[verse 17] & to enformen hem in ryȝtfulnesse: so þat a Goddes man is parfyt & enformed to eferich good werk.
[verse 1] And y wytnesse to-fore God, & oure Lord Iesu Crist, þat schal deme boþe quyke men & dede, & by his comynge & his [verse 2] kyngdom; preche þou þe word, & stonde bysylyche boþe in hese & in anuy; & vndernyme þou, & byseche, & blame þou in eferich pacyence & in techynge. [verse 3] For tyme [ffor tyme repeated in the margin, 1st corr. S.] schal come when men ne wolleþ noȝt susteyne good techynge [S folio 83b] & hol; bote þei schuleþ gedere to-gyder maystres, ycchynge [tichynge on erasure in a late hand, P.] heres [P folio 96] [þe heres, P.] , [verse 4] & þei schulleþ turnen awey hure herynge from trewþe, & þei schuleþ turnen hem to tales. [verse 5] Bote wake þou, & trauayle þou in alle þinges, & do þou þi werk of þe euangelye, & fulfulle þi mynystrynge. & be þou sober.
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And [Heading: Tyte in a modern hand on ff. 83b and 84, S.] , suster, to an oþer of his dissiples þat hyȝte Tyte he [verse 5] wryteþ in þis wyse, For þis enchesoun y lafte [laue P. nota in the margin, S.] þe at Crete, for þou schuldest amenden þilke þinges þat lakkeþ, & þat þou [verse 6] schuldest ordeyne prestes by cytees, as ich ordeyned þe; and who þat is wiþ-outen blame, a man of on wyf, þat haþ feiþful children, noȝt in-to accusacyoun, ne soget to leccherye. [verse 7] For it byhofeþ þat a byschop be wiþ-outen blame, as despensatour of God; noȝt proud, ne wraþþeful, ne dronkelew, ne a smyter, [verse 8] ne coueytous of foul wynnynge; bote an ospyteler & benygne, [verse 9] sober, ryȝtful & holy, contynent; & cleppynge a feiþful & a trewe word þat is aftur good doctryne, þat he be myȝty to warne men in hol techynge, & vndernymen þilke þat aȝeyn|seyen. [verse 10] For þer beþ manye in-obedyent, veyn spekeres & [verse 11] gyloures, & most of þilke þat beþ of circumcysyoun, whom byhofeþ to ben vndernomyn; for þei turneþ up alle houses, techynge þat ne byhofeþ noȝt to ben y-tauȝt, for enchesoun of foul wynnynge. [verse 12] And on of [P folio 96b] hure owne prophetes [S folio 84] seyde, Men of Crete beþ efermore lyeres, lether bestes, of slow
