The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

By oure reioysinge which I have in Christ Iesu oure Lorde I dye dayly.

That I have fought with beastes at Ephesus after the maner of men what avautageth it me yf the deed ryse not agayne? Let vs eate and drynke to morowe we shall dye.

Be not deceaved: malicious speakinges corrupte good maners.

Awake truely out of slepe and synne not. For some have not the knowlege of God. I speake this vnto youre rebuke.

But some man will saye: how aryse the deed? with what bodyes come they in?

Thou fole that which thou sowest is not quickened except it dye.

And what sowest thow? Thow sowest not that body that shalbe: but bare corne (I meane ether of wheet or of some other)

and God geveth it a body at his pleasure to every seed a severall body.

All flesshe is not one manner of flesshe: but ther is one maner flesshe of men another maner flesshe of beastes another maner flesshe of fysshes and another of byrdes.

Ther are celestiall bodyes and ther are bodyes terrestriall. But the glory of the celestiall is one and the glory of the terrestriall is another.

Ther is one maner glory of the sonne and another glory of the mone and another glory of the starres. For one starre differth from another in glory.

So is the resurreccion of the deed. It is sowe in corrupcion and ryseth in incorrupcion.

It is sowen in dishonoure and ryseth in honoure. It is sowe in weaknes and ryseth in power.

It is sowne a naturall body and ryseth a spretuall body. Ther is a naturall bodye and ther is a spretuall body:

as it is written: the fyrste man Adam was made a livinge soule: and the last Adam was made a quickeninge sprete.

How be it that is not fyrst which is spirituall: but that which is naturall and then that which is spretuall.

The fyrst man is of the erth erthy: the seconde man is the Lorde from heaven.

As is the erthy soche are they that are erthye. And as is the hevely soche are they that are hevenly.

And as we have borne the ymage of the erthy so shall we beare the ymage of the hevenly.

This saye I brethren that flesshe and bloud cannot inheret the kyngdome of God. Nether corrupcion inhereth vncorrupcion.

Beholde I shewe you a mystery. We shall not all slepe: but we shall all be chaunged

and that in a moment and in the twinclinge of an eye at the sounde of the last trompe. For the trompe shall blowe and the deed shall ryse incorruptible and we shalbe chaunged.

For this corruptible must put on incorruptibilite: and this mortall must put on immortalite.

When this corruptible hath put on incorruptibilite and this mortall hath put on immortalite: then shalbe brought to passe the sayinge that is written. Deeth is consumed in to victory.

Deeth where is thy stynge? Hell where is thy victory?

The stynge of deeth is synne: and the strength of synne is the lawe.

But thankes be vnto God which hath geven vs victory thorow oure Lorde Iesus Christ.

Therfore my deare brethren be ye stedfast and unmovable alwayes ryche in the workes of the Lorde for as moch as ye knowe how that youre labour is not in vayne in the Lorde.

Of the gadderynge for the saynctes as I have ordeyned in the congregacions of Galacia even so do ye.

Vpon some sondaye let every one of you put a syde at home and laye vp what soever he thinketh mete that ther be no gaderinges when I come.

When I am come whosoever ye shall alowe by youre letters them will I sende to bringe youre liberalite vnto Ierusalem.

And yf it be mete that I goo they shall go with me.

I will come vnto you after I have gone over Macedonia. For I will goo thorowout Macedonia.

With you paraveture I wyll abyde awhyle: or els winter that ye maye brynge me on my waye whyther soever I goo.

I will not se you now in my passage: but I trust to abyde a whyle with you yf God shall suffre me.

I will tary at Ephesus untyll whitsontyde.

For a greate dore and a frutefull is opened vnto me: and ther are many adversaries.

If Timotheus come se that he be with out feare with you. For he worketh the worke of the Lorde as I doo.

Let no man despyse him: but convaye him forthe in peace that he maye come vnto me. For I loke for him with the brethren.

To speake of brother Apollo: I greatly desyred him to come vnto you with the brethren but his mynde was not at all to come at this tyme. How be it he will come when he shall have conveniet tyme.

Watche ye stonde fast in the fayth auyte you lyke men and be stronge.

Let all youre busynes be done in love.

Brethren (ye knowe the housse of Stephana how that they are the fyrst frutes of Achaia and that they have appoynted them selves to minister vnto the saynctes)

I beseche you that ye be obedient vnto soche and to all that helpe and laboure.

I am gladde of the comynge of Stephana Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lackinge on youre parte they have supplied.

They have comforted my sprete and youres. Loke therfore that ye knowe them that are soche.

The congregacions of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you moche in the Lorde and so doeth the congregacion that is in their housse.

All the brethren grete you. Grete ye one another with an holy kysse.

The salutacion of me Paul with myne awne hande.

Yf eny man love not the Lorde Iesus Christ the same be anathema maranatha.

The grace of the Lorde Iesus Christ be with you all.

My love be with you all in Christ Iesu. Amen. ‘The epistle vnto the Corinthyans sent from Philippos by Stephana and Fortunatus and Acaichus and Timotheus.’

Paul an Apostle of Iesu Christ by the will of God and brother Timotheus. Vnto the congregacion of God which is at Corinthum with all the saynctes which are in all Achaia.

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

Blessed be God the father of oure Lorde Iesus Christ the father of mercy and the God of all comforte

which comforteth vs in all oure tribulacion in so moche that we are able to comforte them which are troubled in whatsoever tribulacion it be with the same comforte wher with we oure selves are conforted of God.

For as the affliccions of Christ are pleteous in vs even so is oure consolacion plenteous by Christ.

Whether we be troubled for youre consolacion and salvacion which salvacion sheweth her power in that ye soffre the same affliccions which we also suffre: or whether we be conforted for youre consolacion and salvacion:

yet oure hope is stedfast for you in as moch as we know how that as ye have youre parte in affliccions so shall ye be parttakers of consolacion.

Brethren I wolde not have you ignoraunt of oure trouble which happened vnto vs in Asia. For we were greved out of measure passynge strength so greatly that we despeared even of lyfe.

Also we receaved an answer of deeth in oure selves and that because we shuld not put oure trust in oure selves: but in God which rayseth the deed to lyfe agayne

and which delivered vs from so gret a deeth and doth delivre. On whom we trust that yet hereafter he will deliver

by the helpe of youre prayer for vs: that by the meanes of many occasions thankes maye be geven of many on oure behalfe for the grace geven vnto vs.

Oure reioysynge is this the testimony of oure conscience that in synglenes and godly purenes and not in flesshly wysdome but by the grace of God we have had oure conuersacion in the worlde and most of all to you wardes.

We write no nother thinges vnto you then that ye reade and also knowe. Yee and I trust ye shall fynde vs vnto the ende

even as ye have founde vs partly: for we are youre reioysynge even as ye are oures in the daye of the Lorde Iesus.

And in this confidence was I mynded the other tyme to have come vnto you that ye myght have had yet one pleasure moare:

and to have passed by you into Macedonia and to have come agayne out of Macedonia vnto you and to have bene ledde forth to Iewrye warde of you.

When I thus wyse was mynded: dyd I vse lightnes? Or thinke I carnally those thinges which I thinke? that with me shuld be ye ye and naye naye.

God is faythfull: For oure preachynge vnto you was not ye and naye.

For Goddis sonne Iesus Christ which was preached amonge you by vs (that is to saye by me and Silvanus and Timotheus) was not ye and naye: but in him it was ye.

For all the promyses of God in him are ye: and are in him Amen vnto the lawde of God thorow vs.

For it is God which stablissheth vs and you in Christ and hath annoynted vs which hath also sealed vs

and hath geven the ernest of the sprete into oure hertes.

I call God for a recorde vnto my soule that forto faver you with all I came not enymoare vnto Corinthum.

Not that we be lordes over youre fayth: but helpers of youre ioye. For by fayth ye stode.

But I determened this in my silfe that I wolde not come agayne to you in hevines.

For yf I make you sorye who is it that shuld make me glad but the same which is made sory by me?

And I wrote this same pistle vnto you lest yf I came I shuld take hevynes of them of whom I ought to reioyce. Certaynly this confidence have I in you all that my ioye is the ioye of you all.

For in great affliccion and anguysshe of hert I wrote vnto you with many teares: not to make you sory but that ye myght perceave the love which I have most specially vnto you.

If eny man hath caused sorow the same hath not made me sory but partely: lest I shuld greve you all.

It is sufficient vnto the same man that he was rebuked of many. So that now contrary wyse ye ought to forgeve him and comforte him:

lest that same persone shuld be swalowed vp with over moche hevines.

Wherfore I exhorte you that love maye have stregth over him.

For this cause verely dyd I write that I myght knowe the profe of you whether ye shuld be obediet in all thinges.

To whom ye forgeve enythinge I forgeve also. And verely if I forgeve enythinge to whom I forgave it for youre sakes forgave I it in the roume of Christ

lest Satan shuld prevet vs. For his thoughtes are not vnknowen vnto vs.

When I was come to Troada for Christes gospels sake (and a great dore was openned vnto me of the Lorde)

I had no rest in my sprete because I founde not Titus my brother: but toke my leave of them and went awaye into Macedonia.

Thankes be vnto God which alwayes geveth vs the victorie in Christ and openeth the saver of his knowledge by vs in every place.

For we are vnto God the swete savoure of Christ both amonge them that are saved and also amonge them which perisshe.

To the one parte are we the savoure of deeth vnto deeth. And vnto the other parte are we the savoure of lyfe vnto lyfe. And who is mete vnto these thinges?

For we are not as many are which choppe and chaunge with the worde of God: but even oute of purenes and by the power of God and in the sight of God so speake we in Christ.

We begyn to prayse oure selves agayne. Nede we as some other of pistles of recommendacion vnto you? or letters of recommendacion from you?

Ye are oure pistle written in oure hertes which is vnderstonde and reed of all men

in that ye are knowen how that ye are the pistle of Christ ministred by vs and written not with ynke: but with the sprete of the livynge God not in tables of stone but in flesshly tables of the herte.

Suche trust have we thorow Christ to god ward

not that we are sufficient of oure selves to thinke enythinge as it were of oure selves: but oure ablenes cometh of God

which hath made vs able to minister the newe testament not of the letter but of the sprete. For the letter kylleth but the sprete geveth lyfe.

Yf the ministracion of deeth thorow the letters figured in stones was glorious so that the chyldren of Israel coulde not beholde the face of Moses for the glory of his countenauce (which glory neverthelesse is done awaye)