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 fyrst Chapter.

PAul an Apostle of Ie••u [ A] Christ by the will of God / & brother Timotheus.

Unto the congregacion of God / which is at Corinthū / with all the saynctes which are in all Achaia. Grace be with you and pea∣ce from God oure father / and from the Lorde Iesus Christ.

Blessed be God y^e father of oure Lorde Ie¦sus Christ / the father of mercy / & the God of all comforte / which comforteth vs in all oure tribulaciō / in so moche y^t we are able to cōfor¦te them which are troubled / in whatsoever tri¦bulacion it be / with the same comforte wher with we oure selves are cōforted of God. For as y^e afflicciōs of * 1.1 Christ are plēteous in vs evē so is oure consolaciō plenteous by Christ.

Whether we be troubled for youre consola¦cion & salvaciō / which salvacion sheweth her power in y^t ye soffre y^e same afflicciōs which [ B] we also suffre: or whether we be cōforted for youre consolacion & salvacion: yet oure hope is stedfast for you / in as moch as we know how that as ye have youre parte in afflicciōs / so shall ye be parttakers of consolacion.

Brethren I wolde not have you ignoraūt of oure trouble / which happened vnto vs in Asia. For we were greved out of measure pas¦synge strength / so greatly that we despeared

even of lyfe. Also we receaved an answer of deeth in oure selves / & that because we shuld not put oure trust in oureselves: but in God / which rayseth the deed to lyfe agayne / and which delivered vs from so gret a deeth / and doth delivre. On whom we trust / y^t yet here after he will deliver / by the helpe of youre prayer for vs: that by the meanes of many oc¦casions / thankes maye be geven of many on oure behalfe / for the grace geven vnto vs. [ C]

Cure reioysynge is this / the testimony of oure cōscience / y^• in synglenes and godly pure¦nes and not in flesshly wysdome / but by the grace of God / we have had oure conuersa¦cion* 1.2 in the worlde / and most of all to you war¦des. We write no nother thinges vnto you / then that ye reade and also knowe. Yee and I trust ye shall fynde vs vnto the ende even as ye have founde vs partly: for we are youre reioysynge / even as ye are oures / in the daye of the Lorde Iesus. [ D]

And in this confidence was I mynded the other tyme to have come vnto you / that ye myght have had yet one pleasure moare: and to have passed by you into Macedonia / and to have come agayne out of Macedonia vnto you / and to have bene ledde forth to Iewrye warde of you.

When I thus wyse was mynded: dyd I vse lightnes? Or thinke I carnally those thin¦ges which I thinke? that with me shuld be ye ye / and naye naye. God is faythfull: For ou∣re preachynge vnto you / was not ye & naye.

For Goddis sonne Iesus Christ which was preached amonge you by vs (that is to saye by me & Silvanus and Timotheus) was not ye and naye: but in him it was ye. For all the promyses * 1.3 of God / in him are ye: & are in him Amen / vnto the lawde of God thorow vs. For it is God which stablissheth vs & you in Christ / & hath annoynted vs / which hath also sealed vs / and hath geven the ernest of the sprete into oure hertes.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Afflicci¦ons or passions of Christ are soche sofferin∣ges as Christ soffered.
• * 1.2

  Conscien¦ce.
• * 1.3

  All the promises of god a∣re geuen ••e onlye for chri∣stes sake.