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With the power of signes and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God: so that from Hierusalem, and round about vnto Illyricum, I haue caused to abound the Gospel of Christ.

Also brethren, I beseeche you for our Lord Iesus Christes sake, and for the loue of the spirit, that ye would striue with me by prayers to God for me,

That I may come vnto you with ioy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.

Thus the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

The God of peace shall treade Satan vnder your feete shortly. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you.

(But nowe is opened, and published among all nations by the Scriptures of the Prophetes, at the commandement of the euerlasting God for the obedience of faith)

To God, I say, only wise, be praise through Iesus Christ for euer. Amen. Written to the Romanes from Corinthus, and sent by Phebe, seruaunt of the Church, which is at Cenchrea.

Paul called to be an Apostle of Iesus Christ, through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

Vnto the Church of God, which is at Corinthus, to them that are sanctified in Christ Iesus, Saintes by calling, with all that call on the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ in euery place, both their Lord, and ours:

Grace be with you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.

I thanke my God alwayes on your behalfe for the grace of God, which is giuen you in Iesus Christ,

God is faithfull, by whom ye are called vnto the felowship of his Sonne Iesus Christ our Lord.

I thanke God, that I baptized none of you, but Crispus, and Gaius,

For that preaching of the crosse is to them that perish, foolishnesse: but vnto vs, which are saued, it is the power of God.

Where is the wise? where is the Scribe? where is the disputer of this worlde? hath not God made the wisedome of this worlde foolishnesse?

For seeing the worlde by wisedome knewe not God in the wisedome of GOD, it pleased God by the foolishnesse of preaching to saue them that beleeue:

But vnto them which are called, both of the Iewes and Grecians, we preach Christ, the power of God, and the wisedome of God.

For the foolishnesse of God is wiser then men, and the weakenesse of God is stronger then men.

But God hath chosen the foolish thinges of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weake thinges of the worlde, to confound the mightie things,

And vile things of the worlde and thinges which are despised, hath God chosen, and thinges which are not, to bring to nought thinges that are,