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and ye dispiseden not, nether forsoken youre temptacioun in my fleisch, but ye resseyueden me as an aungel of God, as `Crist Jhesu.

manslauytris, dronkennessis, vnmesurable etyngis, and thingis lijk to these, whiche Y seie to you, as Y haue told to you `to fore, for thei that doon suche thingis, schulen not haue the kyngdom of God.

Nyle ye erre, God is not scorned;

And who euere suwen this reule, pees on hem, and merci, and on Israel of God.

Poul, the apostle of Jhesu Crist, bi the wille of God, to alle seyntis that ben at Effesie, and to the feithful men in Jhesu Crist,

grace be to you and pees of God, oure fader, and oure Lord Jhesu Crist.

Blessid be God and the fadir of oure Lord Jhesu Crist, that hath blessid vs in al spiritual blessing in heuenli thingis in Crist,

that God of oure Lord Jhesu Crist, the fadir of glorie, yyue to you the spirit of wisdom and of reuelacioun, in to the knowyng of hym;

but God, that is riche in merci, for his ful myche charite in which he louyde vs,

For bi grace ye ben sauyd bi feith, and this not of you; for it is the yifte of God,

For we ben the makyng of hym, maad of nouyt in Crist Jhesu, in good werkis, whiche God hath ordeyned, that we go in tho werkis.

and ye weren in that time with out Crist, alienyd fro the lyuyng of Israel, and gestis of testamentis, not hauynge hope of biheest, and with outen God in this world.

makynge pees, to recounsele bothe in o bodi to God bi the cros, sleynge the enemytees in hym silf.

Therfor now ye ben not gestis and straungeris, but ye ben citeseyns of seyntis, and houshold meine of God;

In whom also `be ye bildid togidere in to the habitacle of God, in the Hooli Goost.

which is the dispensacioun of sacrament hid fro worldis in God, that made alle thingis of nouyt;

that the myche fold wisdom of God be knowun to princis and potestatis in heuenli thingis bi the chirche,

also to wite the charite of Crist more excellent than science, that ye be fillid in al the plentee of God.

o feith, o baptym, o God and fadir of alle, which is aboue alle men, and bi alle thingis, and in vs alle.

that han vndurstondyng derkned with derknessis, and ben alienyd fro the lijf of God, bi ignoraunce that is in hem, for the blyndenesse of her herte.