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Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothie our brother, vnto the Church of God, which is at Corinth, with all the Saints, which are in all Achaia:

For yee haue heard of my couuersation in time past, in the Iewes Religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the Church of God, and wasted it:

And hath put all things vnder his feete, and gaue him to be the head ouer all things to the Church,

To the intent that now vnto the principalities and powers in heauenly places, might be knowen by the church, the manifold wisedome of God,

Unto him be glory in the Church by Christ Iesus, throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

For the husband is the head of the wife, euen as Christ is the head of the Church: and he is the sauiour of the body.

Therefore as the Church is subiect vnto Christ, so let the wiues bee to their owne husbands in euery thing.

Husbands, loue your wiues, euen as Christ also loued the Church, and gaue himselfe for it:

That hee might present it to himselfe a glorious Church, not hauing spot or wrinckle, or any such thing: but that it should bee holy and without blemish.

For no man euer yet hated his owne flesh: but nourisheth and cherisheth it, euen as the Lord the Church:

This is a great mysterie: but I speake concerning Christ and the Church.

Concerning zeale, persecuting the Church: touching the righteousnesse which is in the Law, blamelesse.

Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the Gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no Church communicated with mee, as concerning giuing and receiuing, but ye onely.

And hee is the head of the body, the Church: who is the beginning, the first borne from the dead, that in all things he might haue the preeminence:

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,

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

And when this Epistle is read amongst you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans: and that ye likewise reade the Epistle from Laodicea,

Paul and Siluanus, and Timotheus, vnto the Church of the Thessalonians, which is in God the Father, and in the Lord Iesus Christ: grace be vnto you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Iesus Christ.

Paul and Siluanus, and Timotheus vnto the Church of the Thessalonias, in God our Father, and the Lord Iesus Christ:

(For if a man know not how to rule his owne house, how shall he take care of the Church of God?)