A fourteenth century English Biblical version, edited by Anna C. Paues ...

And [C ^m 4^m in the margin, early hand, S.] of whennes beþ þe batayles & þe stryuynges þat beþ a-mong ȝow? ne beþ þei noȝt of ȝoure coueytyses þat beþ in ȝoure membres? [verse 2] Ȝe coueyteþ, & ȝe ne haueþ noȝt: ȝe sleþ [ȝe sleþ repeated in margin, 1st corr. S.] , & ȝe hateþ, & ȝe mowe noȝt geten: ȝe stryueþ [streyneþ P.] & ȝe werreþ; ȝe ne haueþ noȝt, for ȝe ne axeþ noȝt. [verse 3] Ȝe axeþ, & ȝe ne vnder|fongeþ noȝt,. for ȝe axeþ in yuel manere, as ȝe scheweþ openlyche in ȝoure coueytynges. [verse 4] Ȝe spousbrekeres, ne knowe ȝe noȝt þat þe frendschype of þis world [word P.] is enemy to God? & þerfore, who euere þat wol ben frend of þis world, he schal ben y-mad Goddes enemy. [verse 5] What wene ȝe? Þat scripture seye in veyn, þat þe spiryt þat is in ȝow coueyteþ [P folio 26b] to enuye. Bote he ȝeueþ þe more grace. [verse 6] & þerfore he say [S folio 23] , God aȝeyn|stondeþ proude men, & ȝeueþ grace to humel men. [verse 7] & þerfore be ȝe suget to God; & aȝeynstonde ȝe þe deuel, & he schal fleen a-wey from ȝow. [verse 8] Come ȝe nyȝ to God, & he wole neyȝleche to ȝow: ȝe synful men, make ȝe clene ȝoure honden;

& ȝe þat beþ of doubel soule, make ȝe clene ȝoure hertes. [verse 9] Be ȝe sory, & make ȝe waymentacion: & be ȝoure lawȝwynge y-turnyd in-to sorewynge, & ȝoure ioye in-to drerynesse [dreynesse P.] . [verse 10] & be ȝe y-humeled in þe syȝt of oure Lord, & he wole arere ȝou vp yn tyme of trybulacion [yn tyme of trybulacion in margin, 1st corr. S. om. P.] . [verse 11] And my breþeren, ne bakbyte ȝe noȝt eferychone to oþer: for who þat bakbyteþ his broþer, oþer demeþ his broþer [his broþer om. P.] , he bakbyteþ þe lawe, & demeþ þe lawe: & ȝef þou demest þe lawe, þou ne art not a doer of þe lawe, bote a domes-man. [verse 12] And þer is on þat is makere of þe lawe & domes-man, þat may boþe sauen & distroye: & what art þou þat demest þi nexte neyȝebore? [verse 13] And lo, now ȝe seye [ȝe seye on erasure. Nota in the margin S.] , We schuleþ gon to day oþer to morewe in-to þat cyte, & þere we woleþ abyden a ȝer, & chaffaren, & wynne muche: & ȝe ne wyteþ noȝt what schal fallen a-morewe. [verse 14] For what is ȝoure lyf? A breþ þat scheweþ hym-seluen a lytel whyles, & soone þer-aftur it is ydon. [verse 15] & þer-fore seye ȝe, Ȝef God wole, &, Ȝef we lyfeþ [P folio 27] , we woleþ don þis oþer þat. [verse 16] Bote now ȝe ioyeþ in ȝoure pruydes, & eferich such ioye is wikked. [verse 17] And þerfore who þat can do wel, & doþ noȝt wel, it is synne to hym.