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For ye suffer, euen if a man bring you into bondage, if a man deuoure you, if a man take your goods, if a man exalt himselfe, if a man smite you on the face.

The God, euen the Father of our Lorde Iesus Christ, which is blessed for euermore, knoweth that I lie not.

It is not expedient for me no doubt to reioyce: for I will come to visions and reuelations of the Lorde.

How that he was taken vp into Paradise, and heard words which cannot be spoken, which are not possible for man to vtter.

For though I woulde reioyce, I should not be a foole, for I will say the trueth: but I refraine, lest any man should thinke of me aboue that hee seeth in me, or that he heareth of me.

For this thing I besought the Lord thrise, that it might depart from me.

And he said vnto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect through weakenesse. Very gladly therefore will I reioyce rather in mine infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproches, in necessities, in persecutions, in anguish for Christes sake: for when I am weake, then am I strong.

I was a foole to boast my selfe: yee haue compelled mee: for I ought to haue bene commended of you: for in nothing was I inferiour vnto the very chiefe Apostles, though I bee nothing.

For what is it, wherein yee were inferiours vnto other Churches, except that I haue not bene slouthfull to your hinderance? forgiue me this wrong.

Behold, the thirde time I am ready to come vnto you, and yet will I not be slouthfull to your hinderance: for I seeke not yours, but you: for the children ought not to laye vp for the fathers, but the fathers for the children.

And I will most gladly bestow, and will be bestowed for your soules: though the more I loue you, the lesse I am loued.

But bee it that I charged you not: yet for as much as I was craftie, I tooke you with guile.

Againe, thinke yee that wee excuse our selues vnto you? we speake before God in Christ. But wee doe all thinges, dearely beloued, for your edifying.

For I feare least when I come, I shall not finde you such as I would: and that I shalbe found vnto you such as ye woulde not, and least there be strife, enuying, wrath, contentions, backebitings, whisperings, swellings and discord.

For though hee was crucified concerning his infirmitie, yet liueth hee through the power of God. And wee no doubt are weake in him, but we shall liue with him, through the power of God towarde you.

For wee can not doe any thing against the trueth, but for the trueth.

For we are glad when wee are weake, and that ye are strong: this also we wish for, euen your perfection.

Which gaue himself for our sinnes, that he might deliuer vs from this present euill world according to the will of God euen our Father,

To whom be glory for euer and euer, Amen.