The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

It is good alwayes to be fervent so it be in a good thinge and not only when I am present with you.

My littel children (of whom I travayle in birth againe vntill Christ be fassioned in you)

I wolde I were with you now and coulde chaunge my voyce: for I stonde in a doute of you

Tell me ye that desyre to be vnder the lawe have ye not hearde of the lawe?

For it is written that Abraham had two sonnes the one by a bonde mayde the other by a fre woman.

Yee and he which was of the bonde woman was borne after the flesshe: but he which was of the fre woman was borne by promes.

Which thinges betoken mystery. For these wemen are two testamentes the one from the mounte Sina which gendreth vnto bondage which is Agar.

For mounte Sina is called Agar in Arabia and bordreth vpo the citie which is now Ierusalem and is in bondage with her chyldren.

But Ierusalem which is above is fre: which is the mother of vs all.

For it is written: reioyce thou bare that bearest no chyldre: breake forthe and crye thou that travelest not. For the desolate hath many moo chyldren then she which hath an husband.

Brethren we are after the maner of Isaac chyldren of promes.

But as then he that was borne carnally persecuted him that was borne spiritually. Even so is it now.

Neverthelesse what sayth the scripture: put awaye the bonde woman and her sonne. For the sonne of the bonde woman shall not be heyre with the sonne of the fre woman.

So then brethren we are not chyldre of the bonde woman: but of the fre woman.

Stond fast therfore in the libertie wher with Christ hath made vs fre and wrappe not youre selves agayne in the yoke of bondage.

Beholde I Paul saye vnto you that yf ye be circumcised Christ shall proffit you nothinge at all.

I testifie agayne to every man which is circumcised that he is bounde to kepe the whole lawe.

Ye are gone quyte from Christ as many as are iustified by the lawe and are fallen from grace.

We loke for and hope in the sprite to be iustified thorow fayth.

For in Iesu Christ nether is circumcision enythinge worth nether yet vncircomcision but faith which by love is mighty in operacion.

Ye did runne well: who was a let vnto you that ye shuld not obey the trueth?

Even that counsell that is not of him that called you.

A lytell leven doth leven the whole lompe of dowe.

I have trust towarde you in the Lorde that ye wyll be none other wyse mynded. He that troubleth you shall beare his iudgement what soever he be.

Brethren yf I yet preache circucision: why do I then yet suffre persecucion? For then had the offence which the crosse geveth ceased.

I wolde to God they were seperated from you which trouble you.

Brethren ye were called in to (libertie) only let not youre libertie be an occasion vnto the flesshe but in love serve one another.

For all the lawe is fulfilled in one worde which is this: thou shalt love thyne neghbour as thy selfe.

Yf ye byte and devoure one another: take hede lest ye be consumed one of another.

I saye walke in the sprete and fulfill not the lustes of the flesshe.

For the flesshe lusteth contrary to the sprete and the sprete cotrary to the flesshe. These are contrary one to the other so that ye cannot do that which ye wolde.

But and yf ye be ledde of the sprete then are ye not vnder the lawe.

The dedes of the flesshe are manyfest whiche are these advoutrie fornicacion vnclenes wantannes

ydolatrye witchecraft hatred variaunce zele wrath stryfe sedicion sectes

envyinge murther dronkenes glottony and soche lyke: of the which I tell you before as I have tolde you in tyme past that they which comit soche thinges shall not inherite the kyngdome of God.

But the frute of sprete is loue ioye peace longesufferinge gentlenes goodnes faythfulnes

meknes temperancye. Agaynst suche ther is no lawe.

They ye are Christis have crucified the flesshe with the appetites and lustes

Yf we lyve in the sprete let vs walke in the sprete.

Let vs not be vayne glorious provokinge one another and envyinge one another.

Brethren yf eny man be fallen by chauce into eny faute: ye which are spirituall helpe to amende him in the sprete of meknes: consyderynge thy silfe lest thou also be tempted.

Beare ye one anothers burthen and so fulfill the lawe of Christ.

If eny man seme to him silfe that he is somwhat when in dede he is nothynge the same deceaveth hym silfe in his ymaginacion.

Let every man prove his awne worke and then shall he have reioysinge in his awne silfe and not in another.

For every man shall beare his awne burthen.

Let him that is taught in the worde minister vnto him that teacheth him in all good thinges.

Be not deceaved God is not mocked. For what soever a man soweth that shall he reepe.

He that soweth in his flesshe shall of the flesshe reepe corrupcion. But he that soweth in the sprete shall of the sprete reepe lyfe everlastinge.

Let vs not be wery of well doynge. For when the tyme is come we shall repe with out werines.

Whill we have therfore tyme let vs do good vnto all men and specially vnto them which are of the housholde of fayth.

Beholde how large a letter I have written vnto you with myne awne honde.

As many as desyre with vtwarde apperauce to please carnally they constrayne you to be circumcised only be cause they wolde not suffre persecucion with the crosse of Christ.

For they them selves which are circumcised kepe not the lawe: but desyre to have you circumcised that they myght reioyce in youre flesshe.

God forbyd that I shuld reioyce but in the crosse of oure Lorde Iesu Christ wherby the worlde is crucified as touchinge me and I as concerninge the worlde.

For in Christ Iesu nether circucision avayleth eny thinge at all nor vncircumcision: but a new creature.

And as many as walke accordinge to this rule peace be on them and mercy and vpon Israel that pertayneth to God.

From hence forth let no man put me to busynes. For I beare in my bodye the markes of the Lorde Iesu.

Brethren the grace of oure Lorde Iesu Christe be with youre sprete. Amen. ‘Vnto the Galathyans written from Rome.’

Paul an Apostle of Iesu Christ by the will of God. To the saynctes which are at Ephesus and to them which beleve on Iesus Christ.

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 which hath blessed vs with all maner of spirituall blessinges in hevely thynges by Chryst

accordynge as he had chosen vs in him before the foundacion of the worlde was layde that we shuld be saintes and without blame before him thorow loue.

And ordeyned vs before thorow Iesus Christ to be heyres vnto him silfe accordinge to the pleasure of his will

to the prayse of the glorie of his grace where with he hath made vs accepted in the beloved.

By whom we have redemption thorow his bloude euen the forgevenes of synnes accordynge to the riches of his grace

which grace he shed on vs aboundantly in all wisdome and perceavaunce.

And hath openned vnto vs the mistery of his will accordinge to his pleasure and purposed the same in hym silfe

to have it declared when the tyme were full come that all thynges bothe the thynges which are in heven and also the thynges which are in erthe shuld be gaddered togedder even in Christ:

that is to saye in him in whom we are made heyres and were therto predestinate accordynge to the purpose of him which worketh all thinges after the purpose of his awne will:

that we which before beleved in Christ shuld be vnto the prayse of his glory.

In whom also ye (after that ye hearde the worde of trueth I meane the gospell of youre saluacion wherin ye beleved) were sealed with the holy sprete of promes

which is the ernest of oure inheritaunce to redeme the purchased possession and that vnto the laude of his glory.

Wherfore even I (after that I hearde of the fayth which ye have in the lorde Iesu and love vnto all the saynctes)

cease not to geve thankes for you makynge mencion of you in my prayers

that the God of oure lorde Iesus Christ and the father of glory myght geve vnto you the sprete of wisdome and open to you the knowledge of him silfe

and lighten the eyes of youre myndes that ye myght knowe what that hope is where vnto he hath called you and what the riches of his glorious inheritaunce is apon the sainctes

and what is the excedynge greatnes of his power to vs warde which beleve accordynge to the workynge of that his mighty power

which he wrought in Christ when he raysed him from deeth and set him on his right honde in hevenly thynges

above all rule power and myght and dominacion and above all names that are named not in this worlde only but also in the worlde to come:

and hath put all thynges vnder his fete and hath made him aboue all thynges ye heed of the congregacion

which is his body and the fulnes of him that filleth all in all thynges.

And hath quickened you also that were deed in treaspasse and synne

in the which in tyme passed ye walked acordynge to the course of this worlde and after the governer that ruleth in the ayer the sprete that now worketh in the children of vnbelefe

amonge which we also had oure conversacion in tyme past in the lustes of oure flesshe and fullfilled the will of the flesshe and of the mynde: and were naturally the children of wrath even as wel as other.

But God which is rich in mercy thorow his greate love wherwith he loved vs

even when we were deed by synne hath quickened vs together in Christ (for by grace are ye saved)

and hath raysed vs vp together and made vs sitte together in hevenly thynges thorow Christ Iesus

for to shewe in tymes to come the excedynge ryches of his grace in kyndnes to vs warde in Christ Iesu.

For by grace are ye made safe thorowe fayth and that not of youre selves. For it is the gyfte of God

and commeth not of workes lest eny man shuld bost him silfe.

For we are his worckmanshippe created in Christ Iesu vnto good workes vnto the which god ordeyned vs before that we shuld walke in them.

Wherfore remember that ye beynge in tyme passed getyls in the flesshe and were called vncircumcision to the which are called circucision in the flesshe which circucision is made by hondes:

Remember I saye that ye were at that tyme with oute Christ and were reputed aliantes from the comen welth of Israel and were straugers from the testamentes of promes and had no hope and were with out god in this worlde.

But now in Christ Iesu ye which a whyle agoo were farre of are made nye by the bloude of Christ.

For he is oure peace whych hath made of both one and hath broken doune the wall that was a stoppe bitwene vs

and hath also put awaye thorow his flesshe the cause of hatred (that is to saye the lawe of commaundementes contayned in the lawe written) for to make of twayne one newe man in him silfe so makynge peace:

and to reconcile both vnto god in one body thorow his crosse and slewe hatred therby:

and came and preached peace to you which were afarre of and to them that were nye.

For thorow him we both have an open waye in in one sprete vnto the father.

Now therfore ye are no moare straugers and foreners: but citesyns with the saynctes and of the housholde of god: