauntes hath my father, which haue bred ynough, and I perish of honger? ¹⁸ I wil get vp, and go to my father, and saye vnto him: Father, I haue synned agaynst heauen and before the,

¹ He sayde also vnto his disciples: There was a certayne riche man, which had a stewarde, that was accused vnto him, that he had waisted his goodes.

¹⁵ And he sayde vnto them: Ye are they that iustifie yor selues before men, but God knoweth youre hertes. For yt which is hye amonge men, is an abhominacion before God.

¹⁹ There was a certayne riche man, which clothed him self with purple and costly lynnen, and fared deliciously euery daye. ²⁰ And there was a poore man named Lazarus which laye at his gate full of sores, ²¹ and desyred to be fylled with the crommes, that fell from the riche mans table. Yet came the dogges, and licked his sores. ²² But it fortuned, that the poore man dyed, and was caried of the angels in to Abrahams bosome. The riche man dyed also, and was buried. ²³ Now whan he was in the hell, he lift vp his eyes in the payne, and sawe Abraham afarre of, and Lazarus in his bosome: ²⁴ and he cried, and sayde: Father Abraham, haue mercy vpon me, and sende Lazarus, that he maye dyppe the typpe of his fynger in water, & coole my tonge, for I am tormeted in this flame. ²⁵ But Abraha saide: Remebre sonne, yt thou hast receaued good in yi life, & contrary wyse Lazarus receaued euell. But now is he comforted, and thou art tormented.

¹¹ The Pharise stode, and prayed by himself after this maner: I thanke the God, that I am not as other men, robbers, vnrighteous, aduouters, or as this publican. ¹² I fast twyse in the weke, I geue the tithes of all that I haue.

¹⁴ I tell you: This man wente downe in to his house iustified more the the other. For who so euer exalteth himself, shalbe brought lowe: and he that humbleth himself, shalbe exalted.

²⁴ But Iesus comytted not himself vnto the, for he knewe the all, ²⁵ & neded not yt eny ma shulde testifye of man, for he knewe well what was in man.

¹⁹ But this is ye codempnacion, that the light is come in to the worlde, and men loued the darknesse more the ye light: for their workes were euell. ²⁰ Whosoeuer doth euell, hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his dedes shulde not be reproued.

³⁴ Iesus sayde vnto the: My meate is this, that I do the wyll of him that sent me, and to fynish his worke.

²⁷ Of a trueth agaynst thy holy childe Iesus, whom thou hast anoynted, both Herode & Pontius Pilate with the Heythen and people of Israel, haue gathered the selues together, ²⁸ to do what soeuer thy hande and thy councell determyned before to be done.

⁵ Whan Ananias herde these wordes, he fell downe, & gaue vp the goost. And there came a greate feare vpon all the that herde of this.

¹¹ And there came a greate feare ouer the whole congregacion, and ouer all the that herde it. ¹² Many tokens and wonders were done amonge the people by the hades of the Apostles (and they were all together with one acorde in Salomons porche: ¹³ but of other there durst no man ioyne him self vnto the, neuertheles the people helde moch of them. ¹⁴ The multitude of the men and women that beleued in the LORDE, grewe more and more)

³⁹ but yf it be of God, ye are not able to destroye it, lest ye be founde to be the men, that wil stryue agaynst God.

¹⁰ and delyuered him out of all his troubles, and gaue him fauoure ad wyssdome i the sight of Pharao kynge of Egipte which made him prynce ouer Egipte and ouer all his house.

⁵⁷ But they cried out with a loude voyce, & stopped their eares, and rane violently vpon him all at once,

¹⁵ But they sayde vnto her: Thou art mad. Neuertheles she abode by it, that is was so. They sayde: it is his angell.

⁹ & put no dyfference betwixte vs & them, and purified their hertes thorow fayth.

³³ I haue not desyred syluer, golde or rayment off eny off you. ³⁴ For ye youre selues knowe, that these handes haue mynistred vnto my necessities, and them that were with me. ³⁵ I haue shewed you all thinges, how that so labouringe ye oughte to receaue the weake, and to remembre the worde of the LORDE, how that he sayde: It is more blessed to geue, then to receaue.

⁷ namely, prayse & honoure, and vncorrupcion, vnto them that with pacience in doinge good, seke euerlastinge life: ⁸ But vnto them that are contencious & not obedient vnto the trueth, but obeye vnrighteousnes, shal come indignacion and wrath, ⁹ trouble and anguysh vpo all the soules of me that do euell, of the Iewe first and also of the Greke: ¹⁰ But vnto all the that do good (shal come) prayse and honoure, and peace, vnto the Iewe first, and also to the Greke.

²² For I delite in the lawe of God after the inwarde man:

¹⁹ Let vs therfore folowe those thinges which make for peace, & thinges wherwith one maye edifye another.

²³ But he that maketh conscience of it and yet eateth, is dampned: because he doth it not of faith. For what so euer is not of faith, that same is synne.

³ For seynge there is enuyenge, stryfe, and discencion amonge you, are ye not fleshly, & walke after ye maner of men?

¹⁹ For the wyssdome off this worlde is foolishnes with God. For it is wrytten: He compaseth the wyse in their craftynesse. ²⁰ And agayne: The LORDE knoweth the thoughtes of the wyse, that they are vayne.

⁵ Neuertheles in many of them had God no delyte, for they were smytten downe in the wyldernesse. ⁶ These are ensamples vnto vs, yt we shulde not lust after euell thinges, as they lusted.

⁶ These are ensamples vnto vs, yt we shulde not lust after euell thinges, as they lusted. ⁷ Nether be ye worshippers off ymages, as were some of them. Acordinge as it is wrytte: The people sat downe to eate and drynke, and rose vp to playe. ⁸ Nether let vs commytte whordome, as some of them comytted whordome, and fell in one daye thre & twenty thousande. ⁹ Nether let vs tempte Christ, as some of them tempted him, and were destroyed of serpetes. ¹⁰ Nether murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and were destroyed thorow the destroyer. ¹¹ All these thinges happened vnto the for ensamples, but they are wrytte to warne vs, vpon whom the ende of ye worlde is come.

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.

¹⁷ Whan I thus wyse was mynded, dyd I vse ligthnesse? Or are my thoughtes fleshly.? Not so but with me yee is yee, and nay is naye. ¹⁸ O faithfull God, that oure worde vnto you hath not bene yee and naye. 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. ²⁰ For all the promyses of God are yee in him, & are Ame in him, to the prayse of God by vs.

¹³ But seynge that we haue the same sprete of faith (acordinge as it is wrytten: I beleued, and therfore haue I spoke.) we also beleue, & therfore we speake,

⁷ Now as ye are riche in all poyntes, in faith and in worde, and in knowlege, and in all diligence, and in youre loue towarde vs, euen so se that ye be plenteous also in this benyuolece. ⁸ This I saye not as commaudynge, but seynge, other are so diligent, I proue youre loue also, whether it be perfecte or no. ⁹ For ye knowe the liberalite of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, which though he be riche, yet for youre sakes he became poore, yt ye thorow his pouerte mighte be made riche.

⁹ As it is wrytte: He hath sparsed abrode & geue to ye poore, his righteousnes remayneth for euer. 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, ¹¹ that in all thinges ye maye be made riche vnto all singlenesse, which causeth thorow vs, thankesgeuynge vnto God. ¹² For the hadreachinge of this colleccion not onely suppleeth the nede off the sayntes, but also is abudaunt herin, that for this laudable mynistracion many mighte geue thakes vnto God, ¹³ and prayse God for yor obedient professynge of the Gospell of Christ, & for yor synglenesse in distributynge vnto the, and to all men, ¹⁴ and in their prayer for you, which longe after you, for the abundaunt grace of God in you.

³ But yf eny man thinke himselfe to be somwhat (whan in dede he is nothinge) the same disceaueth himselfe.

¹ And quyckened you also, whan ye were deed thorow trespaces and synnes, ² in the which in tyme past ye walked, acordinge to the course off this worlde, and after the prynce that ruleth in the ayre namely, after ye sprete, which now worketh in the children of vnbeleue, ³ amonge whom we also had oure conuersacion in tyme past in the lustes of oure flesh, and dyd the wyll of the flesh and of the mynde, and were naturally the children of wrath, euen as well as other.

²⁸ He that hath stollen, let him steale nomore: but let him laboure rather, and do some good with his hondes, that he maye haue to geue vnto him that nedeth.

⁶ (Let no man disceaue you with vayne wordes) for because of these commeth the wrath of God vpon the children of vnbeleue.

¹² Not that I haue attayned vnto it all ready, or that I am allready perfecte: but I folowe, yf I maye comprehende that, wherin I am comprehended off Christ Iesu.

⁵ For we haue not gone aboute with flateringe wordes (as ye knowe) ner wayted for oure owne profit ( God is recorde) ⁶ nether soughte we prayse of men, nether of you ner of eny other, whan we mighte haue bene chargeable vnto you as the Apostles off Christ, ⁷ but we were tender amonge you. Like as a norsse cherisheth hir children, 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.

¹¹ God himselfe or father & or LORDE Iesus Christ gyde oure iourney vnto you.

¹¹ and that ye study to be quyete, and to medle with youre awne busynesse, and to worke with youre awne hades, as we commaunded you, ¹² that ye maye walke honestly towarde the that are without, and that nothinge be lackynge vnto you.

²¹ proue all thiges, & kepe yt which is good.

⁶ But she that lyueth in pleasures, is deed, euen yet a lyue.

⁹ For they that wylbe riche, fall in to the teptacion and snare, and in to many folisshe & noysome lustes, which drowne men in destruccion and damnacion. ¹⁰ For Couetousnes is the rote of all euell, which whyle some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and tangled them selues with many sorowes. ¹¹ But thou man of God, flye soche thinges: folowe righteousnes, godlynes, faith, loue, pacience, mekenes:

²² Fle thou the lustes of youth, but folowe righteousnes, faith, loue, peace, with all them that call vpon the LORDE with pure hert.

⁴ traytours, heady, hye mynded, gredy vpon voluptuousnes more then the louers of God,

⁷ I haue foughte a good fighte: I haue fulfylled the course: I haue kepte the faith. ⁸ From hence forth there is layed vp for me a crowne of righteousnes, which the LORDE the righteous iudge shal geue me in yt daye: Howbeit not vnto me onely, but vnto all them that loue his comynge.

¹¹ whose mouthes must be stopped: which peruerte whole houses, teachinge thinges which they oughte not, because of filthye lucre.

¹⁵ Vnto ye cleane are all thinges cleane: but. to the vncleane & vnbeleuers, there is nothinge cleane, but both their mynde & conscience is defyled.

¹⁴ which gaue him selfe for vs, to redeme vs fro all vnrighteousnes, and to pourge vs to be a peculiar people vnto himselfe, to be feruently geuen vnto good workes.

³ For we oure selues also were in tymes past, vnwyse, dishobedient, in erroure, seruynge lustes and dyuerse maners of voluptuousnes, lyuynge in maliciousnes and envye, full of hate, hatynge one another.

⁵ not for ye dedes of righteousnes which we wroughte, but after his mercy he saued vs by the fountayne of the new byrth, and renuynge of the holy goost,

⁸ This is a true sayege. Of these thinges wolde I that thou shuldest speake earnestly, that they which are become beleuers in God, might be diligent to excell in good workes: for these thinges are good and profitable vnto me.

¹ Wherfore we ought to geue the more hede vnto the thinges which we haue herde, lest we perisshe. ² For yf the worde which was spoke by angels, was stedfast, and euery trasgression and dishobedience receaued a iust recompence of rewarde, ³ how shal we escape, yf we despyse so greate a saluacion: which after that it beganne to be preached by the LORDE himselfe, was confirmed vpon vs, by them that herde it,

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.

²⁶ For yf we synne wylfully after that we haue receaued the knowlege of the trueth, there remayneth vnto vs nomore sacrifice for synnes, ²⁷ but a fearfull lokynge for iudgment, and violente fyre, which shal deuoure ye aduersaries. ²⁸ He yt despyseth Moses lawe, dyeth without mercy vnder two or thre witnesses: ²⁹ Of how moch sorer punyshment (suppose ye) shal he be counted worthy, which treadeth vnder fote the sonne of God, and couteth the bloude of ye Testamet (wherby he is sanctified) an unwholy thinge, & doth dishonoure to the sprete of grace?

³⁸ But the iust shal lyue by his faith: And yf he withdrawe himselfe awaye, my soule shal haue no pleasure in him.

¹⁴ Folowe after peace with all men, and holynes, without the which no man shal se the LORDE,

²² And se that ye be doers of ye worde & not heares only, deceauinge youre awne selues.

²⁶ Yf eny man amonge you seme deuoute, & refrayne not his toge: but deceaue his awne herte, this mannes deuocion is in vayne.

¹³ For ther shalbe iudgement merciles to him that sheweth no mercy, & mercy reioiseth against iudgment.

¹³ For ther shalbe iudgement merciles to him that sheweth no mercy, & mercy reioiseth against iudgment. ¹⁴ What a vayleth it my brethre, though a man saye he hath faith, when he hath no dedes? Can faith saue him? ¹⁵ If a brother or a sister be naked or destitute of dayly fode, ¹⁶ & one of you saye vnto them: Departe in peace, God sende you warmnes and fode: notwithstodinge ye geue them not tho thinges which are nedfull to the body: what helpeth it them?

² for in many thinges we synne all. Yf a man synne not in worde, the same is a parfecte man, & able to tame all the body. ³ Beholde, we put bittes into the horses mouthes yt they shulde obeye vs, and we turne aboute all the body. ⁴ Beholde also ye shyppes, which though they be so gret, and are dryuen of fearce windes, yet are they turned about with a very smale helme, whither soeuer the violence of the gouerner wyll. ⁵ Euen so the toge is a lyttell member, and bosteth great thinges. Beholde how gret a thinge a lyttell fyre kyndleth, ⁶ and the tonge is fyre, and a worlde of wyckednes. So is the tonge set amonge oure membres, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth a fyre all that we haue of nature, and is it selfe set a fyre euen of hell. ⁷ All the natures of beastes, and of byrdes, and of serpentes, and thinges of the see, are meked and tamed of the nature of ma. ⁸ But the toge can no man tame. Yt is an vnruely euell full of deedly poysou. ⁹ Therwith blesse we God the father, and therwith cursse we men which are made after the similitude of God. ¹⁰ Out of one mouth proceadeth blessynge and cursynge. My brethre these thinges ought not so to be. ¹¹ Doth a fountayne sende forth at one place swete water and bytter also? ¹² Can the fygge tree, my Brethren, beare oliue beries: ether a vyne beare fygges? ¹³ So can no fountayne geue bothe salt water and fresshe also. If eny man be wyse and endued with learnynge amonge you, let him shewe the workes of his good couersacion in meknes that is coupled with wissdome.

¹ From whence commeth warre and fightynge amonge you: come they not here hence? euen of yor volupteousnesses that rayne in youre mebres? ² Ye lust, and haue not. Ye envie and haue indignacion, and can not obtayne. Ye fight & warre, and haue not, because ye axe not. ³ Ye axe & receaue not because ye axe amysse: eue to cosume it vpo yor voluptuousnes. ⁴ Ye aduouterars, & weme that breke matrimonie: knowe ye not how that the frenshippe of ye worlde is ennimite to godwarde? Whosoeuer wilbe a frende of the worlde, is made ye enemie of god. ⁵ Ether do ye thinke yt the scripture sayth in vayne. The sprete yt dwelleth in you, lusteth euen contrary to enuie:

⁴ Beholde, the hyre of the labourers which haue reped downe youre feldes (which hyer is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth: and the cryes of the which haue reped, are entred in to the eares of the LORDE Sabaoth. ⁵ Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth and in wantannes. Ye haue norysshed youre hertes, as in a daye of slaughter. ⁶ Ye haue codempned and haue killed the iust, and he hath not resisted you.

⁷ that youre faith once tryed (beynge moch more precious then the corruptible golde that is tryed thorow the fyre) might be founde vnto laude, glory and honoure at the appearynge of Iesus Christ:

²² Euen ye which haue purifyed youre soules in obeyenge the trueth thorow the sprete, for to loue brotherly without faynynge, & feruently one to loue another wt a pure hert, ²³ as they that are borne a new, not of corruptible sede, but of vncorruptible, eue by the lyuynge worde of God, which endureth for euer.

⁸ and a stone to stomble at, and a rock to be offended at, namely in the which stomble at ye worde, and beleue not that wheron they were set.

¹⁸ For as moch as Christ hath once suffred for oure synnes, ye iust for the vniust, for to brynge vs to God: & was slayne after the flesh, but quyckened after the sprete.

⁵ Likewyse ye yoger submytte youre selues vnto the elder. Submytte youre selues euery man one to another, and knyt yor selues together in lowlynes of mynde. For God resisteth the proude, but geueth grace to the humble.

³ and thorow cuvetousnes shal they with fayned wordes make marchaundise of you, vpo who the iudgment is not necliget in tarienge of olde, and their damnacion slepeth not. ⁴ For yf God spared not the angels that synned, but cast them downe with the cheynes of darknes in to hell, and delyuered the ouer to be kepte vnto iudgment: ⁵ Nether spared the olde worlde, but saued Noe the preacher of righteousnes himselfe beynge ye eight, and brought the floude vpo the worlde of the vngodly: ⁶ And turned the cities of Sodom and Gomor into asshes, ouerthrue them, damned them, and made on them an ensample, vnto those that after shulde lyue vngodly: ⁷ And delyuered iust Loth which was vexed with the vngodly conuersacion of ye wicked. ⁸ For in so moch as he was righteous and dwelt amonge them, so that he must nedes se it and heare it, his righteous soule was greued from to daye to daye with their vnlaufull dedes. ⁹ The LORDE knoweth how to delyuer the godly out of tentacion, and how to reserue the vniust vnto the daye of iudgment for to be punyshed:

²¹ For it had bene better for them, not to haue knowne the waye of righteousnes, then after they haue knowne it, to turne from the holy commaundemet, that was geuen vnto them. ²² It is happened vnto them acordynge vnto the true prouerbe: ye dogg is turned to his vomyte agayne: and ye sowe that was wasshed, vnto hir walowynge in the myre.

⁶ yet was the worlde at that tyme destroyed by the same with the floude. ⁷ But the heauens which are yet, and ye earth, are kepte in stoare by his worde, to be reserued vnto fyre agaynst the daye of iudgment and damnacion of vngodly men.

¹⁶ for all that is in the worlde (namely the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pryde of life) is not of the father, but of the worlde.

¹⁹ They wente out fro vs, but they were not of vs: for yf they had bene of vs, they wolde no doute haue contynued with vs. But that they maye be knowne, how that they are not all of vs.

²⁹ Yf ye knowe yt he is righteous, knowe also that he which doth righteousnes, is borne of him.

³ And euery man yt hath this hope in him, pourgeth him selfe, euen as he is pure.

¹² These are spottes which of youre kindnes feast togedder, without feare, fedynge the selues. Cloudes they are withouten water, caried about of wyndes, and trees without frute at gadringe tyme, twyse deed and plucked vp by the rotes.

²³ And I wil kyll her childre with deeth. And all the cogregacios shal knowe, yt I am he which searcheth the reynes and hertes. And I wil geue vnto euery one of you acordynge vnto youre workes.

¹³ And the same houre was there a greate earthquake, & the tenth parte of the cite fell, and in the earthquake were slayne names of men seuen M. and the remnaunt were feared, and gaue glory to God of heauen.

⁴ And the thyrde angel shed out his vyall vpon the ryuers and fountaynes of waters, and they turned to bloude.

¹² And the sixte angell poured out his vyall vpon the gret ryuer Euphrates, and the water dryed vp, that the waye of the kynges of the Easte shulde be prepared.