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¹ We also as helpers exhorte you, that ye receaue not the grace of God in vayne.² For he saith: I haue heard thee in a tyme accepted, and in the day of saluation haue I suckoured thee. Beholde, nowe is that accepted tyme, beholde nowe is that day of saluation:³ Let vs geue none occasion of euyll in any thyng, that the ministerie be not blamed:⁴ But in all thynges let vs behaue our selues as ye ministers of God, in much pacience, in afflictions, in necessities, in anguisshes,⁵ In stripes, in prisonmentes, in strifes, in labours,⁶ In watchynges, in fastinges, in purenesse, in knowledge, in long suffryng, in kyndnesse, in the holy ghost, in loue vnfaigned:⁷ In the worde of trueth, in the power of God, by the armour of righteousnes, of the ryght hande and on the lefte,⁸ By honour and dishonour, by euyll report and good report, as deceauers and yet true,⁹ As vnknowen, and yet knowen, as dying, and beholde we lyue, as chastened, and not kylled,¹⁰ As sorowyng, and yet alway merie: as poore, and yet make many riche: as hauyng nothyng, and yet possessyng all thynges.

¹¹ O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open vnto you, our heart is made large:¹² Ye are in no strayte in vs, but are in a straite in your owne bowels.¹³ I promise you lyke rewarde as vnto children: Set your selues at large,¹⁴ And beare not ye a straunge yoke with the vnbeleuers. For what felowship hath righteousnesse with vnrighteousnesse? Or what communion hath lyght with darkenesse?¹⁵ Or what concorde hath Christe with belyall? Eyther what part hath he that beleueth, with an infidell?¹⁶ Or howe agreeth the temple of God with images? For ye are the temple of the lyuing God, as saide God, I wyll dwell in them, & walke in [them] & wyll be their God, & they shalbe my people.¹⁷ Wherfore come out fro among them, and separate your selues from them (saith the Lorde) and touche none vncleane thyng, and I wyll receaue you,¹⁸ And wyll be a father vnto you, and ye shalbe my sonnes and daughters, saith the Lorde almightie.