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| 4:1 | Therefore, seeing we haue this ministery, as we haue receiued mercie wee faint not: |
| 4:2 | But haue renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftines, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the trueth, commending our selues to euery mans conscience, in the sight of God. |
| 4:3 | But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: |
| 4:4 | In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which beleeue not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine vnto them. |
| 4:5 | For we preach not our selues, but Christ Iesus the Lord, and our selues your seruants for Iesus sake. |
| 4:6 | For God who commaunded the light to shine out of darkenes, hath shined in our hearts, to giue the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Iesus Christ. |
| 4:7 | But we haue this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellencie of the power may be of God, and not of vs. |
| 4:8 | Wee are troubled on euery side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despaire, |
| 4:9 | Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast downe, but not destroyed. |
| 4:10 | Alwayes bearing about in the body, the dying of the Lord Iesus, that the life also of Iesus might bee made manifest in our body. |
| 4:11 | For we which liue, are always deliuered vnto death for Iesus sake, that the life also of Iesus might bee made manifest in our mortall flesh. |
| 4:12 | So then death worketh in vs, but life in you. |
| 4:13 | We hauing the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I beleeued, and therefore haue I spoken: wee also beleeue, and therefore speake. |
| 4:14 | Knowing that hee which raised vp the Lord Iesus, shall raise vp vs also by Iesus, and shall present vs with you. |
| 4:15 | For all things are for your sakes, that the abundat grace might, through the thankesgiuing of many, redound to the glory of God. |
| 4:16 | For which cause we faint not, but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. |
| 4:17 | For our light affliction, which is but for a momet, worketh for vs a farre more exceeding and eternall waight of glory, |
| 4:18 | While we looke not at the things which are seene, but at ye things which are not seene: for the things which are seene, are temporall, but the things which are not seene, are eternall. |
| 4:1 | Therfore seynge we haue soch an office (euen as mercy is come vpon vs) we faynte not, |
| 4:2 | but cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestye, and walke not in craftines: nether corruppe we the worde of God but open the trueth, and reporte oure selues to euery mans conscyence in the sighte of God. |
| 4:3 | Yf oure Gospell be yet hyd, it is hyd in them that are lost: |
| 4:4 | amonge whom the God of this worlde hath blynded ye myndes of them which beleue not, that ye lighte of the Gospell of the glory of Christ ( which is the ymage of God) shulde not shyne vnto them. |
| 4:5 | For we preach not or selues, but Iesus Christ to be the LORDE, and oure selues youre seruauntes for Iesus sake. |
| 4:6 | For God that comaunded the light to shyne out of darcknesse, hath geuen a cleare shyne in oure hertes, yt by vs ye light of ye knowlege of the glory of God mighte come forth, in the face of Iesus Christ. |
| 4:7 | But this treasure haue we in earthen vessels, that ye power which excelleth might be of God, and not of vs. |
| 4:8 | We are troubled on euery syde, yet are we not without shift. We are in pouertie, but not vtterly without somwhat. |
| 4:9 | We are persecuted, but we are not forsaken. We are oppressed, neuertheles we perish not. |
| 4:10 | We allwayes beare aboute in oure body the dyenge of the LORDE Iesus yt the life also of the LORDE Iesus might appeare in oure body. |
| 4:11 | For we which lyue, are alwayes delyuered vnto death for Iesus sake, that the life also of Iesus might appeare in oure mortall flesh. |
| 4:12 | Therfore is death now mightie in vs, but life in you. |
| 4:13 | But seynge that we haue the same sprete of faith (acordinge as it is wrytten: I beleued, and therfore haue I spoke.) we also beleue, & therfore we speake, |
| 4:14 | for we knowe that he, which raysed vp ye LORDE Iesus, shal rayse vs vp also by ye meanes of Iesus, and shal set vs with you. |
| 4:15 | For all thinges do I for youre sakes, that the pleteous grace by the thakesgeuynge of many, maye redounde to the prayse of God. |
| 4:16 | Therfore are we not weery, but though or outwarde man be corrupte, yet the inwarde is renewed daye by daye. |
| 4:17 | For oure trouble, which is but temporall and lighte, worketh an exceadinge and an eternall weighte of glorye |
| 4:18 | vnto vs, which loke not on the thinges that are sene, but on them which are not sene. For ye thinges which are sene, are temporall: but the thinges that are not sene, are eternall. |
| 4:1 | Therfor we that han this admynystracioun, aftir this that we han getun merci, |
| 4:2 | faile we not, but do we awei the preue thingis of schame, not walkinge in sutil gile, nether doynge auoutrye bi the word of God, but in schewynge of the treuthe comendynge vs silf to ech conscience of men bifor God. |
| 4:3 | For if also oure gospel is kyuerid, in these that perischen it is kyuerid; |
| 4:4 | in which God hath blent the soulis of vnfeithful men of this world, that the liytnyng of the gospel of the glorie of Crist, which is the ymage of God, schyne not. |
| 4:5 | But we prechen not vs silf, but oure Lord Jhesu Crist; and vs youre seruauntis bi Jhesu. |
| 4:6 | For God, that seide liyt to schyne of derknessis, he hath youe liyt in oure hertis, to the liytnyng of the science of the clerenesse of God, in the face of Jhesu Crist. |
| 4:7 | And we han this tresour in britil vessels, that the worthinesse be of Goddis vertu, and not of vs. |
| 4:8 | In alle thingis we suffren tribulacioun, but we ben not angwischid, or annoyed; we ben maad pore, but `we lacken nothing; we suffren persecucioun, |
| 4:9 | but we ben not forsakun; we ben maad lowe, but we ben not confoundid; we ben cast doun, but we perischen not. |
| 4:10 | And euere more we beren aboute the sleyng of Jhesu in oure bodi, that also the lijf of Jhesu be schewid in oure bodies. |
| 4:11 | For euere more we that lyuen, ben takun in to deth for Jhesu, that the lijf of Jhesu be schewid in oure deedli fleisch. |
| 4:12 | Therfor deth worchith in vs, but lijf worchith in you. |
| 4:13 | And we han the same spirit of feith, as it is writun, Y haue bileuyd, Y haue spoke; and we bileuen, wherfor also we speken; |
| 4:14 | witynge that he that reiside Jhesu, schal reise also vs with Jhesu, and schal ordeyne with you. |
| 4:15 | And alle thingis for you, that a plenteuouse grace bi many thankyngis be plenteuouse in to the glorie of God. |
| 4:16 | For which thing we failen not, for thouy oure vtter man be corruptid; netheles the ynner man is renewid fro dai to dai. |
| 4:17 | But that liyt thing of oure tribulacioun that lastith now, but as it were by a moment, worchith in vs ouer mesure an euerlastynge birthin in to the heiynesse of glorie; |
| 4:18 | while that we biholden not tho thingis that ben seyn, but tho that ben not seyn. For tho thingis that ben seyn, ben but durynge for a schort tyme; but tho thingis that ben not seyn, ben euerlastynge. |
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