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

I thanke my God, hauing you in perfect memorie,

For God is my recorde, howe I long after you all from the very heart roote in Iesus Christ.

Filled with the fruites of righteousnesse, which are by Iesus Christ vnto the glorie & praise of God.

And in nothing feare your aduersaries, which is to them a token of perdition, and to you of saluation, and that of God.

Who being in ye forme of God, thought it no robberie to be equall with God:

Wherefore God hath also highly exalted him, and giuen him a Name aboue euery name,

And that euery tongue shoulde confesse that Iesus Christ is the Lord, vnto the glory of God the Father.

For it is God which worketh in you, both the will and the deede, euen of his good pleasure.

That ye may be blamelesse, & pure, and the sonnes of God without rebuke in the middes of a naughtie and crooked nation, among whom yee shine as lights in the world,

And no doubt he was sicke, very neere vnto death: but God had mercie on him, and not on him onely, but on me also, least I should haue sorowe vpon sorowe.

For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirite, and reioyce in Christ Iesus, and haue no confidence in the flesh:

And might bee founde in him, that is, not hauing mine owne righteousnesse, which is of the Lawe, but that which is through the faith of Christ, euen the righteousnesse which is of God through faith,

And followe hard toward the marke, for the prise of the hie calling of God in Christ Iesus.

Let vs therefore as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if yee be otherwise minded, God shall reueile euen the same vnto you.

Whose ende is damnation, whose God is their bellie, and whose glorie is to their shame, which minde earthly things.

Be nothing carefull, but in all thinges let your requestes be shewed vnto God in praier, and supplication with giuing of thankes.

And the peace of God which passeth all vnderstanding, shall preserue your heartes and mindes in Christ Iesus.

Which yee haue both learned & receiued, and heard, and seene in mee: those things doe, and the God of peace shalbe with you.

Now I haue receiued all, and haue plentie: I was euen filled, after that I had receiued of Epaphroditus that which came from you, an odour that smelleth sweete, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasant to God.