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If it be so, that Christ rose not againe, then is your fayth vayne, and ye are yet in your sinnes.

For since by man [came] death, euen so by man [came] the resurrection of ye dead.

For, as by Adam all dye: euen so by Christe shall all be made alyue,

So is the resurrection of the dead. It is sowen in corruption, it ryseth in incorruption.

And as we haue borne the image of the earthy, so shall we beare the image of the heauenly.

Concerning the gatheryng for the saintes, as I haue ordeined in the Churches of Galacia, euen so do ye.

The Churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you muche in the Lord, and so doth the Churche that is in their house.

For as the afflictions of Christ are plenteous in vs: euen so is our consolation plenteous by Christe.

And our hope is stedfast, insomuch as we knowe howe that as ye are partakers of ye afflictions, so ye be partakers also of the consolation.

For we woulde not brethren haue you ignoraunt of our trouble, whiche came vnto vs in Asia: For we were greeued out of measure, passyng strength, so greatly, that we dispayred euen of lyfe.

Who delyuered vs from so great a death, and doth deliuer: On whom we trust that yet hereafter he wyll deliuer,

So that nowe contrarywise, ye ought rather to forgeue hym, and comforte hym, lest that same person shoulde be swallowed vp with ouermuche heauynesse.

For we are not as many are, whiche chop & chaunge with the word of God: but as of purenesse of God, in the syght of God, so speake we in Christe.

Yf the ministration of death, through the letters figured in stones, was in glorie, so that the chyldren of Israel coulde not beholde the face of Moyses, for the glorie of his countenaunce, whiche [glorie] is done away:

So then, death worketh in vs, but life in you.

So yet, yf that we be founde clothed, and not naked.

Wherefore hencefoorth knowe we no man after the flesshe: Insomuche, though we haue knowen Christe after the flesshe, nowe yet hencefoorth knowe we hym so no more.

Nowe then are we messengers in the rowme of Christe, euen as though God dyd beseche you through vs. So praye we you in Christes steade, that ye be reconciled vnto God.

And not by his comming only, but also by the consolatio whiche we receaued of you, when he tolde vs your desire, your wepyng, your feruent mynde towarde me, so that I reioyced the more.

I nowe reioyce, not that ye were sorie, but that ye so sorowed to repent: for ye sorowed godly, so that in nothyng ye were hurt by vs.