[verse 22] do ȝe a-wey ȝoure olde conuersacyoun, & þe olde man þat [verse 23] is corrupt þoroȝ þe desyres of errour; & be ȝe renewed in þe [verse 24] spyryt of ȝoure þouȝt, & cloþeþ ȝow wiþ a newe man, þat is y-schape [þ]orouȝ [P; ȝorouȝ S.] God in ryȝtfulnesse & in holynesse of trewþe. [verse 25] Wherfore, do ȝe a-wey lesynge, & speke ȝe trewþe eferych man wiþ his neyȝbore: for we beþ eferychone [S folio 50] membres to oþer. [verse 26] Be ȝe wroþ, & ne sunge ȝe noȝt: ne þe [verse 27] sonne go noȝt a-doun vp-on ȝoure wraþþe: ne ȝefe ȝe no stude [P folio 57b] to þe defel. [verse 28] He þat haþ y-stolen here byfore, ne stele he noȝt nouþe: bote trauayle he more, worchynge wiþ his honden þat þing þat is good, & he haue wher-of to ȝefen [ȝefen repeated in the margin, 1st corr. S.] to hym þat haþ nede. [verse 29] Ne passe þer non euel word out of ȝoure mouþ, bote ȝif þer is any good word to edefyynge of þe feiþ, þat ȝefe grace to hem þat hereþ. [verse 30] & ne sorowe ȝe noȝt þe holy Spiryt of God, in whom ȝe beþ y-marked in þe day of redempcyoun. [verse 31] Eferych bitternesse, & wraþþe, & indygna|cyoun, & cryynge, & blasphemye, be don a-wey from ȝou, & [verse 32] eferyche malice: & be ȝe benygne eferychone to oþer, & mercyful, & forȝefynge eferychone oþer, as God haþ forȝouen ȝou in Crist.
[verse 1] And þerfore be ȝe foloweres of God, as his dereste children; [verse 2] & walke ȝe in lofe, as Crist haþ y-lofed ous, & ȝef hym-selfen for ous, an offrynge & a sacryfyce to God in a swet smellynge of softnesse. [verse 3] And fornycacyoun, ne non oþer vnclannesse, ne couetyse, ne be noȝt y-nemyd [nemyd on erasure in a later hand, S. y dampned P. Vulg. nominetur.] among ȝou, as it bysemeþ noȝt [verse 4] goode men; ne non fylþe, ne folye speche, ne harlotrye, þat ne parteneþ noȝt to þe þing: bote raþere þankynges to God. [verse 5] For þis wyte ȝe wel & vnderstondeþ it, þat eferych lecchour [harlotrye repeated in the margin, 1st corr. S.] , oþer [S folio 50b] an vnclene man, oþer a coueytous [P folio 58] man, þat is þe seruyce of false goddes, ne haþ non erytage in þe kyngdom of Crist & of God. [verse 6] No man bygyle ȝou wiþ [wiþ in the margin, 1st corr. S.] weyn wordes: for herfore þe wraþþe of God com in-to þe children of mys|trust. [verse 7] & þerfore ne be ȝe noȝt y-mad partyneres of hem; [verse 8] for ȝe weren derknesse sumtyme, bote ȝe beþ now lyȝt in
