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| 4:1 | For asmuch then as Christ hath suffered for vs in the flesh, arme your selues likewise with the same minde: for hee that hath suffered in the flesh, hath ceassed from sinne: |
| 4:2 | That he no longer should liue the rest of his time in the flesh, to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. |
| 4:3 | For the time past of our life may suffice vs to haue wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciuiousnes, lusts, excesse of wine, reuellings, banquetings, and abhominable idolatries. |
| 4:4 | Wherein they thinke it strange, that you runne not with them to the same excesse of riot, speaking euil of you: |
| 4:5 | Who shal giue accompt to him that is ready to iudge the quicke & the dead. |
| 4:6 | For, for this cause was the Gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might bee iudged according to men in the flesh, but liue according to God in the spirit. |
| 4:7 | But the ende of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober and watch vnto prayer. |
| 4:8 | And aboue all things haue feruent charitie among your selues: for charity shall couer the multitude of sinnes. |
| 4:9 | Use hospitalitie one to another without grudging. |
| 4:10 | As euery man hath receiued the gift, euen so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. |
| 4:11 | If any man speake, let him speake as the oracles of God: if any man minister, let him doe it as of the ability which God giueth, that God in all things may bee glorified through Iesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for euer and euer. Amen. |
| 4:12 | Beloued, thinke it not strange concerning the fiery triall, which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened vnto you. |
| 4:13 | But reioyce in as much as yee are partakers of Christes sufferings; that when his glory shalbe reueiled, ye may be glad also with exceeding ioy. |
| 4:14 | If ye be reproched for the Name of Christ, happie are ye, for the spirit of glory, and of God resteth vpon you: on their part hee is euill spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. |
| 4:15 | But let none of you suffer as a murtherer, or as a theefe, or as an euill doer, or as a busibody in other mens matters. |
| 4:16 | Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorifie God on this behalfe. |
| 4:17 | For the time is come that iudgement must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at vs, what shall the ende bee of them that obey not the Gospel of God? |
| 4:18 | And if the righteous scarcely be saued, where shall the vngodly and the sinner appeare? |
| 4:19 | Wherfore, let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of their soules to him in well doing, as vnto a faithfull Creator. |
| 4:1 | For as moch then as Christ hath suffred for vs in ye flesh, arme youre selues likewyse with the same mynde. For he which suffreth in the flesh, ceasseth fro synne, |
| 4:2 | yt hece forth (as moch tyme as yet remayneth in ye flesh) he shulde not lyue after the lustes of me, but after the wil of God. |
| 4:3 | For it is ynough, yt we haue spent ye tyme past of the life, after the will of ye Heythen, wha we walked in wantannesse, lustes, dronkenes, glotony, ryotous drynkynge, & i abhominable Idolatrye. |
| 4:4 | And it semeth to the a straunge thinge, yt ye runne not also wt them vnto the same excesse of ryote, & speake euell of you. |
| 4:5 | (Which shal geue acoptes vnto hi yt is ready to iudge ye quycke & ye deed.) |
| 4:6 | For vnto this purpose also was ye Gospell preached vnto the deed, yt they shulde be iudged like other me i ye flesh, but shulde lyue vnto God in ye sprete. |
| 4:7 | The ende of all thiges is at hade.Be ye therfore sober & watch vnto prayers: |
| 4:8 | but aboue all thinges haue feruent loue amonge you one to another. For loue couereth the multitude of synnes. |
| 4:9 | Be ye herberous one to another without grudginge, |
| 4:10 | & mynister one to another, eueryone with the gifte yt he hath receaued, as good stewardes of the manifolde grace of God. |
| 4:11 | Yf eny ma speake, let hi speake it as ye wordes of God. Yf eny man haue an office, let him execute it as out of the power yt God mynistreth vnto hi, yt God maye be praysed in all thinges thorow Iesus Christ, To who be honor and domynion for euer and eu |
| 4:12 | Derely beloued, maruell not at this heate (which is come amoge you to trye you) as though some strauge thinge happened vnto you: |
| 4:13 | but reioyce, in as moch as ye are partakers of Christes passios, yt wha his glory appeareth, ye maye be mery & glad. |
| 4:14 | Yf ye be reuyled for ye name of Christ, blessed are ye, for ye sprete (which is ye sprete of glory & of God) resteth vpon you. On their parte he is euell spoken of, but on yor parte he is praysed. |
| 4:15 | But se that none of you suffre as a murthurer, or as a thefe, or as an euell doer, or as a busy body in other mens matters. |
| 4:16 | Yf eny man suffre as a Christen man, let him not be ashamed, but let him prayse God on this behalfe. |
| 4:17 | For ye tyme is come, that iudgmet must begynne at the house of God. Yf it first begynne at vs, what shal the ende be of the which beleue not the Gospell of God? |
| 4:18 | And yf ye righteous scacely be saued, where shal ye vngodly & synner appeare? |
| 4:19 | Wherfore let them that suffer acordynge to the will off God, commytte their soules vnto him with well doynge, as to the faithfull creator. |
| 4:1 | Therfor for Crist suffride in fleisch, be ye also armed bi the same thenkynge; for he that suffride in fleisch ceesside fro synnes, |
| 4:2 | that that is left now in fleisch lyue not now to the desiris of men, but to the wille of God. |
| 4:3 | For the time that is passid is ynow to the wille of hethene men to be endid, whiche walkiden in letcheries, and lustis, in myche drinking of wyn, in vnmesurable etyngis, and drynkyngis, and vnleueful worschiping of mawmetis. |
| 4:4 | In whiche now thei ben astonyed, in which thing thei wondren, for ye rennen not togidere `in to the same confusioun of letcherie, and blasfemen. |
| 4:5 | And thei schulen yyue resoun to hym, that is redi to deme the quyke and the deed. |
| 4:6 | For whi for this thing it is prechid also to deed men, that thei be demed bi men in fleisch, and that thei lyue bi God in spirit. |
| 4:7 | For the ende of alle thingis schal neiye. Therfor be ye prudent, and wake ye in preyeris; |
| 4:8 | bifore alle thingis haue ye charite ech to other in you silf algatis lastynge; for charite couerith the multitude of synnes. |
| 4:9 | Holde ye hospitalite togidere with out grutching; |
| 4:10 | ech man as he hath resseyued grace, mynystringe it in to ech othere, as good dispenderis of the manyfold grace of God. |
| 4:11 | If ony man spekith, speke he as the wordis of God; if ony man mynystrith, as of the vertu which God mynystrith; that God be onourid in alle thingis bi Jhesu Crist oure Lord, to whom is glorie and lordschip in to worldis `of worldis. |
| 4:12 | Amen. Moost dere brytheren, nyle ye go in pilgrymage in feruour, that is maad to you to temptacioun, as if ony newe thing bifalle to you; |
| 4:13 | but comyne ye with the passiouns of Crist, and haue ye ioye, that also ye be glad, and haue ioye in the reuelacioun of his glorie. |
| 4:14 | If ye ben dispisid for the name of Crist, ye schulen be blessid; for that that is of the onour, and of the glorie, and of the vertu of God, and the spirit that is his, schal reste on you. |
| 4:15 | But no man of you suffre as a mansleere, ethir a theef, ether cursere, ethir a disirere of othere mennus goodis; |
| 4:16 | but if as a cristen man, schame he not, but glorifie he God in this name. |
| 4:17 | For tyme is, that doom bigynne at Goddis hous; and if it bigynne first at vs, what ende schal be of hem, that bileuen not to the gospel? |
| 4:18 | And if a iust man vnnethe schal be sauid, where schulen the vnfeithful man and the synnere appere? |
| 4:19 | and thei that suffren bi the wille of God, bitaken her soulis in good dedis to the feithful makere of nouyt. |
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