Study Desk

as I loke for and hope, that in nothinge I shalbe ashamed: but yt with all cofidence (as allwayes in tymes past, eue so now) Christ shalbe magnified in my body whether it be thorow life or thorow death.

For Christ is to me life, & death is to me auautage.

But in as moch as to lyue in ye flesh is frutefull to me for the worke, I wote not what

I shal chose, for both these thinges lye harde vpon me. I desyre to be lowsed, & to be with Christ, which thinge were moch better (for me)

but to abyde in the flesh is more nedefull for you.

And this am I sure of, that I shal abyde, and contynue with you all, for the furtheraunce and ioye of youre faith,

For vnto you it is geuen, not onely that ye shulde beleue on Christ, but also suffre for his sake,

and let euery ma loke not for his awne profet, but for the profet of other.

For it is God which worketh in you both the wyll and the deed, euen of his owne good wyll.

For I haue no man that is so like mynded to me, which with so pure affeccio careth for you:

for all other seke their awne, not that which is Iesus Christes.

But ye knowe the profe of him: for as a childe vnto the father, so hath he mynistred vnto me in the Gospell.

for so moch as he longed after you all, and was full of heuynes, because ye had herde that he was sicke.

for because of the worke of Christ, he wente so farre, that he came nye vnto death, and regarded not his life, to fulfyll that seruyce which was lackynge on youre parte towarde me.

for we are the circumcision, euen we that serue God in the sprete, and reioyce in Christ Iesu, and haue no confidence in the flesh,

But the thinges that were vauntage vnto me, haue I counted losse for Christes sake.

Yee I thynke all thinges but losse, for that excellent knowleges sake of Christ Iesu my LORDE: for whom I haue counted all thinge losse, and do iudge them but donge, that I mighte wynne Christ,

Brethren, be ye ye folowers of me, and loke on the which walke eue so as ye haue vs for an ensample.

For many walke (off whom I haue tolde you often, but now I tell you wepynge) eue enemies of the crosse of Christ,

But oure conuersacion is in heauen, from whence we loke for the Sauioure Iesu Christ ye LORDE,