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But if ye haue bitter enuying and strife in your hearts, reioyce not, neither be liars against the trueth.

This wisedome descendeth not from aboue, but is earthly, sensuall, and deuilish.

But the wisedome that is from aboue, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easie to be intreated, full of mercie & good fruites, without iudging, and without hipocrisie.

But the Scripture offereth more grace, and therefore sayth, God resisteth the proude, and giueth grace to the humble.

Speake not euill one of another, brethren. He that speaketh euill of his brother, or he that condemneth his brother, speaketh euill of ye Law, and condemneth the Lawe: and if thou condemnest the Lawe, thou art not an obseruer of the Lawe, but a iudge.

But nowe ye reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill.

But before all thinges, my brethren, sweare not, neither by heauen, nor by earth, nor by any other othe: but let your yea, be yea, and your nay, nay, lest ye fall into condemnation.

Vnto whome it was reueiled, that not vnto themselues, but vnto vs they shoulde minister the things, which are nowe shewed vnto you by them which haue preached vnto you the Gospell by the holy Ghost sent downe from heauen, the which things the Angels desire to beholde.

But as hee which hath called you, is holie, so be yee holie in all maner of conuersation;

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lambe vndefiled, and without spot.

Which was ordeined before the foundation of the world, but was declared in the last times for your sakes,

Being borne anewe, not of mortall seede, but of immortall, by the woorde of God, who liueth and endureth for euer.

But the woorde of the Lorde endureth for euer: and this is the woorde which is preached among you.

To whome comming as vnto a liuing stone disalowed of men, but chosen of God and precious,

Vnto you therefore which beleeue, it is precious: but vnto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disalowed, the same is made the head of the corner,

But yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priesthoode, an holy nation, a people set at libertie, that yee shoulde shewe foorth the vertues of him that hath called you out of darkenesse into his marueilous light,

Which in time past were not a people, yet are nowe the people of God: which in time past were not vnder mercie, but nowe haue obteined mercie.

As free, and not as hauing the libertie for a cloke of maliciousnesse, but as the seruauntes of God.

Seruaunts, be subiect to your masters with all feare, not onely to the good and courteous, but also to the froward.

For what praise is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faultes, yee take it paciently? but and if when ye doe well, ye suffer wrong and take it paciently, this is acceptable to God.