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 .ii. Chapter.

VVherfore laye asyde all maliciousnes and all gyle / and dissimulacion / and [ A] envie / and all back bytynge: and as ne¦we borne babes / desyre that reasonable mylke which is with out corrupcion / that ye maye growe therin. If so be that ye have tasted how plesaunt the lorde is / to whom ye come as vn¦to a livynge stone disalowed of men / but cho∣sen of god and precious: and ye as lyvynge sto¦nes / are made a spretuall * 1.1 housse / and an holy presthode / for to offer vp spretuall sacryfice / acceptable to god by Iesus Christ.

Wherfore it is contayned in the scripture: [ B] beholde / I put in Sion an heed corner stone /

electe and precious: and he that beleveth on* 1.2 him shall not be a shamed. Vnto you therfore which beleve / he is precious: but vnto them which beleve not / y^• stone which y^e bylders re¦fused y^e same is made y^e heed stone in the cor∣ner / & a stone to stomble at / & a rocke to offen∣de* 1.3 them which stomble at the worde / and bele¦ve not that where on they were set. But ye are a chosyn generacion / a royall presihod / an ho∣ly naciō / and a peculiar people / that ye shuld shewe the vertues of him that called you out of darknes into hys marvelous light which* 1.4 in tyme past were not a people / yet are now the people of God: which were not vnder mer¦cye but now have obteyned mercye. ⊢

✚ Derly beloved / I beseche you as straūgers [ C] * 1.5 and pilgrems / abstayne from flesshly lustes which fyght agaynst the soule / and se that ye have honest conversacion amonge the gētyls that they which backbyte you as evyll doars* 1.6 maye se youre good workes and prayse god in the daye of visitacion.

Submit youre selves vnto all manner ordi∣nannce of man for the lordes sake / whether it* 1.7 be vnto the kynge as vnto the chefe heed: o∣ther vnto rulars / as vnto them that are sent of him / for the punysshment of evyll doars: but for the laude of them that do well. For so is the will of god / that ye put to sylence the ygnorancie of the folyshe men: as fre / and not as havinge y^e libertie for a cloke of malicious∣nes but even as the servaūtes of god. Honou∣re all men. Love brotherly felishippe. Feare* 1.8

god and honour the kynge.

Servauntes obey youre masters with all* 1.9 feare / not only yf they be good & courteous: but also though they be frowarde. For it is thankeworthye yf a man for conscience to∣warde god endure grefe / sufferinge wrongful¦ly. For what prayse is it / if when ye be buffe∣ted for youre fautes / ye take it paciently? But and yf when ye do well / ye suffer wron∣ge and take it paciently / then is there than∣ke with God.

For herevnto verely were ye * 1.10 called: for ✚ Christ also suffered for vs levinge vs an in sample y^t ye shuld folowe his steppes / which dyd no sinne / nether was ther gyle founde in his mouth: which when he was reviled / re∣viled not agayne: whē he suffered / he threate¦ned* 1.11 not: but comitted the cause to him that iudgeth ryghteously / which his awne silfe ba¦re oure synnes in his body on the tree / that we shuld be delyvered from synne and shuld lyve in rightewesnes. By whose strypes ye were healed. For ye were as shepe goinge ast∣raye: but are now returned vnto y^e shepheerd* 1.12 and bisshoppe of youre soules. ⊢

Notes

• * 1.1

  We be y^e churche: & the obedy¦ence of y^e harte is y^e spirituall sacrifice. Bodilye sacrifice must be offered to oure ney∣boures / for yf th∣ou offere∣st it to god thou ma∣kest a bo∣dylie ydo∣le of him
• * 1.2

  es. xxviij rom. ix. g
• * 1.3

  psa. cxvij mat. xxj. act. iiij. b. esa. viij. c exo. xix.
• * 1.4

  osee. ij. d. rom. ix. e
• * 1.5

  gala. v. c. rom. xiij.
• * 1.6

  rom. xiij.
• * 1.7

  Obedyen¦ce to ru∣lars.
• * 1.8

  rom. xij. c
• * 1.9

  Servaun¦tes. ephe. vj. a coll. iij. d. ij. co. vij.
• * 1.10

  Oure ca¦lligne is to folowe Christ.
• * 1.11

  csa. liij. c. j. io. iij. a.
• * 1.12

  esa. liij. b.