The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

Salute Rufus chosen in the Lorde and his mother and myne.

Grete Asincritus, Phlegon, Herman, Patrobas, Hermen, and the brethren which are with them.

Salute Philologus and Iulia, Nereus and his sister, and Olimpha and all the saynctes which are with them.

Salute one another with an holy kysse. The congregacions of Christ salute you.

I beseche you brethren marke them which cause division and geve occasions of evyll contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned: and avoyde them.

For they that are suche serve not the Lorde Iesus Christ: but their awne bellyes and with swete preachinges and flatteringe wordes deceave the hertes of the innocetes.

For youre obedience extendeth to all men. I am glad no dout of you. But yet I wolde have you wyse vnto that which is good and to be innocetes concerninge evyll.

The God of peace treade Satan vnder youre fete shortly. The grace of oure Lorde Iesu Christ be with you.

Thimotheus my worke felow and Lucius and Iason and Sopater my kynsmen salute you.

I Tertius salute you which wrote this epistle in the Lorde.

Gaius myne hoste and the hoste of all the congregacions saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlayne of the cite saluteth you. And Quartus a brother saluteth you.

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

To him that is of power to stablisshe you accordinge to my gospell and preachinge of Iesus Christ in vtteringe of the mistery which was kept secret sence the worlde begane

but now is opened by the scriptures of prophesie at the commaundement of the everlastinge god to stere vp obedience to the faith publisshed amonge all nacions:

To the same God which alone is wyse be prayse thorowe Iesus Christ for ever. Amen. ‘To the Romayns. Sent from Chorinthum by Phebe she that was the minister vnto the congregacion at Chenchrea.’

Paul by vocacion an Apostle of Iesus Christ thorow the will of God and brother Sostenes.

Vnto the congregacion of God which is at Corinthum. To them that are sanctified in Christ Iesu sainctes by callynge with all that call on the name of oure lorde Iesus Christ in every place both of theirs and of oures.

Grace be with you and peace from God oure father and from the lorde Iesus Christ.

I thanke my God all wayes on youre behalfe for the grace of God which is geuen you by Iesus Christ

that in all thinges ye are made riche by him in all lerninge and in all knowledge

even as the testimony of Iesus Christ was confermed in you

so that ye are behynde in no gyft and wayte for the apperynge of oure lorde Iesus Christ

which shall streght you vnto the ende that ye maye be blamelesse in the daye of oure lorde Iesus Christ.

For god is faythfull by whom ye are called vnto the fellishyppe of his sonne Iesus Christe oure lorde.

I beseche you brethren in the name of oure lorde Iesus Christ that ye all speake one thynge and that there be no dissencion amonge you: but be ye knyt together in one mynde and in one meaynge.

It is shewed vnto me (my brethren) of you by them that are of the housse of Cloe that ther is stryfe amonge you.

And this is it that I meane: how that comelie amonge you one sayeth: I holde of Paul: another I holde of Apollo: the thyrde I holde of Cephas: the four ye I holde of Christ.

Ys Christ devided? was Paul crucified for you? ether were ye baptised in the name of Paul?

I thanke God that I christened none of you but Crispus and Gayus

lest eny shulde saye that I had baptised in myne awne name.

I baptised also the housse of Stephana. Forthermore knowe I not whether I baptised eny man or no.

For Christ sent me not to baptyse but to preache the gospell not with wysdome of wordes lest the crosse of Christ shuld have bene made of none effecte.

For the preachinge of the crosse is to them that perisshe folishnes: but vnto vs which are saved it is the power of God.

For it is written: I will destroye the wysdome of the wyse and will cast awaye the vnderstondinge of the prudet.

Where is the wyse? Where is the scrybe? Where is the searcher of this worlde? Hath not God made the wysdome of this worlde folisshnes?

For when the worlde thorow wysdome knew not God in the wysdome of God: it pleased God thorow folisshnes of preachinge to save them that beleve.

For the Iewes requyre a signe and the Grekes seke after wysdome.

But we preache Christ crucified vnto the Iewes an occasion of fallinge and vnto the Grekes folisshnes:

but vnto the which are called both of Iewes and Grekes we preache Christ the power of God and the wysdome of God.

For the folishnes of God is wyser then men: and the weakenes of God is stronger then men.

Brethren loke on youre callinge how that not many wyse men after the flesshe not many myghty not many of hye degre are called:

but God hath chosen the folysshe thinges of the worlde to confounde the wyse. And God hath chosyn the weake thinges of the worlde to confounde thinges which are mighty.

And vile thinges of the worlde and thinges which are despysed hath God chosen yee and thinges of no reputacion for to brynge to nought thinges of reputacion

that no flesshe shulde reioyce in his presence.

And vnto him partayne ye in Christ Iesu which of God is made vnto vs wysdome and also rightewesnes and saunctifyinge and redempcion.

That accordinge as it is written: he which reioyseth shulde reioyce in the Lorde.

And I brethren when I came to you came not in gloriousnes of wordes or of wysdome shewynge vnto you the testimony of God.

Nether shewed I my selfe that I knewe eny thinge amonge you save Iesus Christ even the same that was crucified.

And I was amonge you in weaknes and in feare and in moche treblinge.

And my wordes and my preachinge were not with entysynge wordes of manes wysdome: but in shewinge of the sprete and of power

that youre fayth shuld not stonde in the wysdome of me but in the power of God.

That we speake of is wysdome amonge them that are perfecte: not the wysdome of this worlde nether of the rulars of this worlde (which go to nought)

but we speake the wysdome of God which is in secrete and lieth hyd which God ordeyned before the worlde vnto oure glory:

which wysdome none of the rulars of the worlde knewe. For had they knowe it they wolde not have crucified the Lorde of glory.

But as it is written: The eye hath not sene and the eare hath not hearde nether have entred into the herte of man the thinges which God hath prepared for them that love him.

But God hath opened them vnto vs by his sprete. For the sprete searcheth all thinges the the bottome of Goddes secretes.

For what man knoweth the thinges of a man: save the sprete of a man which is with in him? Even so the thinges of God knoweth no man but the sprete of god.

And we have not receaved the sprete of the worlde: but the sprete which cometh of god for to knowe the thinges that are geve to vs of god

which thinges also we speake not in the conynge wordes of manes wysdome but with the conynge wordes of the holy goost makynge spretuall comparesons of spretuall thinges.

For the naturall man perceaveth not the thinges of the sprete of god. For they are but folysshnes vnto him. Nether can he perceave them because he is spretually examined.

But he that is spretuall discusseth all thinges: yet he him selfe is iudged of no man.

For who knoweth the mynde of the Lorde other who shall informe him? But we vnderstonde the mynde of Christ.

And I coulde not speake vnto you brethren as vnto spretuall: but as vnto carnall even as it were vnto babes in Christ.

I gave you mylke to drinke and not meate. For ye then were not stronge no nether yet are.

For ye are yet carnall. As longe verely as ther is amonge you envyige stryfe and dissencion: are ye not carnall and walke after the manner of men?

As loge as one sayth I holde of Paul and another I am of Apollo are ye not carnall?

What is Paul? What thinge is Apollo? Only ministers are they by who ye beleved even as the Lorde gave every man grace.

I have planted: Apollo watred: but god gave increace.

So then nether is he that planteth eny thinge nether he that watreth: but god which gave the increace.

He that planteth and he that watreth are nether better then the other. Every man yet shall receave his rewarde accordynge to his laboure.

We are goddis labourers ye are goddis husbandrye ye are goddis byldynge.

Accordynge to the grace of god geven vnto me as a wyse bylder have I layde the foundacion And another bylt theron But let every man take hede how he bildeth apon.

For other foundacion can no man laye then that which is layde which is Iesus Christ.

Yf eny man bilde on this foundacion golde silver precious stones tymber haye or stoble:

every mannes worke shall appere. For the daye shall declare it and it shalbe shewed in fyre. And ye fyre shall trye euery mannes worke what it is.

Yf eny mannes worke that he hath bylt apon byde he shall receave a rewarde.

If eny manes worke burne he shall suffre losse: but he shalbe safe him selfe: neverthelesse yet as it were thorow fyre.

Are ye not ware that ye are the temple of god and how that the sprete of god dwelleth in you?

Yf eny man defyle the temple of god him shall god destroye. For the temple of god is holy which temple ye are.

Let no man deceave him silfe. Yf eny man seme wyse amonge you let him be a fole in this worlde that he maye be wyse.

For the wisdome of this worlde is folysshnes with god. For it is written: he compaseth the wyse in their craftynes.

And agayne God knoweth the thoughtes of the wyse that they be vayne.

Therfore let no man reioyce in men. For all thinges are youres

whether it be Paul other Apollo other Cephas: whether it be the worlde other lyfe other deeth whether they be present thinges or thinges to come: all are youres

and ye are Christes and Christ is goddis.

Let men this wyse esteme vs even as the ministers of Christ and disposers of the secretes of God.

Furthermore it is requyred of the disposers that they be founde faithfull.

With me is it but a very smal thinge that I shuld be iudged of you ether of (mans daye) No I iudge not myn awne selfe.

I know nought by my selfe: yet am I not therby iustified. It is the Lorde that iudgeth me.

Therfore iudge no thinge before the tyme vntill the Lorde come which will lighten thinges that are hyd in darcknes and open the counsels of the hertes. And then shall every man have prayse of God.

These thinges brethren I have described in myn awne person and Apollos for youre sakes that ye myght learne by vs that no man counte of him selfe beyonde that which is above written: that one swell not agaynst another for eny mans cause.

For who preferreth the? What hast thou that thou hast not receaved? Yf thou have receaved it why reioysest thou as though thou haddest not receaved it?

Now ye are full: now ye are made rych: ye raygne as kinges with out vs: and I wold to god ye dyd raygne that we might raygne with you.

Me thinketh that God hath set forth vs which are Apostles for the lowest of all as it were men appoynted to deeth. For we are a gasyngestocke vnto the worlde and to the angels and to men.

We are foles for Christes sake and ye are wyse thorow Christ. We are weake and ye are stroge. Ye are honorable and we are despised.

Even vnto this daye we honger and thyrst and are naked and are boffetted with fistes and have no certayne dwellinge place

and laboure workinge with oure awne hondes. We are revysed and yet we blesse. We are persecuted and suffer it.

We are evyll spoken of and we praye. We are made as it were the filthynes of the worlde the ofscowringe of all thinges even vnto this tyme.

I write not these thinges to shame you: but as my beloved sonnes I warne you.

For though ye have ten thousande instructours in Christ: yet have ye not many fathers. In Christ Iesu I have begotten you thorowe the gospell.