The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

Wherfore I desyre you to folowe me.

For this cause have I sent vnto you Timotheus which is my deare sonne and faithfull in the Lorde which shall put you in remembraunce of my wayes which I have in Christ even as I teache every where in all congregacions.

Some swell as though I wolde come no more at you.

But I will come to you shortely yf God will: and will knowe not the wordes of the which swell but the power:

for the kyngdome of God is not in wordes but in power.

What will ye? Shall I come vnto you with a rodde or els in love and in the sprete of mekenes?

There goeth a commen sayinge that ther is fornicacion amonge you and soche fornicacion as is not once named amonge the gentyls: that one shuld have his fathers wyfe.

And ye swell and have not rather sorowed that he which hath done this dede myght be put from amonge you.

For I verely as absent in body even so present in sprete have determyned all redy (as though I were present) of him that hath done this dede

in the name of oure Lorde Iesu Christ when ye are gaddered togedder and my sprete with the power of the Lorde Iesus Christ

to deliver him vnto Satan for the destruccion of the flesshe that the sprete maye be saved in the daye of the Lorde Iesus.

Youre reioysinge is not good: knowe ye not that a lytle leve sowreth the whole lompe of dowe.

Pourge therfore the olde leven that ye maye be newe dowe as ye are swete breed. For Christ oure esterlambe is offered vp for vs.

Therfore let vs kepe holy daye not with olde leve nether with the leven of maliciousnes and wickednes: but with the swete breed of purenes and truth.

I wrote vnto you in a pistle that ye shuld not company with fornicatours.

And I meant not at all of the fornicatours of this worlde ether of the coveteous or of extorsioners ether of the ydolaters: for then must ye nedes have gone out of the worlde.

But now I write vnto you that ye company not togedder yf eny that is called a brother be a fornicator or coveteous or a worshipper of ymages ether a raylar ether a dronkard or an extorcionar: with him that is soche se that ye eate not.

For what have I to do to iudge them which are with out? Do ye not iudge them that are with in?

Them that are with out God shall iudge. Put awaye from amonge you that evyll parson.

How dare one of you havinge busines with another goo to lawe vnder the wicked and not rather vnder the sainctes?

Do ye not know that the sainctes shall iudge the worlde? If the worlde shalbe iudged by you: are ye not good ynough to iudge smale trifles:

knowe ye not how that we shall iudge the angles? How moche more maye we iudge thinges that partayne to the lyfe?

If ye have iudgementes of worldely matters take them which are despised in the congregacion and make them iudges.

This I saye to youre shame. Is ther vtterly no wyse man amonge you? What not one at all that can iudge bitwene brother and brother

but one brother goeth to lawe with another: and that vnder the vnbelevers?

Now therfore ther is vtterly a faute amonge you because ye goo to lawe one with another. Why rather suffer ye not wronge? why rather suffre ye not youre selves to be robbed?

Naye ye youre selves do wronge and robbe: and that the brethren.

Do ye not remember how that the vnrighteous shall not inheret the kyngdome of God? Be not deceaved. For nether fornicators nether worshyppers of ymages nether whormongers nether weaklinges nether abusars of them selves with the mankynde

nether theves nether the coveteous nether dronkardes nether cursed speakers nether pillers shall inheret the kyngdome of God.

And soche ware ye verely: but ye are wesshed: ye are sanctified: ye are iustified by the name of the Lorde Iesus and by the sprete of oure God.

All thinges are lawfull vnto me: but all thinges are not proffitable. I maye do all thinges: but I will be brought vnder no mans power.

Meates are ordeyned for the belly and the belly for meates: but God shall destroy bothe it and them. Let not the body be applied vnto fornicacion but vnto the Lorde and the Lorde vnto the body.

God hath raysed vp the Lorde and shall rayse vs vp by his power.

Ether remember ye not that youre bodyes are the members of Christ? Shall I now take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? God forbyd.

Do ye not vnderstonde that he which coupleth him selfe with an harlot is become one body? For two (saith he) shalbe one flesshe.

But he that is ioyned vnto the Lorde is one sprete.

Fle fornicacion. All synnes that a man dothe are with out the body. But he that is a fornicator synneth agaynst his awne body.

Ether knowe ye not how that youre bodyes are the temple of the holy goost which is in you who ye have of God and how that ye are not youre awne?

For ye are dearly bought. Therfore glorifie the God in youre bodyes and in youre spretes for they are goddes.

As concerninge the thinges wherof ye wrote vnto me: it is good for a man not to touche a woman.

Neverthelesse to avoyde fornicacion let every man have his wyfe: and let every woman have her husbande.

Let the man geve vnto the wyfe due benevolence. Lykwyse also the wyfe vnto the man.

The wyfe hath not power over her awne body: but the husbande. And lykewyse the man hath not power over his awne body: but the wyfe.

Withdrawe not youre selves one from another excepte it be with consent for a tyme for to geve youre selves to fastynge and prayer. And afterwarde come agayne to the same thynge lest Satan tempt you for youre incontinencye.

This I saye of faveour not of commaundement.

For I wolde that all men were as I my selfe am: but every man hath his proper gyfte of God one after this maner another after that.

I saye vnto the vnmaried men and widdowes: it is good for them yf they abyde even as I do.

But and yf they cannot abstayne let them mary. For it is better to mary then to burne.

Vnto the maryed commaunde not I but the Lorde: that the wyfe separate not her selfe from the man.

Yf she separate her selfe let her remayne vnmaryed or be reconciled vnto her husbande agayne. And let not the husbande put awaye his wyfe from him.

To the remnaunt speake I and not the lorde. Yf eny brother have a wyfe that beleveth not yf she be content to dwell with him let him not put her awaye.

And the woman which hath to her husbande an infidell yf he consent to dwell with her let her not put him awaye.

For the vnbelevynge husbande is sanctified by the wyfe: and the vnbelevynge wyfe is sanctified by the husbande. Or els were youre chyldren vnclene: but now are they pure.

But and yf the vnbelevynge departe let him departe. A brother or a sister is not in subiection to soche. God hath called vs in peace.

For how knowest thou o woman whether thou shalt save that man or no? Other how knowest thou o man whether thou shalt save that woman or no?

but even as God hath distributed to every man. As the lorde hath called every person so let him walke: and so orden I in all congregacions.

Yf eny man be called beynge circumcised let him adde nothinge therto. Yf eny be called vncircumcised: let him not be circumcised.

Circumcision is nothinge vncircumcision is nothinge: but the kepyng of the commaundmentes of god is altogether.

Let every man abyde in the same state wherin he was called.

Arte thou called a servaut? care not for it. Neverthelesse yf thou mayst be fre vse it rather.

For he that is called in the lorde beynge a servaunt is the lordes freman. Lykwyse he that is called beynge fre is Christes servaut.

Ye are dearly bought be not mennes seruauntes.

Brethren let everye man wherin he is called therin abyde with God.

As concernynge virgins I have no commaundment of the lorde: yet geve I counsell as one that hath obtayned mercye of the lorde to be faythfull.

I suppose that it is good for the present necessite. For it is good for a man so to be.

Arte thou bounde vnto a wyfe? seke not to be lowsed. Arte thou lowsed from a wyfe? seke not a wyfe.

But and yf thou take a wyfe thou synnest not. Lykwyse if a virgin mary she synneth not. Neverthelesse soche shall have trouble in their flesshe: but I faver you.

This saye I brethren the tyme is shorte. It remayneth that they which have wives be as though they had none

and they that wepe be as though thy wept not: and they that reioyce be as though they reioysed not: and they that bye be as though they possessed not:

and they that vse this worlde be as though they vsed it not. For the fassion of this worlde goeth awaye.

I wolde have you without care: the single man careth for the thinges of the lorde how he maye please the lorde.

But he that hath maried careth for the thinges of the worlde howe he maye please his wyfe.

There is difference bitwene a virgin and a wyfe. The single woman careth for the thinges of the lorde that she maye be pure both in body and also in sprete But she that is maryed careth for the thinges of the worlde how she maye please her husband.

This speake I for youre proffit not to tangle you in a snare: but for that which is honest and comly vnto you and that ye maye quyetly cleave vnto the lorde with out separacion.

If eny man thinke that it is vncomly for his virgin if she passe the tyme of mariage ad if so nede requyre let him do what he listeth he synneth not: let the be coupled in mariage.

Neverthelesse he that purposeth surely in his herte havynge none nede: but hath power over his awne will: and hath so decreed in his herte that he will kepe his virgin doth well.

So then he that ioyneth his virgin in maryage doth well. But he that ioyneth not his virgin in mariage doth better.

The wyfe is bounde to the lawe as longe as her husband liveth If her husbande slepe she is at liberte to mary with whom she wyll only in the lorde.

But she is happiar yf she so abyde in my iudgmet And I thinke verely that I have the sprete of God.

To speake of thinges dedicate vnto ydols we are sure that we all have knowledge. knowledge maketh a man swell: but love edifieth.

If eny man thinke that he knoweth eny thinge he knoweth nothynge yet as he ought to knowe.

But yf eny man love god the same is knowen of him.

To speake of meate dedicat vnto ydols we are sure that ther is none ydoll in the worlde and that ther is none other god but one.

And though ther be that are called goddes whether in heven other in erth (as ther be goddes many and lordes many)

yet vnto vs is there but one god which is the father of whom are all thinges and we in him: and one lorde Iesus Christ by whom are all thinges and we by him.

But every man hath not knowledge. For some suppose that ther is an ydoll vntyll this houre and eate as of a thinge offered vnto the ydole and so their consciences beynge yet weake are defyled.

Meate maketh vs not acceptable to god. Nether yf we eate are we the better. Nether yf we eate not are we the worsse.

But take hede that youre libertie cause not the weake to faule.

For yf some man se ye which hast knowledge sit at meate in the ydoles temple shall not the conscience of hym which is weake be boldened to eate those thinges which are offered vnto the ydole?

And so thorow thy knowledge shall the weake brother perisshe for whom christ dyed.

When ye synne so agaynst the brethren and wounde their weake consciences ye synne agaynst Christ.

Wherfore yf meate hurt my brother I will eate no flesshe whill the worlde stondeth because I will not hurte my brother.

Am I not an Apostle? am I not fre? have I not sene Iesus Christ oure lorde? Are not ye my worke in the lorde.

Yf I be not an Apostle vnto other yet am I vnto you. For the seale of myne Apostleshippe are ye in the lorde.

Myne answer to them that axe me is this.

Have we not power to eate and to drynke?

Ether have we not power to leade about a sister to wyfe as wel as other Apostles and as the brethren of the lorde and Cephas?

Ether only I and Barnabas have not power this to do?

who goeth a warfare eny tyme at his awne cost? who planteth a vynearde and eateth not of the frute? Who fedeth a flocke and eateth not of the mylke?

Saye I these thinges after the manner of men? Or sayth not the lawe the same also?