The Byble in Englyshe that is to saye, the content of all the holye scrypture, bothe of the olde and newe Testament, truly translated after the veryte of the Hebrue and Greke textes, by the diligent studye of dyuers excellent lerned [men e]xperte in the fore[saide] tongues.

CAPI. IIII.

[unspec A]

¶ Warre and fyghtynge cōmeth of voluptcousnesse. The frendshype of the worlde is enimyte before God▪ 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or∣••acyon to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sclaunder and the vany••e of thys lyke.

FROM whence cōmeth warre, & fygh∣tynge amonge you? come they not here hence? euē of your lustes, that fyght in your mēbres. Ye lust, & haue not. Ye enuye & haue indignacyon, & cannot obtayne. Ye fyght & warre. Ye haue not because ye aske not. Ye aske & receaue not, because ye aske a mys••e: euen to consume it vpon your iustes. Ye ad∣uouterars, & wemē that breke matrimonye: knowe ye not howe y^• * 1.1 the frēdshype of the worlde is enemyte w^t God whosoeuer ther∣fore wylbe a frēde of y^t worlde, is made the enemy of God. Ether do ye thinke y^e y^e scrip∣ture saith in vayne. The spirit y^t dwelleth in vs, lusteth euen cōtrary to enuy: our geueth more grace. (wherfore he sayth: God resisteth the proude, but geueth grace vnto the lowlye.

Submit your selues therfore to God, but [unspec B] * 1.2 resyst y^• deuyll, and he wyll flye from you. Drawe nye to God, & he wyll drawenye to you. Clēfe your hādes ye synners, & pourge your hettes ye wauerynge mynded. Suffre affliccions: and mourne, & wepe. Let youre laughter be turned to mournyng, and your ioye to heuynes. * 1.3 Humble youre selues in y^• sight of y^• lorde, & he shal lyft you vp. Back∣byte not one another, drethren. He y^• backby¦teth his brother, & he that iudgeth his bro∣ther, backbyteth the lawe, and iudgeth the

lawe. But and yf thou iudge the lawe, thou are not an obseruer of the lawe: but a iudge. There is one lawe geuer (and iudge) whiche is able to saue and to destroye. * 1.4 What art thou that iudgest another. [unspec C]

Go to nowe ye that saye: ‡ 1.5 todaye and to¦morowe let vs go into such a cytie, and con∣tynue there a yeare, & bye & sell, and wynne: & yet cannot ye tell, what shall happen on y^e morowe. For what thinge is your lyfe? It is euen a vapour, that apereth for a lytel time, and then vanyssheth a waye: For that ye ought to saye: * 1.6 yf the Lord wyll, and yf we lyue, let vs do this or y^t. But now ye reioyce in your boastynges. All soch reioysynge ys euyll. Therfore ‡ 1.7 to hym y^t knoweth how to do good, and doth yt not, to hym it is synne.

Notes

• * 1.1

  G••iath. i. b. 1 Ihon. ii. c.
• * 1.2

  i. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. v. b
• * 1.3

  i. Pe••••i v. a
• * 1.4

  Rome. 14. a
• ‡ 1.5

  Eze. xviii. a Luke. xii. b.
• * 1.6

  A••••. xviii. c. Hebre. vi. ••
• ‡ 1.7

  Luke. xii