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 .xi. Cha.

VVolde to god / ye coulde suffre mea ly¦tell in my folysshnes: yee / and I pra∣ye you forbeare me. For I am gelous [ A] over you with godly gelousy. For I coupled* 1.1 you to one man / to make you a chaste virgen to Christ. But I feare lest as the serpent begy∣led Eve / thorow his sutteltie / even so youre wittes shuld be corrupte from the singlenes that is in Christ. For if he that commeth pre∣ache another Iesus then hym whom we pre∣ached: or if ye receave another sprete then that which ye have receaved: other another gos∣pell then that ye have receaved / ye myght right wel have bene content.

I suppose that I was not behynde y^e chefe apostles. Though I be tude in speakynge / yet I am not so in knowledge. How be it amonge you we are knowen to the vtmost what we [ B] are in all thynges. Did I therin synne / be cau¦se I submitted my silfe / that ye myght be ex∣alted / & because I preached to you the gospell of God fre? I robbed other congregacions / and toke wages of thē / to do you service with all. And when I was present with you and had nede / I was greuous to no man for that which was lackynge vnto me / the brethren which came from Macedonia / supplied: & in all thynges I kept my silse that I shuld not be greveous to you: & so will I kepe my silfe.

Yf the trueth of Christ be in me / this ieioy∣synge shall not be taken from me in the regi∣ons of Achaia. Wherfore? Be cause I love [ C] you not? God knoweth. Neverthe lesse what

I doo / that will I do / to cut awaye occasion from them which desyre occasion / that they myght be founde lyke vnto vs in that wherin they reioyce. For these falce apostles are dis∣ceatefull workers / and fassion them selves ly¦ke [ D] vnto y^e apostles of Christ. And no marvay¦le / for satan him silfe is chaunged into the fas¦sion of an angell of light. Therfore it is no great thynge / though his ministers fassion them selves as though they were the mini∣sters of rightewesnes: whose ende shalbe ac∣ordynge to their dedes.

I saye agayne / lest eny man thynke y^t I am folishe: or els evē now take me as a fole / that I maye bost my silfe a lytell. That I speake / I speake it not after the wayes of the lorde: but as it were folysshly / whill we are now co∣me to bostynge. Seynge that many reioyce after y^e flesshe I will reioyce also. For ye suf¦fre foles gladly / be cause that ye youre selves are wyse. For ye suffre even if a man brynge [ E] you into * 1.2 bondage: yf a mā devoure: yf a man take: yf a man exalt hym silfe: yf a man smy∣te you on the face. I speake as concernynge re¦buke / as though we had bene weake.

How be it wherin soever eny man dare be bolde (I speake folisshly) I dare be bolde also They are Ebrues / so am I: They are Israeli ts / evē so am I. They are y^e seede of Abrahā / even so am I. They are y^• ministers of Christ (I speake as a fole) I am moare: In labours moare aboundāt: In strypes above measure: In preson more plenteously: In deeth ofte.

Of the Iewes five tymes receaved I every* 1.3 tyme .xl. strypes saue one. Thryse was I be¦ten [ F] with roddes. I was once s••oned. I suffe∣red thryse shipwracke. Nyght and daye have I bene in the depe of the see. In iorneyinge of¦ten: In parels of waters: In parels of rob∣bers: In ieoperdies of myne awne nacion: In ieoperdies amōge the hethen. I have bene in parels in cities / in parels in wildernes / in parels in the see / in parels amonge falce bre¦thren / in laboure and travayle / in watchynge often / in honger / in thirst / in fastynges often / in colde and in nakednes.

And besyde the thynge which outwardly happē vnto me / I am cōbred dayly / & do care for all congregacions. Who is sicke / & I am not sicke? Who is hurte in the fayth and my hert burneth not? Yf I must nedes reioyce / I will reioyce of myne infirmities.

Notes

• * 1.1

  We be maried to Christ & not to the preacher.
• * 1.2

  To mo∣che meke∣nes & obe¦dience is not alo∣wed in y^• kyngedo∣me of god but all must be ac¦cordinge to know∣ledge.
• * 1.3

  acto. xvj. ac. xiiij. c ac. xxvji