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Whan I shal sende Artemas or Tichicus vnto ye, make spede to come to me vnto Nicopolis, for I haue determyned there to wynter.

(for so moch as I heare of thy loue and faith which thou hast on the LORDE Iesu, and towarde all sayntes)

Greate ioye and consolacion haue I in thy loue. For by the (brother) the sayntes are hertely refresshed.

yet for loues sake I rather beseke ye, though I be as I am, eue Paul aged, and now a presoner also of Iesu Christ.

I beseke the for my sonne Onesimus (whom I haue begotten in my bondes)

For I wolde haue kepte him styll with me, that in thy steade he might haue mynistred vnto me in ye bondes of ye Gospell:

Happly he therfore departed for a season, that thou shuldest receaue him for euer:

Yf thou holde me for thy companyon, receaue him then euen as my selfe.

Trustinge in thine obediece, I haue wrytten vnto the, for I knowe that thou wilt do more then I saye.

Morouer prepare me lodginge, for I hope that thorow youre prayers I shalbe geuen vnto you.

For vnto which of the angels sayde he at eny tyme: Thou art my sonne, this daye haue I begotten the? And agayne: I will be his father, & he shalbe my sonne:

But vnto ye sonne he sayeth: God, yi seate endureth for euer & euer: the cepter of yi kyngdome is a right cepter.

Are they not all mynistrynge spretes, sent to mynister for their sakes, which shalbe heyres of saluacion?

For yf the worde which was spoke by angels, was stedfast, and euery trasgression and dishobedience receaued a iust recompence of rewarde,

For vnto the angels hath he not subdued the worlde to come, wherof we speake.

After thou haddest for a litle season made him lower the ye angels, thou crownedst him with honoure and glory, and hast set him aboue the workes of thy handes.

Neuertheles now se we not all thinges yet subdued vnto him. But him, which for a litle season was made lesse then the angels, we se that it is Iesus: which is crowned with honoure and glory for the sufferynge of death, that he by the grace of God, shulde taist of death for all men.

For it became him, for whom are all thinges, and by who are all thinges (after yt he had broughte many children vnto glory) that he shulde make the LORDE of their saluacion perfecte thorow sufferynge,

for so moch as they all come of one, both he that sanctifieth; & they which are sanctified.For the which causes sake, he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

For as moch then as the children haue flesh and bloude. he also himselfe likewyse toke parte with them, yt he thorow death, mighte take awaye ye power of him, which had lordshippe ouer death, that is to saye, ye deuell: