The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale, and fynesshed in the yere of our Lorde God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember.

¶ The .x. Chapter.

BRethren I wolde not that ye shuld be [ A] * 1.1 ignoraunt of this / how y^t oure fathers were all vnder a cloude / and all passed thorow the see / and were all baptised vnder Moses / in the cloude / and in the see: & dyd all eate of one spirituall meate / & did all drincke of one maner of spirituall drincke. And they dranke of that spretuall rocke that folowed them / which rocke was Christ. ✚ But in ma¦ny of them had god no delite. For they were overthrowen in the wildernes.

These are ensamples to vs ✚ that wesh∣uld* 1.2 not lust after evyll thinge / as they lusted Nether be ye worshippers of Images as we¦re some of them accordynge as it is written: [ B] The people sate doune to eate and drynke / &* 1.3 rose vp agayne to playe. Nether let vs cōmit fornicacion as some of them committed forni¦cacion / and were destroyed in one daye .xxiii. thousande. Nether let vs tempte Christ / as so¦me of them tempted / and were destroyed of ser¦pentes.* 1.4 Nether murmure ye as some of them murmured / and were destroyed of y^e destroyer

All these thing{is} happened vnto them for ensamples / and were written to put vs in re¦membraunce

/ whom the endes of the worlde [ C] are come apon. Wherfore let hym that thyn¦keth hestōdeth / take hede least he fall. There hath none other temptacion taken you / but soche as foloweth y^e nature of mā. But God is faythfull / which shall not suffer you to be tempted above youre strenght: but shall in the myddes of the temptacion make awaye to escape out. ✚ Wherfore my deare beloued / fle from worshippynge of ydols.

I speake as vnto them which have discre∣cion / Iudge [ D] * 1.5 ye what I saye. Ys not the cuppe of blessinge which we blesse / partakynge of y^e bloude of Christ? ys not the breed which we breake / partetakynge of the body of Christ? because that we (though webe many) yet are one breed / and one bodyein as moch as we all are partetakers of one breed. Beholde Isra∣hell which walketh carnally. Are not they which eate of the sacrifyse / partetakers of the aultre?

What saye I then? that the ymage is eny thinge? or that it which is offered to yma¦ges is eny thinge? Nay / but I saye / that tho∣se thinges which the gentyls offer / they offer [ E] to devyls / and not to god. ✚ And I wolde not that ye shuld have fellishippe with y^e devils Ye cānot drincke of the cup of the lorde / & of y^• cup of y^e deuyls. Ye cnanot be partetakers* 1.6 of the lordes table / & of the table of deuelles. Ether shall we provoke the lorde? Or are we stronger then he? All thynges are laufull vn∣to me / but all thynges are not expedient. All

thynges are lawfull to me / but all thinges* 1.7 edifye not. Let noman seke his awne proffet: but let every man seke anothers welthe.

What soever is solde in the market / that [ F] eate / and axe no questions for conscience sake For the erth is the lord is / and all that therein is▪ Yf eny of them which beleve not / bid you to a feest / & yf ye be disposed to goo / what soe¦ver is seet before you: eate / axinge no question for conscience sake. But and yf eny man saye vnto you: this is dedicate vnto ydols / eate not of it for his sake that shewed it / and for hur∣tynge of conscience. The erth is the lordes & all that there in is. Conscience I saye / not thy¦ne: but the cōscieuce of that other. * 1.8 For why shuld my▪ liberte be iudged of another mānes conscience: For yf I take my parte with thā∣kes: why am I evell spoken of for that thyn∣ge wherfore I geve thankes.

Whether therfore ye eate or dryncke / or wh¦at soever ye do / do all to the prayse of God. ✚ Se that ye geve occasion of evell / nether to y^e [ G] Iewes / nor yet to the gentyls / nether to y^e cō∣gregacion of god: euen as I please all men in* 1.9 all thinges / not sekynge myne awne proffet / but the proffet of many / that they myght be sa¦ved. Folowe me as I do Christ.

Notes

• * 1.1

  As it we∣nt in the olde testa¦ment / so shall it do in the ne∣we. nu. ix. d exo xiij d exo xiij. a exo. xvj. d.
• * 1.2

  exo. xvij b. nu. xx. ••. nu. xxvj g.
• * 1.3

  exo. xx xij. nu. xxv. b. nu. xxj. b
• * 1.4

  exo. xiiij f. iudi. viij. ••
• * 1.5

  Cup Breed
• * 1.6

  eccle. xxxvj.
• * 1.7

  e haue p¦rofessed e¦uery man to seke an¦others we al the.
• * 1.8

  we shuld be so full of loue & so circum specte / th∣at we shu¦ld geue no¦ne occasy∣vnto the ygnoraūt for to spe¦ake euell on vs for oure lybe¦rtie / & for doynge t∣hat which we maye lawfull ye do before God
• * 1.9

  Loue seke¦th hir ney∣boures pr¦offyte.