The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

Yf the fote saye: I am not the honde therfore I am not of the body: is he therfore not of the body:

And if the eare saye I am not the eye: therfore I am not of the body: is he therfore not of the body?

If all the body were an eye where were then the eare? If all were hearynge: where were the smellynge?

But now hath god disposed the membres every one of them in the body at his awne pleasure.

If they were all one member: where were the body?

Now are ther many membres yet but one body.

And the eye can not saye vnto the honde I have no nede of the: nor the heed also to the fete. I have no nede of you.

Ye rather a greate deale those membres of the body which seme to be most feble are most necessary.

And apon those membres of that body which we thinke lest honest put we most honestie on. And oure vngodly parties have most beauty on.

For oure honest members nede it not. But God hath so disposed the body ad hath geven most honoure to that parte which laked

lest there shuld be eny stryfe in the body: but that the members shuld indifferetly care one for another.

And yf one member suffer all suffer with him: yf one member be had in honoure all members be glad also.

Ye are the body of Christ and members one of another.

And God hath also ordeyned in the congregacion fyrst the Apostels secondarely prophetes thyrdly teachers then the that do miracles: after that the gyftes of healynge helpers governers diversite of tonges.

Are all Apostles? Are all Prophetes? Are all teachers? Are all doars of miracles?

Have all the gyftes of healinge? Do all speake with tonges? Do all interprete?

Covet after the best giftes. Amd yet shewe I vnto you a moare excellent waye.

Though I spake with the tonges of me and angels and yet had no love I were even as soundinge brasse: or as a tynklynge Cymball.

And though I coulde prophesy and vnderstode all secretes and all knowledge: yee yf I had all fayth so that I coulde move mountayns oute of ther places and yet had no love I were nothynge.

And though I bestowed all my gooddes to fede the poore and though I gave my body even that I burned and yet had no love it profeteth me nothinge.

Love suffreth longe and is corteous. Love envieth not. Love doth not frowardly swelleth not

dealeth not dishonestly seketh not her awne is not provoked to anger thynketh not evyll

reioyseth not in iniquite: but reioyseth in the trueth

suffreth all thynge beleveth all thynges hopeth all thynges endureth in all thynges.

Though that prophesyinge fayle other tonges shall cease )or knowledge vanysshe awaye yet love falleth never awaye.

For oure knowledge is vnparfect and oure prophesyinge is vnperfet.

But when that which is parfect is come then that which is vnparfet shall be done awaye.

When I was a chylde I spake as a chylde I vnderstode as a childe I ymagened as a chylde. But assone as I was a man I put awaye childesshnes.

Now we se in a glasse even in a darke speakynge: but then shall we se face to face. Now I knowe vnparfectly: but then shall I knowe even as I am knowen.

Now abideth fayth hope and love even these thre: but the chefe of these is love.

Labour for love and covet spretuall giftes: and most chefly for to prophesye.

For he that speaketh with toges speaketh not vnto men but vnto god for no man heareth him how be it in the sprete he speaketh misteries.

But he that prophesieth speaketh vnto men to edifyinge to exhortacion and to comforte.

He that speaketh with tonges proffiteth him silfe: he that prophesyeth edifieth the congregacion.

I wolde that ye all spake with tonges: but rather that ye prophesied. For greater is he that prophisieth? then he that speaketh with tonges except he expounde it also that the congregacion maye have edifyinge.

Now brehren if I come vnto you speakige with tonges: what shall I profit you excepte I speake vnto you other by revelacion or knowledge or prophesyinge or doctrine.

Moreover when thinges with out lyfe geve sounde: whether it be a pype or an harpe: except they make a distinccion in the soundes: how shall it be knowen what is pyped or harped?

And also if the trope geve an vncertayne voyce who shall prepare him silfe to fyght?

Even so lykwyse when ye speake with toges excepte ye speake wordes that have signification how shall that be vnderstonde what is spoke? For ye shall but speake in the ayer.

Many kyndes of voyces are in the worlde and none of them are with out signification.

If I knowe not what the voyce meaneth I shalbe vnto him that speaketh an alient: and and he that speaketh shalbe an alient vnto me

Even so ye (for as moche as ye covet spretuall giftes) seke that ye maye have plentye vnto the edifyinge of the congregacion.

Wherfore let him that speaketh with tonges praye that he maye interpret also.

If I praye with tonge my sprete prayeth: but my mynde is with out frute.

What is it then? I will praye with the sprete ad will praye with the mynde also. I will singe with the sprete and will singe with the mynde also.

For els when thou blessest with the sprete how shall he that occupieth the roume of the vnlearned saye amen at thy gevinge of thankes seynge he vnderstondeth not what thou sayest.

Thou verely gevest thankes well but the other is not edyfied.

I thanke my god I speake with toges moare then ye all.

Yet had I lever in the congregacion to speake five wordes with my mynde to the informacio of other rather then ten thousande wordes with the tonge.

Brethren be not chyldre in witte. How be it as concerninge maliciousnes be chyldre: but in witte be perfet.

In the lawe it is written with other toges and with other lyppes wyll I speake vnto this people and yet for all that will they not heare me sayth the Lorde.

Wherfore tonges are for a signe not to them that beleve: but to them that beleve not. Contrary wyse prophesyinge serveth not for them that beleve not: but for them which beleve.

Yf therfore when all the congregacion is come to gedder and all speake with tonges ther come in they that are vnlearned or they which beleve not: will they not saye that ye are out of youre wittes?

But and yf all prophesy and ther come in one that beleveth not or one vnlearned he is rebuked of all men and is iudged of every man:

and so are the secretes of his hert opened and so falleth he doune on his face and worshippeth God and sayth that God is with you in dede.

How is it then brethren? When ye come to gedder every man hath his songe hath his doctryne hath his tonge hath his revelacion hath his interpretacion. Let all thinges be done vnto edifyinge.

If eny man speake with tonges let it be two at once or at the most thre at once and that by course: and let another interprete it.

But yf ther be no interpreter let him kepe silence in the congregacion and let him speake to him selfe and to God.

Let the Prophetes speake two at once or thre at once and let other iudge.

Yf eny revelacion be made to another that sitteth by let the fyrst holde his peace.

For ye maye all prophesy one by one that all maye learne and all maye have comforte.

For the spretes of the Prophetes are in the power of the Prophetes.

For God is not causer of stryfe: but of peace as he is in all other congregacions of the saynctes.

Let youre wyves kepe silence in the congregacions. For it is not permitted vnto them to speake: but let them be vnder obedience as sayth the lawe.

If they will learne enythinge let the axe their husbandes at home. For it is a shame for wemen to speake in the congregacion.

Spronge the worde of god from you? Ether came it vnto you only?

Yf eny man thinke him sylfe a prophet ether spirituall: let him vnderstonde what thinges I write vnto you. For they are the comaundementes of the Lorde.

But and yf eny man be ignorant let him be ignorant.

Wherfore brethren covet to prophesye and forbyd not to speake with tonges.

And let all thinges be done honestly and in order.

Brethren as pertayninge to the gospell which I preached vnto you which ye have also accepted and in the which ye continue

by which also ye are saved: I do you to wit after what maner I preached vnto you yf ye kepe it except ye have beleved in vayne.

For fyrst of all I delivered vnto you that which I receaved: how that Christ dyed for oure synnes agreinge to the scriptures:

and that he was buried and that he arose agayne the thyrd daye accordinge to the scriptures:

and that he he was sene of Cephas then of the twelve.

After that he was sene of moo the five hodred brethren at once: of which many remayne vnto this daye and many are fallen aslepe.

After that appered he to Iames then to all the Apostles.

And last of all he was sene of me as of one that was borne out of due tyme.

For I am the lest of all the Apostles which am not worthy to be called an Apostle because I persecuted the congregacion of God.

But by the grace of God I am that I am. And his grace which is in me was not in vayne: but I labored moare aboundauntly then they all not I but the grace of God which is with me.

Whether it were I or they so we preache and so have ye beleved.

If Christ be preached how that he rose from deeth: how saye some that are amonge you that ther is no resurreccion from deeth?

If ther be no rysynge agayne from deeth: then is Christ not rysen.

If Christ be not rysen then is oure preachinge vayne and youre faith is also in vayne.

Ye and we are founde falce witnesses of God. For we have testifyed of God how that he raysyd vp Christ whom he raysyd not vp yf it be so that the deed ryse not vp agayne.

For yf the deed ryse not agayne then is Christ not rysen agayne.

If it beso that Christ rose not then is youre fayth in vayne and yet are ye in youre synnes.

And therto they which are fallen a slepe in Christ are perished.

If in this lyfe only we beleve on christ then are we of all men the miserablest.

But now is Christ rysen from deeth and is become the fyrst frutes of them that slept.

For by a man came deeth and by a man came resurreccion from deeth.

For as by Adam all dye: Even so by Christ shall all be made alive

and every man in his awne order. The fyrst is Christ then they that are Christis at his commynge.

Then cometh the ende when he hath delivered vp the kyngdome to God the father when he hath put doune all rule auctorite and power.

For he must raygne tyll he have put all his enemyes vnder his fete.

The last enemye that shalbe destroyed is deeth.

For he hath put all thinges vnder his fete. But when he sayth all thinges are put vnder him it is manyfest that he is excepted which dyd put all thinges vnder him.

When all thinges are subdued vnto him: then shall the sonne also him selfe be subiecte vnto him that put all thinges vnder him that God maye be all in all thinges.

Ether els what do they which are baptised over the deed yf the deed ryse not at all? Why are they then baptised over the deed?

Ye and why stonde we in ieoperdy every houre?