Romans 1 Cross References - Coverdale

¹ Pavl the seruaunte of Iesus Christ, called to be an Apostle, put aparte to preach the Gospell of God ² (which he promysed a fore by his prophetes in ye holy scriptures) ³ off his sonne, which was begotte of ye sede of Dauid after the flesh: ⁴ and mightely declared to be the sonne of God after the sprete which sanctifieth, sence the tyme that he rose agayne from the deed, namely, Iesus Christ oure LORDE, ⁵ by whom we haue receaued grace and Apostelshippe amonge all Heythen, to set vp the obedience of faith vnder his name, ⁶ of whom ye are a parte also, which are called of Iesus Christ. ⁷ To all you that be at Rome, beloued of God, and sayntes by callynge Grace be wt you and peace fro God oure father, and the LORDE Iesus Christ. ⁸ First, I thanke my God thorow Iesus Christ for you all, that youre faith is spoken of thorow out all the worlde. ⁹ For God is my witnesse ( whom I serue in my sprete in the Gospell of his sonne) that without ceassynge I make mencion of you besekinge allwayes in my prayers, 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. ¹³ But I wolde ye shulde knowe (brethren) how that I haue often tymes purposed to come vnto you (but haue bene let hither to) that I mighte do some good amonge you, like as amonge other Gentyles. ¹⁴ I am detter both to the Grekes, and to the vngrekes, to the wyse and to the vnwyse. ¹⁵ Wherfore (as moch as i me is) I am ready to preach the Gospell vnto you at Rome also. ¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the Gospell of Christ: for it is the power of God, which saueth all that beleue theron, the Iewe first & also the Greke: ¹⁷ for in it ye righteousnes that is of value before God, is opened, which cometh out of faith i to faith. ¹⁸ As it is wrytte: The iust shal lyue by his faith. For ye wrath of God is declared from heauen vpon all vngodlynes and vnrighteousnes of me,which witholde the trueth of God in vnrighteousnes: ¹⁹ because that it, which maye be knowne of God, is manifest with the. For God hath shewed it vnto the, ²⁰ that the inuisible thinges of God (that is, his euerlastinge power and Godheade) mighte be sene whyle they are considered by the workes from the creacion of the worlde: so that they are without excuse, ²¹ in as moch as they knewe, that there is a God, and haue not praysed him as God ner thanked him, but became vayne in their ymaginacions, and their foolish hert was blynded. ²² Whan they counted them selues wyse, they became fooles: ²³ and turned ye glory of the incorruptible God in to ye symilitude of ye ymage of a corruptible ma, & of byrdes, & of foure foted, & of crepinge beestes ²⁴ Wherfore God likewyse gaue them vp vnto their hertes lustes in to vnclennes, to defyle their awne bodies in them selues, ²⁵ which turned the trueth of God vnto a lye, & worshipped and serued the creature more then the maker, which is blessed for euer. Amen. ²⁶ Therfore God gaue the vp vnto shamefull lustes. For their wemen chaunged the naturall vse in to the vnnaturall: ²⁷ likewyse ye me also lefte the naturall vse of the woman, and brent in their lustes one on another, and man with man wrought fylthines, and receaued in them selues the rewarde of their erroure, as it was acordinge. ²⁸ And as they regarded not to knowe God, euen so God gaue the vp in to a lewde mynde, to do those thinges which were not comly, ²⁹ beynge full of all vnrighteousnes, whordome, wickednes, couetousnes, maliciousnes, full of enuye, murthur, strife, disceate, euell codicioned whisperers, ³⁰ backbyters, despysers of God, doers of wronge, proude, boosters, bryngers vp of euell thinges, disobedient to their Elders, ³¹ without vnderstondinge, couenaunt breakers, vnlouynge, stubborne, vnmercifull: ³² which men, though they knowe the righteousnes of God (that they which do soch, are worthy of death) yet not onely do the same, but also haue pleasure in those that do the.

¹⁵ And I wyll put enemyte betwene the and the woman, and betwene yi sede and hir sede. The same shal treade downe thy heade, and thou shalt treade him on the hele.

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,

²¹ And ye LORDE smelled the swete sauor, & sayde in his hert: I wyl hence forth curse the earth nomore for mas sake, for the ymaginacion of mans hert is euell, euen from the very youth of him. Therfore from hece forth I wil nomore smyte all that lyueth, as I haue done.

⁵ and called Lot, and sayde vnto him: Where are the me that came vnto the to night? Bringe them out here vnto vs, that we maye knowe them.

³³ And Abraham planted trees at Berseba, and called vpon the name of the LORDE ye euerlastinge God,

³⁰ And for so moch then as thou woldest nedes departe, and longedest sore after yi fathers house, why hast thou stollen away my goddes?

²² Thou shalt not lye with mankynde as with womankynde, for yt is abhominacion.

²² Thou shalt not lye with mankynde as with womankynde, for yt is abhominacion. ²³ Thou shalt lye with no maner of beest, to defyle yi self therwith. And no woman shal haue to do wt a beest, for it is abhominacion. ²⁴ Ye shal defyle youre selues in none of these thinges. For ye Heithen (whom I wil cast out before you) haue stayned them selues in all these, ²⁵ and the londe is defyled there thorow. And their wickednesse wyl I vyset vpo them, so that the londe shal spue out the indwellers therof. ²⁶ Therfore kepe ye my statutes and lawes, and do not one of these abhominacions, nether one of youre awne selues ner the straunger amonge you ²⁷ (for all soch abhominacions haue ye people of this lode done which were before you, & haue defyled the lande) ²⁸ that the lande spue not you out also, whan ye haue defyled it, as it spewed out the Heythe, that were there before you.

¹³ Yf eny man lye with the mankynde, as with womankynde, they haue wrought abhominacion, & shal both dye the death: their bloude be vpon them.

²⁴ But I saye vnto you: Ye shall possesse their londe. For I wyll geue you to enheritaunce a lode, that floweth with mylke and hony. I am the LORDE youre God, which haue separated you from the nacions, ²⁵ that ye also shulde separate the cleane beestes fro the vncleane, and the vncleane foules from the cleane: & not to defyle youre soules vpon beestes, vpon foules & vpon all that crepeth on the grounde: which I haue separated vnto you, that they shulde be vncleane. ²⁶ Therfore shall ye be holy vnto me: for I the LORDE am holy, which haue separated you fro the nacions, that ye shulde be myne.

³⁵ And whan the Arke wente forth, Moses sayde: Aryse LORDE, let thine enemies be scatered, and let them that hate the, flye before the.

⁹ it not ynough vnto you, yt ye God of Israel hath separated you fro ye multitude of Israel, yt ye shulde come nye him, to do the seruyce of the dwellynge place of the LORDE, and stonde before the people to mynister vnto them? ¹⁰ He hath caused the and all thy brethren the childre of Leui with the, to come nye vnto him: and now ye seke the presthode also.

¹⁵ Kepe well youre soules therfore, for ye sawe no maner of ymage, in the daye wha the LORDE spake vnto you out of the fyre vpon mount Horeb, that ye destroye not youre selues, ¹⁶ and make you eny ymage, that is like a man, or woman, ¹⁷ or beest vpon earth, or fethered foule vnder the heauen, ¹⁸ or worme vpon the grounde, or fysshe in the water vnder ye earth: ¹⁹ yt thou lifte not vp thine eyes towarde heauen, and se the Sonne and the Moone & the starres, and the whole hoost of heaue, and be disceaused, and worsh ppe, and serue them: which the LORDE yi God hath made to serue all nacios vnder ye whole heaue.

⁸ Thou shalt make the no grauen ymage of eny maner of licknesse of the thinges yt are aboue in heauen, & beneth vpon earth, & in the water vnder the earth.

¹⁰ And rewardeth them that hate him, before his face, that he maye destroye them: and wyll not be longe in tarienge to rewarde them (before his face) that hate him.

⁸ At the same season the LORDE separated out the trybe of Leui, to beare the Arke of the LORDES couenaunt, and to stonde before the LORDE, to mynister vnto him, and to prayse his name vnto this daye.

¹⁸ Yf eny man haue a stubborne and dishobedient sonne, which herkeneth not vnto the voyce of his father, and mother, and whan they teach him nurtoure, wyll not folowe them, ¹⁹ then shall his father and mother take him, and brynge him to ye Elders of their cite, and to the gate of the same place, ²⁰ and saye vnto the Elders of the cite: This oure sonne is stobburne and dishobediet, and herkeneth not vnto oure voyce, and is a ryoter and a dronkarde. 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.

¹⁷ There shal be no whore amonge ye doughters of Israel, nether whorekeper amonge the sonnes of Israel. ¹⁸ Thou shalt not bringe ye hyre of an whoore ner the price of a dogg in to the house of the LORDE yi God for eny maner of vowe: for they both are abhominacion vnto the LORDE thy God.

¹⁶ Cursed be he, that curseth his father and mother. And all the people shall saye, Amen.

²⁹ And thou shalt grope at the noone daye, as ye blynde gropeth in darknesse, and shalt not prospere in thy waye.And thou shalt suffre vyolence and wronge all thy lifelonge, & no man shal helpe ye.

¹² And to Ben Iamin he saide: The beloued of the LORDE shal dwell in hope on him: All the daye longe shal he wayte vpon him, and shal dwell betwene his shulders.

²⁷ that is the dwellynge of God from the beginnynge, and vnder the armes of the worlde. And he shal dryue out thyne enemye before the, and saye: Be destroyed.

²² And wha their hert was now ioyfull, the men of the cyte, the children of Belial, came, and compased the house rounde aboute, and russhed at ye dore, and sayde vnto ye olde man, which was the good man of ye house: Bringe out the ma which is come in to thy house, that we maye knowe him.

²³ But God forbyd that I shulde synne so vnto the LORDE, to ceasse from prayenge for you, and from teachinge you the good & righteous waye.

¹² Now whan yi tyme is fulfylled yt thou shalt slepe wt thy fathers, I wil after ye rayse vp thy syde, which shal come of thy body: his kyngdome wyl I stablishe, ¹³ he shal buylde an house for my name, and I wyll stablyshe ye seate of his kyngdome for euer. ¹⁴ I wyll be his father, and he shall be my sonne. Whan he doth a trespace, I wyll reproue him with the rodd of men and with the plages of ye childre of men: ¹⁵ But my mercy shal not be withdrawen fro him, as I haue withdrawe it fro Saul, who I haue take awaye before the. ¹⁶ As for yi house & thy kyngdome, it shal be stablished for euer before the, & thy seate shal endure fast for euermore.

³⁹ And kynge Dauid ceassed from goinge out agaynst Absalom, for he had comforted him selfe ouer Ammon that he was deed.

¹⁵ And Dauid was desyrous, and sayde: Wolde God yt some man wolde fetch me a drynke of water out of the well at Bethleem vnder the gate.

¹⁸ neuertheles the LORDE sayde vnto my father Dauid: Where as thou wast mynded to buylde an house vnto my name, thou hast done well, that thou art so aduysed.

¹¹ But ye kynge of Israel answered, & sayde: Tell him, Let not him yt putteth on ye harnes, make his boast like him yt hath put it of

¹⁵ Yee they despysed his ordinaunces and his couenaunt which he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he witnessed amonge them, and walked in their awne vanities, and became vayne folowinge the Heythen, which dwelt rounde aboute them, concernynge whom the LORDE had commaunded them, that they shulde not do as they dyd.

¹⁴ Then sent Ezechias the kynge of Iuda to ye kynge of Assiria vnto Lachis, sayenge: I haue offended, turne back fro me: loke what thou layest vnto me, I wil beare it. The the kynge of Assiria layed vnto Ezechias the kynge of Iuda, thre hundreth talentes of syluer, & thirtie talentes of golde. ¹⁵ So Ezechias gaue all ye slyuer yt was foude in ye house of the LORDE, & in the treasures of ye kynges house. ¹⁶ At ye same tyme brake Ezechias the kynge of Iuda the dores of the teple of ye LORDE, & the plates of golde which he him selfe had caused to laye ouer the, & gaue the vnto the kynge of Assiria. ¹⁷ And the kynge of Assiria sent Thartan, and the chefe chamberlayne, & the chefe butler from Lachis to kynge Ezechias with a greate power vnto Ierusalem. And they wete vp: and whan they came there, they stode styll at the condyte by the ouer pole, which lyeth in the waye vpo the fullers londe, ¹⁸ and called vnto the kynge. The came there forth vnto them Eliachim the sonne of Helchias the stewarde, and Sobna the scrybe, & Ioah the sonne of Assaph the Secretary. ¹⁹ And the chefe butler sayde vnto the: Tell kynge Ezechias: Thus sayeth ye greate kynge, eue the kynge of Assiria: What presumpcion is this yt thou trustest vnto? ²⁰ Thinkest thou, yt thou hast yet councell and power to fighte? Where vnto trustest thou then, that thou art fallen of fro me? ²¹ Beholde, puttest thou thy trust in this broken staffe of rede, in Egipte? which who leaneth vpon, it shall go into his hande, & pearse it thorow. Euen so is Pharao the kynge of Egipte vnto all them that put their trust in him. ²² But yf ye wolde saye vnto me: We put oure trust in ye LORDE oure God. Is not that he, whose hye places and altares Ezechias hath take downe, and sayde vnto Iuda and Ierusale: Before this altare which is at Ierusale, shal ye worshippe? ²³ Make a multitude now therfore vnto my lorde the kynge of Assiria, and I wil geue ye two thousande horses, let se yf thou be able to man them: ²⁴ how wilt thou then endure before the smallest prynce of my lordes subiectes? And trustest thou vnto Egipte because of the charettes and horsmen? ²⁵ But thinkest thou that I came vp hither without ye LORDE to destroye these cities? The LORDE hath commaunded me: Go vp in to that londe and destroye it. ²⁶ Then sayde Eliachim the sonne of Helchia & Sobna and Ioah vnto the chefe butler: Speake to thy seruauntes in the Syrias language, for we vnderstonde it, and speake not vnto vs in the Iewes speche before the eares of the people that are vpon the wall. ²⁷ Neuertheles ye chefe butler sayde vnto the: Hath my lorde then sent me vnto thy lorde, or to the, to speake these wordes? Yee euen vnto the men, which syt vpon the wall, that they maye eate their owne donge and drynke their owne stale wt you. ²⁸ So the chefe butler stode and cried with loude voyce in the Iewes language, and spake and sayde: Heare the worde of the greate kynge the kynge of Assiria. ²⁹ Thus sayeth the kynge: Let not Ezechias disceaue you, for he is not able to delyuer you fro my hade: ³⁰ & let not Ezechias make you to trust in the LORDE, sayenge: The LORDE shall delyuer vs, and this cite shal not be geuen in to the handes of ye kynge of Assiria. ³¹ Folowe not ye Ezechias, for thus sayeth the kynge of Assiria: Do me this blessynge, and come forth vnto me, so shal eueryman eate of his vyne and of his fygge tre, and drynke of his well, ³² tyll I come my selfe and fetch you in to a londe, which is like youre awne lode, wherin is corne, wyne, bred, vynyardes, oyle trees, oyle and hony, so shal ye lyue, and not dye. Folowe not ye Ezechias, for he disceaueth you, when he sayeth: The LORDE shal delyuer vs. ³³ Haue the goddes of the Heythen delyuered eueryone his londe from the hande of the kynge of Assiria? ³⁴ Where are the goddes of Hemath and Arphad? Where are the goddes of Sepharnaim Hena and Iua? Haue they delyuered Samaria fro my hande? ³⁵ Where is there one god amonge the goddes of all londes, which hath delyuered his londe fro my hande? that the LORDE shulde delyuer Ierusalem fro my hande. ³⁶ As for the people, they helde their peace, and gaue him no answere: for the kynge had commaunded and sayde: Answere him nothinge. ³⁷ Then came Eliachim the sonne of Helchia ye stewarde, and Sobna the scrybe, and Ioah the sonne of Assaph the Secretary vnto Ezechias with rente clothes, and tolde him the wordes of the chefe butler.

¹³ The childre of Amram were: Aaron and Moses. As for Aaron, he was separated, to be sanctified for the Most holy, he & his sonnes for euer, to burne incense before the LORDE, & to mynister and blesse in ye name of the LORDE for euermore.

² And Iehu ye sonne of Hanani the Seer wete forth to mete him, & sayde vnto kynge Iosaphat: Shuldest thou so helpe the vngodly, and loue them that hate the LORDE? And for this cause is ye wrath vpo the from the LORDE:

²⁰ And they gat them vp early in ye mornynge, and wete forth by the wyldernesse of Thekoa. And whan they were goynge out, Iosaphat stode, & sayde: Herke vnto me O Iuda, & ye indwellers of Ierusale: Put youre trust in the LORDE yor God, & ye shal be safe: and geue credence vnto his prophetes, & ye shall prospere.

¹⁹ Thou thinkest: Beholde, I haue smytten the Edomites, therfore is thine hert proude to boaste. Now byde at home: why stryuest thou after mysfortune, that thou mayest fall & Iuda wt the?

¹⁹ For lo, my witnesse is in heauen, and he that knoweth me, is aboue in the heyth.

¹⁴ They saye vnto God: go from vs, we desyre not the knowlege of thy wayes. ¹⁵ What maner of felowe is the Allmightie, that we shulde serue him? What profit shulde we haue, to submitte oure selues vnto him?

²⁶ Dyd I euer greatly regarde the rysinge of the Sonne? Or, had I the goinge downe of ye Moone in greate reputacion? ²⁷ Hath my hert medled priuely wt eny disceate? Or, dyd I euer kysse myne owne honde ²⁸ (that were a wickednesse worthy to be punyshed, for then shulde I haue denyed the God that is aboue.)

⁷ As for me I will preach the lawe, wherof the LORDE hath sayde vnto me: Thou art my sonne, this daye haue I begotten the.

³ For I considre thy heauens, euen the worke off thy fyngers: the Moone and the starres which thou hast made.

³ For the vngodly maketh boost of his owne hertes desyre, the cuvetous blesseth him self, and blasphemeth the LORDE.

¹ The very heaues declare the glory off God, ad the very firmamet sheweth his hadye worke. ² One daye telleth another, and one night certifieth another. ³ There is nether speach ner laguage, but their voyces are herde amoge the. ⁴ Their soude is gone out in to all londes, and their wordes in to the endes of the worlde. ⁵ In the hath he sett a tabernacle for ye Sone, which cometh forth as a brydegrome out of his chambre, & reioyseth as a giaunte to rune his course. ⁶ It goeth forth fro the one ende of the heauen, and runneth aboute vnto the same ende agayne, & there maye no ma hyde himself fro the heate therof.

⁶ By the worde of the LORDE were the heauens made, & all the hoostes of them by ye breth of his mouth. ⁷ He gathereth ye waters together as it were in a bottell, & laieth vp the depe in secrete. ⁸ Let all the earth feare the LORDE, and let all them that dwell in the worlde, stode in awe of him. ⁹ For loke what he sayeth, it is done: and loke what he comaudeth, it stondeth fast.

⁹ I wil preach of yi rightuousnesse in the greate congregacion: Lo, I wil not refrayne my lippes, o LORDE, & that thou knowest. ¹⁰ I do not hyde yi rightuousnes in my hert, my talkynge is of thy treuth and sauynge health: I kepe not thy louynge mercy and faithfulnesse backe from the greate congregacion.

⁷ All they that hate me, runne together agaynst me, and ymagin euell agaynst me.

⁶ They that put their trust in their good, & boost them selues in the multitude of their riches.

¹⁸ Yf thou seist a thefe, thou runnest with him, and art partaker with the aduouterers.

²³ Who so offreth me thakes and prayse, he honoureth me: & this is the waye, wherby I wil shewe him the sauynge health of God.

¹ Why boastest thou thy self (thou Tyraunt) that thou canst do myschefe?

⁵ Sela. That thy beloued might be delyuered, helpe them with thy right hande, and heare me.

¹⁵ Thou (o God) hast lerned me fro my youth vp vntill now, therfore wil I tell of yi wonderous workes. ¹⁶ Forsake me not (o God) in myne olde age, when I am gray headed: vntill I haue shewed thyne arme vnto childers children, & thy power to all them that are yet for to come.

¹⁹ Blessed be the LORDE God, euen the God of Israel, which only doth woderous thinges.

¹¹ I am the LORDE thy God, which brought the out of the lode of Egipte: ope thy mouth wyde, & I shal fyll it. ¹² But my people wolde not heare my voyce, & Israel wolde not obeye me.

¹² But my people wolde not heare my voyce, & Israel wolde not obeye me.

¹⁵ I shulde soone put downe their enemies, & turne myne hode agaynst their aduersaries.

⁹ All nacions whom thou hast made, shall come and worshipe before the o LORDE, and shal glorifie thy name.

³⁶ I haue sworne once by my holynesse, that I wil not fayle Dauid. ³⁷ His sede shal endure for euer, and his seate also like as the Sonne before me.

² Before the mountaynes were brought forth, or euer the earth & the worlde were made, thou art God from euerlastinge and worlde withoute ende.

⁴ How longe shal all wicked doers speake so di?daynedly, and make soch proude boastynge?

⁷ Cofounded be all they that worshipe ymages, and delite in their Idols: worshipe him all ye goddes.

⁸ Thou herdest the (o LORDE or God) thou forgauest the o God, & punyshedst their owne invencions.

⁵ Thou hast layed ye earth vpon hir foundacion, that it neuer moueth at eny tyme.

³¹ The glorious magesty of the LORDE endureth for euer, and the LORDE reioyseth in his workes.

²⁰ Thus they turned his glory into the similitude of a calfe, yt eateth haye.

³⁹ Thus were they stayned wt their owne workes, and wente a whoringe with their owne invencions.

² The LORDE shal sende the rodde of thy power out of Sion, be thou ruler euen in ye myddest amonge thine enemies.

⁵ They haue mouthes, and speake not: eyes haue they, but they se not. ⁶ They haue eares, and heare not: noses haue they, but they smell not. ⁷ They haue handes and handle not, fete haue they, but they can not go, nether can they speake thorow their throte. ⁸ They that made them, are like vnto them, and so are all soch as put their trust in them.

⁴⁶ I wil speake of thy testimonies euen before kynges, and wil not be ashamed.

⁹⁰ Thy treuth also remayneth from one generacion to another: thou hast layed the foundacion of the earth, and it abydeth.

¹⁵ As for the ymages of the Heithe, they are but syluer and golde, the worke of mens hades. ¹⁶ They haue mouthes, & speake not: eyes haue they, but they se not. ¹⁷ They haue eares, and yet they heare not, nether is there eny breth i their mouthes. ¹⁸ They that make them, are like vnto them, & so are all they that put their trust in the.

¹³ I wil geue thakes vnto the, for I am woderously made: maruelous are thy workes, and that my soule knoweth right well.

¹ I wil magnifie the (o my God & kynge) I wil prayse yi name for euer & euer. ² Euery daye wil I geue thankes vnto the, and prayse yi name for euer and euer.

⁸ Fyre and hayle, snowe & vapors wynde and storme, fulfillynge his worde. ⁹ Mountaynes and all hilles, frutefull trees & all Ceders. ¹⁰ Beastes and all catell, wormes & fethered foules. ¹¹ Kynges of the earth & all people, princes & all iudges of ye worlde. ¹² Yonge men & maydes, olde men and children.

⁷ The feare of the LORDE is the begynnynge of wysdome. But fooles despyse wysdome and nurtoure.

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

²⁹ And yt because they hated knowlege, and receaued not ye feare of ye LORDE,

¹² and then saye: Alas, why hated I nurtoure? why dyd my hert despyse correccion? ¹³ Wherfore was not I obedient vnto the voyce of my teachers, & herkened not vnto them that infourmed me?

⁵ Take hede vnto knowlege o ye ignoraut, be wyse in herte o ye fooles.

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

²⁸ A frowarde body causeth strife, and he yt is a blabbe of his tonge, maketh deuysion amonge prynces.

¹⁶ What helpeth it to geue a foole money in his hode, where as he hath no mynde to bye wy?dome?

² A foole hath no delyte in vnderstodinge, but only in those thinges wherin his herte reioyseth.

¹⁴ Who so maketh greate boastes & geueth nothinge, is like cloudes & wynde without rayne.

²³ The north wynde dryueth awaye the rayne, euen so doth an earnest sober countenauce a backbyters tonge.

¹² Yf thou seyest a man yt is wyse in his owne conceate, there is more hope in a foole then in hi.

²⁰ Where no wodd is, there the fyre goeth out: and where the bacbyter is taken awaye, there the strife ceaseth.

¹⁷ Who so laugheth his father to scorne, and setteth his mothers commaudement at naught: the rauens pycke out his eyes in the valley, and deuoured be he of the yongle Aegles.

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

¹ Come in to my garden o my sister, my spouse: I haue gathered my Myrre wt my spyce. I wil eate my hony and my hony cobe, I wil drynke my wyne & my mylk Eate o (ye frendes) drynke and be mery, o ye beloued.

⁸ After this I herde the voyce of the LORDE takinge advysement on this maner: Whom shall I sende, and who wilbe oure messaunger? The I sayde: here am I, sende me.

⁶ For vnto us a childe shalbe borne, and vnto us a sonne shalbe geue. Vpo his shulder shal the kyngdome lye, and he shalbe called wt his owne name: The woderous geuer of councel, the mightie God, the euerlastinge father, the prynce of peace,

⁶ For vnto us a childe shalbe borne, and vnto us a sonne shalbe geue. Vpo his shulder shal the kyngdome lye, and he shalbe called wt his owne name: The woderous geuer of councel, the mightie God, the euerlastinge father, the prynce of peace, ⁷ he shal make no ende to encrease the kyngdome and peace, and shal syt vpon the seate of Dauid and in his kyngdome, to set vp the same, to stablish it with equyte and rightuousnesse, from thence forth for euermore. This shal the gelousy of the LORDE of hoostes bringe to passe.

⁴ Hope stil in the LORDE, for in the LORDE God is euerlastinge stregth.

⁶ It wil come to this poynte, yt Iacob shalbe rooted againe, and Israel shalbe grene & beare floures, & they shal fyll ye whole worlde wt their frute.

¹¹ Their haruest shal be brent, their wyues which were their bewtie when they came forth: shalbe defyled. For it is a people without vnderstodinge, and therfore he yt created them, shal not fauoure them: and he yt made them, shal not be merciful to the.

⁸ The stretes are waist, there walketh no man therin, the appoyntmen is broken, the cities are despised, they are not regarded,

⁸ There shalbe footpathes & comon stretes, this shalbe called the holywaye. No vnclene person shal go thorow it, for the LORDE himself shal go with the that waye, and the ignoraut shal not erre.

¹⁸ To whom then will ye licke God? or what similitude will ye set vp vnto him?

²⁶ Lift vp youre eyes an hie, and considre. Who hath made those thinges, which come out by so greate heapes? and he can call them all by their names. For there is nothinge hyd vnto the greatnesse of his power, strength, and might.

⁹ Wherfore all caruers of Idols are but vayne, and their laboure lost. They must beare recorde them selues, that (seinge they can nether se ner vnderstonde) they shalbe confounded. ¹⁰ Who shulde now make a god, or fashio an Idol, that is profitable for nothinge? ¹¹ Beholde all the felashippe of the must be brought to confucion. Let all the workmasters of them come and stonde together from amonge men: they must be abashed and confouded one with another. ¹² The smyth taketh yron, and tempreth it with hote coles, and fashioneth it with hammers, & maketh it wt all the strength of his armes: Yee somtyme he is faynt for very hunger, and so thurstie, that he hath no more power. ¹³ The carpenter (or ymage caruer) taketh me the tymbre, and spredeth forth his lyne: he marketh it with some coloure: he playneth it, he ruleth it, ad squareth it, and maketh it after the ymage of a man, and acordinge to the bewtie of a man: that it maye stonde in the temple.

¹³ The carpenter (or ymage caruer) taketh me the tymbre, and spredeth forth his lyne: he marketh it with some coloure: he playneth it, he ruleth it, ad squareth it, and maketh it after the ymage of a man, and acordinge to the bewtie of a man: that it maye stonde in the temple. ¹⁴ Morouer, he goeth out to hewe downe Cedre trees: He bringeth home Elmes and okes, and other tymbre of the wodd. Or els the Fyrre trees which he planted himself, ad soch as the rayne hath swelled, ¹⁵ which wodde serueth for me to burne. Of this he taketh and warmeth himself withall: he maketh a fyre of it to bake bred. And after warde maketh a god there of, to honoure it: and an Idol, to knele before it. ¹⁶ One pece he burneth in the fyre, with another he rosteth flesh, that he maye eate roste his bely full: with the thirde he warmeth himself, and saieth: Aha: I am well warmed, I haue bene at the fyre. ¹⁷ And of the residue, he maketh him a god, and an Idol for himself. He kneleth before it, he worshippeth it, he prayeth vnto it, and sayeth: delyuer me, for thou art my god. ¹⁸ Yet men nether considre ner vnderstonde, because their eyes are stopped, that they can not se: and their hertes, that they cannot perceaue. ¹⁹ They pondre not in their myndes (for they haue nether knowlege ner vnderstodinge) to thinke thus: I haue bret one pece in the fyre, I haue baked bred wt ye coles there of, I haue rosted flesh withall, & eaten it: Shal I now of the residue make an abhominacion, and fall downe before a rotten pece of wodd? ²⁰ The kepinge of dust, and folishnesse of herte hath turned them a syde: so that none of them can haue a fre conscience to thinke: maye not I erre?

²⁰ The kepinge of dust, and folishnesse of herte hath turned them a syde: so that none of them can haue a fre conscience to thinke: maye not I erre?

¹⁰ For thou hast conforted thy self in thy disceatfulnes, and hast sayde: No ma seith me. Thyne owne wisdome & connynge haue disceaued the, In that thou hast sayde: I am alone, and without me there is none.

¹ Herken vnto me, ye Iles, and take hede ye people from farre: The LORDE hath called me fro my byrth, and made mecion of my name fro my mothers wobe:

¹ Bvt who geueth credence vnto oure preachinge? Or to who is the arme of the LORDE knowne?

² For lo, while ye darknesse & cloude couereth the earth & the people, the LORDE shal shewe the light, & his glory shal be sene in the.

⁵ Before I fasshioned the in thy mothers wobe, I dyd knowe the: And or euer thou wast borne, I sanctified the, & ordened the, to be a prophet vnto the people.

⁵ Thus saieth ye LORDE vnto you: What vnfaithfulnesse founde youre fathers in me, that they wente so farre awaye fro me, fallinge to lightnesse, and beinge so vayne?

¹¹ whether the Gentiles themselues deale so falsly & vntruly with their goddes (which yet are no goddes in dede.) But my people hath geuen ouer their hie honoure, for a thinge that maye not helpe them.

²² Neuertheles this shall come vpon them, because my people is become foolish, and hath vterly no vnderstondinge. They are the children of foolishnes, and without eny discrecio. To do euell, they haue witt ynough: but to do well, they haue no wi?dome.

²¹ Heare this (thou folish and vndiscrete people.) Ye haue eyes, but ye se not: eares haue ye, but ye heare not.

³⁰ Therfore shal they be called naughty syluer, because the LORDE hath cast them out.

⁸ How darre ye saye then: we are wise, we haue the lawe of the LORDE amonge vs? Beholde, the disceatfull penne of the scrybes, setteth forth lies: ⁹ therfore shal the wise be confounded, they shalbe afrayed and taken: for lo, they haue cast out the worde of the LORDE: what wy?dome can then be amonge them?

⁶ They haue set their stole in the myddest of disceate, and (for very dissemblinge falsede) they wil not knowe me, saieth the LORDE.

³ Yee all the customes and lawes of the Getiles are nothinge, but vanite. They hewe downe a tre in the wod with the hondes of the worke man, and fashion it with the axe: ⁴ they couer it ouer with golde or syluer, they fasten it wt nales and hammers, that it moue not. ⁵ It stodeth as stiff as the palme tre, it can nether speake ner go, but must be borne. Be not ye afrayed of soch, for they ca do nether good ner euel. ⁶ But there is none like vnto ye (o LORDE) thou art greate, and greate is the name of yi power. ⁷ Who wolde not feare the? or what kige of the Gentiles wolde not obeye the? For amonge all the wysemen of the Gentiles, and in all their kingdomes, there is none, that maye be lickened vnto the. ⁸ They are all together vnlerned and vnwise, All their connynge is but vanite:

¹⁰ But the LORDE is a true God, a lyuinge God, and an euerlastinge kinge. Yf he be wroth, the earth shaketh: all the Getiles maye not abyde his indignacion. ¹¹ As for their goddes, it maye well be sayde of the: they are goddes, that made nether heaue ner earth: therfore shal they perish fro the earth, and from all thinges vnder heauen. ¹² But (as for oure God) he made the earth with his power, and with his wisdome hath he fynished the whole compasse of the worlde, with his discrecion hath he spred out the heauens, ¹³ At his voyce the waters gather together in the ayre, he draweth vp ye cloudes from the vttemost partes of ye earth: he turneth lighteninge to rayne, and brigeth forth the wyndes out of their treasuries: ¹⁴ His wisdome maketh all men fooles. And confunded be all casters of ymages, for that they cast, is but a vayne thinge, and hath no life.

¹⁴ His wisdome maketh all men fooles. And confunded be all casters of ymages, for that they cast, is but a vayne thinge, and hath no life. ¹⁵ The vayne craftes men with their workes, that they in their vanite haue made, shall perish one with another in the tyme of visitacion.

²⁵ This shal be youre porcion, and the porcion of youre measure, wher with ye shalbe rewarded of me, saieth the LORDE: because ye haue forgotten me, and put youre trust in disceatful thinges.

¹⁹ O LORDE, my strength, my power, and refuge in tyme off trouble. The Gentiles shall come vnto the from the endes off the worlde, and saye: Verely oure fathers haue cleued vnto lies, their Idols are but vayne and vnprofitable.

⁵ Beholde, the tyme commeth (saieth the LORDE) that I wil rayse vp the rightuous braunch off Dauid, which shall beare rule, and discusse matters with wy?dome, and shall set vp equyte and rightuousnes agayne in the earth. ⁶ In his tyme shall Iuda be saued, and Israel shal dwell with out feare. And this is the name that they shall call him: euen the LORDE oure rightuous maker.

²⁹ Is not my worde like a fyre, saieth the LORDE) and like an hammer, that breaketh the harde stone?

¹⁵ In those daies and at the same tyme, I will bringe forth vnto Dauid, the braunch of rightuousnes, and he shall do equite and rightuousnesse in the londe. ¹⁶ In those daies shall Iuda be helped, and Ierusalem shall dwell safe, and he that shall call her is euen God oure rightuous maker. ¹⁷ For thus the LORDE promyseth: Dauid shal neuer want one, to syt vpon the stole of the house of Israel:

²⁶ then will I also cast awaye the sede of Dauid my seruaunt: so that I wil take no prynce out of his sede, to rule the posterite of Abraha, Isaac and Iacob. But yet I will turne agayne their captiuyte, and be mercifull vnto them.

¹⁰ So I wente in, and sawe: and beholde, there were all maner ymages off wormes & beastes, all Idols and abhominacions of ye house off Israel paynted euerychone rounde aboute the wall.

⁷ In the haue they despised father & mother, in the haue they oppressed the strauger, in the haue they vexed the wyddowe & the fatherlesse.

⁸ But this wolde she not knowe, where as I yet gaue her corne, wyne, oyle, syluer and golde, which she hath hanged vpon Baal.

⁶ my people perish, because they haue no knowlege. Seinge then that thou hast refused vnderstondinge, therfore wil I refuse ye also: so that thou shalt nomore be my prest. And for so moch as thou hast forgotten the lawe of thy God, I wil also forget thy childre.

¹⁷ And where as Ephraim is become partaker of Idols, wel, let him go. ¹⁸ Their dronckenesse hath put the backe, & brought them to whordome. Their rulers loue rewardes, brynge (saye they,) to their owne shame.

³ They make the kinge and the princes, to haue pleasure in their wickednes & lyes.

⁴ Thus sayeth the LORDE: for thre ad foure wickednesses of Iuda, I wil not spare him: because he hath cast asyde the lawe of the LORDE, and not kepte his commaundementes: for why, they wolde nedes be disceaued with the lyes, that their forefathers folowed.

¹¹ At that tyme wil I buylde agayne the tabernacle off Dauid, that is fallen downe, and hedge vp his gappes: and loke what is broke, I shal repayre it: Yee I shal buylde it agayne, as it was a fore tyme,

¹⁵ They take vp all with their angle, they catch it in their net, & gather it in their yarne: wherof they reioyce and are glad. ¹⁶ Therfore offre they vnto their net, and do sacrifice vnto their yarne: because that thorow it their porcion is become so fat, and their meate so pleteous.

⁴ Beholde, who so wil not beleue, his soule shal not prospere: but the iust shal lyue by his faith.

¹⁸ What helpe than wil ye ymage do, whom the workman hath fashioned? Or the vayne cast ymage, wherin because the craftesman putteth his trust, therfore maketh he domme Idols?

¹¹ For from the rysinge vp of ye sonne vnto ye goinge downe of the same, my name is greate amonge the Gentiles: Yee in euery place shal there sacrifice be done, and a clene meatofferinge offred vp vnto my name: for my name is greate amonge the Heithe, sayeth the LORDE of hoostes.

¹⁴ Cursed be the dyssembler, which hath in his flocke one that is male, and when he maketh a vowe, offereth a spotted one vnto the LORDE. For I am a greate kynge (sayeth the LORDE of hoostes) and my name is fearfull amonge the Heithen.

¹ This is the boke of the generacion of Iesus Christ ye sonne of Dauid, the sonne of Abraham.

⁶ Iesse begat Dauid the kynge: Dauid the kynge begat Salomon, of her that was the wyfe of Vry:

¹⁶ Iacob begat Ioseph the hussbande of Mary, of who was borne that Iesus, which is called Christ.

²⁰ Neuertheles whyle he thus thought, beholde, the angell of the LORDE appered vnto him in a dreame, saynge: Ioseph thou sonne of Dauid, feare not to take vnto the Mary thy wyfe. For that which is coceaued in her, is of ye holy goost. ²¹ She shall brynge forth a sonne, and thou shalt call his name Iesus. For he shall saue his people from their synnes. ²² All this was done, yt the thinge might, be fulfilled, which was spoken of the LORDE by the Prophet, saynge: ²³ Beholde, a mayde shall be with chylde, and shall brynge forth a sonne, and they shall call his name Emanuel, which is by interpretacion, God wt vs.

¹⁷ And lo, there came a voyce fro heue sayng: Thys ys that my beloued sonne, in whom is my delyte.

¹⁶ Let youre light so shyne before men, that they maye se youre good workes, and glorify youre father which is in heauen.

⁴⁵ that ye maye be the chyldern of youre father which is in heauen: for he maketh his sonne to aryse on the euel and on the good, and sendeth his rayne on the iust and vniuste.

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.

²³ But and yf thyne eye be wycked, all thy body shalbe full of darckenes: Wherfore yf the light that is in the, be darckenes, how greate then shall that darckenes be? ²⁴ No ma can serue two masters. For ether he shall hate the one and loue the other: or els he shall leane to the one, and despise the other: Ye can not serue God and mammon.

²⁷ And as Iesus departed thence, two blynde me folowed hym, cryinge and sayinge: O thou sonne of Dauid, haue mercy vpon vs.

³⁸ Wherfore praye the LORDE of the haruest, to sende forth laborers into hys haruest.

³⁷ Who so loueth father and mother more then me, is not mete for me: and he that loueth sonne or doughter more then me, is not mete for me.

²⁵ At ye same tyme Iesus answered, and sayde: I prayse the (O father and LORDE of heauen and earth) that thou hast hid these thinges from the wyse and prudent, and opened the vnto babes.

²³ And all the people were amased, and sayde: Is not this the sonne of Dauid?

⁴ For God comaunded, sayege: Honoure father & mother: & he yt curseth father & mother, shal dye the death.

¹⁴ Let the go, they are ye blynde leaders of ye blynde. Wha one blinde leadeth another, they fall both i ye diche.

¹⁶ And Iesus sayde vnto the: Are ye yet the without vnderstondinge?

²² And beholde, a woma of Canaan wete out of ye same coastes, & cried after him, sayege: O LORDE, thou sonne of Dauid, haue mercy vpon me. My doughter is sore vexed wt a deuell.

²¹ From that tyme forth beganne Iesus to shew vnto his disciples, how that he must go vnto Ierusale, and suffre many thinges of the elders, and of the hye prestes, and of the scrybes, and be put to death, and ryse againe the thirde daye.

⁴² and sayde: What thinke ye of Christ? Whose sonne is he? They sayde vnto him: Dauids. ⁴³ He sayde vnto them: How then doth Dauid in sprete, call him LORDE, sayenge: ⁴⁴ The LORDE sayde vnto my LORDE: Syt thou on my right honde, tyll I make thine enemies thy fote stole. ⁴⁵ Yf Dauid now call him LORDE, how is he then his sonne?

¹⁴ And this gospell of the kyngdome shalbe preached in all the worlde for a wytnes vnto all people, and then shal the ende come.

⁶³ Neuertheles Iesus helde his tonge. And the hye prest answered, and sayde vnto him: I charge the by ye lyuynge God, that thou tell us, yf thou be Christ the sonne of God.

⁴³ He trusted in God, let him delyuer him now, yf he wil haue him. For he hath sayde: I am the sonne of God.

¹ This is the begynnynge of the gospell of Iesus Christ the sonne of God,

³⁸ Who so euer is ashamed of me and of my wordes amonge this aduouterous and synfull generacion, of him shal the sonne of man also be ashamed, whan he commeth in the glory of his father with the holy angels.

⁸ She hath done what she coulde, she is come before, to anoynte my body for my buriall.

¹⁰ And Iudas Iscarioth one of the twolue wente vnto the hye prestes, to betraye him vnto them. ¹¹ Whan they herde yt, they were glad, & promysed that they wolde geue him money. And he sought, how he might coueniently betraye him.

¹⁵ And he sayde vnto them: Go ye youre waye in to all the worlde, and preach the gospell vnto all creatures. ¹⁶ Who so beleueth and is baptysed, shalbe saued: but who so beleueth not, shalbe damned.

³¹ Beholde, thou shalt coceaue in thy wobe, & beare a sonne & shalt call his name Iesus: ³² he shalbe greate, & shalbe called ye sonne of the Hyest. And the LORDE God shal geue him ye seate of Dauid his father, ³³ & he shal be kinge ouer ye house of Iacob for euer & there shalbe no ende of his kyngdome.

³⁵ The angell answered, & sayde vnto her: The holy goost shal come vpon the, & the power of the Hyest shal ouershadowe the. Therfore that Holy also which shalbe borne (of the) shalbe called the sonne of God.

⁶⁹ And hath set vp an horne of saluacion in the house of his seruaunt Dauid. ⁷⁰ Euen as he promysed afore tyme, by the mouth of his holy prophetes.

¹ It fortuned at the same tyme, that there wete out a comaundement fro Augustus the Emperoure, that the whole worlde shulde be taxed.

⁴ Then Ioseph gat him vp also fro Galile, out of the cite of Nazareth, in to Iewry, to ye cite of Dauid, which is called Bethleem, (because he was of ye house and lynage of Dauid) ⁵ that he might be taxed wt Mary his spoused wife, which was wt childe. ⁶ And it fortuned whyle they were there, ye tyme was come, that she shulde be delyuered.

¹⁰ And the angell sayde vnto them: Be not afrayed. Beholde, I brynge you tydiges of greate ioye, which shall happen vnto all people: ¹¹ for vnto you this daye is borne ye Sauioure, eue Christ ye LORDE, in the cite of Dauid.

²⁶ Who so is ashamed of me and of my sayenges, of him shall the sonne of ma also be ashamed, whan he commeth in his glory, and in the glory of his father, and of the holy angels.

²¹ At the same houre reioysed Iesus in sprete, and sayde: I prayse the (O father and LORDE of heauen and earth) that thou hast hyd these thinges from the wyse and prudent, and hast opened them vnto babes. Euen so father, for so it pleased the.

⁴⁸ Doutles ye beare wytnesse, and consente vnto the dedes of yor fathers: for they slewe them, and ye buylde their sepulcres.

⁴⁶ the same seruauntes lorde shal come in a daye whan he loketh not for him, and in an houre that he is not aware of, & shal hew him in peces, and geue him his rewarde with the vnbeleuers. ⁴⁷ The seruaunt that knewe his lordes wil and prepared not himself, nether dyd acordinge to his will, shal be beaten with many strypes:

¹⁵ And one of them wha he sawe that he was clensed, he turned backe agayne, and praysed God with loude voyce, ¹⁶ and fell downe on his face at his fete, and gaue him thankes. And the same was a Samaritane. ¹⁷ Iesus answered and saide: Are there not ten clensed? But where are those nyne? ¹⁸ There were els none founde, that turned agayne, and gaue God the prayse, saue onely this strauger.

¹ He tolde them a symilitude, signifienge, yt men ought allwayes to praye, & not to leaue of,

³¹ He toke vnto him the twolue, and sayde vnto them: Beholde, we go vp to Ierusale, and it shal all be fulfilled, that is wrytten by the prophetes of the sonne of man. ³² For he shal be delyuered vnto ye Heythen, and shalbe mocked, and despytefully intreated, and spitted vpon: ³³ and whan they haue scourged him, they shal put him to death, and vpon the thirde daye shal he aryse agayne.

¹⁶ But ye shal be delyuered vp euen of youre elders, brethren, kynssfolkes and frendes, and some of you shal they put vnto death,

²⁶ Ought not Christ to haue suffred these thinges, and to entre in to his glory? ²⁷ And he beganne at Moses and at all the prophetes, and expounded vnto them all the scriptures, that were spoken of him.

⁹ That was the true light, which lighteth all men, that come in to this worlde.

¹⁴ And the worde became flesh, and dwelt amonge vs: and we sawe his glory, a glory as of the onely begotte sonne of the father, full of grace and trueth.

¹⁶ and of his fulnesse haue all we receaued grace for grace.

¹⁸ No man hath sene God at eny tyme. The onely begotte sonne which is in the bosome of the father, he hath declared the same vnto vs.

³⁴ And I sawe it, and bare recorde, that this is the sonne of God.

⁴⁹ Nathanaell answered, and sayde vnto hi: Rabbi, thou art ye sonne of God, thou art ye kynge of Israel.

⁸ And he sayde vnto the: Drawe out now, & brynge vnto the Master of the feast. And they bare it.

¹⁸ Then answered the Iewes, and sayde vnto him: What token shewest thou vnto vs, that thou mayest do these thinges? ¹⁹ Iesus answered & sayde vnto the: Breake downe this temple, and in thre dayes wil I set it vp agayne. ²⁰ Then sayde the Iewes: Sixe and fourtye yeare was this temple abuyldinge, and wilt thou set it vp in thre dayes? ²¹ But he spake of ye teple of his body.

¹⁶ For God so loued the worlde, that he gaue his onely sonne, that who so euer beleueth in hi, shulde not perishe, but haue euerlastinge life. ¹⁷ For God sent not his sonne in to ye worlde to condempne the worlde, but that the worlde might be saued by him. ¹⁸ He that beleueth on him, shal not be codemned. But he that beleueth not, is codemned allready: because he beleueth not on the name of the onely sonne of God. 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.

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. ²¹ But he that doth the trueth, commeth to the light, that his workes maye be knowne: for they are done in God.

³⁵ The father loueth the sonne, and hath geuen him all thinges in to his hande. ³⁶ He that beleueth on the sonne, hath euerlastinge life: he that beleueth not the sonne, shal not se the life, but ye wrath of God abydeth vpon him.

³⁶ He that beleueth on the sonne, hath euerlastinge life: he that beleueth not the sonne, shal not se the life, but ye wrath of God abydeth vpon him.

²³ But the tyme commeth, and is now allready, that the true worshippers shal worshippe the father in sprete and in the trueth: For the father wil haue soch so to worshippe him. ²⁴ God is a sprete, and they that worshippe him, must worshippe in sprete and in the trueth.

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

³⁶ And he that reapeth, receaueth rewarde, and gathereth frute to euerlastinge life, that both he that soweth and he that reapeth, maye reioyse together.

²⁵ Verely verely I saye vnto you: The houre cometh, & is now allready, yt the deed shal heare ye voyce of ye sonne of God: and they that heare it, shal lyue.

⁷ The worlde can not hate you, but me it hateth: because I testifye of it, that the workes of it are euell.

³⁵ Then sayde the Iewes amonge them selues: Whyther wil he go, that we shal not fynde him? Wyl he go amoge the Grekes that are scatred abrode, and teach the Grekes?

⁴² Sayeth not the scripture, that Christ shal come of the sede of Dauid, and out of the towne of Bethleem, where Dauid was?

³⁰ I and the father are one.

³⁶ saye ye the vnto hi, who ye father hath sanctified & sent in to ye worlde: thou blasphemest God, because I sayde: I am ye sonne of God?

²⁴ Verely verely I saye vnto you: Excepte the wheatcorne fall in to the grounde, and dye, it bydeth alone: But yf it dye, it bryngeth forth moch frute.

²⁶ He that wyl serue me, let him folowe me. And where I am, there shal my seruaunt be also: and he that serueth me, him shal my father honoure.

¹⁴ Yf I then youre LORDE and master haue wasshen youre fete, ye ought also to wash one anothers fete. ¹⁵ I haue geue you an ensample, that ye shulde do as I haue done vnto you. ¹⁶ Verely verely I saye vnto you: the seruaunt is not greater then his lorde, nether is the Apostell greater then he that sent him.

¹⁵ Hence forth call I you not seruauntes, for a seruaunt knoweth not what his lorde doeth. But I haue sayde that ye are frendes: For all that I haue herde of my father, haue I shewed vnto you. ¹⁶ Ye haue not chosen me, but I haue chosen you, and ordeyned you, that ye go, and bringe forth frute, and that youre frute contynne, that what soeuer ye axe the father in my name, he shulde geue it 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.

²² Yf I had not come & spoke vnto the, the shulde they haue no synne But now haue they nothinge to cloake their synne withall. ²³ He yt hateth me, hateth my father also. ²⁴ Yf I had not done amoge the the workes which no other ma dyd, they shulde haue no synne. But now haue they sene it, and yet haue they hated both me & my father.

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.

²⁸ Thomas answered, & sayde vnto him: My LORDE, and my God.

³¹ But these are wrytte, yt ye shulde beleue, yt Iesus is Christ the sonne of God, & that ye thorow beleue might haue life in his name.

²⁵ that the one maye take the rowme of this mynistracion and Apostelshippe, from the which Iudas by transgression fell, that he might go awaye in to his awne place.

²⁴ who God hath raysed vp, and lowsed the sorowes of death, for so moch as it was vnpossyble that he shulde be holden of it.

³⁰ Wherfore now seinge yt he was a prophet, and knewe that God had promised him with an ooth, that the frute of his loynes shulde syt on his seate,

³² This Iesus hath God raysed vp, wherof we all are witnesses.

¹³ The God of Abraham and of Isaac, and of Iacob, ye God of oure fathers hath glorifyed his childe Iesus, whom ye delyuered and denyed in the presence of Pilate, whan he had iudged him to be lowsed.

¹⁵ but ye slewe the prynce of life, whom God hath raysed from the deed, of the which we are witnesses.

²⁶ First vnto you hath God raysed vp his childe Iesus, & sent hi vnto you, to blesse you yt euery one shulde turne fro his wickednesse.

¹⁰ be it knowne then vnto you and to all the people of Israel, that in ye name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, who God hath raysed vp from the deed, stodeth this man here before you whole. ¹¹ This is the stone refused of you buylders, which is become the heade corner stone, ¹² nether is there saluacion in eny other: Ner yet also is there geue vnto me eny other name, wherin we must be saued.

³⁰ The God of oure fathers hath raysed vp Iesus, who ye slewe, and hanged on tre. ³¹ Him hath the righte hande of God exalted, to be a prynce and Sauioure, to geue repentaunce and forgeuenesse of synnes vnto Israel. ³² And we are his recordes of these wordes, and the holy goost, who God hath geuen vnto the that obeye him.

³⁶ Before these dayes rose vp one Theudas, boostinge himself. (And there cleued vnto him a nobre of me, aboute a foure hundreth) which was slayne, and all they yt enclyned vnto him, were scatred abrode, and brought to naught.

⁷ And the worde of God increased, and the nombre of the disciples multiplied greatly at Ierusalem. And there were many prestes also obedient vnto the fayth.

⁴² But God turned himselfe, & gaue them vp, so that they worshipped the hooste of heaue, as it is wrytten in the boke of the prophetes: O ye house of Israel, gaue ye me sacrifices and catel those fortye yeares in the wyldernesse?

⁵⁹ And they stoned Steuen, which cryed, & sayde: LORDE Iesu, receaue my sprete. ⁶⁰ And he kneled downe, & cried with a loude voyce: LORDE, laye not this synne to their charge. And wha he had thus spoken, he fell a slepe.

¹ Saul had pleasure in his death. At ye same tyme there was a greate persecucion ouer the congregacion at Ierusale. And they were all scatered abrode in the regions of Iewrye & Samaria, excepte the Apostles.

¹⁵ Which, wha they were come, prayed for the, yt they might receaue the holy goost. ¹⁶ For as yet he was come vpon none of them but they were baptysed onely in the name of Christ Iesu. ¹⁷ Then layed they their hades on them, and they receaued the holy goost. ¹⁸ But whan Simon sawe, that by the layenge on of the Apostles hades ye holy goost was geuen, he offred the money, ¹⁹ and sayde: Geue me also this power, that, on whomsoeuer I put the hodes, he maye receaue the holy goost.

³⁶ And as they wete on their waye, they came to a water. And the chamberlayne sayde: Beholde, here is water, what hyndereth me to be baptysed?

¹⁵ The LORDE sayde vnto him: Go thy waye, for this man is a chosen vessell vnto me, that he maye beare my name before the Heythen, and before kynges, and before the children of Israel.

²⁰ And straight waye he preached Christ in the synagoges, how that he was ye sonne of God.

⁴³ Of him beare all the prophetes wytnesse, that thorow his name all they yt beleue in him, shal receaue remyssion of synnes.

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.

²⁸ And one of them (whose name was Agabus) stode vp, and declared by the sprete a greate derth, that shulde come ouer the whole compasse of the earth: which came to passe vnder the Emperoure Claudius.

⁵ And Peter was kepte in the preson But prayer was made without ceassinge of the congregacion, vnto God for him.

² As they serued ye LORDE, and fasted, the holy goost sayde: Separate me out Barnabas and Saul for the worke, where vnto I haue called them. ³ Then fasted they and prayed, and layed the handes on them, and let them go. ⁴ And they beynge sent of the holy goost, came vnto Seleucia, from thence they sayled vnto Cypers.

⁹ But Saul which is also called Paul, beynge full of the holy goost, loked vpon him,

²² And whan he had put him downe, he set vp Dauid to be their kynge, of whom he reported, sayenge: I haue founde Dauid the sonne of Iesse, a man after my hert, he shal fulfyll all my wyll. ²³ Of this mans sede hath God ( acordinge to the promesse) broughte forth vnto the people of Israel, ye Sauioure Iesus:

³³ how that God hath fulfylled the same vnto vs their children, in yt he raysed vp Iesus agayne. As it is wrytten in the seconde Psalme: Thou art my sonne, this daye haue I begotten the. ³⁴ But that he hath raysed him vp fro the deed, now nomore to returne to corrupcion, he sayde on this wyse: The grace promysed to Dauid, wyl I faithfully kepe vnto you. ³⁵ Therfore sayeth he also in another place: Thou shalt not suffre thy Holy to se corrupcion.

¹⁶ which in tymes past suffred all ye Heythen to walke after their awne wayes.

¹⁶ which in tymes past suffred all ye Heythen to walke after their awne wayes. ¹⁷ Neuertheles he hath not left hi selfe without wytnesse, in yt he hath shewed his benefites, and geuen vs rayne from heauen, and frutefull seasons, fyllynge oure hertes with fode and gladnesse.

²⁷ Whan they came there, they gathered the congregacion together, & shewed them, how greate thinges God had done with the, and how he had opened the dore of faithe vnto the Heithen.

¹² Then all ye multitude helde their peace, and gaue audience vnto Paul and Barnabas, which tolde how greate tokens and wonders God had done by the amoge the Heythen.

¹⁴ Simo hath tolde, how God at the first vysited to receaue a people vnto his name from amonge the Heythen.

²³ and gaue the letters in their handes after this maner: We the Apostles and Elders & brethren, wysh health vnto the brethre of the Heythe which are at Antioche, and Syria and Celicia.

⁵ The were the congregacions stablyshed in the faith, and increased in nombre daylie. ⁶ But as they wente thorow Phrygia and the londe of Galacia, they were forbydden of the holy goost, to preache the worde in Asia. ⁷ Howbeit as they came in to Mysia, they proued to take their iourney in to Bithinia, and the sprete suffred them not.

²³ I haue gone thorow, & sene youre gods seruyce, and founde an altare, where vpo was wrytten: To the vnknowne God. Now shewe I vnto you ye same, whom ye worshippe ignorauntly.

²³ I haue gone thorow, & sene youre gods seruyce, and founde an altare, where vpo was wrytten: To the vnknowne God. Now shewe I vnto you ye same, whom ye worshippe ignorauntly. ²⁴ God which made ye worlde, and all that therin is, for so moch as he is LORDE of heauen and earth, dwelleth not in temples made of handes, ²⁵ nether is he worshipped with mens handes, as though he had nede of eny man, seynge he himself geueth life and breth vnto all men euery where: ²⁶ and hath made of one bloude all the generacion of men to dwell vpo all the face of ye earth: and hath assygned borders appoynted before, how longe and farre they shulde dwell, ²⁷ that they shulde seke the LORDE, yf they mighte fele and fynde him. And truly he is not farre from euery one of vs. ²⁸ For in him we lyue, moue, and haue oure beynge, as certayne of youre awne Poetes also haue sayde: We are his generacion. ²⁹ For as moch then as we are the generacion of God, we oughte not to thinke that the Godheade is like vnto golde or syluer, or ymagery worke of the crafte or ymaginacion of man.

²⁹ For as moch then as we are the generacion of God, we oughte not to thinke that the Godheade is like vnto golde or syluer, or ymagery worke of the crafte or ymaginacion of man. ³⁰ And truly God hath ouersene the tyme of ignoraunce: But now he commaundeth all men euery where to repente, ³¹ because he hath appoynted a daye, in the which he wyl iudge the copasse of the worlde, with righteousnesse, by that one man in who he hath appoynted it: and offred faith vnto all men, after that he had raysed him vp from the deed. ³² Whan they herde of the resurreccion of the deed, some mocked. But some sayde: We wyl heare the agayne of this matter.

²¹ but bad them farwele, and sayde: I must nedes in eny wyse kepe this feast that commeth, at Ierusalem: but yf God wyl, I wil returne agayne vnto you. And he departed from Ephesus,

⁶ And whan Paul layed the hades on the, the holy goost came vpon them, and they spake with tunges, and prophecied.

²¹ Whan this was done, Paul purposed in sprete to take his iourney thorow Macedonia and Achaia, and to go to Ierusale, and sayde: After that I haue bene there, I must se Rome also.

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.

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. ¹⁴ But wha he wolde not be persuaded, we ceassed, and sayde: The will of the LORDE be fulfylled.

¹⁹ And whan he had saluted them, he tolde by order, what God had done amoge the Heythen by his mynistracion.

⁴⁰ Whan he had geuen him lycence, Paul stode on the steppes, and beckened with the hande vnto the people. Now whan there was made a greate sylece, he spake vnto them in Hebrue, and sayde:

¹ Ye men, brethren, and fathers, heare myne answere which I make vnto you.

⁷ and I fell to the earth, and herde a voyce which sayde vnto me: Saull Saull, why persecutest thou me?

¹³ the same came, and stepte vnto me, and sayde: Brother Saul, loke vp. And I loked vp vpon him the same houre. ¹⁴ He sayde: The God of oure fathers hath ordeyned the before, that thou shuldest knowe his wyll, and se the thinge yt is rightfull, and heare the voyce out of his mouth: ¹⁵ for thou shalt be his wytnesse vnto all men, of tho thinges which thou hast sene and herde.

²⁰ And wha the bloude of Steue thy witnesse was shed, I stode by also, & consented vnto his death, and kepte the clothes of them that slewe him. ²¹ And he sayde vnto me: Go thy waye, for I wil sende the farre amonge the Hey then.

¹⁴ But this I confesse vnto the, that after this waye which they call heresye, so worshippe I the God of my fathers, that I beleue all that is wrytten in the lawe and in the prophetes,

²⁴ But after certayne dayes came Felix wt his wife Drusilla, which was a Iewesse, and called for Paul, and herde him of the faith in Christ. ²⁵ Howbeit whan Paul spake off righteousnesse, and off chastite and off the iudgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered: Go thy waye for this tyme. Whan I haue a conuenyent tyme, I wil sende for the.

¹ Agrippa sayde vnto Paul: Thou hast leue to speake for thy selfe.The Paul stretched forth the hande, and answered for himselfe:

⁶ And now stonde I, and am iudged because of the hope of the promes, that was made of God vnto oure fathers,

¹⁴ But whan we were all fallen downe to the earth, I herde a voyce speakynge vnto me, and sayege in Hebrue: Saul Saul, why persecutest thou me? It shalbe harde for the to kycke agaynst the prycke.

¹⁶ But ryse vp, and stonde vpon thy fete, for therfore haue I appeared vnto the, that I mighte ordeyne the to be a mynister and witnesse of it that thou hast sene, and that I wyll yet cause to appeare vnto the. ¹⁷ And I wil delyuer the from the people, and from the Heythen, amonge who I wil now sende the, ¹⁸ to ope their eyes, that they maye turne from the darknesse vnto the lighte, and from the power of ye deuell vnto God, that they maye receaue forgeuenesse of synnes, and the enheritaunce with them that are sanctified by faith in me.

¹⁸ to ope their eyes, that they maye turne from the darknesse vnto the lighte, and from the power of ye deuell vnto God, that they maye receaue forgeuenesse of synnes, and the enheritaunce with them that are sanctified by faith in me.

¹ Whan it was concluded that we shulde sayle in to Italy, they delyuered Paul and certayne other presoners to the vndercaptayne named Iulius, of the Emperours soudyers. ² And whan we were entred in to a shippe of Adramitium, to sayle by Asia, we lowsed from londe. And there was with vs one Aristarchus out of Macedonia off Thessalonica, ³ and on the nexte daye we came vnto Sidon. And Iulius intreated Paul curteously, and gaue him liberty to go to his frendes, and to refresh himselfe. ⁴ And from thence launched we, and sayled harde by Cypers (because the wyndes were agaynst vs) ⁵ and sayled ouer the see of Celicia and Pamphilia, and came to Myra in Lycia. ⁶ And there the vndercaptayne founde a shippe of Alexadria, ready to sayle in to Italy, and put vs therin. ⁷ And whan we had sayled slowly, and in many dayes were scarcely come ouer agaynst Gnydon (for the wynde with stode vs) we sayled by Candy nye vnto the cite off Salmo, ⁸ and came scarcely beyonde it. Then came we to a place, which is called Goodhauen, nye where vnto was the cite Lasea. ⁹ Now whan moch tyme was spent, and saylinge was now ioperdous, because that they also had fasted ouerlonge, Paul exhorted them, ¹⁰ and sayde vnto them: Syrs, I se that this saylinge wyl be with hurte and moch dammage, not onely of the ladynge and of the shippe, but also of oure lyues. ¹¹ Neuertheles ye vndercaptayne beleued the gouernoure of the shippe and ye master, more then it that was spoken of Paul. ¹² And for somoch as the haue was not comodious to wynter in, the more parte off them toke councell to departe thece, yf by eny meanes they might come to Phenices to wynter there, which is an hauen of Candy, towarde the Southwest and Northwest wynde. ¹³ Whan the South wynde blewe, they supposinge to haue had their purpose, lowsed vnto Asson, and sayled past all Candy. ¹⁴ But not longe after, there rose agaynst their purpose a flawe of wynde, which is called the Northeast. ¹⁵ And whan the shippe was caught, and coulde not resist ye wynde, we let her go, and draue with the wedder. ¹⁶ But we came to an Ile named Claudia, where we coulde scarce get a bote. ¹⁷ Which they toke vp, and vsed helpe, and bounde it vnder harde to the shippe, fearinge lest they shulde haue fallen in to the Syrtes, and let downe the vessell, and so were caried. ¹⁸ And whan we had bydden a greate tepest, on the nexte daye they made an outcastinge. ¹⁹ And on the thirde daye with oure awne handes we cast out the tacklynge of the shippe. ²⁰ But wha nether Sonne ner starres appeared in many dayes, and no small tempest laye vpon vs, all the hope of oure life was taken awaye. ²¹ And after longe abstinence, Paul stode forth in the myddes of the, and sayde: Syrs, ye shulde haue herkened vnto me, and not to haue lowsed from Candy, and not to haue broughte vs this harme and losse. ²² And now I exhorte you to be of good cheare, for there shal none of oure lyues perishe, but the shippe onely. ²³ For this night stode by me the angell off God (whose I am, & who I serue)

²³ For this night stode by me the angell off God (whose I am, & who I serue) ²⁴ & saide: Feare not Paul, thou must be broughte before the Emperoure. And lo, God hath geuen vnto the all the that sayle with the. ²⁵ Wherfore syrs be of good cheare: for I beleue God, yt it shal come so to passe, as it was tolde me. ²⁶ Howbeit we must be cast in to a certayne ylonde. ²⁷ But whan the fourtenth night came, as we were caried in Adria aboute mydnight, ye shipmen demed that there appeared some countre vnto them, ²⁸ and they cast out the leade, and founde it twetye feddoms: and wha they were gone a litle farther, they cast out the leade agayne, and founde fyftene feddoms.

² As for the people, they shewed vs no litle kyndnesse: for they kyndled a fyre, and receaued vs all because of the rayne that was come vpo vs, and because of the colde.

⁴ Whan the people sawe the beest hange on his hande, they sayde amonge them selues: This man must nedes be a murthurer, who vengeaunce suffreth not to lyue, though he haue escaped the see.

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

⁵ by whom we haue receaued grace and Apostelshippe amonge all Heythen, to set vp the obedience of faith vnder his name, ⁶ of whom ye are a parte also, which are called of Iesus Christ.

⁹ For God is my witnesse ( whom I serue in my sprete in the Gospell of his sonne) that without ceassynge I make mencion of you besekinge allwayes in my prayers,

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the Gospell of Christ: for it is the power of God, which saueth all that beleue theron, the Iewe first & also the Greke:

¹⁸ As it is wrytte: The iust shal lyue by his faith. For ye wrath of God is declared from heauen vpon all vngodlynes and vnrighteousnes of me,which witholde the trueth of God in vnrighteousnes: ¹⁹ because that it, which maye be knowne of God, is manifest with the. For God hath shewed it vnto the, ²⁰ that the inuisible thinges of God (that is, his euerlastinge power and Godheade) mighte be sene whyle they are considered by the workes from the creacion of the worlde: so that they are without excuse,

²⁰ that the inuisible thinges of God (that is, his euerlastinge power and Godheade) mighte be sene whyle they are considered by the workes from the creacion of the worlde: so that they are without excuse, ²¹ in as moch as they knewe, that there is a God, and haue not praysed him as God ner thanked him, but became vayne in their ymaginacions, and their foolish hert was blynded.

²¹ in as moch as they knewe, that there is a God, and haue not praysed him as God ner thanked him, but became vayne in their ymaginacions, and their foolish hert was blynded. ²² Whan they counted them selues wyse, they became fooles: ²³ and turned ye glory of the incorruptible God in to ye symilitude of ye ymage of a corruptible ma, & of byrdes, & of foure foted, & of crepinge beestes

²³ and turned ye glory of the incorruptible God in to ye symilitude of ye ymage of a corruptible ma, & of byrdes, & of foure foted, & of crepinge beestes ²⁴ Wherfore God likewyse gaue them vp vnto their hertes lustes in to vnclennes, to defyle their awne bodies in them selues,

²⁴ Wherfore God likewyse gaue them vp vnto their hertes lustes in to vnclennes, to defyle their awne bodies in them selues, ²⁵ which turned the trueth of God vnto a lye, & worshipped and serued the creature more then the maker, which is blessed for euer. Amen. ²⁶ Therfore God gaue the vp vnto shamefull lustes. For their wemen chaunged the naturall vse in to the vnnaturall:

²⁶ Therfore God gaue the vp vnto shamefull lustes. For their wemen chaunged the naturall vse in to the vnnaturall: ²⁷ likewyse ye me also lefte the naturall vse of the woman, and brent in their lustes one on another, and man with man wrought fylthines, and receaued in them selues the rewarde of their erroure, as it was acordinge. ²⁸ And as they regarded not to knowe God, euen so God gaue the vp in to a lewde mynde, to do those thinges which were not comly,

²⁸ And as they regarded not to knowe God, euen so God gaue the vp in to a lewde mynde, to do those thinges which were not comly,

³² which men, though they knowe the righteousnes of God (that they which do soch, are worthy of death) yet not onely do the same, but also haue pleasure in those that do the.

¹ Therfore canst thou not excuse thyselfe (O ma) who soeuer thou be that iudgest: for loke wherin thou iudgest another, thou condemnest thy selfe, in so moch as thou that iudgest, doest euen the same.

¹ Therfore canst thou not excuse thyselfe (O ma) who soeuer thou be that iudgest: for loke wherin thou iudgest another, thou condemnest thy selfe, in so moch as thou that iudgest, doest euen the same. ² For we are sure that the iudgment of God is (acordinge to the trueth) ouer them that do soch. ³ But thinkest thou this O thou man, that iudgest them which do soch thinges, and doest euen the very same thy selfe, that thou shalt escape ye iudgmet of God?

³ But thinkest thou this O thou man, that iudgest them which do soch thinges, and doest euen the very same thy selfe, that thou shalt escape ye iudgmet of God? ⁴ Or despysest thou the riches of his goodnesse, pacience, and loge sufferinge? Knowest thou not, that ye louynge kyndnesse of God leadeth the to repentaunce? ⁵ But thou after thine harde and impenitent hert, heapest vnto thy selfe a treasure of wrath, agaynst the daye of wrath and of the openynge of the righteous iudgment of God,

⁹ trouble and anguysh vpo all the soules of me that do euell, of the Iewe first and also of the Greke:

¹⁵ in that they shewe, that the worke of ye lawe is wrytte in their hertes: whyle their conscience beareth witnesse vnto the, and also the thoughtes which accuse or excuse them amonge them selues,

¹⁵ in that they shewe, that the worke of ye lawe is wrytte in their hertes: whyle their conscience beareth witnesse vnto the, and also the thoughtes which accuse or excuse them amonge them selues, ¹⁶ in the daye whan God shal iudge the secretes of men by Iesus Christ, acordinge to my Gospell. ¹⁷ But take hede, thou art called a Iewe, and trustest in the lawe, & makest thy boost of God,

¹⁷ But take hede, thou art called a Iewe, and trustest in the lawe, & makest thy boost of God, ¹⁸ and knowest his will: & for so moch as thou art enfourmed out of ye lawe, ¹⁹ thou prouest what is best to do, and presumest to be a leader of the blynde: a lighte of them yt are in darcknes: ²⁰ an enformer of ye vnwyse: a teacher of ye symple: which hast the ensample of knowlege & of the trueth in the lawe. ²¹ Now teachest thou other, and teachest not thy selfe. Thou preachest that a man shulde not steale, and thou stealest. ²² Thou sayest, that a man shulde not breake wedlocke, and thou breakest wedlocke. Thou abhorrest ymages, and robbest God of his honoure. ²³ Thou makest thy boost of the lawe, and thorow breakynge of the lawe thou dishonorest God.

²³ Thou makest thy boost of the lawe, and thorow breakynge of the lawe thou dishonorest God.

² Surely very moch. First Vnto them was commytted what God spake. ³ But where as some of them dyd not beleue theron, what then? Shulde their vnbeleue make the promes of God of none effecte?

¹⁰ As it is wrytte: There is none righteous, no not one. ¹¹ There is none yt vnderstondeth, there is none that seketh after God.

²¹ But now without addinge to of ye lawe is the righteousnes which avayleth before God, declared, hauynge witnesse of ye lawe and the prophetes:

²⁷ Where is now then thy reioysinge? It is excluded. By what lawe? By the lawe of workes? Nay, but by the lawe of faith.

²⁹ Or is God the God of the Iewes onely? Is he not also the God of the Heythen? Yes verely the God of the Heythen also,

¹¹ As for the toke of circucision he receaued it for a seale off the righteousnes off faith, which he had yet in ye vncircusion, yt he shulde be a father of all the yt beleue, beinge in ye vncircucisio, yt it might be couted vnto the also for righteousnes:

¹⁵ for so moch as the lawe causeth but wrath. For where the lawe is not, there is also no transgression.

¹ Because therfore that we are iustified by faith, we haue peace with God thorow oure LORDE Iesus Christ

⁶ For whan we were yet weake acordinge to the tyme, Christ dyed for vs vngodly.

⁹ Moch more then shal we be saued from wrath by him seynge we are now made righteous thorow his bloude.

¹² Let not synne reigne therfore in youre mortall bodye, that ye shulde obeye vnto the lustes of it. ¹³ ether geue ye ouer youre membres vnto synne to be wapens of vnrighteousnes, but geue ouer youre selues vnto God, as they that off deed are become lyuynge, and youre membres vnto God to be wapes off righteousnes.

¹⁷ But God be thanked, that though ye haue bene the seruauntes of synne, ye are now yet obedient of herte to the ensample off the doctryne, whervnto ye are commytted.

²¹ What frute had ye at that tyme in those thinges, wherof ye are now ashamed? For the ende of soch thinges is death.

² For ye lawe of ye sprete (yt bryngeth life i Christ Iesu) hath made me fre fro the lawe of synne & death. ³ For what vnpossible was vnto ye lawe (in as moch as it was weake because of the flesh) yt perfourmed God, & sent his sonne in ye similitude of synfull flesh,

⁷ For to be fleshly mynded is enemyte agaynst. God, syth it is not subdued vnto ye lawe of God, for it can not also. ⁸ As for the that are fleshlye, they can not please God.

¹² Therfore brethre we are now detters, not to the flesh,

²⁸ But sure we are, that all thinges serue for the best vnto them that loue of God, which are called of purpose. ²⁹ For those whom he knewe before, hath he ordeyned also before, yt they shulde be like fashioned vnto ye shappe of his sonne, yt he mighte be the first begotte amoge many brethre.

²⁹ For those whom he knewe before, hath he ordeyned also before, yt they shulde be like fashioned vnto ye shappe of his sonne, yt he mighte be the first begotte amoge many brethre. ³⁰ As for those whom he hath ordeyned before, them hath he called also: and whom he hath called, the hath he also made righteous: and whom he hath made righteous, them hath he glorified also.

³⁰ As for those whom he hath ordeyned before, them hath he called also: and whom he hath called, the hath he also made righteous: and whom he hath made righteous, them hath he glorified also. ³¹ What shal we saye then vnto these thinges? Yff God be on oure syde, who can be agaynst vs. ³² Which spared not his owne sonne, but hath geuen him for vs all: how shal he not with him geue vs all thinges also?

³⁹ nether heyth, ner loweth, nether eny other creature shalbe able to separate vs from the loue of God, which is in Christ Iesu oure LORDE.

¹ I saye the trueth in Christ, and lye not (wherof my conscience beareth me witnesse in the holy goost)

⁵ whose are also the fathers, off whom (after the flesh) commeth Christ, which is God ouer all, blessed for euer, Ame.

²⁴ whom he hath called (namely vs) not onely of the Iewes, but also of the Gentyles. ²⁵ As he sayeth also by Osee: I wil call that my people, which is not my people: and my beloued, which is not ye beloued.

³⁰ What shal we saye then? This wil we saye: The Heythen which folowed not righteousnes, haue ouertaken righteousnes: but I speake of the righteousnes that commeth of faith.

¹⁷ So the faith cometh by hearynge, but hearinge cometh by the worde of God.

¹⁰ Let their eyes be blynded that they se not, and euer bowe downe their backes.

¹³ I speake vnto you Heythen: for in as moch as I am ye Apostle of the Heythen, I wil prayse myne office,

²⁵ I wolde not that this secrete shulde be hyd from you brethre (lest ye shulde be wyse in youre awne cosaytes) that partly blyndnesse is happened vnto Israel, so longe tyll the fulnesse of the Heythen be come in,

³ For I saye thorow the grace yt is geue me, vnto euery man amonge you: that no man esteme off him selfe more, then it becometh him to esteme: but that he discretly iudge of himselfe, acordinge as God hath dealte vnto euery man the measure of faith.

¹⁶ Be of one mynde amonge youre selues. Be not proude in youre awne consaytes, but make youre selues equall to them of ye lowe sorte. Be not wyse in youre awne opinions

¹⁸ Yf it be possible (as moch as in you is) haue peace with all men.

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

⁹ and that the Heythen mighte prayse God because of mercy, as it is wrytten: For this cause wyl I prayse the amoge the Getyles, and synge vnto thy name.

¹⁵ Neuertheles (brethre) I haue somwhat more boldly wrytten vnto you, as one that putteth you in remembraunce, for the grace that is geue me of God, ¹⁶ that I shulde be a mynister of Iesu Christ amonge the Heythen, to declare the gospell of God, that the Heythen mighte be an acceptable offerynge vnto God, sanctified by the holy goost.

¹⁶ that I shulde be a mynister of Iesu Christ amonge the Heythen, to declare the gospell of God, that the Heythen mighte be an acceptable offerynge vnto God, sanctified by the holy goost.

¹⁸ For I durst not speake ought, excepte Christ had wroughte the same by me, to make the Heythen obediet thorow worde and dede,

¹⁸ For I durst not speake ought, excepte Christ had wroughte the same by me, to make the Heythen obediet thorow worde and dede, ¹⁹ thorow the power of tokens and wonders, and thorow the power of the sprete of God, so that from Ierusale, and roude aboute vnto Illyricon, I haue fylled all with the Gospell of Christ.

¹⁹ thorow the power of tokens and wonders, and thorow the power of the sprete of God, so that from Ierusale, and roude aboute vnto Illyricon, I haue fylled all with the Gospell of Christ.

¹⁹ thorow the power of tokens and wonders, and thorow the power of the sprete of God, so that from Ierusale, and roude aboute vnto Illyricon, I haue fylled all with the Gospell of Christ. ²⁰ So haue I enforced myselfe to preach ye Gospell, not where Christes name was knowne, lest I shulde buylde on another mans foundacion,

²⁰ So haue I enforced myselfe to preach ye Gospell, not where Christes name was knowne, lest I shulde buylde on another mans foundacion,

²² This is also the cause, wherfore I haue bene oft tymes let to come vnto you.

²² This is also the cause, wherfore I haue bene oft tymes let to come vnto you. ²³ But now syth I haue nomore place in these countrees, hauynge yet a desyre many yeares sence to come vnto you,

²³ But now syth I haue nomore place in these countrees, hauynge yet a desyre many yeares sence to come vnto you,

²³ But now syth I haue nomore place in these countrees, hauynge yet a desyre many yeares sence to come vnto you, ²⁴ whan I shal take my iourney in to Spayne, I wil come to you: for I trust that I shal passe yt waye and se you, and to be broughte on my waye thitherwarde by you: but so, that I first refresh my selfe a litle with you.

²⁴ whan I shal take my iourney in to Spayne, I wil come to you: for I trust that I shal passe yt waye and se you, and to be broughte on my waye thitherwarde by you: but so, that I first refresh my selfe a litle with you.

²⁴ whan I shal take my iourney in to Spayne, I wil come to you: for I trust that I shal passe yt waye and se you, and to be broughte on my waye thitherwarde by you: but so, that I first refresh my selfe a litle with you. ²⁵ But now go I to Ierusalem, to mynister vnto the sayntes. ²⁶ For they of Macedonia and Achaia haue wyllingly prepared a commen colleccion together, for the poore sayntes at Ierusalem. ²⁷ They haue done it wyllingly, and their detters are they. For yf ye Heythen be made partakers off their spiritual thinges, their dutye is to mynister vnto the in bodely thinges. ²⁸ Now whan I haue perfourmed this, and haue broughte the this frute sealed, I wil take my iourney by you in to Spayne. ²⁹ But I am sure whan I come vnto you, that I shal come with ye full blessynge of the Gospell of Christ. 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.

³² yt I maye come vnto you with ioye by ye wyll of God, and refreshe my selfe with you.

¹⁸ For they yt are soch, serue not the LORDE Iesu Christ, but their awne belly: & thorow swete preachinges & flateringe wordes, they disceaue ye hertes of ye innocentes. ¹⁹ For youre obedience is published amonge all men, therfore am I glad of you.But yet I wolde haue you wyse in that which is good, & symple in euell.

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, ²⁶ but now is opened, & shewed by the scriptures of ye prophetes, at the comaundemet of the euerlastinge God, to set vp ye obediece of the faith amonge all Heythen:

¹ Paul, called to be an Apostle of Iesus Christ thorow ye will of God, and brother Sosthenes, ² vnto the congregacion off God which is at Corinthum, to them that are sanctified in Christ Iesus, sayntes by callinge, with all them that call vpon the name of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, in euery place both off theirs and oures. ³ Grace be with you and peace from God oure father, and from the LORDE Iesus Christ. ⁴ I thake my God allwayes on youre behalfe, for the fauoure of God which is geue you in Iesus Christ,

⁴ I thake my God allwayes on youre behalfe, for the fauoure of God which is geue you in Iesus Christ, ⁵ that in all poyntes ye are made ryche by him, in euery worde, and in all maner of knowlege ⁶ (eue as ye preachinge of Christ is confirmed in you) 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 For God is faithfull, by who ye are called vnto the fellishippe of his sonne Iesus Christ oure LORDE.

⁹ For God is faithfull, by who ye are called vnto the fellishippe of his sonne Iesus Christ oure LORDE.

¹⁸ For the worde of ye crosse is foolishnesse to the that perishe but vnto vs which are saued, it is the power of God. ¹⁹ For it is wrytte: I wyl destroye the wyssdome of the wyse, & wil cast away the vnderstondinge of ye prudet.

¹⁹ For it is wrytte: I wyl destroye the wyssdome of the wyse, & wil cast away the vnderstondinge of ye prudet.

¹⁹ For it is wrytte: I wyl destroye the wyssdome of the wyse, & wil cast away the vnderstondinge of ye prudet. ²⁰ Where are the wyse? Where are ye scrybes? where are ye disputers of this worlde?

²⁰ Where are the wyse? Where are ye scrybes? where are ye disputers of this worlde?

²⁰ Where are the wyse? Where are ye scrybes? where are ye disputers of this worlde? ²¹ Hath not God made the wyssdome of this worlde foolishnesse? For in so moch as the worlde by the wyssdome therof knewe not God in his wyssdome, it pleased God thorow foolish preachinge to saue them yt beleue.

²¹ Hath not God made the wyssdome of this worlde foolishnesse? For in so moch as the worlde by the wyssdome therof knewe not God in his wyssdome, it pleased God thorow foolish preachinge to saue them yt beleue.

²¹ Hath not God made the wyssdome of this worlde foolishnesse? For in so moch as the worlde by the wyssdome therof knewe not God in his wyssdome, it pleased God thorow foolish preachinge to saue them yt beleue. ²² For the Iewes requyre tokens, and the Grekes axe after wyssdome.

²² For the Iewes requyre tokens, and the Grekes axe after wyssdome. ²³ But we preach Christ the crucified: to the Iewes an occasion off fallinge, and vnto the Grekes foolishnes. ²⁴ But vnto them that are called (both Iewes and Grekes) we preach Christ the power of God and the wyssdome off God.

² For I shewed not forth my selfe amonge you that I knewe eny thinge, saue onely Iesus Christ, euen the sam thate was crucified.

⁴ and my worde and my preachinge was not with entysinge wordes of mans wyssdome, but in shewinge of the sprete and of power:

¹³ which we also speake, not with connynge wordes of mas wyssdome, but with the conynge wordes of the holy goost, and iudge spirituall matters spiritually.

¹⁸ Let no ma disceaue himselfe. Yf eny man thinke himselfe wyse amoge you, let him become a foole in this worlde, that he maye be wyse.

¹⁸ Let no ma disceaue himselfe. Yf eny man thinke himselfe wyse amoge you, let him become a foole in this worlde, that he maye be wyse. ¹⁹ For the wyssdome off this worlde is foolishnes with God. For it is wrytten: He compaseth the wyse in their craftynesse.

¹⁹ But I wil come to you shortly ( yf the LORDE wyl) and wyl knowe, not the wordes of the that are puft vp, but ye power.

⁹ Knowe ye not that ye vnrighteous shal not inheret the kyngdome of God? Be not disceaued. Nether whoremongers, ner worshippers off ymages, ner breakers off wedlocke, ner weaklinges, nether abusers of them selues with mankynde,

¹³ Meates are ordeyned for ye bely, & the bely for meates. But God shal destroye both it and them. The body belongeth not vnto whordome, but vnto the LORDE, and the LORDE vnto the body

¹⁸ Fle whordome. All synnes yt a man doth, are without the body. But he that commytteth whordome, synneth agaynst his awne body.

¹ Am I not an Apostle? Am I not fre? Haue I not sene Iesus Christ oure LORDE? ² Are not ye my worke in the LORDE? Yf I be not an Apostle vnto other, yet am I youre Apostle: for the seale of myne Apostleshippe are ye in the LORDE.

¹² But yf other be partakers of this power on you, wherfore are not we rather? Neuertheles we haue not vsed this power, but suffre all thinges, lest we shulde hynder the Gospell off Christ.

¹⁶ For in that I preach the Gospell, I neade not boost my selfe, for I must nedes do it. And wo vnto me, yff I preach not the Gospell.

¹⁶ For in that I preach the Gospell, I neade not boost my selfe, for I must nedes do it. And wo vnto me, yff I preach not the Gospell. ¹⁷ Yf I do it with a good wyll, I shall haue my rewarde: but yff I do it agaynst my wyll, yet is the office commytted vnto me.

¹⁷ Yf I do it with a good wyll, I shall haue my rewarde: but yff I do it agaynst my wyll, yet is the office commytted vnto me.

¹⁷ Yf I do it with a good wyll, I shall haue my rewarde: but yff I do it agaynst my wyll, yet is the office commytted vnto me. ¹⁸ Wherfore the shal I be rewarded? (Namely therfore) that I preach the Gospell, and do the same frely for naughte, that I abuse not my libertye in ye Gospell.

¹⁸ Wherfore the shal I be rewarded? (Namely therfore) that I preach the Gospell, and do the same frely for naughte, that I abuse not my libertye in ye Gospell.

¹⁸ Wherfore the shal I be rewarded? (Namely therfore) that I preach the Gospell, and do the same frely for naughte, that I abuse not my libertye in ye Gospell. ¹⁹ For though I am fre from all men, yet haue I made my selfe euery mans seruaunt, yt I mighte wynne ye moo. ²⁰ Vnto the Iewes I am become as a Iewe, to wynne ye Iewes. To them that are vnder the lawe, I am become as though I were vnder the lawe, to wynne them which are vnder the lawe. ²¹ Vnto them that are without lawe, I am become as though I were without lawe (where as yet I am not without the lawe of God, but am in ye lawe of Christ) to wynne the that are without lawe. ²² To the weake, am I become as weake, to wynne the weake. I am become of all fasshions vnto euery man, to saue some at ye leest. ²³ But this I do for the Gospels sake, that I mighte be partaker therof.

¹ Brethren, I wolde not that ye shulde be ignoraunt of this, that oure fathers were all vnder the cloude, and all passed thorow the see,

¹ As concernynge spirituall giftes (brethren) I wolde not that ye were ignoraunt.

¹ As concernynge spirituall giftes (brethren) I wolde not that ye were ignoraunt. ² Ye knowe that ye were Heythe and wente youre wayes vnto dome Idols, eue as ye were led.

² Ye knowe that ye were Heythe and wente youre wayes vnto dome Idols, eue as ye were led. ³ Wherfore I declare vnto you, that no man speakynge thorow the sprete of God, defyeth Iesus. And no man can saye that Iesus is the LORDE, but by the holy goost. ⁴ There are dyuerse giftes, yet but one sprete: ⁵ and there are dyuerse offices, yet but one LORDE: ⁶ and there are dyuerse operacions yet is there but one God, which worketh all in all. ⁷ The giftes of the sprete are geuen vnto euery man to profit the cogregacion. ⁸ To one is geuen thorow the sprete the vtteraunce of wissdome: to another is geuen the vtteraunce of knowlege acordinge to the same sprete: ⁹ to another, faith in the same sprete: to another, the giftes of healinge in the same sprete: ¹⁰ to another, power to do miracles: to another, prophecienge: to another, iudgment to discerne spretes: to another, dyuerse tunges: to another, the interpretacion of tunges. ¹¹ These all doth ye same onely sprete worke, and distributeth vnto euery man, acordinge as he will.

¹¹ Yf I knowe not now what ye voyce meaneth, I shalbe an aleaunt vnto him that speaketh: & he that speaketh, shalbe an aleaut vnto me.

¹⁴ Yf I praye with tunges, my sprete prayeth, but my vnderstodinge bryngeth no man frute. ¹⁵ How shal it be then? Namely thus: I wil praye with ye sprete, and wil praye with the vnderstodinge also: I wil synge psalmes in the sprete, and wil synge spalmes with ye vnderstondinge also. ¹⁶ But whan thou geuest thankes with ye sprete, how shal he that occupieth the rowme of the vnlearned, saye Ame at thy geuynge of thankes, seynge he knoweth not what thou sayest?

²³ Yf the whole cogregacion now came together in to one place, & spake all with tunges, and there came in they that are vnlearned, or they which beleue not, shulde they not saye, that ye were out of youre wyttes? ²⁴ But yff all prophecied, and there came in one yt beleueth not, or one vnlerned, he shulde be rebuked of them all, and iudged of all,

²⁴ But yff all prophecied, and there came in one yt beleueth not, or one vnlerned, he shulde be rebuked of them all, and iudged of all, ²⁵ and so shulde the secrete of his hert be opened, and so shulde he fall downe vpon his face, worshippinge God, and knowleginge, that of a trueth God is in you.

² by the which also ye are saued) after what maner I preached it vnto you, yf ye haue kepte it, excepte ye haue beleued in vayne.

⁸ Last of all was he sene of me also, as of one borne out of due tyme. ⁹ For I am ye leest of the Apostles, which am not worthy to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the congregacion of God. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am that I am. And his grace in me hath not bene vayne, but I haue laboured more then they all: howbeit not I but the grace of God which is wt me.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am that I am. And his grace in me hath not bene vayne, but I haue laboured more then they all: howbeit not I but the grace of God which is wt me.

³⁴ Awake righte vp, and synne not: for some haue not ye knowlege of God. This I saye to youre shame.

²³ The grace of the LORDE Iesus Christ be with you.

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.

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. ² Grace be with you, and peace fro God oure father, and from the LORDE Iesus Christ.

⁸ Brethren we wolde not haue you ignoraunt of oure trouble, which happened vnto vs in Asia, for we were greued out off measure passynge strength, so that we euen dispared of life,

¹⁵ And in this confidence was I mynded the other tyme to come vnto you (that ye mighte haue yet another pleasure more) ¹⁶ & to passe by you in to Macedonia, & to come againe out of Macedonia vnto you & to be led forth to Iewrye warde of you.

²¹ But it is God which stablysheth vs wt you in Christ, and hath anoynted us,

²³ Bvt I call God to recorde vnto my soule, that to fauoure you withall I came not agayne vnto Corinthum.

¹ But I determyned this wt my selfe, that I wolde not come agayne to you in heuynes. ² For yf I make you sory, who is it that shal make me glad, but the same which is made sory by me? ³ And the same haue I wrytten vnto you, lest wha I come, I shulde take heuynes of them, of whom I oughte to reioyse: for somoch as I haue this confidence in you all, that my ioye is the ioye of you all.

¹² But wha I came to Troada to preach ye Gospell of Christ (and a dore was opened vnto me in ye LODRE)

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.

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. ¹⁵ For we are vnto God the good fauoure of Christ, both amonge the yt are saued, & amonge them yt perishe. ¹⁶ To these, ye sauoure of death vnto death: but vnto ye other, the sauoure of life vnto life. And who is mete therto?

⁵ not that we are sufficient of oure selues to thynke eny thinge, as of oure selues, but oure ablenesse commeth of God, ⁶ which hath made vs able, to be mynisters of the new Testament: not of the letter, but of the sprete. For the letter kylleth, but the sprete geueth life.

⁴ amonge whom the God of this worlde hath blynded ye myndes of them which beleue not, that ye lighte of the Gospell of the glory of Christ ( which is the ymage of God) shulde not shyne vnto them.

⁴ amonge whom the God of this worlde hath blynded ye myndes of them which beleue not, that ye lighte of the Gospell of the glory of Christ ( which is the ymage of God) shulde not shyne vnto them. ⁵ For we preach not or selues, but Iesus Christ to be the LORDE, and oure selues youre seruauntes for Iesus sake.

⁵ For we preach not or selues, but Iesus Christ to be the LORDE, and oure selues youre seruauntes for Iesus sake. ⁶ For God that comaunded the light to shyne out of darcknesse, hath geuen a cleare shyne in oure hertes, yt by vs ye light of ye knowlege of the glory of God mighte come forth, in the face of Iesus Christ.

⁴ I am very bolde towarde you, I make moch boost of you, I am fylled with comforte, I am exceadynge ioyous in all oure tribulacion. 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.

¹² For yf there be a wyllinge mynde, it is accepted acordinge to that a man hath, not acordinge to that he hath not.

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.

⁴ For the wapens of oure warre are not fleshly, but mightie before God to cast downe stroge holdes,

⁴ For the wapens of oure warre are not fleshly, but mightie before God to cast downe stroge holdes, ⁵ wherwith we ouerthrowe ymaginacions, & euery hye thinge yt exalteth it selfe agaynst the knowlege of God, and brynge in to captiuyte all vnderstondinge to the obedience of Christ,

⁵ wherwith we ouerthrowe ymaginacions, & euery hye thinge yt exalteth it selfe agaynst the knowlege of God, and brynge in to captiuyte all vnderstondinge to the obedience of Christ,

⁵ wherwith we ouerthrowe ymaginacions, & euery hye thinge yt exalteth it selfe agaynst the knowlege of God, and brynge in to captiuyte all vnderstondinge to the obedience of Christ, ⁶ & are ready to take vengeaunce on all disobedience, whan youre obediece is fulfylled.

¹² For we darre not reken or compare oure selues, vnto some that prayse them selues: Neuertheles whyle they measure them selues by them selues, and holde onely of them selues, they vnderstonde nothinge. ¹³ Howbeit we wil not boast or selues aboue measure, but onely acordinge to the measure of the rule, wherwith God hath distributed vnto vs the measure to reach euen vnto you. ¹⁴ For we stretche not or selues to farre as though we had not reached vnto you. For euen vnto you haue we come with the Gospell of Christ, ¹⁵ and boast not oure selues out of measure in other mens laboures: Yee and we hope whan youre faith is increased in you, that we wil come farther (acordinge to oure measure)

¹⁵ and boast not oure selues out of measure in other mens laboures: Yee and we hope whan youre faith is increased in you, that we wil come farther (acordinge to oure measure) ¹⁶ and preach the Gospell vnto them that dwell beyonde you, and not to reioyse in that, which is prepared with another mans measure.

⁴ For yf he that commeth vnto you, preach another Iesus, whom we haue not preached, or yf ye receaue another sprete, yt ye haue not receaued, or another Gospell which ye haue not accepted, ye might right well haue bene cotent. ⁵ For I suppose that I am no lesse the the hye Apostles are.

¹⁰ As surely as the trueth of Christ is in me, this reioysinge shal not be taken fro me in the regions of Achaia. ¹¹ Wherfore? because I shulde not loue you? God knoweth.

¹⁹ For ye suffre foles gladly, in so moch as ye youre selues are wyse.

³¹ God ye father of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, which is blessed for euer, knoweth that I lye not.

⁸ for ye which I besoughte the LORDE thryse, that it mighte departe fro me. ⁹ And he sayde vnto me: My grace is sufficiet for the. For my strength is made perfecte thorow weaknes. Very glad therfore wil I reioyse in my weaknesses, that the strength of Christ maye dwell in me. ¹⁰ Therfore am I contente in infirmities, in rebukes, in necessities, in persecucions, in anguysshes for Christes sake: for wha I am weake, the am I stroge. ¹¹ I am become a fole i boastinge my selfe: Ye haue copelled me. For I oughte to be comended of you, in so moch as I am in nothinge inferior to ye hye Apostles. Though I be nothinge,

²⁰ For I feare, lest whan I come, I shal not fynde you soch as I wolde: and lest ye shal fynde me soch as ye wolde not: lest there be amonge you, debates, envyenges, wrathes, stryuynges, bacbytinges, whysperinges, swellinges, vproures:

⁴ And though he was crucified in weaknes, yet lyueth he in the power of God. And though we are weake in him, yet lyue we with him in the power of God amonge you. ⁵ Proue youre selues, whether ye are in the faith, exame youre selues. Or knowe ye not yor selues, yt Iesus Christ is in you? Excepte ye be cast awayes. ⁶ But I trust ye knowe, yt we are not cast awayes. ⁷ I desyre before God yt ye do no euell: not yt we shulde seme comendable, but yt ye shulde do yt which is good, & let vs be as cast awayes.

¹⁴ The grace of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, & the loue of God, and the fellishippe of ye holy goost be with you all. Amen.

¹ Paul an Apostle (not of men, nor by ma, but by Iesus Christ & by God the father, which raysed him vp fro ye deed)

³ Grace be with you, and peace fro God the father, and oure LORDE Iesus Christ, 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.

¹⁰ Preach I men now or God? Or go I aboute to please men? Yf I shulde yet please men, I were not the seruaunt of Christ. ¹¹ But I certifye you brethren, yt the Gospell which is preached of me, is not of men. ¹² For I nether receaued it ner lerned it of ma, but by the reuelacion of Iesus Christ. ¹³ For ye haue herde of my conuersacion afore tyme in the Ieweshippe, how that beyode measure I persecuted the cogregacion of God, and spoyled it, ¹⁴ and preuayled in the Ieweshippe aboue many of my companyons in my nacion, & was a moch more feruent manteyner of the tradicions of the fathers. ¹⁵ But whan it pleased God which separated me fro my mothers wombe, and called me by his grace,

¹⁵ But whan it pleased God which separated me fro my mothers wombe, and called me by his grace, ¹⁶ for to declare his sonne in me, that I shulde preach him thorow the Gospell amonge the Heythen, immediatly I commened not of the matter with flesh and bloude:

¹⁶ for to declare his sonne in me, that I shulde preach him thorow the Gospell amonge the Heythen, immediatly I commened not of the matter with flesh and bloude: ¹⁷ nether came I to Ierusalem vnto them which were Apostles before me: but wente my wayes in to Arabia, and came agayne to Damascon.

²⁰ The thinges that I wryte vnto you, beholde, God knoweth, I lye not.

⁸ (For he yt was mightie with Peter to the Apostleshippe ouer the circumcision, the same was mightie with me also amoge the Heythen) ⁹ they perceaued the grace that was geuen vnto me. Iames and Cephas and Ihon, which semed to be pilers, gaue me and Barnabas ye righte handes, and agreed with vs, that we shulde preach amonge the Heythe, and they amonge the Iewes:

² This onely wolde I lerne of you: Receaued ye the sprete by the dedes of the lawe, or by the preachinge of the faith? ³ Are ye so vnwyse? Ye beganne in the sprete, wolde ye ende now the in the flesh? ⁴ Haue ye suffred so moch in vayne? Yf it be els in vayne. ⁵ He that geueth you the sprete, and doth soch greate actes amoge you, doth he it thorow the dedes of the lawe, or by ye preachinge of the faith?

¹¹ That no man is iustified by the lawe in the sighte of God, it is euydet: For ye iust shal lyue by his faith.

⁴ But whan the tyme was fulfylled, God sent his sonne, borne of a woma, and put vnder the lawe,

¹⁸ Brethren, the grace of oure LORDE Iesu Christ be with youre sprete Amen.

¹ Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the will of God. To ye sayntes which are Ephesus, & to the that beleue on Iesus Christ. ² Grace be with you and peace from God oure father, & fro the LORDE Iesus Christ.

⁶ vnto the prayse of the glory of his grace, wherby he hath made vs accepted in the Beloued,

¹¹ euen by him, by whom also we are come to the inheritaunce we that were therto predestinate before, acordinge to ye purpose of him, which worketh all thinges after ye councell of his owne wyll, ¹² that we mighte be to the prayse of his glory, euen we that before beleued on Christ, ¹³ on who also ye beleued, after that ye herde the worde of trueth, namely ye Gospell of youre saluacion: wherin whan ye beleued, ye were sealed with the holy sprete of promes,

¹⁵ Wherfore I also, (in so moch as I haue herde of the faith which ye haue in ye LORDE Iesu, and of youre loue vnto all ye sayntes) ¹⁶ ceasse not to geue thankes for you, and make mencion of you in my prayers, ¹⁷ that ye God of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, the father of glory maye geue vnto you the sprete of wyssdome, and open vnto you the knowlege of himselfe, ¹⁸ and lighten the eyes of youre vnderstondinge, that ye maye knowe what is the hope of youre callynge, and what the riches of his glorious enheritaunce is vpon the sayntes, ¹⁹ & what is the exceadinge greatnesse of his power towarde vs, which beleue acordinge to ye workynge of his mightie power,

¹⁹ & what is the exceadinge greatnesse of his power towarde vs, which beleue acordinge to ye workynge of his mightie power, ²⁰ which he wroughte in Christ, whan he raysed him vp fro the deed, and set him on his righte hade i heauely thinges, ²¹ aboue all rule, power, and mighte, and dominacio, and aboue all that maye be named, not onely in this worlde, but also in ye worlde to come. ²² And hath put all thinges vnder his fete, and hath made him aboue all thinges the heade of the cogregacion, ²³ which is his body, and the fulnesse of him that fylleth all in all.

² acordinge as ye haue herde of ye office of the grace of God which is geuen me to you warde. ³ For by reuelacion was this mystery shewed vnto me, as I wrote aboue in fewe wordes: ⁴ wherby whan ye rede it, ye maye perceaue myne vnderstondynge in ye mystery of Christ, ⁵ which (mystery) in tymes past was not opened vnto the childre of me as it is now declared to his holy Apostles and prophetes by the sprete: namely,

⁵ which (mystery) in tymes past was not opened vnto the childre of me as it is now declared to his holy Apostles and prophetes by the sprete: namely, ⁶ that the Heythen shulde be inheritours also, and of the same body, and partakers of his promes in Christ by the Gospell,

⁶ that the Heythen shulde be inheritours also, and of the same body, and partakers of his promes in Christ by the Gospell, ⁷ wherof I am made a mynister acordynge to the gifte of the grace of God, which is geue me acordinge to the workynge of his power.

⁷ wherof I am made a mynister acordynge to the gifte of the grace of God, which is geue me acordinge to the workynge of his power. ⁸ Vnto me the leest of all sayntes is this grace geuen, that I shulde preach amonge the Heythe ye vnsearcheable riches of Christ, ⁹ and to make all men se, what is the fellishippe of the mystery, which fro the begynnynge of the worlde hath bene hyd in God, which made all thiges thorow Iesus Christ:

¹⁴ For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the father of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, ¹⁵ which is the true father, ouer all that is called father in heauen and in earth, ¹⁶ that he graunte you (acordinge to ye riches of his glory) to be strengthed with power by his sprete in ye inwarde ma, ¹⁷ that Christ maye dwell in youre hertes by faith, that ye beynge roted and grounded in loue, ¹⁸ maye be able to coprehende with all sayntes, what is the bredth, and the length, and the deepth, and the heyth: ¹⁹ and to knowe the loue of Christ, which loue yet passeth all knowlege: that ye maye be fylled with all maner of fulnesse of God. ²⁰ Vnto him that is able to do exceadinge abundauntly, aboue all that we axe or vnderstonde (acordinge to ye power that worketh in vs) ²¹ be prayse in the congregacion, which is in Christ Iesu, at all tymes for euer and euer, Amen.

²¹ be prayse in the congregacion, which is in Christ Iesu, at all tymes for euer and euer, Amen.

⁵ One LORDE, one faith, one baptyme,

⁸ Therfore sayeth he: He is gone vp an hye, and hath led awaye captiuyte captyue, and hath geue giftes vnto men. ⁹ That he wente, vp what is it, but that he first came downe in to ye lowest partes of ye earth? ¹⁰ He that came downe, is euen the same which is gone vp aboue all heauens, to fulfill all. ¹¹ And ye same hath set some to be Apostles, some to be prophetes, some to be Euangelistes, some to be shepherdes & teachers,

¹¹ And ye same hath set some to be Apostles, some to be prophetes, some to be Euangelistes, some to be shepherdes & teachers, ¹² wherby the sayntes mighte be coupled together thorow comen seruyce to the edifienge of ye body of Christ,

¹⁷ This I saye therfore, and testifye in the LORDE, that ye walke nomore as ye other Heythen walke in the vanite of their mynde, ¹⁸ blynded in their vnderstondinge, beynge straungers fro the life which is in God thorow the ignoraunce that is in them, because of the blyndnes of their hert:

¹⁸ blynded in their vnderstondinge, beynge straungers fro the life which is in God thorow the ignoraunce that is in them, because of the blyndnes of their hert: ¹⁹ which beynge past repentaunce, haue geue them selues ouer vnto wantonnes, to worke all maner of vnclennes euen with gredynesse.

¹⁹ which beynge past repentaunce, haue geue them selues ouer vnto wantonnes, to worke all maner of vnclennes euen with gredynesse.

⁴ nether fylthines, ner folish talkynge, ner ieastynge (which are not comly) but rather geuynge of thakes.

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

¹² For it is shame euen to name those thinges, which are done of them in secrete.

¹⁵ Take hede therfore how ye walke circumspectly, not as the vnwyse, but as ye wyse, ¹⁶ and redeme the tyme, for it is a miserable tyme. ¹⁷ Wherfore be not ye vnwyse, but vnderstonde what the wil of the LORDE is,

²⁰ geuynge thankes alwayes for all thinges vnto God the father, in the name of oure LORDE Iesus Christ,

¹⁸ And praye allwayes with all maner of prayer and supplicacion in the sprete, and watch there vnto with all instaunce and supplicacion for all sayntes

²³ Peace be vnto the brethre, and loue with faith, from God the father, & from the LORDE Iesu Christ.

¹ Paul and Timotheus the seruauntes of Iesu Christ. Vnto all the sayntes in Iesu Christ, which are at Philippos, with the Bisshoppes and mynisters.

³ I thanke my God, as oft as I remebre you ⁴ (which I allwayes do in all my prayers for you all, and praye with gladnesse)

⁸ For God is my recorde, how I loge after you all euen fro the very hert rote in Iesus Christ.

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: ¹¹ fylled with the frutes of righteousnes, which come by Iesus Christ vnto the glorye and prayse of God.

¹¹ fylled with the frutes of righteousnes, which come by Iesus Christ vnto the glorye and prayse of God.

¹¹ and that all tunges shulde confesse, that Iesus Christ is the LORDE vnto the prayse of God the father.

²² But ye knowe the profe of him: for as a childe vnto the father, so hath he mynistred vnto me in the Gospell.

²⁶ for so moch as he longed after you all, and was full of heuynes, because ye had herde that he was sicke.

³ for we are the circumcision, euen we that serue God in the sprete, and reioyce in Christ Iesu, and haue no confidence in the flesh,

⁶ as concernynge feruentnes I persecuted the cogregacion: and as touchinge the righteousnes which is in the lawe, I was vnrebukable. ⁷ But the thinges that were vauntage vnto me, haue I counted losse for Christes sake.

⁹ & be founde in him, not hauynge myne awne righteousnes which commeth of the lawe, but by the faith of Christ (namely) the righteousnes which commeth of God in faith,

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

⁶ Be not carefull, but in all thinges let yor peticions in prayer and supplicacion, with geuynge of thankes be knowne before God.

¹³ I can do all thinges thorow Christ, which stregtheth me.

¹⁷ Not that I seke giftes, but I seke the frute, that it be abudaunt in yor rekenynge.

²⁰ Vnto God and oure father be prayse for euer and euer Amen.

²³ The grace of oure LORDE Iesu Christ be with you all, Amen.

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. ³ We geue thankes vnto God and the father of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, prayenge allwayes for you

⁵ for ye hopes sake which is layed vp in stoare for you in heauen: of the which ye haue herde before by the worde of trueth in the Gospell, ⁶ which is come vnto you, eue as it is into all the worlde: and is frutefull, as it is in you, sence ye daye yt ye herde and knewe the grace of God in ye trueth,

⁶ which is come vnto you, eue as it is into all the worlde: and is frutefull, as it is in you, sence ye daye yt ye herde and knewe the grace of God in ye trueth,

⁹ For this cause we also, sence the daye yt we herde of it, ceasse not to praye for you, & desyre that ye mighte be fulfylled with the knowlege of his will, in all wyssdome and spirituall vnderstondinge, ¹⁰ that ye mighte walke worthy off the LORDE, to please him in all thinges, and to be frutefull in all good workes, and growe in the knowlege of God: ¹¹ & to be strengthed wt all power acordinge to the mighte of his glory, to all pacience and longsufferynge with ioyfulnes, ¹² and geue thankes vnto the father, which hath made vs mete for the enheritaunce of sayntes in lighte. ¹³ Which hath delyuered vs fro the power of darknesse, & translated vs in to the kyngdome of his deare sonne

¹³ Which hath delyuered vs fro the power of darknesse, & translated vs in to the kyngdome of his deare sonne ¹⁴ ( in whom we haue redempcion thorow his bloude, namely, the forgeuenes of synnes.) ¹⁵ Which is the ymage of the inuisyble God, first begotte before all creatures.

¹⁵ Which is the ymage of the inuisyble God, first begotte before all creatures.

²¹ And you (which were in tymes past straungers and enemies, because youre myndes were set in euell workes) hath he now reconcyled

²⁵ wherof I am made a mynister, acordinge to ye Godly office of preachinge, which is geuen vnto me amonge you, that I shulde richely preach the worde of God,

²⁸ who we preach, and warne all men, and teach all men in all wyssdome, to make euery man parfecte in Christ Iesu: ²⁹ Wherin I also laboure, and stryue acordinge to the workynge of him which worketh mightely in me.

⁹ For in him dwelleth all the fulnes of the Godheade bodely,

⁶ for which thinges sakes the wrath of God commeth vpon the children of vnbeleue:

¹¹ where there is no Greke, Iewe, circumcision, vncircumcision, Barbarous, Sithian, bode, fre: but Christ is all and in all. ¹² Now therfore as the electe of God, holy and beloued, put on tender mercye, kyndnes, humblenes of mynde, mekenesse, longe sufferynge,

¹⁵ And the peace of God rule in youre hertes, to the which (peace) ye are called also in one body: and se yt ye be thanfull.

¹ Pavl and Siluanus and Timotheus. Vnto the cogregacion of the Tessalonyans, in God the father and in the LORDE Iesus Christ. Grace be with you, and peace from God oure father and from the LORDE Iesus Christ. 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:

⁵ for oure Gospell hath not bene with you in worde onely, but both in power and in the holy goost, and in moch certayntie, as ye knowe after what maner we were amonge you for youre sakes. ⁶ And ye became the folowers of vs and of the LORDE: and receaued the worde in moch affliccion with ioye of the holy goost:

⁸ For fro you was the worde of the LORDE noysed out, not onely in Macedonia & Achaia, but i all quarters also is yor faith i God spred abrode so that it nedeth not vs to speake eny thinge at all.

⁸ For fro you was the worde of the LORDE noysed out, not onely in Macedonia & Achaia, but i all quarters also is yor faith i God spred abrode so that it nedeth not vs to speake eny thinge at all. ⁹ For they them selues shewe of you, what maner of entrynge in we had vnto you, and how ye are turned vnto God from ymages, for to serue the lyuynge and true God,

⁹ For they them selues shewe of you, what maner of entrynge in we had vnto you, and how ye are turned vnto God from ymages, for to serue the lyuynge and true God,

⁹ For they them selues shewe of you, what maner of entrynge in we had vnto you, and how ye are turned vnto God from ymages, for to serue the lyuynge and true God, ¹⁰ and to loke for his sonne from heaue: whom he raysed vp from the deed, euen Iesus, which hath delyuered vs fro the wrath to come.

¹⁰ and to loke for his sonne from heaue: whom he raysed vp from the deed, euen Iesus, which hath delyuered vs fro the wrath to come.

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.

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. ¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holyly and iustly and vnblameable we behaued oure selues amoge you that beleue:

¹² that ye wolde walke worthely before God, which hath called you vnto his kyngdome & glory. ¹³ For this cause thanke we God without ceassynge, because that wha ye receaued of vs the worde of the preachinge of God, ye receaued it not as ye worde of men, but (eue as it is of a trueth) the worde of God, which worketh in you that beleue.

¹³ For this cause thanke we God without ceassynge, because that wha ye receaued of vs the worde of the preachinge of God, ye receaued it not as ye worde of men, but (eue as it is of a trueth) the worde of God, which worketh in you that beleue. 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. ¹⁸ Therfore wolde we haue come vnto you, (I Paul) two tymes, but Sathan withstode vs.

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? ²⁰ Yes ye are oure prayse and ioye.

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,

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.

¹⁰ We praye exceadingly daye and nighte, that we mighte se you presently, and fulfill that which is lackynge in yor faith.

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.

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.

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.

⁴ yt euery one of you shulde knowe how to kepe his vessell in holynes and honoure, ⁵ & not in the lust of concupiscence, as the Heythen which knowe not God.

⁷ For God hath not called vs to vnclennesse, but vnto holynes.

¹³ We wolde not brethren that ye shulde be ignoraunt concernynge them which are fallen a slepe, that ye sorowe not as other do which haue no hope.

¹⁷ praye contynually,

²⁸ The grace of oure LORDE Iesus Christ be with you, Amen.

⁸ and with flammynge fyre, to geue vengeauce vnto them that knowe not God, and to them that obeye not the Gospell of oure LORDE Iesus Christ.

⁴ which is an aduersary, and is exalted aboue all yt is called God or Gods seruyce, so that he sytteth as God in the temple of God, and boasteth himselfe to be God.

⁷ (For the mystery of the iniquyte worketh allready, tyll he which now onely letteth, be take out of the waye.)

¹⁰ and with all deceauablenes of vnrighteousnes amonge them that perishe, because they receaued not the loue of ye trueth, that they might haue bene saued.

¹⁰ and with all deceauablenes of vnrighteousnes amonge them that perishe, because they receaued not the loue of ye trueth, that they might haue bene saued. ¹¹ Therfore shal God sende them stroge delusion, that they shulde beleue lyes, ¹² yt all they might be daned, which beleued not the trueth, but had pleasure in vnrighteousnes. ¹³ But we are bounde to geue thankes allwaye vnto God for you, brethren be loued of the LORDE, because that God hath from the begynnynge chosen you to saluacion in the sanctifienge of the sprete and in beleuynge of the trueth, ¹⁴ whervnto he hath called you by oure Gospell, to optayne the glory of oure LORDE Iesus Christ.

¹⁴ whervnto he hath called you by oure Gospell, to optayne the glory of oure LORDE Iesus Christ.

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.

¹⁷ comforte youre hertes, and stablysh you in all doctryne & good doynge.

³ But the LORDE is faithfull, which shal stablyshe you and kepe you from euell.

¹⁶ The very LORDE of peace geue you peace allwayes by all meanes. The LORDE be with you all.

¹⁸ The grace of oure LORDE Iesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

¹ Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ acordinge to the commaundement of God oure Sauioure, and of the LORDE Iesus Christ, which is oure hope. ² Vnto Timothy my naturall sonne in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God oure father, and oure LORDE Iesus Christ.

¹⁰ to whoremongers, to the that defyle them selues with mankynde, to menstealers, to lyars, to periured, & so forth yf there be eny other thinge yt is cotrary to ye wholsome doctryne, ¹¹ acordinge to ye Gospell of ye glory of the blessed God, which (Gospell) is comytted vnto me.

¹¹ acordinge to ye Gospell of ye glory of the blessed God, which (Gospell) is comytted vnto me. ¹² And I thanke Christ Iesus or LORDE, which hath made me stroge, for he counted me faithfull, & put me in office,

¹⁵ For this is a true sayenge, and by all meanes worthy to be receaued, that Christ Iesus came in to ye worlde to saue synners, of whom I am chefe. ¹⁶ Notwithstondynge for this cause optayned I mercy, that Iesus Christ mighte pryncipally shewe in me all longe pacience, to the ensample of them which shulde beleue in him vnto eternall life. ¹⁷ So then vnto God kynge euerlastinge, immortall and invisible, and wyse onely, be honoure and prayse for euer and euer Amen.

⁷ wherevnto I am ordeyned a preacher & an Apostle (I tell ye trueth in Christ and lye not) a teacher of the Heythe in faith and in the trueth.

¹⁶ and without naye, greate is that mystery of godlynes. God was shewed in the flesh: was iustified in the sprete: was sene of angels: was preached vnto the Heythen: was beleued on in the worlde: was receaued vp in glory.

¹ The sprete speaketh euydently, that in ye latter tymes some shal departe from the faith, and shal geue hede vnto spretes of erroure, and deuelish doctrynes, of them ² which speake false thorow ypocrysie, and haue their coscience marked with an whote yron,

² Se that they which haue beleuynge masters, despyse them not because they are brethre, but rather do seruyce, for so moch as they are beleuynge, and beloued, and partakers of the benefite.

¹⁶ which onely hath immortalite, and dwelleth in a lighte, that no man can attayne: whom no man hath sene, nether can se. Vnto whom be honoure and empyre euerlastinge, Amen.

² To my deare sonne Timotheus. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the father and from Christ Iesu oure LORDE. 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: ⁴ and longe to se the (whan I remembre thy teares) so that I am fylled with ioye,

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 ⁹ which hath saued vs, and called vs with an holy callynge: not acordinge to oure dedes, but acordinge to his owne purpose and grace, which was geuen vs in Christ Iesu before the tyme of the worlde,

¹¹ whervnto I am appoynted a preacher and an Apostell, and a teacher of the Heythen: ¹² for the which cause I also suffre these thinges, neuertheles I am not ashamed. For I knowe whom I haue beleued, and am sure that he is able to kepe that which I haue commytted vnto his kepynge agaynst that daye.

¹⁶ The LORDE geue mercy vnto the house of Onesiphorus: for he oft refresshed me, and was not asshamed of my cheyne:

⁸ Remembre that Iesus Christ, beynge of the sede of Dauid, rose agayne fro the deed, acordynge to my Gospell,

¹⁰ Therfore suffre I all for the electes sakes, that they also mighte optayne the saluacion in Christ Iesu with eternall glory.

²⁰ Not withstondynge in a greate house are not onely vessels of golde and of syluer, but also of wod and of earth: some for honoure, and some to dishonoure. ²¹ But yf a man pourge himselfe from soch felowes, he shalbe a vessell sanctified vnto honoure, mete for the LORDE, and prepared vnto all good workes. ²² Fle thou the lustes of youth, but folowe righteousnes, faith, loue, peace, with all them that call vpon the LORDE with pure hert.

² For there shalbe me which shal holde of the selues, couetous, boasters, proude, cursed speakers, dishobedient to their elders, vnthankfull, vngoostly, ³ vnkynde, truce breakers, false accusers, ryatours, fearce, despysers of them which are good, ⁴ traytours, heady, hye mynded, gredy vpon voluptuousnes more then the louers of God,

⁸ But like as Iamnes and Iabres withstode Moses, euen so do these also resist the trueth: me they are of corrupte myndes, and lewde as cocernynge ye faith:

¹⁷ Notwitstondynge the LORDE stode by me, & stregthed me, that by me the preachinge shulde be fulfylled to the vttemost, and that all the Heythe shulde heare. And I was delyuered out of the mouth of the lyon.

²² The LORDE Iesus Christ be with thy sprete. Grace be with you, Amen.

¹ Pavl the seruaunt of God, and an Apostle off Iesus Christ, to preach the faith off Gods electe, and the knowlege of ye trueth, which ledeth vnto godlynes, ² vpon the hope of eternall life: which God that can not lye hath promysed before the tymes of the worlde:

⁴ Vnto Titus my naturall sonne after ye comen faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the father, and fro the LORDE Iesu Christ oure Sauioure.

¹⁶ They saye that they knowe God, but with the dedes they denye him: for so moch as they are abhominable and dishobedient, and vnmete to all 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.

³ Grace be with you, and peace from God oure father and from the LORDE Iesus Christ. ⁴ I thanke my God, makynge mencion allwayes of the in my prayers

⁸ Wherfore though I haue great boldnes in Christ to commaunde the that which becommeth the,

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

²⁵ The grace of oure LORDE Iesu Christ be with youre sprete, Amen.

¹ Wherfore holy brethren, ye that are partakers of the heauely callynge, consyder the Embasseatour and hye prest of or profession, Christ Iesus,

¹² For ye worde of God is quycke, and mightie in operacion, and sharper the eny two edged swerde, and entreth thorow, euen to the deuydinge of the soule & the sprete, and of ye ioyntes & the mary, and is a iudger of the thoughtes & intetes of the hert,

⁴ And noma taketh ye honoure vnto himselfe, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. ⁵ Euen so Christ glorified not himselfe to be made hye prest, but he yt sayde vnto him: Thou art my sonne, this daye haue I begotten the. ⁶ As he sayeth also in another place: Thou art a prest for euer after ye order of Melchisedech.

⁹ And he beynge made perfecte, became the cause of euerlastinge saluacio, vnto all the yt obeye him,

²⁶ For it became vs to haue soch an hye prest as is holy, innocent, vndefyled, separate from synners, and made hyer then heauen:

¹⁴ How moch more shal the bloude of Christ (which thorow the eternall sprete offred him selfe without spot vnto God) pourge oure conscience from deed workes, for to serue the lyuynge God?

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

⁶ But without faith it is vnpossible to please God. For he that commeth vnto God, must beleue that God is, & yt he is a rewarder of them that seke him. ⁷ By faith Noe honoured God, after yt he was warned of thinges which were not sene, & prepared the Arke, to ye sauinge of his housholde: thorow the which Arke he condemned the worlde, and became heyre of the righteousnes, which commeth by faith.

²⁷ By faith he forsoke Egipte, and feared not the fearcenes of the kynge: for he endured, eue as though he had sene him which is inuisible.

⁹ Be not caried aboute wt dyuerse and straunge lernynges: for it is a good thinge that the herte be stablysshed with grace, and not with meates, which haue not profited them, that haue had their pastyme in them.

¹⁵ Let vs therfore by him offre allwayes vnto God the sacrifice of prayse: that is to saye, the frute of those lippes which confesse his name.

¹⁹ But I desyre you ye more abundauntly, that ye so do, yt I maye be restored vnto you the more quyckly.

¹ Iames the seruaunt of God and of the LORDE Iesus Christ, sendeth gretinge to the xij. trybes which are scatered here & there.

⁵ Euen so the toge is a lyttell member, and bosteth great thinges. Beholde how gret a thinge a lyttell fyre kyndleth,

¹⁷ But the wissdom that is fro aboue, is fyrst pure, the peasable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good frutes, without iudgynge, and without simulacion: ¹⁸ yee, and the frute of rightewesnes is sowen in peace, of the that mayntene peace.

¹⁵ For that ye ought to say: yf the LORDE wil, and yf we liue, let vs do this or that. ¹⁶ But nowe ye reioyce in youre bostinges. All soche reioysynge is euell.

¹ Peter an Apostle of Iesu Christ, to the that dwell here and there as straungers thorow out Pontus, Galacia, Capadocia, Asia and Bithinia, electe ² acordinge to the foreknowlege of God the father thorow sanctifienge of the sprete, vnto obedience and sprenklynge of the bloude of Iesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied with you.

¹¹ searchinge whan or at what tyme the sprete off Christ that was in them, shulde signifye, which (sprete) testified before the passions that shulde come vnto Christ, and the glory that shulde folowe after.

¹⁵ but as he which hath called you is holy, eue so be ye holy also in all youre conuersacion:

¹⁸ and knowe, that ye were not redemed wt corruptible syluer and golde, from youre vayne conuersacion (which ye receaued by the tradicios of the fathers)

⁵ And ye also as lyuynge stones are made a spirituall house, and an holy presthode, to offre vp spirituall sacrifices, acceptable vnto God by Iesus Christ.

⁹ But ye are that chosen generacion, that kyngly presthode, that holy nacion, that peculier people, yt ye shulde shewe the vertues of him, which hath called you out of darknesse in to his maruelous lighte:

⁹ But ye are that chosen generacion, that kyngly presthode, that holy nacion, that peculier people, yt ye shulde shewe the vertues of him, which hath called you out of darknesse in to his maruelous lighte: ¹⁰ Euen you which in tyme past were not a people, but now are the people of God: which were not vnder mercy, but now haue optayned mercy.

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,

³ For it is ynough, yt we haue spent ye tyme past of the life, after the will of ye Heythen, wha we walked in wantannesse, lustes, dronkenes, glotony, ryotous drynkynge, & i abhominable Idolatrye.

¹¹ Yf eny ma speake, let hi speake it as ye wordes of God. Yf eny man haue an office, let him execute it as out of the power yt God mynistreth vnto hi, yt God maye be praysed in all thinges thorow Iesus Christ, To who be honor and domynion for euer and euer Amen.

¹⁶ Yf eny man suffre as a Christen man, let him not be ashamed, but let him prayse God on this behalfe.

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.

¹² By Siluanus youre faithfull brother (as I suppose) haue I wrytte vnto you breuely, exhortinge and testifyenge, how that this is the true grace of God wherin ye stode.

¹ Symon Peter a seruaut and an Apostle of Iesus Christ.Vnto the which haue optayned like faith with vs in the righteousnes that commeth of oure God, and Sauioure Iesus Christ. ² Grace and peace be multiplied with you thorow the knowlege of God and of Iesus Christ oure LORDE. ³ For so moch as his godly power hath geuen vs all thinges (that pertayne vnto life and godlynes) thorow the knowlege of him that hath called vs by his owne glorie and power,

¹⁰ Wherfore (brethre) geue the more diligence, to make youre callynge and eleccion sure: for yf ye do soch thinges, ye shal not fall,

¹² Therfore wil I not be necliget to put you allwayes in remembraunce of soch thinges: though ye knowe them youre selues, and be stablished in the present trueth.

²¹ For the prophecie was neuer broughte by the wyll of man, but the holy men of God spake, as they were moued of ye holy goost.

¹⁸ For they speake ye proude wordes of vanite, vnto ye vttemost, and entyse thorow wantannes vnto ye luste of the flesh, euen them that were cleane escaped, and now walke in erroure:

⁵ This they knowe not (and that wylfully) how that the heauens were afore tyme also, and the earth out of the water, & was in the water by the worde of God,

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.

³ That which we haue sene & herde, declare we vnto you, that ye also maye haue fellishippe with vs, and that oure fellishippe maye be with the father and with his sonne Iesus Christ.

¹⁵ Se that ye loue not the worlde, nether ye thinges that are in the worlde. Yf eny man loue the worlde, the loue of the father is not in him: 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.

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.

⁸ He that commytteth synne, is of the deuell: for the deuell synneth sence ye begynnynge. For this purpose appeared the sonne of God, to lowse the workes of the deuell.

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.

² Hereby shal ye knowe the sprete of God: Euery sprete which confesseth, that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God: ³ And euery sprete which confesseth not that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not off God. And this is that sprete of Antechrist, off whom ye haue herde, how that he shal come, and euen now allready is he in the worlde.

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.

¹⁵ Whosoeuer now confesseth yt Iesus is the sonne of God in him dwelleth God, and he in God:

¹ Who so euer beleueth that Iesus is Christ, is borne of God. And who soeuer loueth him that begat, loueth him also which was begotten of him.

⁵ Who is it yt ouercommeth the worlde, but he which beleueth that Iesus is the sonne of God?

⁹ Yf we receaue the witnesse of men, the witnesse of God is greater: for this is the wytnesse of God, which he testifyed of his sonne. ¹⁰ He that beleueth on ye sonne of God, hath the wytnes in him selfe. He that beleueth not God, hath made him a lyar.

¹⁰ He that beleueth on ye sonne of God, hath the wytnes in him selfe. He that beleueth not God, hath made him a lyar. ¹¹ And this is that recorde, euen yt God hath geue vs euerlastinge life. And this life is in his sonne.

¹¹ And this is that recorde, euen yt God hath geue vs euerlastinge life. And this life is in his sonne. ¹² He that hath the sonne of God, hath life: He that hath not the sonne of God, hath not life.

¹² He that hath the sonne of God, hath life: He that hath not the sonne of God, hath not life. ¹³ These thinges haue I wrytte vnto you, which beleue on the name of the sonne of God, that ye maye knowe, how that ye haue eternall life, and that ye maye beleue on ye name of the sonne of God.

²⁰ But we knowe, that the sonne of God is come, and hath geuen vs a mynde, to knowe him which is true: and we are in him yt is true, in his sonne Iesu Christ. This is the true God, and euerlastinge life.

³ Grace, mercy, and peace be with you fro the LORDE Iesus Christ ye sonne of the father in the trueth and in loue. 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.

⁷ For many disceauers are come in to the worlde, which confesse not yt Iesus Christ is come in the flesh: this is a disceauer and an Antechrist.

³ I reioysed greatly, whan the brethren came, and testified of the trueth that is in ye, how thou walkest in the trueth. ⁴ I haue no greater ioye, the to heare that my childre walke in the trueth.

¹ Ivdas the seruaunt of Iesus Christ, the brother off Iames. To the which are called, and sanctified in God the father, and preserued in Iesu Christ.

¹ Ivdas the seruaunt of Iesus Christ, the brother off Iames. To the which are called, and sanctified in God the father, and preserued in Iesu Christ. ² Mercy vnto you, and peace and loue be multiplied. ³ Beloued, when I gaue all diligence to wryte vnto you of the commen saluacion: it was nedefull for me to wryte vnto you, to exhorte you, that ye shulde continually laboure in the faith which was once geue vnto the sayntes.

⁷ euen as Sodom and Gomor, and the cities aboute them (which in lyke maner defiled them selues with fornicacion and folowed straunge flesshe) are set forth for an ensample, and suffre the vengeaunce of eternall fyre.

¹⁰ But these speake euell off those thinges which they knowe not: and what thinges they knowe naturally, as beastes which are without reason, in tho thinges they corrupte them selues.

¹⁶ These are murmurers, complaners, walkynge after their awne lustes, whose mouthes speake proude thynges. They haue me in greate reuerence because of avauntage.

¹ The reuelacion of Iesus Christ, which God gaue vnto him, for to shewe vnto his seruautes thiges which muste shortly come to passe. And he sent and shewed by his angel vnto his seruaunt Ihon

⁴ Ihon to the seuen cogregacions in Asia. Grace be with you & peace, fro him which is and which was, and which is to come, & fro the seuen spretes which are present before his trone, ⁵ and from Iesus Christ which is a faithfull witnes, and first begotten of the deed: & LORDE ouer ye kinges of the earth. Vnto him that loued vs and wesshed vs fro synnes in his awne bloud,

¹⁸ and am alyue, and was deed. And beholde, I am alyue for euer more and haue the kayes of hell & of deth.

¹ Vnto the angell of the congregacion of Ephesus wryte: These thinges sayth he that holdeth the seuen starres in his righthonde, and walketh in the myddes of the seuen golde candelstickes:

⁸ And vnto the angell of the congregacion of Smyrna wryte: These thinges saith he that is fyrst, and the last, which was deed, and is aliue:

¹² And to the angell of the congregacion in Pergamos wryte: This sayth he which hath the sharpe swearde with two edges:

¹⁸ And vnto the angell of the cogregacion of Theatira write: This saith the sonne of God, which hath his eyes lyke vnto a flame of fyre, whose fete are like brasse:

²⁹ Let him yt hath eares, heare, what the sprete sayth to the cogregacions.

⁷ And wryte vnto ye angell of the cogregacio of Philadelphia: this sayth he yt is holy and true, which hath the keye of Dauid: which openyth and noman shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth.

¹⁴ And vnto the angell of the cogregacion, which is in Laodicia wryte: This sayth Amen the faithfull and true witnes, the begynnynge of ye creatures of God.

²² Let him that hath eares, heare, what the sprete saith vnto the cogregacios.

²⁰ And the remnaunt of the me which were not kylled by these plages, repeted not of the dedes of their hondes, yt they shulde not worshippe deuels, and ymages of golde, and syluer, and brasse, & stone, and of wod, which nether can se, nether heare, nether go.

⁷ sayege with a lowde voyce: Feare God, and geue honour to him, for the houre of his iudgement is come: and worshippe him that made heauen and earth, and the see, and the fountaynes off water.

⁴ Who shal not feare the O LORDE and gloryfie thy name? For thou only art holy, for all getiles shall come and worshippe before the, for thy iudgmentes are made manyfest.

¹⁴ These shal fyght with the lambe, and the labe shal ouercome them: For he is LORDE of all lordes, and kinge of all kinges: and they that are on his syde, are called, and chosen and faithfull.

¹⁰ And I fell at his fete, to worshippe him. And he sayde vnto me: Se thou do it not. For I am thy felowe seruaunt, and one of thy brethren, and of them that haue the testimony of Iesus. Worshippe God. For the testimony of Iesus is ye sprete of prophesy.

⁶ And he sayde vnto me: these sayenges are faithfull, and true. And the LORDE God of the holy prophetes sent his angell to shewe vnto his seruantes, the thinges which muste shortly be fulfylled.

⁹ And he saide vnto me: se thou do it not, for I am thy felowe seruaunt and the felowe seruaut of thy brethren the prophetes, and of them, which kepe the sayenges of this boke. Worshippe God.

²¹ The grace of oure LORDE Iesu Christ be with you all. Amen.