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and there are dyuerse offices, yet but one LORDE:

and there are dyuerse operacions yet is there but one God, which worketh all in all.

For as the body is one, and hath yet many membres, neuertheles all the membres of the body though they be many, are yet but one body: euen so Christ also.

But now are the membres many, yet is the body but one.

But covet ye the best giftes. And yet shewe I you a more excellent waye.

Though I spake with the tunges of men and angels, and yet had not loue, I were euen as sowndinge brasse, or as a tynklinge Cymball.

And though I coulde prophecy, & vnderstode all secretes, and all knowlege, and had all faith, so that I coulde moue moutaynes out of their places, and yet had not loue, I were nothinge.

And though I bestowed all my goodes to fede ye poore, and though I gaue my body euen that I burned, and yet haue not loue, it profiteth me nothinge.

Though prophecienges fayle, or tunges ceasse, or knowlege perishe, yet loue falleth neuer awaye.

Likewyse is it also in ye thinges that geue sounde, and yet lyue not: whether it be a pype or an harpe, excepte they geue distyncte soundes from them, how shal it be knowne what is pyped or harped?

Yet had I leuer in the cogregacion to speake fyue wordes with my vnderstondinge yt I maye enfourme other also, rather then ten thousande wordes with tunges.

In the lawe it is wrytten: With other tunges and with other lippes wyl I speake vnto this people, and yet shal they not so heare me, sayeth the LORDE

after that was he sene of mo then fyue hundreth brethren at once, wherof there are yet many alyue, but some are fallen aslepe.

But yf Christ be not rysen agayne, then is youre faith in vayne, and ye are yet in youre synnes:

which delyuered vs from so greate a death, and yet delyuereth daylie, On whom we trust, that he wil delyuer vs here after also,

And in this confidence was I mynded the other tyme to come vnto you (that ye mighte haue yet another pleasure more)

Yet thankes be vnto God, which all waye geueth vs the victory in Christ, and openeth ye fauoure of his knowlege by vs in euery place.

Yf oure Gospell be yet hyd, it is hyd in them that are lost:

We are troubled on euery syde, yet are we not without shift. We are in pouertie, but not vtterly without somwhat.

Therfore are we not weery, but though or outwarde man be corrupte, yet the inwarde is renewed daye by daye.