The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

For we wrestle not agaynst flesshe and bloud: but agaynst rule agaynst power and agaynst worldy rulars of the darckenes of this worlde agaynst spretuall wickednes for hevenly thinges.

For this cause take vnto you the armoure of God that ye maye be able to resist in the evyll daye and to stonde perfect in all thinges.

Stonde therfore and youre loynes gyrd aboute with veritie havinge on the brest plate of rightewesnes

and shood with showes prepared by the gospell of peace.

Above all take to you the shelde of fayth wherwith ye maye quenche all the fyrie dartes of the wicked.

And take the helmet of salvacion and the swearde of the sprete which is the worde of God.

And praye all wayes with all maner prayer and supplicacion: and that in the sprete: and watch thervnto with all instance and supplicacion for all saynctes

and for me that vttraunce maye be geve vnto me that I maye open my mouth boldly to vtter the secretes of the gospell

whereof I am a messenger in bondes that therin I maye speake frely as it becommeth me to speake.

But that ye maye also knowe what condicion I am in and what I do Tichicus my deare brother and faythfull minister in the Lorde shall shewe you of all thinges

whom I sent vnto you for the same purpose that ye myght knowe what case I stonde in and that he myght comfort youre hertes.

Peace be with the brethren and love with fayth from God the father and from the Lorde Iesu Christ.

Grace be with all them which love oure lorde Iesus Christ in puernes. Amen. ‘Sent from Rome vnto the Ephesyans by Tichicus.’

Paul and Timotheus the servauntes of Iesu Christ To all the sainctes in Christ Iesu which are at Philippos with the Bisshops and Deacons.

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

I thanke my God with all remembraunce of you

all wayes in all my prayers for you and praye with gladnes

because of the fellowshyp which ye have in the gospell from the fyrst daye vnto now:

and am suerly certified of this that he which beganne a good worke in you shall go forthe with it vntyll the daye of Iesus Christ

as it becometh me so to iudge of you all because I have you in my herte and have you also every one companions of grace with me even in my bondes as I defende and stablysshe the gospell.

For God beareth me recorde how greatly I longe after you all from the very herte rote in Iesus Christ.

And this I praye that youre love maye increace more and more in knowledge and in all fealinge

that ye myght accepte thinges most excellent that ye myght be pure and soche as shuld hurte no manes conscience vntyll the daye of Christ

filled with the frutes of rightewesnes which frutes come by Iesus Christ vnto the glory and laude of God.

I wolde ye vnderstode brethern that my busynes is happened vnto the greater furtherynge of the gospell.

So that my bondes in Christ are manyfest thorow out all the iudgement hall and in all other places:

In so moche that many of the brethren in the lorde are boldned thorow my bodes and dare more largely speake the worde with out feare.

Some ther are which preache Christ of envie and stryfe and some of good wyll.

The one parte preacheth Christ of stryfe and not purely supposinge to adde more adversitie to my bondes.

The other parte of love because they se that I am set to defend the gospell.

What then? So that Christ be preached all maner wayes whether it be by occasion or of true meaninge I therin ioye: ye and will ioye.

For I knowe that this shall chaunce to my salvacion thorow youre prayer and ministringe of the sprete of Iesu Christ,

as I hertely loke for and hope that in nothinge I shalbe ashamed: but that with all confidence as all wayes in tymes past even so now Christ shalbe magnified in my body whether it be thorowe lyfe or els deeth.

For Christ is to me lyfe and deeth is to me a vauntage.

Yf it chaunce me to live in the flesshe that is to me frutefull forto worke and what to chose I wote not.

I am constrayned of two thinges: I desyre to be lowsed and to be with Christ which thinge is best of all.

Neverthelesse to abyde in the flesshe is moare nedfull for you.

And this am I sure of that I shall abyde and with you all continue for the furtheraunce and ioye of youre fayth

that ye maye moare aboundantly reioyce in Iesus Christ thorowe me by my comminge to you agayne.

Only let yovre conversacion be as it be cometh the gospell of Christ: that whether I come and se you or els be absent I maye yet heare of you that ye contynue in one sprete and in one soule labouringe as we do to mayntayne the fayth of the gospell

and in nothynge fearinge youre adversaries: which is to them a token of perdicion and to you of salvacion and that of God.

For vnto you it is geven that not only ye shulde beleve on Christ: but also suffre for his sake

and have even the same fight which ye sawe me have and now heare of me.

If ther be amonge you eny consolacion in Christ yf ther be eny cofortable love yf there be eny fellishippe of the sprete yf ther be eny compassion or mercy:

fulfyll my ioye that ye drawe one waye havinge one love beynge of one accorde and of one mynde

that nothinge be done thorow stryfe or vayne glory but that in mekenes of mynde every man esteme other better then him selfe

and that no man consyder his awne but what is mete for other.

Let the same mynde be in you that was in Christ Iesu:

Which beynge in the shape of god and thought it not robbery to be equall with god.

Neverthelesse he made him silfe of no reputacion and toke on him the shape of a servaunte and became lyke vnto men

and was founde in his aparell as a man. He humbled him silfe and became obediet vnto the deeth even the deeth of the crosse.

Wherfore god hath exalted him and geve him a name above all names:

that in the name of Iesus shuld every knee bowe bothe of thinges in heven and thinges in erth and thinges vnder erth

and that all tonges shuld confesse that Iesus Christ is the lorde vnto the prayse of God the father.

Wherfore my dearly beloved as ye have always obeyed not when I was present only but now moche more in myne absence even so worke out youre awne saluacion with feare and tremblynge.

For it is god which worketh in you both the will and also that dede even of good will

Do all thynge with out murmurynge and disputynge

that ye maye be fautelesse and pure and the sonnes of God with out rebuke in the middes of a croked and a perverse nacion amonge which se that ye shyne as lightes in the worlde

holdinge fast the worde of lyfe vnto my reioysynge in the daye of Christ that I have not runne in vayne

nether have labored in vayne. Yee and though I be offered vp vpon the offerynge and sacrifice of youre fayth: I reioyce and reioyce with you all.

For the same cause also reioyce ye and reioyce ye with me.

I trust in the lorde Iesus for to sende Timotheus shortly vnto you that I also maye be of good comforte when I knowe what case ye stonde in.

For I have no man that is so lyke mynded to me which with so pure affeccion careth for youre matters.

For all other seke ytir awne and not that which is Iesus Christes.

Ye knowe the proffe of him howe that as a sone with the father so with me bestowed he his labour apon the gospell.

Him I hope to sende assone as I knowe how it will go with me.

I trust in the lorde I also my silfe shall come shortly.

I supposed it necessary to sende brother Epaphroditus vnto you my companion in laboure and felowe soudier youre Apostel and my minister at my nedes.

For he longed after you and was full of hevines because that ye had hearde saye that he shuld be sicke.

And no doute he was sicke and that nye vnto deeth. But god had mercy on him: not on him only but on me also lest I shuld have had sorowe apon sorowe.

I sent him therfore the diligentliar that when ye shuld se him ye myght reioyce agayne and I myght be the lesse sorowfull.

Receave him therfore in the lorde with all gladnes and make moche of soche:

because that for the worke of Christ he went so farre that he was nye vnto deeth and regarded not his lyfe to fulfill that service which was lackynge on youre parte towarde me.

Morover my brethren reioyce in the lorde. It greveth me not to write one thinge often to you. For to you it is a sure thynge.

Beware of dogges beware of evyll workers. Beware of dissencion.

For we are circumcision which worshippe god in the sprete and reioyce in Christ Iesu and have no confidence in the flesshe:

though I have wherof I myght reioyce in the flesshe. Yf eny other man thynketh that he hath wherof he myght trust in the flesshe: moche moare I:

circumcised the eyght daye of the kynred of Israhell of the trybe of Beniamyn an Ebrue borne of the Ebrues: as concernynge the lawe a pharisaye

and as concernynge fervetnes I perseuted the congregacion and as touchynge the rightewesnes which is in the lawe I was vnrebukable.

But the thynges that were vauntage vnto me I counted losse for Christes sake.

Ye I thinke all thynges but losse for that excellet knowledges sake of Christ Iesu my lorde. For whom I have counted all thynge losse and do iudge them but donge that I myght wynne Christ

and myght be founde in him not havynge myne awne rightewesnes which is of the lawe: But that which spryngeth of the fayth which is in Christ. I meane the rightewesnes which cometh of God thorowe fayth

in knowynge him and the vertue of his resurreccion and the fellowshippe of his passions that I myght be conformable vnto his (deeth)

yf by eny meanes I myght attayne vnto the resurreccion from deeth.

Not as though I had all redy attayned to it Ether were all redy parfect: but I folowe yf that I maye comprehende that wherin I am comprehended of Christ Iesu.

Brethren I counte not my silfe that I have gotten it: but one thynge I saye: I forget that which is behynde and stretche my silfe vnto that which is before

and preace vnto the marke apoynted to obtayne the rewarde of the hye callynge of god in Christ Iesu.

Let vs therfore as many as be perfect be thus wyse minded: and yf ye be other wyse mynded I praye God open even this vnto you.

Neverthelesse in that wher vnto we are come let vs procede by one rule that we maye be of one acorde.

Brethren be folowers of and me loke on them which walke even so as ye have vs for an ensample.

For many walke (of whom I have tolde you often and now tell you wepynge) that they are the enemyes of the crosse of Christ

whose ende is dampnacion whose God is their bely and whose glory is to their shame which are worldely mynded.

But oure conversacion is in heven from whence we loke for a saveour enen the lorde Iesus Christ

which shall chaunge oure vile bodies that they maye be fassioned lyke vnto his glorious body acordinge to the workynge wherby he is able to subdue all thinges vnto hym silfe.

Herfore my brethren dearly beloved and longed for my ioye and croune so continue in the lorde ye beloved.

I praye Evodias and beseche Sintiches that they be of one accorde in the lorde.

Yee and I beseche the faythfull yockfelowe helpe the wemen which labored with me in the gospell and with Clement also and with other my labour felowes whose names are in the boke of lyfe.

Reioyce in the Lorde alwaye and agayne I saye reioyce.

Let youre softenes be knowen vnto all men. The lorde is even at honde.

Be not carfull: but in all thynges shewe youre peticion vnto god in prayer and suplicacion with gevynge of thankes.