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Wherfore my brethre dearly beloued & longed for, my ioye & my crowne contynue so in the LORDE ye beloued.

I reioyse greatly in ye LORDE, that now at the last ye are reuyued agayne to care for me, as ye cared for me afore, but ye lacked oportunyte.

I speake not this because of necessite: for I haue lerned in what soeuer estate I am, therwith to be contete

For vnto Tessalonica ye sent once and afterwarde agayne vnto my necessite.

For I haue all, and haue plentye. I was euen fylled wha I receaued of Epaphroditus, that which came from you, an odoure of swetenes, a sacrifice accepted & pleasaunt vnto God.

Vnto God and oure father be prayse for euer and euer Amen.

We geue thankes vnto God and the father of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, prayenge allwayes for you

for ye hopes sake which is layed vp in stoare for you in heauen: of the which ye haue herde before by the worde of trueth in the Gospell,

as ye learned of Epaphras oure deare felowe seruaunt, which is a faithfull mynister of Christ for you,

For this cause we also, sence the daye yt we herde of it, ceasse not to praye for you, & desyre that ye mighte be fulfylled with the knowlege of his will, in all wyssdome and spirituall vnderstondinge,

and geue thankes vnto the father, which hath made vs mete for the enheritaunce of sayntes in lighte.

For by him were all thinges created, that are in heauen and earth, thinges vysible and thinges inuysible, whether they be maiesties or lordshippes, ether rules or powers: All thinges are created by him and in him,

For it pleased the father, that in him shulde dwell all fulnesse,

Now ioye I in my sufferynges, which I suffre for you, and fulfill that which is behynde of the passions of Christ in my flesh, for his bodyes sake, which is the congregacion,

I wolde ye knewe what fightinge I haue for youre sakes, and for them of Laodicea, and for as many as haue not sene my personne in the flesh,

For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I present with you in the sprete: ioyenge, and beholdinge youre order and the stedfastnes of youre faith in Christ.

For in him dwelleth all the fulnes of the Godheade bodely,

Let no man therfore trouble youre consciences aboute meate or drynke, or for a pece of an holy daye, as the holy daye of ye newe Mone, or of the Sabbath dayes,

which are the shadowe of the thinges that were for to come: but the body selfe is in Christ.

For ye are deed, and youre life is hyd with Christ in God.