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Now ioye I in my soferinges which I suffre for you and fulfill that which is behynde of the passions of Christ in my flesshe for his bodies sake which is the congregacion

I wolde ye knewe what fyghtinge I have for youre sakes and for them of Laodicia and for as many as have not sene my parson in the flesshe

that their hertes myght be coforted and knet togedder in love and in all ryches of full vnderstondynge for to knowe ye mistery of God ye father and of Christ

For though I be absent in the flesshe yet am I present with you in the sprete ioyinge and beholdinge the order that ye kepe and youre stedfast fayth in Christ.

For in him dwelleth all the fulnes of the godheed bodyly

Let no ma therfore trouble youre conscieces aboute meate and drynke or for a pece of an holydaye as the holydaye of the newe mone or of the sabboth dayes

For ye are deed and youre lyfe is hid with Christ in god.

for which thynges sakes the wrath of God cometh on the chyldren of vnbeleve.

Children obey youre fathers and mothers in all thinges for that is wel pleasynge vnto the lorde.

And whatsoever ye do do it hertely as though ye did it to the lorde and not vnto men for as moche as ye

knowe that of the lorde ye shall receave the rewarde of inheritaunce for ye serve the lorde Christ.

But he that doth wronge shall receave for the wronge that he hath done: for there is no respect of persons.

gevynge prayenge also for vs that God open vnto vs the dore of vtteraunce that we maye speake the mistery of Christ wherfore I am in bondes:

whom I have sent vnto you for the same purpose that he myght knowe how ye do and myght comfort youre hertes

Epaphras the servaut of Christ which is one of you saluteth you and all wayes laboreth fervently for you in prayers that ye maye stonde perfect and full in all that is the will of God.

We geve God thakes all waye for you all makinge mension of you in oure prayers

For oure gospell came not vnto you in worde only but also in power and also in the holy gost and in moche certayntie as ye knowe after what maner we behaued oure selves amonge you for youre sakes.

For from you sounded out the worde of the lorde not in Macedonia and in Achaia only: but youre fayth also which ye have vnto god spred her silfe abroade in all quartars so greatly that it nedeth not vs to speake eny thynge at all.

For they the selves shewe of you what maner of entrynge in we had vnto you and how ye tourned to God from ymages for to serve the livynge and true god

and for to loke for his sonne from heven whom he raysed from deeth: I mean Iesus which delivereth vs from wrath to come.