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For the office of this ministracion not only supplieth the nede of the sayntes: but also is aboundaunt herein that for this laudable ministrynge thankes myght be geven to god

I Paule my silfe beseche you by the mekenes and softnes of Christ which when I am present amoge you am of no reputacio but am bolde towarde you beinge absent.

For the weapes of oure warre are not carnall thinges but thynges myghty in god to cast doune stronge holdes

For ye pistles (sayth he) are sore and stronge: but his bodyly presence is weake and his speache rude.

But we wyll not reioyce above measure: but accordynge to the quantitie of ye measure which god hath distributed vnto vs a measure that reacheth even vnto you.

For he that prayseth him silfe is not alowed: but he whom the lorde prayseth.

But I feare lest as the serpent begyled Eve thorow his sutteltie even so youre wittes shuld be corrupte from the singlenes that is in Christ.

That I speake I speake it not after the wayes of the lorde: but as it were folysshly whill we are now come to bostynge.

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.

But be it yt I greved you not: never the lesse I was crafty and toke you with gile.

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.

seynge yt ye seke experience of Christ which speaketh in me which amoge you is not weake but is myghty in you.

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.

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.

We can do no thinge agaynst the trueth but for the trueth.

Paul an Apostle not of men nether by man but by Iesus Christ and by God the father which raysed him from deeth:

which is nothinge els but that ther be some which trouble you and intende to pervert to gospell of Christ.

nether receaved I it of ma nether was I taught it: but receaved it by the revelacion of Iesus Christ.

But whe it pleased God which seperated me from my mothers wombe and called me by his grace

nether returned to Ierusalem to them which were Apostles before me: but wet my wayes into Arabia and came agayne vnto Damasco.