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But yuele men and disseyueris schulen encreese in to worse, errynge, and sendinge in to errour.

But dwelle thou in these thingis that thou hast lerud, and that ben bitakun to thee, witinge of whom thou hast lerud;

For tyme schal be, whanne men schulen not suffre hoolsum teching, but at her desiris thei schulen gadere `togidere to hem silf maistris yitchinge to the eeris.

And treuli thei schulen turne awei the heryng fro treuthe, but to fablis thei schulen turne.

But wake thou, in alle thingis traueile thou, do the werk of an euangelist, fulfille thi seruyce, be thou sobre.

In `the tothir tyme a coroun of riytwisnesse is kept to me, which the Lord, a iust domesman, schal yelde to me in that dai; and not oneli to me, but also to these that louen his comyng.

The cloth which Y lefte at Troade at Carpe, whanne thou comest, bringe with thee, and the bookis, but moost parchemyne.

In my firste defence no man helpide me, but alle forsoken me; be it not arettid to hem.

But the Lord helpide me, and coumfortide me, that the preching be fillid bi me, and that alle folkis here, that Y am delyueride fro the mouth of the lioun.

but he hath schewid in hise tymes his word in preching, that is bitakun to me bi the comaundement of `God oure sauyour,

but holdinge hospitalite, benygne, prudent, sobre, iust,

And alle thingis ben clene to clene men; but to vnclene men and to vnfeithful no thing is clene, for the soule and conscience of hem ben maad vnclene.

Thei knoulechen that thei knowen God, but bi dedis thei denyen; whanne thei ben abhominable, and vnbileueful, and repreuable to al good werk.

But speke thou tho thingis that bisemen hoolsum teching;

but in alle thingis schewinge good feith, that thei onoure in alle thingis the doctryn of `God, oure sauyour.

to blasfeme no man, to be not ful of chiding, but temperat, schewynge al myldenesse to alle men.

But whanne the benygnyte and the manhed of oure sauyour God aperide,

not of werkis of riytwisnesse that we diden, but bi his merci he made vs saaf, bi waischyng of ayen bigetyng, and ayen newyng of the Hooli Goost,

but Y biseche more for charite, sithen thou art siche as the elde Poul, and now the boundun of Jhesu Crist.

which sumtyme was vnprofitable to thee, but now profitable bothe to thee and to me; whom Y sente ayen to thee.