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 .iiii. Chapter.

FRom whence commeth warre & fight∣tynge [ A] * 1.1 amonge you: come they not here hence? even of youre volupteousnes that rayne in youre members. Ye lust / and ha¦ve* 1.2 not. Ye envie & have indignacion / and can∣not obtayne. Ye fight and warre & have not / because ye axe not. Ye axe and receave not / because ye axe a mysse: even to consume it a∣pon* 1.3 youre volupteousnes. Ye advouterars / & wemen that breke matrimonie: knowe ye not how y^t the frēshippe of y^e worlde is ennimite to godwarde? Whosoever wilbe a frende of the worlde / is made the enemie of god. Ether do ye thinke that the scripture sayth in vayne [ B] The * 1.4 sprite that dwelleth in you / lusteth evē contrary to envie: but geveth more grace.

Submit youre selves to god / and resist the devyll / and he will flye from you. Drawe nye to god & he will drawe nye to you. Clense you¦re hondes ye synners / and pourdge youre her∣tes ye waverynge mynded. Suffre afflicciōs: sorowe ye and wepe. Let youre laughter be turned to mornynge / and youre ioye to hevy∣nes.

Cast doune youre selves before the lorde / and he shall lift you vp. Backbyte not one a∣nother / brethren. He that * 1.5 backbyteh hys bro¦ther / and he that iudgeth his brother / backby∣teth the lawe / and iudgeth the lawe. But and yf thou iudge the lawe / thou art not an obser∣ver of y^e lawe: but a iudge. Ther is one lawe gever / which is able to save and to distroye. [ D] What art thou that iudgest a nother man?

Go to now ye that saye: to daye & to morow let vs go into soche a citie and continue there a yeare & bye and sell / and wynne: and yet can not tell what shall happen to morowe. For what thynge is youre lyfe? It is even a va∣poure that apereth for a lytell tyme / and thē vanyssheth awaye: For that ye ought to saye: yf the lorde will and yf we live / let vs do this or that. But nowe ye reioyce in youre bostin∣ges. All soche reioysynge is evyll. Therfore to him that knoweth how to do good / and doth it not / to him it is synne.* 1.6

Notes

• * 1.1

  Stryfe / whence it cōmeth.
• * 1.2

  Why men obtayne not.
• * 1.3

  He that is loued of the wo¦rlde is ha¦ted of god
• * 1.4

  Christ¦es spirite (which is in all that be his ro. viij.) resi¦steth hate enuie and all synne. Whose mocyon if we folo∣we / grace increaseth in vs and lustes my nyshe: and therfore he sayth Submyt your sel∣ues to god &c.
• * 1.5

  He that backbyt∣eth or iud¦geth his / brother dothe iud¦ge the la∣we to be e¦uell for y^• lawe for∣biddeth to do so.
• * 1.6

  He that knoweth and yet do¦th not is withoute excuse. For God hath pro∣mised no mercie: but to him that wyll do his god¦lye will.