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Looking for that blessed hope, and appearing of that glorie of that mightie God, and of our Sauiour Iesus Christ,

Who gaue him selfe for vs, that hee might redeeme vs from all iniquitie, and purge vs to bee a peculiar people vnto himselfe, zealous of good woorkes.

For wee our selues also were in times past vnwise, disobedient, deceiued, seruing the lustes and diuers pleasures, liuing in maliciousnes and enuie, hatefull, and hating one another:

But stay foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and brawlings about the Lawe: for they are vnprofitable and vaine.

When I shall send Artemas vnto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to mee vnto Nicopolis: for I haue determined there to winter.

And let ours also learne to shewe foorth good woorkes for necessary vses, that they be not vnfruitfull.

For we haue great ioy and consolation in thy loue, because by thee, brother, the Saintes bowels are comforted.

Yet for loues sake I rather beseeche thee, though I be as I am, euen Paul aged, and euen nowe a prisoner for Iesus Christ.

I beseeche thee for my sonne Onesimus, whome I haue begotten in my bondes,

It may be that he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receiue him for euer,

Moreouer also prepare mee lodging: for I trust through your prayers I shall be freely giuen vnto you.

For vnto which of the Angels saide he at any time, Thou art my Sonne, this day begate I thee? and againe, I will be his Father, and he shalbe my Sonne?

But vnto the Sonne he saith, O God, thy throne is for euer and euer: the scepter of thy kingdome is a scepter of righteousnes.

Are they not al ministring spirits, sent forth to minister, for their sakes which shalbe heires of saluation?

For if the worde spoken by Angels was stedfast, and euery transgression, and disobedience receiued a iust recompence of reward,

For he hath not put in subiection vnto the Angels the world to come, whereof we speake.

But we see Iesus crowned with glory and honour, which was made litle inferiour to the Angels, through the suffering of death, that by Gods grace he might taste death for all men.

For it became him, for whome are all these thinges, and by whome are all these things, seeing that hee brought many children vnto glory, that he should consecrate the Prince of their saluation through afflictions.

For he that sanctifieth, and they which are sanctified, are all of one: wherefore he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

And that he might deliuer all them, which for feare of death were all their life time subiect to bondage.