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Strengthened with all might according to his glorious power, vnto all patience and long suffering with ioyfulnesse:

Who hath deliuered vs from the power of darkenesse, and hath translated vs into the kingdome of his deare Sonne,

In whom we haue redemption through his blood, euen the forgiuenesse of sinnes:

And (hauing made peace through the blood of his crosse) by him to reconcile all things vnto himself, by him, I say, whether they bee things in earth, or things in heauen.

In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy & vnblameable, and vnreprooueable in his sight,

Who now reioyce in my sufferings for you, and fill vp that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his bodies sake, which is the Church,

Euen the mystery which hath been hid from ages, and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints,

Whereunto I also labour, striuing according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances, that was against vs, which was contrary to vs, and tooke it out of the way, nayling it to his Crosse:

Let no man beguile you of your reward, in a voluntary humilitie, and worshipping of Angels, intruding into those things which hee hath not seene, vainely puft vp by his fleshly minde:

Lie not one to another, seeing that yee haue put off the old man with his deedes:

Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, & the church which is in his house.

And to waite for his sonne from heauen whom he raised from the dead, euen Iesus which deliuered vs from the wrath to come.

As you know, how wee exhorted and comforted, and charged euery one of you, (as a father doeth his children,)

That ye would walke worthy of God, who hath called you vnto his kingdome and glory.

For what is our hope, or ioy, or crowne of reioycing? Are not euen ye in the presence of our Lord Iesus Christ at his comming?

To the end hee may stablish your hearts vnblameable in holinesse before God euen our Father, at the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ with all his Saints.

That euery one of you should know how to possesse his vessell in sanctification and honour:

That no man goe beyond and defraud his brother in any matter, because that the Lord is the auenger of all such; as we also haue forewarned you, and testified:

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also giuen vnto vs his holy Spirit.