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Therfore have I delectacion in infirmities in rebukes in nede in persecucions in anguyshe for Christis sake. For when I am weake then am I stronge.

I am made a fole in bostynge my silfe. Ye have copelled me: I ought to have bene comeded of you. For in nothinge was I inferior vnto ye chefe apostels Though I be nothynge

Beholde now ye thyrde tyme I am redy to come vnto you: and yet will I not be grevous vnto you. For I seke not youres but you. Also the children ought not to laye vp for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the children.

I will very gladly bestowe and wilbe bestowed for youre soules: though the moare I love you ye lesse I am loved agayne.

Therfore write I these thinges beynge absent lest when I am present I shuld vse sharpenes accordinge to the power which the Lorde hath geven me to edifie and not to destroye.

I am crucified with Christ. I live verely: yet now not I but Christ liveth in me. For ye lyfe which I now live in ye flesshe I live by the fayth of ye sonne of God which loved me and gave him selne for me.

I am in feare of you lest I have bestowed on you laboure in vayne.

Brethern I besech you be ye as I am: for I am as ye are. Ye have not hurte me at all.

Am I therfore become youre enemie because I tell you the truth?

It is good alwayes to be fervent so it be in a good thinge and not only whe I am present with you.

whereof I am made a minister by the gyfte of the grace of god geve vnto me thorow ye workynge of his power.

I therfore which am in bondes for the lordes sake exhorte you that ye walke worthy of the vocacion wherwith ye are called

whereof I am a messenger in bondes that therin I maye speake frely as it becommeth me to speake.

But that ye maye also knowe what condicion I am in and what I do Tichicus my deare brother and faythfull minister in the Lorde shall shewe you of all thinges

and am suerly certified of this that he which beganne a good worke in you shall go forthe with it vntyll the daye of Iesus Christ

The other parte of love because they se that I am set to defend the gospell.

I am constrayned of two thinges: I desyre to be lowsed and to be with Christ which thinge is best of all.

And this am I sure of that I shall abyde and with you all continue for the furtheraunce and ioye of youre fayth

Not as though I had all redy attayned to it Ether were all redy parfect: but I folowe yf yt I maye comprehende that wherin I am comprehended of Christ Iesu.

I speake not because of necessitie. For I have learned in whatsoever estate I am therewith to be content.