The seconde Epistle to the Corinthyans. The .xiij. Chapter.
- Now come I the thyrd tyme vnto you In the mouth of two or thre witnesses shall every thinge stonde.
- 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
- 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.
- Prove youre selves whether ye are in the fayth or not. Examen youre owne selves: knowe ye not youre awne selves how that Jesus Christ is in you excepte ye be castawayes?
- I trust that ye shall knowe yt we are not castawayes.
- 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.
- We are glad when we are weake and ye stronge. This also we wisshe for even that ye were perfect.
- 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.
- 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.
- Grete one another in an holy kysse.
- All ye saynctes salute you.
- The grace of oure Lorde Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellishippe of the holy goost be with you all. Amen.