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 .iii. Chapter.

FOr this cause I Paul ā in y^e bōdes of Iesus christ for youre sake which are [ A] hethen: Yf ye have hearde of the mini¦stracion of the grace of god which is geven* 1.1 me to you warde. For by revelacion shewed he this mistery vnto me / as I wrote above in feawe wordes / wherby when ye rede ye maye knowe myneivnderstondynge in the mistery of Christ / which mistery in tymes passed was not opened vnto the sonnes of men / as it is no we declared vnto his holy apostles and pro∣phetes

by the sprete: that the gentyls shuld be inheritours also / and of the same body / and partakers of his promis y^t is in Christ / by y^e meanes of the gospell / wherof I am made a minister / by the gyfte of the grace of god ge∣vē vnto me thorow y^• workynge of his power.

Vnto me the lest of all sayntes is this grace geven / that I shuld preache amonge the gen∣tyls [ B] the vnsearchable ryches of Christ / and to make all mense what the felyshippe of the mi¦stery is / which from the begynnynge of the worlde hath bene hid in God which made all thynges thorow Iesus Christ / to the intent / that now vnto the rulars & powers in heven myght be knowē by the cōgregacion y^e many folde wisdome of god / accordinge to y^• eternall purpose / which he purposed in Christ Iesu ou¦re lorde / by whō we are bolde to drawe nye in y^t trust / which we have by faith on hi ✚ Wherfo¦re I desire y^t ye faynt not because of my trybu¦laciōs for youre sakes: which is youre prayse.

For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the father of oure lorde Iesus Christ / which is fa¦ther over all that ys called father In heven & in erth / that he wolde graunt you acordynge [ C] to the ryches of his glory / that ye maye be strenghted with myght by his sprete in the in¦ner man / y^• Christmaye dwell in youre hertes by * 1.2 fayth / y^• ye beynge roted & grounded in loue / myght be able to comprehen de with all sayntes / what ys that bredth aud length / deepth and heyth: and to knowe what is the love of Christ / which love passeth knowledge:

that ye might be fulfilled with all manner of fulnes which commeth of God.

Vnto him that is able to do excedynge aboū¦dantly above all that we axe or thynke / ac∣cordynge to the power that worketh in vs / be prayse in the congregacion by Iesus Christ / thorowout all generaciōs from tyme to tyme Amen. ⊢

Notes

• * 1.1

  Paule was an a postle to the hethē and lear∣ned his gospell bi¦reuelaciō
• * 1.2

  Where true faith in Christ is / theris loue to y^• neyboure And faith and loue maketh•• vs vnder stonde all thinges. Fayth vn derston∣deth y^• se∣cretes of god & the mercie th¦at is ge∣uen hir in Christ And loue knoweth hir dutie to hirney boure / ād caninter∣prete all lawes & ordinaū¦ces & kno¦weth how farre for∣th they a∣re to be ke¦pt & whē to be dis∣pensed with.