wherfore we abydeþ oure Safyour & oure Lord Iesu Crist: [verse 21] þat schal reformen þe body of oure [om. P.] humelnesse, þat is lyche þe body of his clernesse, after his worchynge, þoroȝ whom he may maken alle þinges sogetes to hym-selfen.
[verse 1] And þerfore, my dereste breþeren, my ioye & my corone, stonde ȝe so in oure Lord, my lefeste breþeren. [verse 4] & ioye ȝe in oure Lord efermore: & eftsones y seye, Ioye ȝe. [verse 5] Ȝoure soft|nesse be y-knowe to alle men. Oure Lord is nyȝ. [verse 6] Be ȝe no þyng bysy; bote in eferiche preyere & bysechynge, in doynge þankynges, ȝoure axynge ben y-knowe to-fore God. [verse 7] And þe pees of God, þat passeþ eferich wytt, kepe ȝoure hertes & ȝoure vnderstondynges in Iesu Crist. [verse 8] And breþeren, her|after, what-efer þinges þat beþ trewe, & chaste, oþer ryȝtful, oþer holy, oþer worþi to ben y-lofed, oþer of good loos [P folio 62b] , what|efer [S folio 54b] vertu, what-efer preysynge of techynge, þese þinges þenke ȝe. [verse 9] [And] [in S.P.] þilke þat ȝe habbeþ y-lerned & vnderfongen & y-herd & y-seyn in me, þese þinges do ȝe, & God of pees schal be wiþ ȝow.
COLOSSIANS.
[verse 9] Suster [Colocenses in the margin, 1st corrector. Colocenses in a late hand heads the pages throughout; uster nearly erased, S.] , to þe Colocenses seynt Poule wryteþ & seiþ, From þe day þat [þt whan P.] we han y-herd of ȝow, we ne cesseþ noȝt for-to preyen & to bysechen God for ȝow, þat ȝe [om. P.] ben fulfylled wiþ þe knowynge of his wil & eferich wysdom & spirytual vnder|stondynge, [verse 10] , þat ȝe walkeþ worþilyche, plesynge God by alle þinges, & makynge fruyt in eferich good werk, & waxynge in [verse 11] þe knowynge of God in eferich vertu; & y-comforted þoroȝ þe power of his clernesse, in eferich pacyence & longanymyte [verse 12] wiþ ioye; þankynge God þe Fader, þat haþ y-mad ous worþi [verse 13] in-to þe party of þe sort of goode men in lyȝt; þat haþ delyfered ous from þe power of darknesse, & haþ y-broȝt ous [verse 14] in-to þe kyngdom of þe Sone of his lofe; in whom we habbeþ [verse 15] forbuggynge, & forȝefenesse of oure synnes: and he is þe ymage of God þat is in-visybel, & he is þe furste bygeten
