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32 In ye citie of Damascon the governer of ye people vnder kynge Aretas layde watche in ye citie of the Damasces and wolde have caught me 33 and at a wyndowe was I let doune in a basket thorowe the wall and so scaped his hondes. Chapter 12 1 It is not expediet for me (no dout to reioyce. Neverthelesse I will come to visions and revelacios of ye lorde. 2 I knowe a ma in Christ above .xiiij. yeares agone (whether he weare in ye body I cannot tell or whether he were oute of ye body I canot tell god knoweth) which was take vp into the thyrd heven. 3 And I knowe the same man (whether in the body or out of the body I canot tell god knoweth) 4 howe yt he was take vp into paradise and hearde wordes not to be spoke which no man can vtter. 5 Of this man will I reioyce of my silfe will I not reioyce except it be of myne infirmities. 6 And yet though I wolde reioyce I shuld not be a fole: for I wolde saye the trouthe. Neverthe lesse I spare lest eny man shuld thynke of me above that he seith me to be or heareth of me. 7 And lest I shuld be exalted out of measure thorow the aboundance of revelacions ther was geven vnto me vnquyetnes of the flesshe the messenger of Satan to buffet me: be cause I shuld not be exalted out of measure 8 For this thynge besought I the lorde thryse that it myght departe from me. 9 And he sayde vnto me: my grace is sufficient for the. For my stregth is made perfact thorow weaknes. Very gladly therfore will I reioyce of my weaknes that the strength of Christ maye dwell in me 10 Therfore have I delectacion in infirmities in rebukes in nede in persecucions in anguyshe for Christis sake. For when I am weake then am I stronge. 11 I am made a fole in bostynge my silfe. Ye have copelled me: I ought to have bene comeded of you. For in nothinge was I inferior vnto ye chefe apostels Though I be nothynge 12 yet ye tokes of an apostle were wrought amoge you with all pacience: with signes and wonders and myghty dedes. 13 For what is it wherin ye were inferiors vnto other cogregacions except it be therin that I was not greveous vnto you. Forgeve me this wronge done vnto you. 14 Beholde now ye thyrde tyme I am redy to come vnto you: and yet will I not be grevous vnto you. For I seke not youres but you. Also the children ought not to laye vp for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the children. 15 I will very gladly bestowe and wilbe bestowed for youre soules: though the moare I love you ye lesse I am loved agayne. 16 But be it yt I greved you not: never the lesse I was crafty and toke you with gile. 17 Did I pill you by eny of the which I sent vnto you? 18 I desyred Titus and wt him I sent a brother. Did Titus defraude you of eny thynge? walked we not in one sprete? walked we not in lyke steppes? 19 Agayne thynke ye yt we excuse oure selves? We speake in Christ in the sight of God. But we do all thynges dearly beloved for youre edifyinge. 20 For I feare lest it come to passe that when I come I shall not fynde you soche as I wolde: and I shalbe foude vnto you soche as ye wolde not: I feare lest ther be founde amoge you debate envyinge wrath stryfe backbytynges whisperynges swellynges and discorde.
21 I feare lest when I come agayne God brynge me lowe amoge you and I be constrayned to bewayle many of the which have synned all redy and have not repented of the vnclennes fornicacion and wantanes which they haue committed. Chapter 13 1 Now come I the thyrd tyme vnto you In the mouth of two or thre witnesses shall every thinge stonde. 2 I tolde you before and tell you before: and as I sayde whe I was present with you the seconde tyme so wryte I now beynge absent to them which in tyme past have synned and to all other: yt if I come agayne I will not spare 3 seynge yt ye seke experience of Christ which speaketh in me which amoge you is not weake but is myghty in you. 4 And verely though it came of weaknes that he was crucified yet liveth he thorow the power of God. And we no dout are weake in him: but we shall live with him by the myght of God amonge you. 5 Prove youre selves whether ye are in the fayth or not. Examen youre owne selves: knowe ye not youre awne selves how that Iesus Christ is in you excepte ye be castawayes? 6 I trust that ye shall knowe yt we are not castawayes. 7 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. 8 We can do no thinge agaynst the trueth but for the trueth. 9 We are glad when we are weake and ye stronge. This also we wisshe for even that ye were perfect. 10 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. 11 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. 12 Grete one another in an holy kysse. 13 All ye saynctes salute you. 14 The grace of oure Lorde Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellishippe of the holy goost be with you all. Ame
Chapter 1 1 Paul an Apostle not of men nether by man but by Iesus Christ and by God the father which raysed him from deeth: 2 and all the brethren which are with me. Vnto the congregacios of Galacia. 3 Grace be with you and peace from God the father and from oure Lorde Iesus Christ 4 which gave him selfe for oure synnes to deliver vs from this present evyll worlde thorow the will of God oure father 5 to whom be prayse for ever and ever. Amen. 6 I marvayle that ye are so sone turned fro him that called you in the grace of Christ vnto another gospell: 7 which is nothinge els but that ther be some which trouble you and intende to pervert to gospell of Christ. 8 Neverthelesse though we oure selves or an angell fro heve preache eny other gospell vnto you the that which we have preached vnto you holde him as a cursed. 9 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. 10 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. 11 I certifie you brethren that the gospell which was preached of me was not after the maner of men 12 nether receaved I it of ma nether was I taught it: but receaved it by the revelacion of Iesus Christ. 13 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: 14 and prevayled in the Iewes laye above many of my companions which were of myne awne nacio and was a moche more fervet mayntener of the tradicions of the elders. 15 But whe it pleased God which seperated me from my mothers wombe and called me by his grace 16 forto declare his sonne by me that I shuld preache him amonge the hethen: immediatly I comened not of the matter with flesshe and bloud 17 nether returned to Ierusalem to them which were Apostles before me: but wet my wayes into Arabia and came agayne vnto Damasco. 18 Then after thre yeare I returned to Ierusalem to se Peter and abode with him .xv. dayes 19 no nother of the Apostles sawe I save Iames the Lordes brother. 20 The thinges which I write beholde God knoweth I lye not. 21 After that I went into the costes of Siria and Cilicia: 22 and was vnknowen as touchinge my person vnto ye cogregacios of Iewrye which were in Christ. 23 But they hearde only that he which persecuted vs in tyme past now preacheth the fayth which before he destroyed. 24 And they glorified God on my behalffe. Chapter 2 1 Then .xiiii. yeares after that I wet vp agayne to Ierusalem with Barnabas and toke with me Titus also. 2 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 couted chefe lest it shuld have bene thought yt I shuld runne or had runne in vayne.
3 Also Titus which was with me though he were a Greke yet was not compelled to be circumcised 4 and that because of incomers beynge falce brethren which came in amoge other to spye out oure libertie which we have in Christ Iesus that they might bringe vs into bondage. 5 To whom we gave no roume no not for the space of an houre as cocerninge to be brought into subieccio: and that because that the trueth of the gospell myght continue with you. 6 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. 7 But contrary wyse when they sawe that the gospell over the vncircumcision was comitted vnto me as the gospell over ye circucision was vnto Peter: 8 for he yt was myghty in Peter in the Apostleshippe over the circumcision the same was myghty in me amoge the gentyls: 9 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: 10 warnynge only that we shulde remember the poore. Which thinge also I was diligent to do. 11 And when Peter was come to Antioche I withstode him in the face for he was worthy to be blamed. 12 For yerr that certayne came fro Iames he ate with the gentyls. But when they were come he withdrue and separated him selfe fearinge them which were of ye circumcision. 13 And ye other Iewes dissembled lyke wyse in so moche that Barnabas was brought into their simulacio also. 14 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? 15 We which are Iewes by nature and not synners of the getyls 16 knowe that a man is not iustified by ye dedes of the lowe: but by the fayth of Iesus Christ. And therfore we have beleved on Iesus Christ yt we myght be iustified by ye fayth of Christ and uot by the dedes of the lawe: because that by ye dedes of ye lawe no flesshe shalbe iustified. 17 Yf then whill we seke to be made rightewes by Christ we oure selves are founde synners is not then Christ ye minister of synne? God forbyd. 18 For yf I bylde agayne yt which I destroyed. then make I my selfe a treaspaser. 19 But I thorow ye lawe ame deed to ye lawe: that I myght live vnto God. 20 I am crucified with Christ. I live verely: yet now not I but Christ liveth in me. For ye lyfe which I now live in ye flesshe I live by the fayth of ye sonne of God which loved me and gave him selne for me. 21 I despyse not the grace of God. For if rightewesnes come of the lawe then Christ dyed in vayne. Chapter 3 1 O folisshe Galathyas: who hath bewitched you that ye shuld not beleve the trueth? To whom Iesus Christ was described before the eyes and amoge you crucified. 2 This only wolde I learne of you: receaved ye the sprete by the dedes of ye lawe or els by preachinge of ye faith? 3 Are ye so vnwyse that after ye have begonne in the sprete ye wolde nowe ende in the flesshe?
4 So many thinges there ye have suffred in vayne if yt be vayne. 5 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? 6 Even as Abraham beleved God and it was asscribed to him for rightewesnes. 7 Vnderstonde therfore yt they which are of fayth the same are the chyldren of Abraham. 8 For the seripture sawe afore honde yt God wolde iustifie the hethen thorow fayth and therfore shewed before honde glad tydinges vnto Abraham: In the shall all nacions be blessed. 9 So then they which be of fayth are blessed with faythfull Abraham. 10 For as many as are vnder the dedes of the lawe are vnder malediccio. For it is written: cursed is every man yt cotinueth not in all thinges which are writte in ye boke of ye lawe to fulfill the. 11 That no ma is iustified by ye lawe in ye sight of God is evidet. For the iuste shall live by fayth. 12 The lawe is not of fayth: but the man that fulfilleth the thinges contayned in the lawe (shall live in the.) 13 But Christ hath delivered vs fro the curse of the lawe and was made a cursed for vs. For it is writte: cursed is every one that hangeth on tree 14 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. 15 Brethren I will speake after the maner of men. Though it be but a mans testament yet no ma despiseth it or addeth eny thinge therto when it is once alowed. 16 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. 17 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. 18 For yf the inheritaunce come of the lawe it cometh not of promes. But God gave it vnto Abraham by promes. 19 Wherfore then serveth ye lawe? The lawe was added because of transgression (tyll the seed cam to which ye promes was made) and it was ordeyned by angels in ye honde of a mediator. 20 A mediator is not a mediator of one. But God is one. 21 Ys the lawe then agaynst ye 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 ye lawe. 22 But ye scripture concluded all thinges vnder synne yt the promes by the fayth of Iesus Christ shuld be geve vnto them yt beleve. 23 Before yt fayth cam we were kept and shut vp vnder the lawe vnto the fayth which shuld afterwarde be declared. 24 Wherfore the lawe was oure scolemaster vnto the tyme of Christ yt we might be made rightewes by fayth. 25 But after yt fayth is come now are we no lenger vnder a scolemaster. 26 For ye are all the sonnes of God by ye fayth which is in Christ Iesus. 27 For all ye that are baptised have put on Christ. 28 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. 29 Yf ye be Christes then are ye Abrahams seed and heyres by promes. Chapter 4
1 And I saye that the heyre as longe as he is a chylde differth not from a servaunt though he be Lorde of all 2 but is vnder tuters and governers vntill the tyme appoynted of the father. 3 Even so we as longe as we were chyldren were in bondage vnder the ordinaunces of the worlde. 4 But when the tyme was full come God sent his sonne borne of a woman and made bonde vnto ye lawe 5 to redeme the which were vnder the lawe: yt we thorow eleccion myght receave the inheritauce yt belongeth vnto the naturall sonnes. 6 Be cause ye are sonnes God hath sent the sprete of his sonne in to oure hertes which cryeth Abba father. 7 Wherfore now thou art not a servaunt but a sonne. Yf thou be ye sonne thou arte also the heyre of God thorow Christ. 8 Notwithstondinge whe ye knewe not God ye dyd service vnto them which by nature were no goddes. 9 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? 10 Ye observe dayes and monethes and tymes and yeares. 11 I am in feare of you lest I have bestowed on you laboure in vayne. 12 Brethern I besech you be ye as I am: for I am as ye are. Ye have not hurte me at all. 13 Ye knowe how thorow infirmite of the flesshe I preached the gospell vnto you at the fyrst. 14 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. 15 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. 16 Am I therfore become youre enemie because I tell you the truth? 17 They are gelous over you amysse. Ye they intede to exclude you that ye shuld be feruet to them warde. 18 It is good alwayes to be fervent so it be in a good thinge and not only whe I am present with you. 19 My littel children (of whom I travayle in birth againe vntill Christ be fassioned in you) 20 I wolde I were with you now and coulde chaunge my voyce: for I stonde in a doute of you 21 Tell me ye that desyre to be vnder the lawe have ye not hearde of the lawe? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sonnes ye one by a bonde mayde the other by a fre woman. 23 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. 24 Which thinges betoken mystery. For these wemen are two testamentes the one fro the mounte Sina which gendreth vnto bondage which is Agar. 25 For mounte Sina is called Agar in Arabia and bordreth vpo the citie which is now Ierusalem and is in bondage with her chyldren. 26 But Ierusalem which is above is fre: which is the mother of vs all. 27 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. 28 Brethre we are after the maner of Isaac chyldren of promes.
29 But as then he yt was borne carnally persecuted him that was borne spiritually. Even so is it now. 30 Neverthelesse what sayth the scripture: put awaye the bonde woman and her sonne. For the sonne of the bonde woma shall not be heyre with the sonne of ye fre woman. 31 So then brethren we are not chyldre of the bonde woman: but of the fre woman. Chapter 5 1 Stond fast therfore in ye libertie wher with Christ hath made vs fre and wrappe not youre selves agayne in ye yoke of bondage. 2 Beholde I Paul saye vnto you that yf ye be circumcised Christ shall proffit you nothinge at all. 3 I testifie agayne to every man which is circumcised that he is bounde to kepe the whole lawe. 4 Ye are gone quyte fro Christ as many as are iustified by the lawe and are fallen from grace. 5 We loke for and hope in the sprite to be iustified thorow fayth. 6 For in Iesu Christ nether is circumcision enythinge worth nether yet vncircocision but faith which by love is mighty in operacion. 7 Ye did runne well: who was a let vnto you that ye shuld not obey the trueth? 8 Eve that counsell that is not of him that called you. 9 A lytell leven doth leven the whole lompe of dowe. 10 I have trust towarde you in the Lorde yt ye wyll be none other wyse mynded. He that troubleth you shall beare his iudgemet what soever he be. 11 Brethren yf I yet preache circucision: why do I then yet suffre persecucion? For then had the offence which the crosse geveth ceased. 12 I wolde to God they were seperated from you which trouble you. 13 Brethre ye were called in to (libertie) only let not youre libertie be an occasion vnto the flesshe but in love serve one another. 14 For all ye lawe is fulfilled in one worde which is this: thou shalt love thyne neghbour as thy selfe. 15 Yf ye byte and devoure one another: take hede lest ye be consumed one of another. 16 I saye walke in the sprete and fulfill not ye lustes of ye flesshe. 17 For ye flesshe lusteth contrary to ye sprete and ye sprete cotrary to ye flesshe. Tese are cotrary one to the other so yt ye canot do that which ye wolde. 18 But and yf ye be ledde of the sprete then are ye not vnder the lawe. 19 The dedes of the flesshe are manyfest whiche are these advoutrie fornicacio vnclenes wantannes 20 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 ye kyngdome of God. 22 But ye frute of sprete is loue ioye peace longesufferinge getlenes goodnes faythfulnes 23 meknes temperancye. Agaynst suche ther is no lawe. 24 They ye are Christis have crucified the flesshe with the appetites and lustes 25 Yf we lyve in the sprete let vs walke in the sprete. 26 Let vs not be vayne glorious provokinge one another and envyinge one another. Chapter 6 1 Brethren yf eny ma 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.
2 Beare ye one anothers burthe and so fulfill the lawe of Christ. 3 If eny ma seme to him silfe that he is somwhat whe in dede he is nothynge the same deceaveth hym silfe in his ymaginacion. 4 Let every man prove his awne worke and then shall he have reioysinge in his awne silfe and not in another 5 For every man shall beare his awne burthen. 6 Let him that is taught in ye worde minister vnto him yt teacheth him in all good thinges 7. Be not deceaved God is not mocked. For what soever a man soweth yt shall he reepe. 8 He that soweth in his flesshe shall of ye flesshe reepe corrupcio. But he yt soweth in ye sprete shall of the sprete reepe lyfe everlastinge. 9 Let vs not be wery of well doynge. For when the tyme is come we shall repe with out werines. 10 Whill we have therfore tyme let vs do good vnto all men and specially vnto them which are of the housholde of fayth. 11 Beholde how large a letter I have written vnto you with myne awne honde. 12 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. 13 For they them selves which are circumcised kepe not the lawe: but desyre to have you circumcised that they myght reioyce in youre flesshe. 14 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. 15 For in Christ Iesu nether circucision avayleth eny thinge at all nor vncircumcisio: but a new creature. 16 And as many as walke accordinge to this rule peace be on them and mercy and vpon Israel that pertayneth to God. 17 From hence forth let no man put me to busynes. For I beare in my bodye ye markes of the Lorde Iesu. 18 Brethren the grace of oure Lorde Iesu Christe be with youre sprete. Amen.
Chapter 1 1 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. 2 Grace be with you and peace from God oure father and from the Lorde Iesus Christ. 3 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 4 accordynge as he had chosen vs in him before ye foudacio of ye worlde was layde that we shuld be saintes and without blame before him thorow loue. 5 And ordeyned vs before thorow Iesus Christ to be heyres vnto him silfe accordinge to the pleasure of his will 6 to ye prayse of the glorie of his grace where with he hath made vs accepted in the beloved. 7 By whom we have redemption thorow his bloude euen the forgevenes of synnes accordynge to the riches of his grace 8 which grace he shed on vs aboundantly in all wisdome and perceavaunce. 9 And hath openned vnto vs the mistery of his will accordinge to his pleasure and purposed the same in hym silfe 10 to have it declared when the tyme were full come yt all thynges bothe ye thynges which are in heven and also the thynges which are in erthe shuld be gaddered togedder even in Christ: 11 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: 12 that we which before beleved in Christ shuld be vnto the prayse of his glory. 13 In whom also ye (after that ye hearde the worde of trueth I meane the gospell of youre saluacio wherin ye beleved) were sealed with the holy sprete of promes 14 which is the ernest of oure inheritaunce to redeme the purchased possession and that vnto the laude of his glory. 15 Wherfore even I (after that I hearde of the fayth which ye have in the lorde Iesu and love vnto all the saynctes) 16 cease not to geve thankes for you makynge mencion of you in my prayers 17 that ye 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 18 and lighten the eyes of youre myndes yt 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 19 and what is the excedynge greatnes of his power to vs warde which beleve accordynge to the workynge of that his mighty power 20 which he wrought in Christ when he raysed him from deeth and set him on his right honde in hevenly thynges 21 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: 22 and hath put all thynges vnder his fete and hath made him aboue all thynges ye heed of ye congregacion 23 which is his body and the fulnes of him that filleth all in all thynges. Chapter 2 1 And hath quickened you also that were deed in treaspasse and synne 2 in ye which in tyme passed ye walked acordynge to the course of this worlde and after the governer that ruleth in the ayer the sprete yt now worketh in the children of vnbelefe
3 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. 4 But God which is rich in mercy thorow his greate love wherwith he loved vs 5 even when we were deed by synne hath quickened vs together in Christ (for by grace are ye saved) 6 and hath raysed vs vp together and made vs sitte together in hevenly thynges thorow Christ Iesus 7 for to shewe in tymes to come the excedynge ryches of his grace in kyndnes to vs warde in Christ Iesu. 8 For by grace are ye made safe thorowe fayth and that not of youre selves. For it is the gyfte of God 9 and commeth not of workes lest eny man shuld bost him silfe. 10 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. 11 Wherfore remeber yt ye beynge in tyme passed getyls in ye flesshe and were called vncircucision to the which are called circucisio in the flesshe which circucision is made by hondes: 12 Remeber I saye yt ye were at that tyme wt oute Christ and were reputed aliantes from the comen welth of Israel and were straugers fro the testamentes of promes and had no hope and were with out god in this worlde. 13 But now in Christ Iesu ye which a whyle agoo were farre of are made nye by ye bloude of Christ. 14 For he is oure peace whych hath made of both one and hath broken doune the wall yt was a stoppe bitwene vs 15 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 ma in him silfe so makynge peace: 16 and to recocile both vnto god in one body thorow his crosse and slewe hatred therby: 17 and came and preached peace to you which were afarre of and to them that were nye. 18 For thorow him we both have an open waye in in one sprete vnto the father. 19 Now therfore ye are no moare straugers and foreners: but citesyns with the saynctes and of the housholde of god: 20 and are bilt apon the foundacion of the apostles and prophetes Iesus Christ beynge the heed corner stone 21 in whom every bildynge coupled togedder groweth vnto an holy temple in ye lorde 22 in who ye also are bilt togedder and made an habitacio for god in the sprete. Chapter 3 1 For this cause I Paul a in ye bodes of Iesus christ for youre sakes which are hethen: 2 Yf ye have hearde of the ministracion of the grace of god which is geven me to you warde. 3 For by revelacion shewed he this mistery vnto me as I wrote above in feawe wordes 4 wher by when ye rede ye maye knowe myne vnderstondynge in the mistery of Christ 5 which mistery in tymes passed was not opened vnto the sonnes of men as it is nowe declared vnto his holy apostles and prophetes by the sprete: 6 that the gentyls shuld be inheritours also and of the same body and partakers of his promis yt is in Christ by ye meanes of the gospell 7 whereof I am made a minister by the gyfte of the grace of god geve vnto me thorow ye workynge of his power.
8 Vnto me the lest of all sayntes is this grace geven that I shuld preache amonge the gentyls the unsearchable ryches of Christ 9 and to make all men se what the felyshippe of the mistery is which from the begynnynge of the worlde hath bene hid in God which made all thynges thorow Iesus Christ 10 to the intent that now vnto the rulars and powers in heven myght be knowe by the cogregacion ye many folde wisdome of god 11 accordinge to ye eternall purpose which he purposed in Christ Iesu oure lorde 12 by who we are bolde to drawe nye in ye trust which we have by faith on hi 13 Wherfore I desire yt ye faynt not because of my trybulacios for youre sakes: which is youre prayse. 14 For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the father of oure lorde Iesus Christ 15 which is father over all that ys called father In heven and in erth 16 that he wolde graunt you acordynge to the ryches of his glory that ye maye be strenghted with myght by his sprete in the inner man 17 yt Christ maye dwell in youre hertes by fayth yt ye beynge roted and grounded in loue 18 myght be able to comprehende with all sayntes what ys that bredth aud length deepth and heyth: 19 and to knowe what is the love of Christ which love passeth knowledge: that ye might be fulfilled with all manner of fulnes which commeth of God. 20 Vnto him that is able to do excedynge aboudantly above all that we axe or thynke accordynge to the power that worketh in vs 21 be prayse in the congregacion by Iesus Christ thorow out all generacios from tyme to tyme Amen. Chapter 4 1 I therfore which am in bondes for the lordes sake exhorte you that ye walke worthy of the vocacion wherwith ye are called 2 in all humblenes of mynde and meknes and longe sufferynge forbearinge one another thorowe love 3 and that ye be dyliget to kepe ye vnitie of ye sprete in the bonde of peace 4 beynge one body and one sprete eve as ye are called in one hope of youre callynge. 5 Let ther be but one lorde one fayth one baptim: 6 one god and father of all which is above all thorow all and in you all. 7 Vnto every one of vs is geven grace acordinge to the measure of ye gyft of christ. 8 Wherfore he sayth: He is gone vp an hye and hath ledde captivitie captive and hath geven gyftes vnto men. 9 That he ascended: what meaneth it but that he also descended fyrst into the lowest parties of the erth? 10 He that descended is even the same also that ascended vp even above all hevens to fulfill all thinges. 11 And the very same made some Apostles some prophetes some Evangelistes some Sheperdes some Teachers: 12 yt the sainctes might have all thinges necessarie to worke and minister with all to the edifyinge of the body of christ 13 tyll we every one (in the vnitie of fayth and knowledge of the sonne of god) growe vp vnto a parfayte man after ye measure of age of the fulnes of Christ. 14 That we hence forth be no moare chyldren wauerynge and caryed with every wynde of doctryne by the wylynes of men and craftynes wherby they laye a wayte for vs to deceave vs.
15 But let vs folowe the trueth in loue and in all thynges growe in him which is the heed that ys to saye Christ 16 in whom all the body ys coupled and knet togedder in every ioynt wherwith one ministreth to another (accordinge to the operacion as every parte hath his measure) and increaseth the body vnto the edyfyinge of it silfe in love. 17 This I saye therfore and testifie in ye lorde that ye hence forth walke not as other gentyls walke in vanitie of their mynde 18 blynded in their vnderstondynge beynge straungers from the lyfe which is in god thorow the ignorancy that is in them because of the blyndnes of their hertes: 19 which beynge past repentaunce have geven them selves vnto wantannes to worke all manner of vnclennes even with gredynes. 20 But ye have not so learned Christ 21 if so be ye have hearde of him and are taught in him even as the trueth is in Iesu. 22 So then as concernynge the coversacion in tyme past laye from you that olde ma which is corrupte thorow the deceavable lustes 23 and be ye renued in the sprete of youre myndes 24 and put on that newe man which after the ymage of God is shapen in ryghtewesnes and true holynes. 25 Wherfore put awaye lyinge and speake every man truth vnto his neghbour for as moche as we are members one of another. 26 Be angrye but synne not let not the sonne go doune apon your wrathe 27 nether geue place vnto ye backbyter. 28 Let him yt stole steale no moare but let him rather laboure with his hondes some good thinge that he maye have to geve vnto him that nedeth. 29 Let no filthy comunicacion procede out of youre mouthes: but yt whych is good to edefye with all when nede ys: that it maye have faveour with the hearers. 30 And greve not the holy sprete of God by whome ye are sealed vnto the daye of redempcion. 31 Let all bitternes fearsnes and wrath rorynge and cursyd speakynge be put awaye from you with all maliciousnes. 32 Be ye courteouse one to another and mercifull forgevynge one another eve as god for Christes sake forgave you. Chapter 5 1 Be ye folowers of god as dere children 2 and walke in love even as Christ loved vs and gave him silfe for vs an offerynge and a sacrifyce of a swete saver to god. 3 So that fornicacion and all vnclennes or coveteousnes be not once named amonge you as it be commeth saynctes: 4 nether filthynes nether folishe talkyng nether gestinge which are not comly: but rather gevynge of thankes 5 For this ye knowe yt no whormonger other vnclene person or coveteous person which is the worshipper of ymages hath eny inheritaunce in the kyngdome of Christ and of God. 6 Let no ma deceave you with vayne wordes. For thorow soche thinges cometh the wrath of God vpon the chyldre of vnbelefe. 7 Be not therfore companions with them. 8 Ye were once dercknes but are now light in the Lorde. Walke as chyldren of light. 9 For the frute of the sprete is in all goodnes rightewesnes and trueth. 10 Accept that which is pleasinge to the Lorde: 11 and have no fellishippe with the vnfrutfull workes of dercknes: but rather rebuke them.
12 For it is shame even to name those thinges which are done of them in secrete: 13 but all thinges when they are rebuked of the light are manifest. For whatsoever is manifest that same is light. 14 Wherfore he sayth: awake thou that slepest and stond vp from deeth and Christ shall geve the light. 15 Take hede therfore that ye walke circuspectly: not as foles: but as wyse 16 redemynge the tyme: for ye dayes are evyll. 17 Wherfore be ye not vnwyse but vnderstonde what the will of the Lorde is 18 and be not dronke with wyne wherin is excesse: but be fulfilled with the sprete 19 speakynge vnto youre selves in psalmes and ymnes and spretuall songes synginge and makinge melodie to ye Lorde in youre hertes 20 gevinge thankes all wayes for all thinges vnto God the father in the name of oure Lorde Iesu Christ: 21 submittinge youre selves one to another in the feare of God. 22 Wemen submit youre selves vnto youre awne husbandes as vnto the Lorde. 23 For the husbande is the wyves heed even as Christ is the heed of the congregacion and the same is the saveoure of the body. 24 Therfore as the cogregacion is in subieccion to Christ lykwyse let the wyves be in subieccion to their husbandes in all thinges. 25 Husbandes love youre wyves even as Christ loved the congregacion and gave him silfe for it 26 to sanctifie it and clensed it in the fountayne of water thorow the worde 27 to make it vnto him selfe a glorious congregacion with oute spot or wrynckle or eny soche thinge: but that it shuld be holy and with out blame. 28 So ought men to love their wyves as their awne bodyes. He that loveth his wyfe loveth him sylfe. 29 For no ma ever yet hated his awne flesshe: but norissheth and cherisseth it even as the lorde doth the congregacion. 30 For we are members of his body of his flesshe and of his bones. 31 For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cotinue with his wyfe and two shalbe made one flesshe. 32 This is a great secrete but I speake bitwene Christ and the cogregacion. 33 Neverthelesse do ye so that every one of you love his wyfe truely even as him silfe. And let ye wyfe se that she feare her husbade. Chapter 6 1 Chyldren obey youre fathers and mothers in the Lorde: for so is it right. 2 Honoure thy father and mother that is the fyrst commaundement that hath eny promes 3 that thou mayst be in good estate and lyve longe on the erthe. 4 And ye fathers move not youre children to wrath: but bringe the vp wt the norter and informacio of ye Lorde. 5 Servautes be obedient vnto youre carnall masters with feare and trimblinge in singlenes of youre hertes as vnto Christ: 6 not wt service in ye eye sight as men pleasars: but as the servautes of Christ doynge ye will of God fro the herte 7 with good will servinge ye Lorde and not men. 8 And remember that whatsoever good thinge eny man doeth that shall he receave agayne of the Lorde whether he be bonde or fre.
9 And ye masters do eve the same thinges vnto them puttinge awaye threateninges: and remember that even youre master also is in heven nether is ther eny respecte of person with him. 10 Finally my brethre be stronge in the Lorde and in the power of his myght. 11 Put on ye armour of God that ye maye stonde stedfast agaynst ye crafty assautes of the devyll. 12 For we wrestle not agaynst flesshe and bloud: but agaynst rule agaynst power and agaynst worldy rulars of ye darckenes of this worlde agaynst spretuall wickednes for hevenly thinges. 13 For this cause take vnto you the armoure of God yt ye maye be able to resist in the evyll daye and to stonde perfect in all thinges. 14 Stonde therfore and youre loynes gyrd aboute with veritie havinge on the brest plate of rightewesnes 15 and shood with showes prepared by the gospell of peace. 16 Above all take to you the shelde of fayth wherwith ye maye quenche all ye fyrie dartes of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvacio and the swearde of the sprete which is the worde of God. 18 And praye all wayes with all maner prayer and supplicacio: and yt in the sprete: and watch thervnto wt all instance and supplicacio for all saynctes 19 and for me that vttraunce maye be geve vnto me that I maye open my mouth boldly to vtter the secretes of the gospell 20 whereof I am a messenger in bondes that therin I maye speake frely as it becommeth me to speake. 21 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 22 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. 23 Peace be with the brethren and love with fayth from God the father and from the Lorde Iesu Christ. 24 Grace be with all them which love oure lorde Iesus Christ in puernes. Ame
Chapter 1 1 Paul and Timotheus the servauntes of Iesu Christ To all ye sainctes in Christ Iesu which are at Philippos with ye Bisshops and Deacons. 2 Grace be with you and peace from God oure father and from the Lorde Iesus Christ. 3 I thanke my God with all remembraunce of you 4 all wayes in all my prayers for you and praye with gladnes 5 because of the fellowshyp which ye have in the gospell from the fyrst daye vnto now: 6 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 7 as it becometh me so to iudge of you all because I have you in my herte and have you also every one companios of grace with me even in my bondes as I defende and stablysshe the gospell. 8 For God beareth me recorde how greatly I longe after you all from the very herte rote in Iesus Christ. 9 And this I praye yt youre love maye increace more and more in knowledge and in all fealinge 10 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 11 filled with the frutes of rightewesnes which frutes come by Iesus Christ vnto the glory and laude of God. 12 I wolde ye vnderstode brethern that my busynes is happened vnto the greater furtherynge of the gospell. 13 So that my bondes in Christ are manyfest thorow out all the iudgement hall and in all other places: 14 In so moche that many of the brethre in ye lorde are boldned thorow my bodes and dare more largely speake the worde with out feare. 15 Some ther are which preache Christ of envie and stryfe and some of good wyll. 16 The one parte preacheth Christ of stryfe and not purely supposinge to adde more adversitie to my bondes. 17 The other parte of love because they se that I am set to defend the gospell. 18 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. 19 For I knowe that this shall chaunce to my salvacion thorow youre prayer and ministringe of the sprete of Iesu Christ 20 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. 21 For Christ is to me lyfe and deeth is to me a vauntage. 22 Yf it chaunce me to live in the flesshe that is to me frutefull forto worke and what to chose I wote not. 23 I am constrayned of two thinges: I desyre to be lowsed and to be with Christ which thinge is best of all. 24 Neverthelesse to abyde in the flesshe is moare nedfull for you. 25 And this am I sure of that I shall abyde and with you all continue for the furtheraunce and ioye of youre fayth 26 that ye maye moare aboundantly reioyce in Iesus Christ thorowe me by my comminge to you agayne.
27 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 28 and in nothynge fearinge youre adversaries: which is to them a token of perdicion and to you of salvacion and that of God. 29 For vnto you it is geven that not only ye shulde beleve on Christ: but also suffre for his sake 30 and have eve the same fight which ye sawe me have and now heare of me. Chapter 2 1 If ther be amoge you eny consolacion in Christ yf ther be eny cofortable love yf there be eny fellishippe of the sprete yf ther be eny copassion or mercy: 2 fulfyll my ioye that ye drawe one waye havinge one love beynge of one accorde and of one mynde 3 that nothinge be done thorow stryfe or vayne glory but that in mekenes of mynde every man esteme other better then him selfe 4 and that no man consyder his awne but what is mete for other. 5 Let the same mynde be in you that was in Christ Iesu: 6 Which beynge in the shape of god and thought it not robbery to be equall with god. 7 Neverthelesse he made him silfe of no reputacion and toke on him the shape of a servaunte and became lyke vnto men 8 and was founde in his aparell as a man. He humbled him silfe and became obediet vnto ye deeth even the deeth of the crosse. 9 Wherfore god hath exalted him and geve him a name above all names: 10 that in the name of Iesus shuld every knee bowe bothe of thinges in heve and thinges in erth and thinges vnder erth 11 and that all tonges shuld confesse that Iesus Christ is the lorde vnto the prayse of God the father. 12 Wherfore my dearly beloved as ye have al ways obeyed not when I was present only but now moche more in myne absence even so worke out youre awne saluacio with feare and tremblynge. 13 For it is god which worketh in you both ye will and also yt dede eve of good will 14 Do all thynge with out murmurynge and disputynge 15 that ye maye be fautelesse and pure and the sonnes of God with out rebuke in ye middes of a croked and a perverse nacion amonge which se that ye shyne as lightes in the worlde 16 holdinge fast the worde of lyfe vnto my reioysynge in ye daye of Christ that I have not runne in vayne nether have labored in vayne. 17 Yee and though I be offered vp vpon the offerynge and sacrifice of youre fayth: I reioyce and reioyce with you all. 18 For the same cause also reioyce ye and reioyce ye with me. 19 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. 20 For I have no ma that is so lyke mynded to me which with so pure affeccio careth for youre matters. 21 For all other seke ytir awne and not that which is Iesus Christes 22 Ye knowe the proffe of him howe that as a sone with the father so with me bestowed he his labour apon the gospell. 23 Him I hope to sende assone as I knowe how it will go with me. 24 I trust in the lorde I also my silfe shall come shortly.
25 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. 26 For he longed after you and was full of hevines because that ye had hearde saye that he shuld be sicke. 27 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. 28 I sent him therfore the diligentliar that when ye shuld se him ye myght reioyce agayne and I myght be the lesse sorowfull. 29 Receave him therfore in the lorde with all gladnes and make moche of soche: 30 because that for ye 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. Chapter 3 1 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. 2 Beware of dogges beware of evyll workers. Beware of dissencion. 3 For we are circucision which worshippe god in the sprete and reioyce in Christ Iesu and have no confidence in the flesshe: 4 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: 5 circumcised the eyght daye of ye kynred of Israhell of ye trybe of Beniamyn an Ebrue borne of ye Ebrues: as concernynge the lawe a pharisaye 6 and as concernynge fervetnes I perseuted the congregacion and as touchynge the rightewesnes which is in the lawe I was vnrebukable. 7 But the thynges that were vauntage vnto me I counted losse for Christes sake. 8 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 9 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 10 in knowynge him and the vertue of his resurreccion and the fellowshippe of his passions that I myght be coformable vnto his (deeth) 11 yf by eny meanes I myght attayne vnto the resurreccion from deeth. 12 Not as though I had all redy attayned to it Ether were all redy parfect: but I folowe yf yt I maye comprehende that wherin I am comprehended of Christ Iesu. 13 Brethren I counte not my silfe that I have gotten it: but one thynge I saye: I forget yt which is behynde and stretche my silfe vnto that which is before 14 and preace vnto ye marke apoynted to obtayne the rewarde of the hye callynge of god in Christ Iesu. 15 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. 16 Neverthelesse in that wher vnto we are come let vs procede by one rule yt we maye be of one acorde. 17 Brethren be folowers of and me loke on them which walke even so as ye have vs for an ensample. 18 For many walke (of whom I have tolde you often and now tell you wepynge) that they are ye enemyes of ye crosse of Christ 19 whose ende is dampnacio whose God is their bely and whose glory is to their shame which are worldely mynded.
20 But oure conversacion is in heven from whence we loke for a saveour enen the lorde Iesus Christ 21 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. Chapter 4 1 Herfore my brethren dearly beloved and longed for my ioye and croune so continue in the lorde ye beloved. 2 I praye Evodias and beseche Sintiches that they be of one accorde in the lorde. 3 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. 4 Reioyce in the Lorde alwaye and agayne I saye reioyce. 5 Let youre softenes be knowen vnto all men. The lorde is even at honde. 6 Be not carfull: but in all thynges shewe youre peticion vnto god in prayer and suplicacion wt gevynge of thankes. 7 And the peace of god which passeth all vnderstondinge kepe youre hertes and myndes in christ Iesu. 8 Furthermore brethren whatsoever thinges are true whatsoever thynges are honest what soever thynges are iust whatsoever thynges are pure whatsoever thynges pertayne to love whatsoever thynges are of honest reporte: yf ther be eny verteous thynge yf there be eny laudable thynge 9 those same have ye in youre mynde which ye have both learned and receaved herde and also sene in me: those thynges do and the god of peace shalbe with you. 10 I reioyse in the lorde greatly that now at the last ye are revived agayne to care for me in yt wherein ye were also carefull but ye lacked oportunite. 11 I speake not because of necessitie. For I have learned in whatsoever estate I am therewith to be content. 12 I can both cast doune my silfe I can also excede. Every where and in all thynges I am instructed both to be full and to be hongry: to have plenty and to suffre nede. 13 I can do all thynges thorow the helpe of Christ which strengtheth me. 14 Not wistondynge ye have well done that ye bare parte with me in my tribvlacion. 15 Ye of Philippos knowe that in the begynnynge of the gospell when I departed from Macedonia no congregacion bare parte with me as concernynge gevynge and receavynge but ye only. 16 For when I was in Tessalonica ye sent once and afterwarde agayne vnto my nedes: 17 not that I desyre gyftes: but I desyre aboudant frute on youre parte. 18 I receaved all and have plentie. I was even filled after that I had receaved of Epaphroditus that which came from you an odour that smelleth swete a sacrifice accepted and plesaunt to God. 19 My god fulfill all youre nedes thorow his glorious riches in Iesu Christ. 20 Vnto God and oure father be prayse for ever more. Amen. 21 Salute all the sainctes in Christ Iesu. The brethren which are with me grete you. 22 All the saynctes salute you: and most of all they which are of the Emperours housholde. 23 The grace of oure lorde Iesu Christ be wt you all. Amen
Chapter 1 1 Paul an Apostle of Iesu Christ by the wyll of God and brother Timotheus. 2To the sayntes which are at Colossa and brethren that beleve in Christ.Grace be with you and peace from God oure father and from the Lorde Iesus Christ. 3 We geve thankes to God the father of oure Lorde Iesus Christ alwayes prayenge for you 4 sence we hearde of youre faith which ye have in Christ Iesu and of the love which ye beare to all sayntes 5 for the hopes sake which is layde vp in store for you in heven of which hope ye have herde before by ye true worde of the gospell 6 which is come vnto you eve as it is in to all ye worlde and is frutefull as it is amoge you fro the fyrst daye in ye which ye herde of it and had experiece in ye grace of God in the trueth 7 as ye learned of Epaphra oure deare felowe servaunt which is for you a faythfull minister of Christ 8 which also declared vnto vs youre love which ye have in the sprete. 9 For this cause we also sence the daye we herde of it have not ceasyd prayinge for you and desyringe that ye myght be fulfilled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdome and spretuall vnderstodynge 10 that ye myght walke worthy of the lorde in all thynges that please beynge frutfull in all good workes and encreasynge in ye knowledge of God 11 strengthed with all myght thorowe hys glorious power vnto all pacience and longe sufferynge with ioyfulnes 12 gevynge thankes vnto the father which hath made vs mete to be part takers of the enheritaunce of sainctes in light. 13 Which hath delivered vs from the power of dercknes and hath translated vs in to the kyngdome of his dere sone 14 in whom we have redempcion thurow his bloud that is to saye the forgevenes of sinnes 15 which is the ymage of the invisible god fyrst begotten of all creatures. 16 For by him were all thynges created thynges that are in heven and thynges that are in erth: thynges visible and thynges invisible: whether they be maieste or lordshippe ether rule or power. All thinges are creatyd by hym and in him 17 and he is before all thinges and in him all thynges have their beynge. 18 And he is the heed of the body that is to wit of the congregacion: he is the begynnynge and fyrst begotten of the deed that in all thynges he might have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the father that in him shuld all fulnes dwell 20 and by him to reconcile all thynge vnto him silfe and to set at peace by him thorow the bloud of his crosse both thynges in heven and thynges in erth. 21 And you (which were in tymes past straungers and enymes because youre myndes were set in evyll workes) hath he now recocilied 22 in ye body of his flesshe thorowe deeth to make you holy vnblameable and with out faut in his awne syght 23 yf ye continue grounded and stablysshed in the fayth and be not moved awaye from the hope of the gospell wher of ye have herde howe that it is preached amonge all creatures which are vnder heven wher of I Paul am made a minister. 24 Now ioye I in my soferinges which I suffre for you and fulfill that which is behynde of the passions of Christ in my flesshe for his bodies sake which is the congregacion 25 wher of I am made a minister acordynge to the ordinaunce of god which ordinaunce was geven me vnto you warde to fulfill ye worde of god
26 that mistery hid sence the worlde beganne and sence ye begynnynge of generacions: but now is opened to his saynctes 27 to whom god wolde make knowen the glorious riches of this mistery amonge the gentyls which riches is Christ in you the hope of glory 28 whom we preach warnynge all men and teachinge all men in all wisdome to make all men parfect in Christ Iesu. 29 Wherin I also laboure and stryve even as farforth as hys workynge worketh in me myghtely. Chapter 2 1 I wolde ye knewe what fyghtinge I have for youre sakes and for them of Laodicia and for as many as have not sene my parson in the flesshe 2 that their hertes myght be coforted and knet togedder in love and in all ryches of full vnderstondynge for to knowe ye mistery of God ye father and of Christ 3 in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4 This I saye lest eny man shuld begyle you with entysinge wordes. 5 For though I be absent in the flesshe yet am I present with you in the sprete ioyinge and beholdinge the order that ye kepe and youre stedfast fayth in Christ. 6 As ye have therfore receaved Christ Iesu the Lorde even so walke 7 roted and bylt in him and stedfaste in the fayth as ye have learned: and therin be plenteous in gevynge thankes. 8 Beware lest eny ma come and spoyle you thorow philosophy and disceatfull vanitie thorow the tradicions of me and ordinaunces after the worlde and not after christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulnes of the godheed bodyly 10 and ye are complete in him which is the heed of all rule and power 11 in whom also ye are circucised with circumcision made mith out hondes by puttinge of the sinfull boddy of the flesshe thorow the circumcision yt is in Christ 12 in that ye are buryed with him thorow baptim in whom ye are also rysen agayne thorowe fayth that is wrought by the operacion of god which raysed him from deeth. 13 And ye which weare deed in synne thorow ye vncircucision of youre flesshe hath he quyckened wt him and hath forgeve vs all oure trespases 14 and hath put out ye handwritinge yt was agaynst vs cotayned in ye lawe writte and that hath he take out of the waye and hath fastened it to his crosse 15 and hath spoyled rule and power and hath made a shewe of the openly and hath triumphed over them in his awne persone. 16 Let no ma therfore trouble youre conscieces aboute meate and drynke or for a pece of an holydaye as the holydaye of the newe mone or of the sabboth dayes 17 which are nothinge but shaddowes of thynges to come: but the body is in Christ. 18 Let no man make you shote at a wroge (marke) which after his awne ymaginacion walketh in the humblenes and holynes of angels thinges which he never sawe: causlesse puft vp with his flesshly mynde 19 and holdeth not the heed wherof all the body by ioyntes and couples receaveth norisshment and is knet to gedder and encreaseth with the in creasynge that commeth of god. 20 Wherfore if ye be deed with Christ fro ordinaunces of the worlde why as though ye yet lived in the worlde are ye ledde with tradicios of them that saye? 21 Touche not tast not handell not: 22 which all perysshe wt the vsinge of the and are after the comaundmentes and doctrins of men
23 which thinges have the similitude of wisdome in chosen holynes and humblenes and in that they spare not the body and do the flesshe no worshype vnto his nede. Chapter 3 1 If ye be then rysen agayne with christ seke those thynges which are above where Christ sitteth on the right honde of god. 2 Set youre affeccion on thynges yt are above and not on thinges which are on ye erth. 3 For ye are deed and youre lyfe is hid with Christ in god. 4 When Christ which is oure lyfe shall shewe him silfe then shall ye also appere with him in glory. 5 Mortifie therfore youre membres which are on the erth fornicacio vnclennes vnnaturall lust evyll cocupiscece and coveteousnes which is worshippynge of ydols: 6 for which thynges sakes the wrath of God cometh on the chyldren of vnbeleve. 7 In which thynges ye walked once. when ye lived in them. 8 But now put ye also awaye from you all thynges wrath fearsnes maliciousnes cursed speakynge filthy speakynge out of youre mouthes. 9 Lye not one to another that the olde man with his workes be put of 10 and the new put on which is renued in knowledge after the ymage of him that made him 11 where is nether gentile ner Iewe circumcision nor vncircumcision Barbarous or Sithian bonde or fre: but Christe is all in all thynges. 12 Now therfore as electe of god holy and beloved put on tender mercie kyndnes humblenes of myndes meknes longe sufferynge 13 forbearynge one another and forgevynge one another if eny man have a quarrell to a nother even as Christ forgave you even so do ye. 14 Above all these thinges put on love which is the bonde of parfectnes. 15 And ye peace of god rule in youre hertes to ye which peace ye are called in one body. And se that ye be thankfull. 16 Let the worde of Christ dwell in you plenteously in all wisdome. Teache and exhorte youre awne selves in psalmes and hymnes and spretuall songes which have favour wt them syngynge in youre hertes to the lorde. 17 And all thynges (whatsoever ye do in worde or dede) do in the name of the lorde Iesu gevinge thakes to god the father by him. 18 Wyves submit youre selves vnto youre awne husbandes as it is comly in the Lorde. 19 Husbandes love youre wyves and be not bitter vnto them. 20 Children obey youre fathers and mothers in all thinges for that is wel pleasynge vnto the lorde. 21 Fathers rate not youre children lest they be of a desperate mynde. 22 Servauntes be obedient vnto youre bodyly masters in all thynges: not with eye service as men pleasers but in synglenes of herte fearynge god. 23 And whatsoever ye do do it hertely as though ye did it to the lorde and not vnto men for as moche as ye 24 knowe that of the lorde ye shall receave the rewarde of inheritaunce for ye serve the lorde Christ. 25 But he that doth wronge shall receave for the wronge that he hath done: for there is no respect of persons. Chapter 4 1 Ye masters do vnto youre servauntes that which is iust and egall seinge ye knowe that ye also have a master in heven.
2 Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thankes 3 gevynge prayenge also for vs that God open vnto vs the dore of vtteraunce that we maye speake the mistery of Christ wherfore I am in bondes: 4 yt I maye vtter it as it becometh me to speake. 5 Walke wysely to them that are with out and redeme ye tyme. 6 Let youre speache be all wayes well favoured and be powdred with salt that ye maye know how to answer every ma. 7 The deare brother Tichicos shall tell you of all my busynes which is a faythfull minister and felowe servaunt in the Lorde 8 whom I have sent vnto you for the same purpose that he myght knowe how ye do and myght comfort youre hertes 9 wt one Onesimus a faythfull and a beloved brother which is one of you. They shall shewe you of all thinges which are adoynge here. 10 Aristarchus my preson felowe saluteth you and Marcus Barnabassis systers sonne: touchinge whom ye receaved commaundementes. Yf he come vnto you receave him: 11 and Iesus which is called Iustus which are of the circumcision. These only are my workefelowes vnto the kyngdome of God which were vnto my consolacion. 12 Epaphras the servaut of Christ which is one of you saluteth you and all wayes laboreth fervently for you in prayers that ye maye stonde perfect and full in all that is the will of God. 13 I beare him recorde that he hath a fervet mynde towarde you and towarde them of Laodicia and them of Hierapolis. 14 Deare Lucas the Phisicion greteth you and Demas. 15 Salute the brethren which are of Laodicia and salute Nymphas and the congregacio which is in his housse. 16 And whe the pistle is reed of you make that it be reed in the congregacion of the Laodicians also: and that ye lyke wyse reade ye epistle of Laodicia. 17 And saye to Archippus: take hede to the office that thou hast receaved in the Lorde that thou fulfill it. 18 The salutacion by the honde of me Paul. Remember my bondes. Grace be with you. Amen.