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This is a greate secrete: but I speake of Christ and the congregacion.

Neuertheles do ye so, that euery one of you loue his wife euen as himselfe: but let the wife feare hir hussbande.

And ye fathers, prouoke not youre children vnto wrath, but brynge the vp in the nourtoure and informacion of the LORDE.

not with seruyce onely in the eye sighte, as men pleasers: but as the seruauntes off Christ, doynge the wyll off God from the hert

For we wrestle not agaynst flesh and bloude, but agaynst rule, agaynst power namely, agaynst the rulers of the worlde, of the darknesse of this worlde, agaynst ye spretes of wickednes vnder the heauen.

But that ye maye also knowe, what case I am in, and what I do, Tichicus my deare brother and faithfull mynister in the LORDE, shal shewe you all:

Some (no doute) preach Christ of enuye and stryfe, but some of good wil.

as I loke for and hope, that in nothinge I shalbe ashamed: but yt with all cofidence (as allwayes in tymes past, eue so now) Christ shalbe magnified in my body whether it be thorow life or thorow death.

But in as moch as to lyue in ye flesh is frutefull to me for the worke, I wote not what

but to abyde in the flesh is more nedefull for you.

and in nothinge fearinge youre aduersaries, which is to them a token off perdicion, but vnto you of saluacion, and that of God.

For vnto you it is geuen, not onely that ye shulde beleue on Christ, but also suffre for his sake,

that there be nothinge done thorow stryfe and vayne glory, but that thorow mekenesse of mynde euery man esteme another better then himselfe:

and let euery ma loke not for his awne profet, but for the profet of other.

but made him selfe of no reputacion, and toke vpon him the shappe of a seruaunt, became like another man,

Wherfore my dearly beloued, as ye haue allwayes obeyed (not onely in my presence, but now also moch more in my absence) euen so worke out youre awne saluacion with feare and tremblynge.

But ye knowe the profe of him: for as a childe vnto the father, so hath he mynistred vnto me in the Gospell.

But I trust in the LORDE, that I also my selfe shal come shortly.

And no doute he was sicke, and that nye vnto death: but God had mercy on him, and not on him onely, but on me also, lest I shulde haue had sorowe vpon sorowe.

But the thinges that were vauntage vnto me, haue I counted losse for Christes sake.