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 Prologe vpon the epistle of S. Paul to the Galathyans.

AS ye reade. Act. xv. how cer∣ten came from Ierusalem to Antioche and vexed the disci¦ples there / affirmynge that they coulde not be saued ex∣cept they were circumcised. Euē so after Paule had cōuer¦ted the Galathyās & coupled them to Christ / to trust in him onlye for the re∣mission of synne / & hope of grace & saluaciō / & was departed: there came false apostles vnto thē (as vnto the Corinthians / and vnto all places where Paule had preached) and that in the na∣me of Peter / Iames and Ihon / whome they cal¦led the hie Apostles / and preached circumcision and the kepinge of the lawe / to be saued by and mynisshed pauls auctorite.

To the confoundynge of those / Paule mag¦nifieth his office and Apostleshipe in the two fyrst chapters and maketh him selfe equall vn¦to

the hye Apostles / and concludeth that euery man must be iustified with oure deseruynges / with oute workes / and with out helpe of the lawe: but alone by Christ.

And in the thyrde and fourth / he proueth y^• same with scripture / examples and symylitu∣des / and sheweth that the lawe is cause of mo∣re synne and bringeth the cursse of god vpon vs / and iustifieth vs not: but that iustifyinge cometh by grace promysed vs of God thorow the deseruinge of Christ / by whome (if we bele¦ue) we are iustifyed with oute helpe of the wor¦kes of the lawe.

And in the .v. and .vj. he exhorteth vnto the workes of loue which folowe fayth and iustify¦inge. So that in all his epistle he obserueth this order. Fyrst he preacheth the dampnaciō of the lawe: then the iustifyinge of fayth / and thyrd∣ly the workes of loue. For on that condycion that we loue & worke / is the mercie geuen vs.

¶ The epistle of S. Paul vnto the Galathyans.

¶ The fyrst Chapter.

[illustration]

PAul an Apostle / not of men / nether* 1.1 by man / but by Ie¦sus [ A] Christ / and by God the father which raysed him from deeth: and all the brethren which are with me.

Vnto the congregaciōs of Galacia.

Grace be with you & peace from God the

father / and from oure Lorde Iesus Christ / which gave him selfe for oure synnes / to deli∣ver vs from this present evyll worlde / tho∣row the will of God oure father / to whom be prayse for ever and ever. Amen.

I marvayle that ye are so sone turned frō [ B] him that called you in the grace of Christ / vn¦to another gospell: which is nothinge els / but that ther be some which trouble you / & inten∣de to pervert to gospell of Christ. Neverthe∣lesse though we oure selves / or an angell frō hevē / preache eny other gospell vnto you thē that which we have preached vnto you / hol∣de him as a cursed. As I sayde before / so saye I now agayne / yf eny man preache eny other thinge vnto you / then that ye have receaved / holde him accursed. Preache I mannes doc∣trine or Godes? Ether go I about to please men? If I stodyed to please men / I were not the servaunt of Christ.

✚ I certifie you brethren / that the gospell [ C] which was preached of me / was not after the māner of men / nether receaved I it of mā / ne∣ther wos I taught it: but receaved it by the revelacion of Iesus Christ. For ye have hear¦de of my conversacion in tyme past / in the Ie∣wes wayes / how that beyonde measure I per¦secuted the congregacion of God / & spoyled it: and prevayled in the Iewes laye / above many of my companions / which were of my∣ne awne naciō / and was a moche more fervēt mayntener of the tradicions of the elders.

But whē it pleased God / which seperated

me from my mothers wombe / & called me by his grace / forto declare his sonne by me / that I shuld preache him amonge the hethen: im∣mediatly* 1.2 I cōmened not of the matter with flesshe and bloud / nether returned to Ierusa∣sem to them which were Apostles before me: but wēt my wayes into Arabia / & came agay¦ne [ D] vnto Damasco. Then after thre yeare I re¦turned to Ierusalem to se Peter / & abode with him .xv. dayes / no nother of the Apostles sa∣we I / save Iames the Lordes brother. The thinges which I write / beholde / God kno∣weth I lye not.

After that I went into the costes of Siria & Cilicia: & was vnknowen as touchinge my person vnto y^e cōgregaciōs of Iewrye / which were in Christ. But they hearde only / that he which persecuted vs in tyme past / now prea∣cheth the fayth which before he destroyed. And they glorified God on my behalffe. ⊢

¶ The .ii. Chapter.

THen .xiiii. yeares after that / I wēt vp [ A] agayne to Ierusalem with Barnabas / & toke with me Titus also. Ye and I went vp by revelacion / & cōmened with them of the Gospell which I preache amonge the* 1.3 gentyls: but apart with them which were coū¦ted chefe / lest it shuld have bene thought y^• I shuld runne or had runne in vayne. Also Titus which was with me / though he were a Greke / yet was not compelled to be circumci¦sed / & that because of incōmers beynge falce brethren / which came in amōge other to spye

out oure libertie which we have in Christ Ie¦sus / that they might bringe vs into bondage.* 1.4 To whom we gave no roume / no not for the space of an houre / as cōcerninge to be brought into subiecciō: & that because that the trueth of the gospell myght continue with you. [ B]

Of thē which seme to be great (what they were in tyme passed it maketh no matter to me: God loketh on no mans person) neverthe∣lesse they which seme great / added nothynge* 1.5 to me. But contrary wyse / when they sawe that the gospell over the vncircumcision was cōmitted vnto me / as the gospell over y^• * 1.6 cir¦cūcision was vnto Peter: for he y^• was mygh∣ty in Peter in the Apostleshippe over the cir¦cumcision / the same was myghty in me amō¦ge the gentyls: and therfore when they per∣ceaved the grace that was gevē vnto me / then Iames / Cephas & Iohn / which semed to be¦••ilers / gave to me & Barnabas the ryght hon¦des / & agreed with vs / that we shuld preache amonge the Hethen / and they amonge the Ie¦wes: warnynge only that we shulde remem∣ber the poore. Which thinge also I was di∣ligent to do.

And when Peter was come to Antioche / [ D] I with stode him in the face / for he was wor∣thy* 1.7 to be blamed. For yerr that certayne ca∣me frō Iames / he ate with the gentyls. But when they were come / he withdrue & separa∣ted him selfe / fearinge them which were of y^• circumcision. And y^• other Iewes dissembled lyke wyse / in so moche that Barnabas was

brought into their simulaciō also. But when I sawe / that they w••nt not the ryght waye af¦ter the trueth of the gospell / I sayde vnto Pe¦ter before all men / yf thou beynge a Iewe / li∣vest after the māner of the gentyls / & not as do the Iewes: why causest thou the gētyls to live as do the Iewes? We which are Iewes [ D] by nature / & not synners of the gētyls / knowe that a man is not iustified by y^• * 1.8 dedes of the lowe: but by the fayth of Iesus Christ. And therfore we have beleved on Iesus Christ / y^t wemyght be iustified by y^• fayth of Christ / &not by the dedes of the lawe: because that by y^• dedes of y^• lawe no flesshe shalbe iustified.

Yf then whill we seke to be made righte∣wes by Christ / we oure selves are founde syn¦ners / is not then Christ y^• minister of synne? God forbyd. For yf I bylde agayne y^t which I destroyed. then make I my selfe a treaspa∣ser. But I thorow y^• lawe ame deed to y^• lawe: that I myght live vnto God. I am crucified with Christ. I live verely: yet now not I / but Christ liveth in me. For y^• lyfe which I now live in y^• flesshe / I live by the fayth of y^• son∣ne of God / which loved me / and gave him sel¦ne for me. I despyse not the grace of God. For if rightewesnes come of the lawe / then Christ dyed in vayne.

¶ The .iii. Chapter.

OFolisshe Galathyās: who hath bewit¦ched [ A] you / that ye shuld not beleve the trueth? To whom Iesus Christ was described before the eyes / & amōge you crucifi¦ed. This only wolde I learne of you: receaved

ye the sprete by the dedes of y^e lawe / or els by preachinge of y^e faith? Are ye so vnwyse / that after ye have begonne in the sprete / ye wolde nowe ende in the flesshe? So many thinges there ye have suffred in vayne / if y^t be vayne.* 1.9 Which ministered to you the sprete / and wor¦keth myracles amonge you / doth he it thorow the dedes of the lawe / or by preachinge of the fayth? Even as Abraham beleved God / and it was asscribed to him for rightewesnes. Vn¦derstonde therfore / y^t they which are of fayth / the same are the chyldren of Abraham. [ B]

For the seripture sawe afore honde / y^t God wolde iustifie the hethen thorow fayth / and* 1.10 therfore shewed before honde glad tydinges vnto Abraham: In the shall all nacions be blessed. So then they which be of fayth / are blessed with faythfull Abraham. For as ma∣ny as are vnder the dedes of the lawe / are vn∣der maledicciō. For it is written: cursed is eve¦ry man y^t cōtinueth not in all thing{is} which are writtē in y^e boke of y^e lawe / to fulfill thē. That no mā is iustified by y^e lawe in y^e sight of God / is evidēt. For the iuste shall live by fayth. The lawe is not of fayth: but the man that fulfilleth the thinges contayned in the lawe (shall live in thē.) But Christ hath deli¦vered vs frō the curse of the lawe / & was ma∣de a * 1.11 cursed for vs. For it is writtē: cursed is every one that hangeth on tree / that the bles∣synge of Abraham might come on the gētyls thorow Iesus Christ / and that we might re∣ceave the promes of the sprete thorow fayth.

Brethren I will speake after the māner of [ C] men. Though it be but a mans testament / yet no mā despiseth it / or addeth eny thinge ther¦to when it is once alowed. ✚ To Abraham & his seed were the promises made. He sayth not / in the seedes as in many: but in thy sede / as in one / which is Christ. This I saye / that the lawe which beganne afterwarde / beyon∣de .iiii. C & .xxx. yeares / doth not disanull the testament / that was confermed afore of God vnto Christ ward / to make the promes of no∣ne effect. For yf the inheritaunce come of the lawe it cōmeth not of promes. But God ga∣ve it vnto Abraham by promes.

Wherfore then serveth y^e lawe? The lawe* 1.12 was added because of transgression (tyll the seed cam to which y^e promes was made) & it was ordeyned by angels in y^e honde of a media¦tor. A mediator is not a mediator of one. But God is one. Ys the lawe then agaynst y^• pro∣mes of God? God forbid. How be it yf ther [ D] had bene a lawe gevē which coulde have ge∣ven lyfe: then no doute rightewesnes shuld have come by y^e lawe. But y^e scripture conclu¦ded* 1.13 all thinges vnder synne / y^t the promes by the fayth of Iesus Christ shuld be gevē vnto them y^t beleve. ✚ Before y^t fayth cam / we we∣re kept and shut vp vnder the lawe / vnto the fayth which shuld afterwarde be declared.

Wherfore the lawe was oure scolemaster vnto the tyme of Christ / y^t we might be made rightewes by fayth. But after y^t fayth is co∣me / now are we no lenger vnder a scolemaster.

For ye are all the * 1.14 sonnes of God / by y^• fayth which is in Christ Iesus. For all ye that are baptised / have put on Christ. Now is ther no Iewe nether gētyle: ther is nether bonde ner fre: ther is nether man ner woman: but ye are all one thinge in Christ Iesu. Yf ye be Chri∣stes / then are ye Abrahams seed / and heyres by promes.

¶ The .iiii. Chapter. ✚

ANd I saye that the heyre as longe as [ A] he is a chylde / differth not from a ser∣vaunt / though he be Lorde of all / but is vnder tuters and governers / vntill the tyme appoynted of the father. Even so we / as longe as we were chyldren / were in bondage vnder the ordinaunces of the worlde. But when the tyme was full come / God sent his sonne bor∣ne of a woman & made bonde vnto y^e lawe / to redeme thē which were vnder the lawe: y^t we thorow eleccion myght receave the inheritaū¦ce y^t belongeth vnto the naturall sonnes. Be¦cause ye are sonnes / God hath sent the sprete of his sonne in to oure herte▪ which cryeth Ab¦ba father. Wherfore now / thou art not a ser∣vaunt / but a sonne. Yf thou be y^e sonne / thou [ B] arte also the heyre of God thorow Christ. ⊢

Notwithstondinge / whē ye knewe not God / ye dyd service vnto them / which by nature we¦re no goddes. But now seinge ye knowe god (yee rather are knowē of God) how is it that ye tourne agayne vnto the weake and bedgar¦ly cerimonies / whervnto agayne ye desyre af∣resshe* 1.15 to be in bondage? Ye observe dayes / & monethes / and tymes / and yeares. I am in

feare of you / lest I have bestowed on you la∣boure in vayne.

Brethern I besech you / be ye as I am: for I am as ye are. Ye have not hurte me at all.* 1.16 Ye knowe / how thorow infirmite of the fles∣she / I preached the gospell vnto you at the fyrst. And my temptacion which I suffered by reason of my flesshe / ye despysed not / ne∣ther abhorred: but receaved me as an angell of god: ye as Christ Iesus. How happy were ye then? for I beare you recorde that yf it had bene possible / ye wolde have plucked out you∣re awne eyes / and have geven them to me. Am I therfore become youre enemie / because I tell you the truth? [ C]

They are gelous over you amysse. Ye / they intēde to exclude you / that ye shuld be feruēt to them warde. It is good alwayes to be fer∣vent / so it be in a good thinge / and not only whē I am present with you.

My littel children (of whom I travayle in birth againe vntill Christ be fassioned in you) I wolde I were with you now / & coulde cha∣unge my voyce: for I stonde in a doute of you

Tell me ye that desyre to be vnder the lawe have ye not hearde of the lawe? ✚ For it is written that Abraham had two sonnes / y^e one by a bonde mayde / the other by a fre woman. Yee and he which was of the bonde woman was borne after the flesshe: but he which* 1.17 was of the fre woman / was borne by pro∣mes. Which thinges betoken mystery. For these wemen are two testamentes / the one frō

the mounte Sina / which gendreth vnto bon∣dage / which is Agar. For mounte Sina is called Agar in Arabia / and bordreth vpō the citie which is now Ierusalem / and is in bon∣dage [ D] with her chyldren.

But Ierusalem / which is above / is fre: which is the mother of vs all. For it is writ∣ten: reioyce thou barē / that bearest no chyldrē:* 1.18 breake forthe & crye / thou that travelest not. For the desolate hath many moo chyldren* 1.19 then she which hath an husband. Brethrē we are after the maner of Isaac / chyldren of pro∣mes. But as then he y^t was borne carnally / persecuted him that was borne spiritually. Even so is it now. Neverthelesse what sayth the scripture: put awaye the bonde woman &* 1.20 her sonne. For the sonne of the bonde womā shall not be heyre with the sonne of y^e fre wo∣man. So then brethren we are not chyldrē of the bonde woman: but of the fre woman. ⊢

¶ The .v. Chapter.

STond fast therfore in y^• libertie wher with Christ hath made vs fre / & wrap [ A] * 1.21 pe not youre selves agayne in y^• yoke of bondage. Beholde I Paul saye vnto you / that yf ye be circumcised / Christ shall proffit you nothinge at all. I testifie agayne to every man which is circumcised that he is bounde to kepe the whole lawe. Ye are gone quyte frō Christ as many as are iustified by the lawe / & are fallen from grace. We loke for & hope in the sprite / to be iustified thorow fayth. For in Iesu Christ / nether is circumcision eny thin∣ge

worth / nether yet vncircōcision / but * 1.22 faith which by love is mighty in operacion. Ye did runne well: who was a let vnto you / that ye shuld not obey the trueth? Evē that counsell [ B] that is not of him that called you. A lytell le∣ven doth leven the whole lompe of dowe.

✚ I have trust towarde you in the Lorde / y^t ye wyll be none other wyse mynded. He that troubleth you shall beare his iudgemēt / what* 1.23 soever he be. Brethren yf I yet preache circū cision: why do I then yet suffre persecucion? For then had the offence which the crosse ge veth / ceased. I wolde to God they were sepe∣rated from you which trouble you. Brethrē ye were called in to (libertie) only let not youre libertie be an occasion vnto the flesshe / but in* 1.24 love serve one another. For all y^• lawe is ful∣filled in one worde / which is this: thou shalt love thyne neghbour as thy selfe. Yf ye byte [ C] & devoure one another: take hede lest ye be con¦sumed one of another.

✚ I saye walke in the sprete / & fulfill not y^•* 1.25 lustes of y^e flesshe. For y^e flesshe lusteth con∣trary to y^e sprete / & y^• sprete cōtrary to y^e fles∣she. Tese are cōtrary one to the other / so y^t ye cānot do that which ye wolde. But & yf ye be* 1.26 ledde of the sprete / then are ye not vnder the lawe. The dedes of the flesshe are many fest / whiche are these / advoutrie / fornicaciō / vnclē∣nes / wantannes / ydolatrye / witchecraft / ha∣tred / variaunce / zele / wrath / stryfe / sedicion / sec tes / envyinge / murther / dronkēnes / glottony / [ D] and soche lyke: of the which I tell you before

as I have tolde you in tyme past / that they which cōmit soche thing{is} / shall not inherite / y^e kyngdome of God. But * 1.27 y^e frute of sprete is / loue / ioye / peace / longesufferinge / gētlenes goodnes / faythfulnes / meknes / temperancye. Agaynst suche ther is no lawe. They y^e are Christis / have crucified the flesshe with the appetites and lustes. ✚ ✚ Yf we lyve in the sprete / let vs walke in the sprete. Let vs not be vayne glorious / provokinge one another / & envyinge one another.

¶ The .vi. Chapter.

BRethren / yf eny mā be fallen by chaūce [ A] into eny faute: ye which are spirituall* 1.28 helpe to amende him / in the sprete of meknes: consyderynge thy silfe / lest thou al∣so be tempted. Beare ye one anothers burthē and so fulfill the lawe of Christ. If eny mā seme to him silfe that he is somwhat whē in dede he is nothynge / thesame deceaveth hym silfe in his ymaginacion. Let every man pro∣ve his awne worke / and then shall he have re¦ioysinge* 1.29 in his awne silfe / and not in another For every man shall beare his awne burthen.

Let him that is taught in y^e worde minister vnto him y^t teacheth him in all good thing{is}. Be not * 1.30 deceaved / God is not mocked. For what soever a man soweth / y^t shall he reepe. [ B] He that soweth in his flesshe / shall of y^• fles¦she reepe corrupciō. But he y^• soweth in y^• spre te / shall of the sprete reepe lyfe everlastinge. Let vs not be wery of well doynge. For when the tyme is come / we shall repe with out weri¦nes. * 1.31

Whill we have therfore tyme / let vs do good vnto all men / and specially vnto them which are of the housholde of fayth. ⊢

Beholde how large a letter I have writ∣ten [ C] vnto you with myne awne honde. As ma¦ny as desyre with vtwarde apperaūce to plea¦se carnally / they constrayne you to be circum∣cised / only be cause they wolde not suffre per secucion with the crosse of Christ. For they them selves which are circumcised / kepe not the lawe: but desyre to have you circumcised / that they myght reioyce in youre flesshe.

God forbyd that I shuld reioyce but in the crosse of oure Lorde Iesu Christ / wher∣by the worlde is crucified as touchinge me / and I as concerninge the worlde. For in Christ Iesu nether circūcision avayleth eny thinge at all nor vncircumcisiō: but a * 1.32 new creature. And as many as walke accordinge to this rule / peace be on them / and mercy / and vpon Israel that pertayneth to God. From hence forth / let no man put me to busynes. [ D] For I beare in my bodye y^• markes of the Lor¦de Iesu. Brethren the grace of oure Lor∣de Iesu Christe be with youre sprete.

Amen.

¶ Vnto the Galathyans written from Rome.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Paul / though he came longe af∣ter the a∣postles / yet had he not his aucto¦rite of Pe¦ter or of anye. that went before hī Nether br¦ought he with him letters of recommē¦dacion or bulles of cōfirmaci¦on. But the confir¦macion of his apostl¦eship was the wor∣de of god conscien∣ce of men and the po¦wer of the spirite th∣at testifi∣ed with hī by mira∣cles and manifol∣de gyftes of grace.
• * 1.2

  Paules gospell was not cōfirmed bi the auc¦torite of man: but by the my racles of the spirite
• * 1.3

  Paule de¦fendeth y^• libertie of the gos∣pell.
• * 1.4

  Paule is of as hie auctorite as Peter Iames or Iohn. dut. x. d. ij. pa. xix iob.
• * 1.5

  xxxiiij. sap. vj. b. rom. ij. b. ephe. vj. b coll. iij. b. act. x. e▪ j. petr. j. c
• * 1.6

  Circum¦cision are the Iewes and vncir¦cumcision are the gē¦tyles.
• * 1.7

  Paule re buketh pe¦ter in the face.
• * 1.8

  Dedes of the la∣we iustifi¦e not: but fayth iu∣stifieth. The la∣we vtte∣re thmy synne and dampnaci¦on / & mak¦eth me fle to Christ for mer∣cie and sy¦fe. As the la¦we rored vnto me that I was dāp∣ned for my sines: so fayth ceriefieth me that I am forge∣uen and shall lyue thorow Christ.
• * 1.9

  gen. xxv. rom. iiij a iaco. ij. d
• * 1.10

  gen. xxij eccle. xxiiij. The la∣we curs∣seth: but fayth bles¦seth. (For fay∣th) onlye maketh y^• conscien∣ce alyue
• * 1.11

  Christ was accur¦sed for ou¦re sakes. that is he was pu∣nysshed & slayne for oute syn∣nes.
• * 1.12

  The la∣we.
• * 1.13

  The la∣we geue∣th no lyfe but threa¦teneth d ••¦eth.
• * 1.14

  Fayth maketh vs sōnes and of the nature of christ / ād bindeth e∣che to ha∣ue other in the sa∣me reuerē¦ce that he hath Ch¦rist.
• * 1.15

  Bedgar∣lye cere¦monies.
• * 1.16

  Infirmi∣te & temp¦tacion are persecuci∣on / rebu∣ke / ād the crosse.
• * 1.17

  gen. xxj.
• * 1.18

  esa. lv.
• * 1.19

  rom. ix. v
• * 1.20

  gen. xxja
• * 1.21

  The liber¦tie and fre¦dome that we haue in Christ ought eue¦ry man to stonde by.
• * 1.22

  Fayth which wo¦rketh tho¦row loue is the true fayth and all that god requi¦reth of vs
• * 1.23

  (christes ly bertye) is a syber tie of con∣science ād not of the flesshe.
• * 1.24

  leu. ix. d. mat. xxij mar. xij. c rom. xiii. iaco. ij. b. j. pet. ij. c.
• * 1.25

  Flesshe and spiri∣te fight together.
• * 1.26

  Dedes of the flesshe To com∣mitte so∣che dedes maketh vs vnder the dāpna ciō of the lawe.
• * 1.27

  the frute of the spri¦te. The¦se dedes testifie th¦at we are not vnder the dāna∣cion of y^• lawe.
• * 1.28

  The du∣tie feue∣rye chri∣sten man.
• * 1.29

  ••. co. iij. b.
• * 1.30

  The co∣uenaūt of mercie in christ is made on∣lye to thē that wyll worke.
• * 1.31

  ij. thes. iij.
• * 1.32

  Nothy•• ge helpe∣th saue to be a new creature.