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The Bishops' Bible (1568)
Bishop
Vita Adae et Evae from "The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament"
LOAE
[1]If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christe, yf any comfort of loue, if any felowship of ye spirite, yf any compassion and mercie [No book]
[2]Fulfyl ye my ioy, that ye be lyke mynded, hauyng the same loue, being of one accorde, of one mynde [No book]
[3]Let nothyng [be done] through stryfe or vayne glorie, but in mekenesse of mynde euery man esteeme one ye other better then hym selfe [No book]
[4]Loke not euery man on his owne thynges, but euery man also on the thynges of others [No book]
[5]Let ye same mynde be in you, which was in Christe Iesus [No book]
[6]Who beyng in the fourme of God, thought it not robbery to be equall with God [No book]
[7]But made hym selfe of no reputation, takyng on him the fourme of a seruaut, and made in the lykenesse of men, and founde in figure as a man [No book]
[8]He humbled hym selfe, made obedient vnto death, euen the death of the crosse [No book]
[9]Wherfore God also hath highly exalted hym, and geuen hym a name which is aboue euery name [No book]
[10]That in the name of Iesus euery knee should bowe, [of thynges] in heauen, and [thynges] in earth, and [thinges] vnder the earth [No book]
[11]And that euery tongue should confesse that the Lorde, Iesus Christe [is] to the glorie of God the father [No book]
[12]Wherfore, my dearely beloued, as ye haue alwayes obeyed, not as in my presence only, but nowe much more in my absence, worke out your owne saluation with feare and tremblyng [No book]
[13]For it is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of good wyll [No book]
[14]Do all thyng without murmuryng and disputyng [No book]
[15]That ye may be blamelesse and pure, the sonnes of God, without rebuke in the myddes of a croked and peruerse nation, among who shyne ye as lightes in the worlde [No book]
[16]Holdyng fast the worde of lyfe, to my reioycyng in the day of Christe that I haue not runne in vayne, neither haue laboured in vayne [No book]
[17]Yea, and though I be offered vp vpo the offeryng and seruice of your fayth, I reioyce, and reioyce with you all [No book]
[18]For the same cause also do ye reioyce, and reioyce with me [No book]
[19]But I trust in the Lorde Iesus, to sende Timotheus shortly vnto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I knowe your state [No book]
[20]For I haue no man lyke mynded, who wyll naturally care for your state [No book]
[21]For all seeke their owne, not the thynges which are Iesus Christes [No book]
[22]Ye knowe the profe of hym, that as a sonne with the father, he hath serued with me in the Gospell [No book]
[23]Hym therfore I hope to sende, assoone as I knowe my state [No book]
[24]But I trust in the Lorde, that I also my selfe shall come shortly [No book]
[25]But I supposed it necessarie to sende to you Epaphroditus, my brother and companion in labour, & felowe souldier, but your Apostle, and the minister of my neede [No book]
[26]For he longed after you all, and was full of heauinesse, because that ye had hearde that he had ben sicke [No book]
[27]And no doubt he was sicke nye vnto death, but God had mercie on hym, and not on hym only, but on me also, lest I shoulde haue sorowe vpon sorowe [No book]
[28]I sent him therfore the more diligentlie, that when ye see him againe, ye may reioyce, and that I may be the lesse sorowfull [No book]
[29]Receaue hym therfore in the Lorde with all gladnes, & make much of such [No book]
[30]Because, for the worke of Christe, he was nye vnto death, not regardyng his lyfe, to fulfyll your lacke of seruice towarde me [No book]
Source: studybible.org
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