The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

I trust that ye shall knowe that we are not castawayes.

I desyre before God that ye do none evyll not that we shuld seme comendable: but that ye shuld do that which is honest: and let vs be counted as leawde persones.

We can do no thinge agaynst the trueth but for the trueth.

We are glad when we are weake and ye stronge. This also we wisshe for even that ye were perfect.

Therfore write I these thinges beynge absent lest when I am present I shuld vse sharpenes accordinge to the power which the Lorde hath geven me to edifie and not to destroye.

Finallye brethren fare ye well be perfect be of good comforte be of one mynde lyve in peace and the God of love and peace shalbe with you.

Grete one another in an holy kysse.

All ye saynctes salute you.

The grace of oure Lorde Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellishippe of the holy goost be with you all. Amen. ‘The seconde epistle to the Corinthians. Sent from Philippos a citie in Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.’

Paul an Apostle, not of men, nether by man, but by Iesus Christ, and by God the father which raysed him from deeth:

and all the brethren which are with me. Vnto the congregacions of Galacia.

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

which gave him selfe for oure synnes to deliver vs from this present evyll worlde thorow the will of God oure father

to whom be prayse for ever and ever. Amen.

I marvayle that ye are so sone turned from him that called you in the grace of Christ vnto another gospell:

which is nothinge els but that ther be some which trouble you and intende to pervert to gospell of Christ.

Neverthelesse though we oure selves or an angell from heven preache eny other gospell vnto you the that which we have preached vnto you holde him as a cursed.

As I sayde before so saye I now agayne yf eny man preache eny other thinge vnto you then that ye have receaved holde him accursed.

Preache I mannes doctrine or Godes? Ether go I about to please men? If I stodyed to please men I were not the servaunt of Christ.

I certifie you brethren that the gospell which was preached of me was not after the maner of men

nether receaved I it of man nether was I taught it: but receaved it by the revelacion of Iesus Christ.

For ye have hearde of my conversacion in tyme past in the Iewes wayes how that beyonde measure I persecuted the congregacion of God and spoyled it:

and prevayled in the Iewes laye above many of my companions which were of myne awne nacion and was a moche more fervet mayntener of the tradicions of the elders.

But when it pleased God which seperated me from my mothers wombe and called me by his grace

for to declare his sonne by me that I shuld preache him amonge the hethen: immediatly I comened not of the matter with flesshe and bloud

nether returned to Ierusalem to them which were Apostles before me: but wet my wayes into Arabia and came agayne vnto Damasco.

Then after thre yeare I returned to Ierusalem to se Peter and abode with him .xv. dayes

no nother of the Apostles sawe I save Iames the Lordes brother.

The thinges which I write beholde God knoweth I lye not.

After that I went into the costes of Siria and Cilicia:

and was vnknowen as touchinge my person vnto the congregacions of Iewrye which were in Christ.

But they hearde only that he which persecuted vs in tyme past now preacheth the fayth which before he destroyed.

And they glorified God on my behalffe.

Then .xiiii. yeares after that I wet vp agayne to Ierusalem with Barnabas and toke with me Titus also.

Ye and I went vp by revelacion and comened with them of the Gospell which I preache amonge the gentyls: but apart with them which were counted chefe lest it shuld have bene thought that I shuld runne or had runne in vayne.

Also Titus which was with me though he were a Greke yet was not compelled to be circumcised

and that because of incommers beynge falce brethren which came in amonge other to spye out oure libertie which we have in Christ Iesus that they might bringe vs into bondage.

To whom we gave no roume no not for the space of an houre as concerninge to be brought into subieccion: and that because that the trueth of the gospell myght continue with you.

Of the which seme to be great (what they were in tyme passed it maketh no matter to me: God loketh on no mans person) neverthelesse they which seme great added nothynge to me.

But contrary wyse when they sawe that the gospell over the vncircumcision was committed vnto me as the gospell over the circucision was vnto Peter:

for he that was myghty in Peter in the Apostleshippe over the circumcision the same was myghty in me amonge the gentyls:

and therfore when they perceaved the grace that was geve vnto me then Iames Cephas and Iohn which semed to be pilers gave to me and Barnabas the ryght hondes and agreed with vs that we shuld preache amonge the Hethen and they amonge the Iewes:

warnynge only that we shulde remember the poore. Which thinge also I was diligent to do.

And when Peter was come to Antioche I withstode him in the face for he was worthy to be blamed.

For yerr that certayne came from Iames he ate with the gentyls. But when they were come he withdrue and separated him selfe fearinge them which were of the circumcision.

And the other Iewes dissembled lyke wyse in so moche that Barnabas was brought into their simulacion also.

But when I sawe that they went not the ryght waye after the trueth of the gospell I sayde vnto Peter before all men yf thou beynge a Iewe livest after the maner of the gentyls and not as do the Iewes: why causest thou the getyls to live as do the Iewes?

We which are Iewes by nature and not synners of the gentyls,

knowe that a man is not iustified by the dedes of the lowe: but by the fayth of Iesus Christ. And therfore we have beleved on Iesus Christ that we myght be iustified by the fayth of Christ and uot by the dedes of the lawe: because that by the dedes of the lawe no flesshe shalbe iustified.

Yf then whill we seke to be made rightewes by Christ we oure selves are founde synners is not then Christ the minister of synne? God forbyd.

For yf I bylde agayne that which I destroyed. then make I my selfe a treaspaser.

But I thorow the lawe amen deed to the lawe: that I myght live vnto God.

I am crucified with Christ. I live verely: yet now not I but Christ liveth in me. For the lyfe which I now live in the flesshe I live by the fayth of the sonne of God which loved me and gave him selne for me.

I despyse not the grace of God. For if rightewesnes come of the lawe then Christ dyed in vayne.

O folisshe Galathyas: who hath bewitched you that ye shuld not beleve the trueth? To whom Iesus Christ was described before the eyes and amonge you crucified.

This only wolde I learne of you: receaved ye the sprete by the dedes of the lawe or els by preachinge of the faith?

Are ye so vnwyse that after ye have begonne in the sprete the wolde nowe ende in the flesshe?

So many thinges there ye have suffred in vayne if that be vayne.

Which ministered to you the sprete and worketh myracles amonge you doth he it thorow the dedes of the lawe or by preachinge of the fayth?

Even as Abraham beleved God and it was asscribed to him for rightewesnes.

Vnderstonde therfore that they which are of fayth the same are the chyldren of Abraham.

For the scripture sawe afore honde that God wolde iustifie the hethen thorow fayth and therfore shewed before honde glad tydinges vnto Abraham: In the shall all nacions be blessed.

So then they which be of fayth are blessed with faythfull Abraham.

For as many as are vnder the dedes of the lawe are vnder malediccion. For it is written: cursed is every man that cotinueth not in all thinges which are writte in the boke of the lawe to fulfill them.

That no man is iustified by the lawe in the sight of God is evidet. For the iuste shall live by fayth.

The lawe is not of fayth: but the man that fulfilleth the thinges contayned in the lawe (shall live in the.)

But Christ hath delivered vs from the curse of the lawe and was made a cursed for vs. For it is writte: cursed is every one that hangeth on tree

that the blessynge of Abraham might come on the getyls thorow Iesus Christ and that we might receave the promes of the sprete thorow fayth.

Brethren I will speake after the maner of men. Though it be but a mans testament yet no man despiseth it or addeth eny thinge therto when it is once alowed.

To Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He sayth not in the seedes as in many: but in thy sede as in one which is Christ.

This I saye that the lawe which beganne afterwarde beyonde. iiii.C and. xxx. yeares doth not disanull the testament that was confermed afore of God vnto Christ ward to make the promes of none effect.

For yf the inheritaunce come of the lawe it cometh not of promes. But God gave it vnto Abraham by promes.

Wherfore then serveth the lawe? The lawe was added because of transgression (tyll the seed cam to which the promes was made) and it was ordeyned by angels in the honde of a mediator.

A mediator is not a mediator of one. But God is one.

Ys the lawe then agaynst the promes of God? God forbid. How be it yf ther had bene a lawe geve which coulde have geven lyfe: then no doute rightewesnes shuld have come by the lawe.

But the scripture concluded all thinges vnder synne that the promes by the fayth of Iesus Christ shuld be geve vnto them that beleve.

Before that fayth cam, we were kept and shut vp vnder the lawe, vnto the fayth which shuld afterwarde be declared.

Wherfore the lawe was oure scolemaster vnto the tyme of Christ that we might be made rightewes by fayth.

But after that fayth is come now are we no lenger vnder a scolemaster.

For ye are all the sonnes of God by the fayth which is in Christ Iesus.

For all ye that are baptised have put on Christ.

Now is ther no Iewe nether getyle: ther is nether bonde ner fre: ther is nether man ner woman: but ye are all one thinge in Christ Iesu.

Yf ye be Christes then are ye Abrahams seed and heyres by promes.

And I saye that the heyre as longe as he is a chylde differth not from a servaunt though he be Lorde of all

but is vnder tuters and governers vntill the tyme appoynted of the father.

Even so we as longe as we were chyldren were in bondage vnder the ordinaunces of the worlde.

But when the tyme was full come God sent his sonne borne of a woman and made bonde vnto the lawe

to redeme the which were vnder the lawe: that we thorow eleccion myght receave the inheritaunce that belongeth vnto the naturall sonnes.

Because ye are sonnes God hath sent the sprete of his sonne in to oure hertes which cryeth Abba father.

Wherfore now thou art not a servaunt but a sonne. Yf thou be the sonne thou arte also the heyre of God thorow Christ.

Notwithstondinge when ye knewe not God ye dyd service vnto them which by nature were no goddes.

But now seinge ye knowe god (yee rather are knowe of God) how is it that ye tourne agayne vnto the weake and bedgarly cerimonies whervnto agayne ye desyre afresshe to be in bondage?

Ye observe dayes and monethes and tymes and yeares.

I am in feare of you lest I have bestowed on you laboure in vayne.

Brethern I besech you be ye as I am: for I am as ye are. Ye have not hurte me at all.

Ye knowe how thorow infirmite of the flesshe I preached the gospell vnto you at the fyrst.

And my temptacion which I suffered by reason of my flesshe ye despysed not nether abhorred: but receaved me as an angell of god: ye as Christ Iesus.

How happy were ye then? for I beare you recorde that yf it had bene possible ye wolde have plucked out youre awne eyes and have geven them to me.

Am I therfore become youre enemie because I tell you the truth?

They are gelous over you amysse. Ye they intede to exclude you that ye shuld be feruet to them warde.