1 Corinthians — The Tyndale New Testament (1534)

The epistle known today as 1 Corinthians in Tyndale's revised New Testament of 1534, translated from the Greek and opened, as in the print, by Tyndale's prologue to the epistle. It is printed here from the copy in the British Library as keyed by the Text Creation Partnership, in the spelling of 1534; the margin notes are given as footnotes, and the crosses ✚ and ⊢ mark where the lessons read in church begin and end.

¶ The Prologe vpō the fyrst epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthyans.

THis pistle declareth it selfe frō Chapter to Chapter / that it ne deth no Prologe or introducciō to declare it. When Paule had cōuerted a great nombre at Corinthum / as ye reade Act. xviij. & was departed / there came immediatlye false Apostles & secte makers & drue euery man disciples after him / so that the people were whole vnquyeted / deuyded & at varyaunce amonge them selues / euerye man for the zele of his doctoure / those new Apostles not regardynge what deuysion / what vnclennes ⟨illegible⟩ lyuinge / or what false opinions were amōge the people / as longe as they myght be in auctorite and well at ease in their bellies. But Paule in the .iiij. fyrst Chapters with great wysdome & sobre⟨illegible⟩es / rebuketh / fyrst the deuysyon and the auctores therof / & calleth the people to Christ agayne & teacheth how & for what the preacher is to be taken.

In the .v. he rebuketh the vnclennes that was amongest them.

In the .vj. he rebuketh the debate & goynge to lawe to gether / pleatynge their causes before the hethen.

In the .vij. he informeth them concernynge chastite and maryage.

In the .viij. ix. x. & .xj. he teacheth the stronge to forbeare the weake that yet vnderstode not the lybertie of the Gospell / & that with the ensample of him selfe. Which though he were an Apostle & had auctoryte / yet of loue he abstayned / to wynne other. And he feareth them with the ensamples of the olde testament & rebuketh dyuerse dysorders that were amonge them concernynge the Sacramēt and the goyn⟨illegible⟩e bare hedded of maryed wemen.

In the .xij. xiij. & .xiiij. he teacheth of the many folde gyftes of the spirite / & proueth by a symylitude of the bodye / that all gyftes are geuē that eche shuld helpe other / & thorow loue do seruyce to other / & proueth that where loue is not / there is nothinge that pleaseth God. For that one shuld loue another / is all that God requyreth of vs. And therfore yf we desyer spirituall gyftes he teacheth those gyftes to be desyred that helpe oure neyboures

In the .xv. he teacheth of the resurreccyon of the bodye.

And in the last he exhorteth to helpe the po⟨illegible⟩ ⟨illegible⟩e saynctes.

The text

Chapter 1

¶¶ The fyrst Chapter.

1 PAul by vocacion an Apostle of Iesus Christ thorow the will of God / and brother Sostenes.

2 Vnto the congregacion of God which is at Corinthum. To them that are sanctified in Christ Iesu / sainctes by callynge / with all that call on the name of oure lorde Iesus Christ in every place / both of theirs & of oures

3 Grace be with you and peace frō God oure father / and from the lorde Iesus Christ.

4 ✚ I thanke my God all wayes on youre behalfe for yᵉ grace of God which is geuen you by Iesus Christ /

5 that in all thinges ve are made riche by him in all lerninge and in all knowledge

6 [B] even as the testimony of Iesus Christ was confermed in you)

7 so that ye are behynde in no gyft / and wayte for the apperynge of oure lorde Iesus Christ

8 which shall strēght you vnto y[ᵉ] ende / that ye maye be blamelesse in yᵉ daye of oure lorde Iesus Christ.

9 ✚ ffor god is¹ faythfull / by whom ye are called vnto y[ᵉ] fellishyppe of his sonne Iesus Christe oure lorde

10 I beseche you brethrē in yᵉ name of oure lorde Iesus Christ / that ye all speake one thynge & that there be no dissencion amōge you: but be ye knyt together in one mynde & in one meāynge.

11 It is shewed vnto me (my brethren) of you by them that are of the housse of Cloe / that ther is stryfe amonge you.

12 And this is it that I meane: how that comēlie amonge you / one sayeth: I holde of Paul: another I holde of Apollo: yᵉ thyrde I holde of Cephas: y[ᵉ] four yᵉ I holde of Christ.

13 Ys Christ devided? was Paul crucified for you? ether were ye baptised in yᵗ name of Paul?

14 I thanke God that I christened none of you / but Crispus & Gayus /

15 lest eny shulde saye that I had baptised in myne awne name.

16 I baptised also the housse of Stephana. Forthermore knowe I not whether I baptised eny man or no.

17 For Christ sent me not to baptyse / but to [C]² preache y[ᵉ] gospell / not with wysdome of wordes / lest the crosse of Christ shuld have bene made of none effecte.

18 For yᵉ preachinge of the crosse is to them yᵗ perisshe folishnes: but vnto to vs which are saved / it is yᵉ power of God.³

19 For it is written: I will destroye the wysdome of the wyse / & will cast awaye the vnderstondinge of the prudēt.

20 Where is the syse? Where is the scrybe? Where is the searcher of this worlde? Hath not God made the wysdome of this worlde folisshnes?

21 For when the worlde thorow wysdome knew not God / in yᵉ wysdome of God: it pleased God thorow folisshnes of preachinge to save them yᵗ beleve.

22 For yᵉ Iewes requyre a signe / & the Grekes seke after wysdome.

23 But⁴ we preache Christ crucified / vnto the Iewes an occasion of fallinge / & vnto the Grekes folisshnes:

24 but vnto thē which are called both [D] of Iewes & Grekes / we preache Christ yᵉ power of God / and the wysdome of God.

25 For⁵ the folishnes of God is wyser then mē: & the weakenes of God is stronger then men.

26 Brethren loke on youre callinge / how that not many wyse men after the flesshe / not many myghty / not many of hye degre are called:

27 but God hath chosen the folysshe thinges of the worlde / to confounde the wyse. And God hath chosyn the weake thingꝭ of the worlde / to confounde thingꝭ which are mighty.

28 And vile thinges of the worlde / & thinges which are despysed / hath God chosen / yee & thinges of no reputacion / for to brynge to nought thinges of reputacion /

29 that no flesshe shulde reioyce in his presence.

30 And vnto him partayne ye / in Christ Iesu / which of God is made vnto vs⁶ wysdome / & also rightewesnes / and saunc tifyinge & redempcion.

31 That accordinge as it is written: he which reioyseth / shulde reioyce in the Lorde.

Notes to Chapter 1

Chapter 2

¶ The .ii. Chapter.

1 ANd I brethren when I came to you / came not in gloriousnes of wordes or of [A] wysdome / shewynge vnto you the testimony of God.

2 Nether shewed I my selfe that I knewe eny thinge amonge you save Iesus Christ / evē the same that was crucified.

3 And I was amōge you in weaknes / & in feare / & in moche trēblinge.

4 And my wordes & my preachinge were not with entysynge wordes of⁷ mānes wysdome: but in shewinge of yᵉ sprete & of power /

5 that youre fayth shuld not stonde [B] in y[ᵉ] wysdome of mē / but in y[ᵉ] power of God.

6 That we speake of / is wysdome amonge them that are perfecte: not the wysdome of this worlde nether of the rulars of this worlde (which go to nought)

7 but we speake y[ᵉ] wysdome of God / which is in secrete & lieth hyd / which God ordeyned before the worlde vnto oure glory:

8 which wysdome none of yᵉ rulars of the worlde knewe. For had they knowē it / they wolde not have crucified the Lorde of glory.

9 But as it is written: The eye hath not⁸ sene / & the eare hath not hearde / nether have entred into the herte of man / yᵉ thinges which [C] God hath prepared for them that love him.

10 But God hath opened them vnto vs by his sprete. For yᵉ sprete searcheth all thinges / ye the bottome of Goddes secretes.

11 For what man knoweth the thingꝭ of a mā: save y[ᵉ] sprete of a man which is with in him? Even so y[ᵉ]⁹ thinges of God knoweth no man / but yᵉ sprete of god.

12 And we have not receaved the sprete of yᵉ worlde: but the sprete which cōmeth [D] of god / for to knowe the thingꝭ that are gevē to vs of god /

13 which thinges also we speake / not in the cōnynge wordes of mānes wysdome / but with the cōnynge wordes of the holy goost / makynge spretuall cōparesons of spretuall thingꝭ.

14 For y[ᵉ] naturall man perceaveth not the thingꝭ of the sprete of god. For they are but folysshnes vnto him. Nether can he perceave them / because he is spretually examined.

15 But he that is spretuall / discusseth all¹⁰ thinges: yet he him selfe is iudged of no mā.

16 For who knoweth the mynde of the Lorde / other who shall informe him? But we vnderstonde the mynde of Christ.

Notes to Chapter 2

Chapter 3

¶ The .iii. Chapter.

1 ANd I coulde not speake vnto you brethrē as vnto spretuall: but as vnto carnall / even [A] as it were vnto babes in Christ.

2 I gave you myl[k]e to drinke & not meate. For ye then were not stronge / no nether yet are.

3 For ye are yet carnall. As longe verely as ther is amōge you envy⟨illegible⟩ge / stryfe / & dissenciō: are ye not carnall / & walke after yᵉ manner of mē?

4 As lōge as one sayth / I holde of Paul / & another / I am of Apollo / are ye not carnall?

5 What is Paul? What thinge is Apollo? Only miministers¹¹ are they by whō ye beleved / [B] even as the Lorde gave every mā grace.

6 I have planted: Apollo watred: but god gave increace.

7 So then / nether is he that planteth enythinge / nether he y[ᵗ] watreth: but god which gave the increace.

8 He that planteth and he that watreth / are nether better then the other. Every man yet shall receave his rewarde accordynge to his¹² laboure.

9 We are goddis labourers / ye are goddis husbandrye / ye are goddis byldynge.

10 Accordynge to the grace of god geven vnto me / as a wyse bylder have I layde the foundaciō And another bylt therō. But let every mā take¹³ hede how he bildeth apō.

11 For other foundacion [C] can no man laye / then yᵗ which is layde / which is Iesus Christ.

12 Yf eny man bilde on this foundacion / golde / silver / precious stones tymber / haye or stoble:

13 every mannes worke shall appere. For the daye shall declare it / and¹⁴ it shalbe shewed in fyre. And yᵉ fyre shall trye euery mannes worke / what it is.

14 Yf eny mannes worke yᵗ he hath bylt apon / byde / he shall receave a rewarde.

15 If eny mānes worke burne he shall suffre losse: but he shalbe safe him selfe: neverthelesse yet as it were thorow fyre.

16 [D] ✚ Are ye not ware that ye are the temple of¹⁵ god / and how that the sprete of god dwelleth in you?

17 Yf eny man defyle the temple of god him shall god destroye. For the temple of god is holy / which temple ye are.

18 Let no man deceave¹⁶ him silfe. Yf eny man seme wyse amonge you / let him be a fole in this worlde ▪ that he maye be wyse.

19 For y[ᵉ] wisdome of this worlde¹⁷ is folysshnes with god. For it is writtē: he compaseth the wyse in their craftynes.

20 And agayne / God knoweth the thoughtes of the¹⁸ wyse that they be vayne.

21 Therfore let no mā reioyce in men. For all thinges are youres /

22 whether it be Paul / other Apollo / other Cephas: whether it be yᵉ worlde / other lyfe / other deeth / whether they be present thingꝭ or thinges to come: all are youres /

23 & ye are Christes / and Christ is goddis. ⊢

Notes to Chapter 3

Chapter 4

¶ The .iiii. Chapter. ✚

1 LEt men this wyse esteme vs / evē as the¹⁹ ministers of Christ / and disposers of y[ᵉ] [A] secretes of God.

2 Furthermore it is requyred of the disposers that they be founde faithfull.²⁰

3 With me is it but a very smal thinge / that I shuld be iudged of you / ether of (mans daye) No I iudge not myn awne selfe.

4 I know nought by my selfe: yet am I not therby iustified. It is the Lorde that iudgeth me.

5 Therfore iudge no thinge before the tyme / vntill the Lorde come / which will lighten²¹ thinges that are hyd in darcknes and opē the counsels of the hertes. And then shall every man have prayse of God. ⊢

6 These thingꝭ brethrē I have described in [B] myn awne person & Apollos / for youre sake / that ye myght learne by vs / that no man coūte of him selfe beyonde that which is above written: that one swell not agaynst another for eny mans cause.

7 For who preferreth the? What hast thou / that thou hast not receaved? Yf thou have receaved it / why reioysest thou as though thou haddest not receaved it?

8 Now ye are full: now ye are made rych: ye raygne as kinge with out vs: & I wold to god ye dyd raygne / that we might raygne with you.

9 Me thinketh that God hath set forth vs which are Apostles / for the lowest of all / as it were mē appoynted to deeth. For we are a gasynge stocke vnto the worlde / & to yᵉ angels / &²² to men.

10 We are foles for Christes sake / & ye are wyse thorow Christ. We are weake / & ye a[r]e strōge. Ye are honorable & we are despised.

11 Evē vnto this daye we honger & thyrst / & are [C] naked / & are boffetted wᵗ fistes / & have no certayne dwellinge place /

12 and laboure workinge with oure awne hondes. We are revyled / & yet we blesse. We are persecuted / & suffer it.

13 We are evyll spoken of / and we praye. We²³ are made as it were the filthynes of the worlde / the of scowringe of all thinges / even vnto this tyme.

14 I write not these thinges to shame you: but as my beloved sonnes I warne you.

15 For though ye have ten thousande instructours in Christ: yet have ye not many fathers. In Christ Iesu / I have begotten you thorowe yᵉ [D] gospell.

16 Wherfore I desyre you to folowe me.

17 For this cause have I sent vnto you Timotheus / which is my deare sonne / & faithfull in the Lorde / which shall put you in remembraunce of my wayes which I have in Christ / evē as I teache every where in all congregaciōs.

18 Some swell as though I wolde come no more at you.

19 But I will come to you shortely / yf God will: & will knowe / not yᵉ wordes of thē which swell / but yᵉ power:

20 for yᵉ kyngdome of God is not in wordes / but in power.

21 What will ye? Shall I come vnto you with a rodde / or els in love & in the sprete of mekenes?

Notes to Chapter 4

Chapter 5

¶ The .v. Chapter.

1 THere goeth a cōmen sayinge that ther [A]²⁴ is fornicacion amōge you / & soche fornicacion as is not once named amonge the gentyls: that one shuld have his fathers wyfe.

2 And ye swell and have not rather sorowed / yᵗ he which hath done this dede / myght²⁵ be put frō amōge you.

3 For I verely as absent in body / even so present in sprete / have determyned all redy (as though I were present) of [B] him that hath done this dede /

4 in the name of oure Lorde Iesu Christ / when ye are gaddered togedder / & my sprete / with the power of the Lorde Iesus Christ /

5 to deliver him vnto²⁶ Satan / for y[ᵉ] destrucciō of the flesshe / yᵗ the sprete maye be saved in yᵉ daye of yᵉ Lorde Iesus.

6 Youre reioysinge is not good: knowe ye not that a lytle levē sowreth the whole lompe of [C] dowe.

7 ✚ Pourge therfore the olde leven / that ye maye be newe dowe / as ye a[r]e swete breed. For Christ oure esterlambe is offered vp for²⁷ vs.

8 Therfore let vs kepe holy daye / not with oldelevē / nether with the leven of maliciousnes and wickednes: but with the swete breed of purenes and truth. ⊢

9 I wrote vnto you in a pistle that ye shuld not company with fornicatours.

10 And I meāt not at all of the fornicatours of this worlde / ether of the covet⟨illegible⟩ous / or of extorsioners / [D] ether of the ydolaters: for then must ye nedes have gone out of yᵉ worlde.

11 But now I write vnto you / that ye company not togedder / yf eny that is called a brother / be a fornicator / or coveteous / or a worshipper of ymages / ether a raylar / ether a dronkard / or an extorcionar: with him that is soche se that ye eate not.

12 For what have I to do / to iudge them which are with out? Do ye not iudge them that are with in?

13 Them that are with out / God shall iudge. Put awaye from amonge you / that evyll parson.

Notes to Chapter 5

Chapter 6

¶ The .vi. Chapter.

1 HOw dare one of you havinge busines with another / goo to lawe vnder the [A] wicked / & not rather vnder the sainctes?²⁸

2 Do ye not know that the sainctes shall iudge the worlde? If the worlde shalbe iudged by you: are ye not good ynough to iudge smale trifles:

3 knowe ye not how that we shall iudge the angels? How moche more maye we iudge thinges that partayne to y[ᵉ] lyfe?

4 If ye have iudgemente of worldely matters / take them which are despised in y[ᵉ] congregaciō / & make them iudges.

5 This I saye to youre shame. [B] Is ther vtterly no wyse man amōge you? What not one at all / yᵗ can iudge bitwene brother & brother /

6 but one brother goeth to lawe with another: & that vnder the vnbelevers?

7 Now therfore ther is vtterly a faute amonge you / because ye goo to lawe one with another. Why rather suffer ye not wronge? why rather suffre ye not youre selves to be robbed?

8 Naye ye youre selves do wronge / and robbe: and that the brethren.

9 Do ye not remember how that the vnrighteous shall not inheret the kyngdome of God? Be not deceaved. For nether fornicators / nether worshyppers²⁹ of ymages / nether whormongers / nether weaklinges / nerher abusars of them selves with the mankynde /

10 nether theves / nether the coveteous / nether dronkardes / nether cursed speakers / nether pillers / shall inheret the kyngdome of God.

11 And soche ware ye verely: but ye³⁰ are wesshed: ye are sanctified: ye are iustified by the name of the Lorde Iesus / and by the sprete of oure God.

12 All thinges are lawfull vnto me: but all [C] thingꝭ are not proffitable. I maye do all thinges: but I will be brought vnder nomans power.

13 Meates are ordeyned for the belly / & the belly for meates: but God shall destroy bothe it and them. Let not the body be applied vnto fornicacion / but vnto the Lorde / and the Lorde vnto the body.

14 God hath raysed vp the Lorde / & shall rayse vs vp by his power.

15 ✚ Ether remember ye not / that youre bodyes are the³¹ members of Christ? Shall I now take the members of Christ / and make them the members of an harlot? God forbyd.

16 Do ye not vnderstonde that he which coupleth him selfe with an harlot / is be come one body? For two (saith he) shalbe one flesshe.

17 But³² he that is ioyned vnto the Lorde / is one sprete.

18 Fle fornicacion. All synnes that a man dothe / are with out y[ᵉ] body. But he y[ᵗ] is a fornicator / synneth [D] agaynst his awne body.

19 Ether knowe ye not how that youre bodyes are the³³ temple of yᵉ holy goost / which is in you / whō ye have of God / & how that ye are not youre awne?

20 For ye are dearly bought. Therfore glorifie ye God in youre bodyes and in youre spretes / for they are goddes. ⊢

Notes to Chapter 6

Chapter 7

¶ The .vii. Chapter. ✚

1 AS concerninge the thinges wherof ye [A]³⁴ wrote vnto me: it is good for a mā / not to touche a woman.

2 Neverthelesse to avoyde fornicaciō / let every man have his wyfe: and let every woman have her husbande.

3 Let the man geve vnto the wyfe due benevolence. Lykwyse also the wyfe vnto the man.³⁵

4 The wyfe hath not power over her awne body: but the husbande. And lykewyse the man hath not power over his awne body: but the wyfe.

5 Withdrawe not youre selves one from another / excepte it be with consent for a tyme / for to geve youre selves to fastynge and prayer. And afterwarde come agayne to the same thynge / lest Satan tempt you for youre incontinencye. ⊢

6 This I saye of faveour / not of cōmaundement.

7 [B] For I wolde that all men were as I my selfe am: but every man hath his proper gyfte of God / one after this māner / another after that.

8 I saye vnto the vnmaried men & widdowes: it is good for them yf they abyde evē as I do.

9 But & yf they cānot abstayne / let them mary. For it is better to mary then to burne.

10 Vnto the maryed cōmaunde not I / but the³⁶ Lorde: that the wyfe separate not her selfe from the man.

11 Yf she separate her selfe / let³⁷ her remayne vnmaryed / or be reconciled vnto her husbande agayne. And let not the husbande put awaye his wyfe from him.

12 To the remnaunt speake I / & not the lorde. [C] Yf eny brother have awyfe that beleveth not / yf she be content to dwell with him / let him not put her awaye.

13 And yᵉ womā which hath to her husbande an infidell / yf he consent to dwell with her / let her not put him awaye.

14 For yᵉ vnbelevynge husbande is sanctified by the wyfe: & the vnbelevynge wyfe is sanctified by the husbande. Or els were youre chyldren vnclene: but now are they pure.

15 But and yf the vnbelevynge departe / let him departe. A brother or a sister is not in subiection to soche. God hath called vs in peace.

16 For how knowest thou o woman / whether thou shalt save that man or no? Other how knowest thou o man / whether thou shalt save that woman or no?

17 but even as God hath distributed to every man. As the lorde hath called every person / so let [D] him walke: & so orden I in all congregaciōs.

18 Yf eny man be called beynge circumcised / let him adde nothinge therto. Yf eny be called vncircumcised: let him not be circūcised.

19 Circumcision is nothinge / vncircumcision³⁸ is nothinge: but the kepyng of the cōmaundmentes of god is altogether.

20 ✚ Let every man abyde in the same state wherin he was called.

21 Arte thou called a servaūt? care not for it. Neverthelesse yf thou mayst be fre / vse it rather.

22 For he that is called in the lorde beynge a servaunt / is the lordes freman. Lykwyse he that is called beynge fre / is Christes servaūt.

23 Ye are dearly bought / be not mennes seruauntes.

24 Brethren let everye man wherin he is called / therin abyde with God. ⊢

25 As concernynge virgins / I have no cōmaundment [E] of the lorde: yet geve I counsell / as one that hath obtayned mercye of the lorde to be faythfull.

26 I suppose that it is good for the present³⁹ necessite. For it is good for a mā so to be.

27 Arte thou bounde vnto a wyfe? seke not to be lowsed. Arte thou lowsed from a wyfe? seke not a wyfe.

28 But and yf thou take a wyfe thou synnest not. Lykwyse if a virgin mary / she synneth not. Neverthelesse soche shall have trouble in their flesshe: but I faver you.

29 This saye I brethrē the tyme is shorte. It remayneth that they which have wives / be as though they had none /

30 and. they that wepe be as though thy wept not: and they that reioyce / be as though they reioysed not: & they that bye be as though they possessed not:

31 & they yᵉ vse this worlde / be as though they vsed it not. For the fassion of this worlde goeth awaye.

32 I wolde have you without care: the single [F] man careth for the thingꝭ of the lorde / how he maye please the lorde.

33 But he that hath maried / careth for the thingꝭ of the worlde howe he maye please his wyfe.

34 There is differēce bitwene a virgin & a wyfe. The single woman careth for the thinges of the lorde / that she maye be pure both in body & also in sprete But she that is maryed / careth for the thingꝭ of the worlde / how she maye please her husband.

35 This speake I for youre proffit / not to tangle you in a snare: but for that which is honest and comly vnto you / & that ye maye quyetly cleave vnto the lorde wᵗ out separacion.

36 I feny man thinke that it is vncomly for [G] his virgin if she passe the tyme of mariage / ād if so nede requyre / let him do what he listeth / he synneth not: let thē be coupled in mariage.

37 Neverthelesse / he yᵗ purposeth surely in his herte / havynge none nede: but hath power over his awne will: and hath so decreed in his herte that he will kepe his virgin / doth well.

38 So then he that ioyneth his virgin in maryage doth well. But he that ioyneth not his virgin in mariage doth better.

39 The wyfe is bounde⁴⁰ to the lawe as longe as her husband liveth If her husbande slepe / she is at liberte to mary with whom she wyll / only in the lorde.

40 But she is happiar yf she so abyde / in my iudgmēt And I thinke verely that I have the sprete of God.

Notes to Chapter 7

Chapter 8

¶ The .viii. Chapter.

1 TO speake of thinges dedicate vnto ydols / we [A]⁴¹ are sure that we all have knowledge. knowledge maketh a man swell: but love edifieth.

2 If eny man thinke that he knoweth eny thinge / he knoweth nothynge yet as he ought to knowe.

3 But yf eny man love god / the same is knowen of him.

4 To speake of meate dedicat vnto ydols / we are sure that ther is none ydoll in the worlde and that ther is none other god but one.

5 And though ther be y[ᵗ] are called goddes / whether in heven other in erth (as ther be goddes many and lordes many)

6 yet vnto vs is there but one god / which is the father▪of whom are all thinges / & we in him: & one lorde Iesus Christ⁴² by whom are all thinges / and we by him.

7 But every man hath not knowledge. For some suppose that ther is an ydoll / vntyll this houre / and eate as of a thinge offered vnto yᵉ ydole / & so their consciences beynge yet weake / are defyled.

8 Meate maketh vs not acceptable to god. Nether yf we eate / are we yᵉ better.⁴³ Nether yf we eate not / are we the worsse.

9 But take hede that youre libertie cause not [D] yᵉ weake to faule.

10 For yf some man se yᵉ which hast knowledge / sit at meate in the ydoles tēple / shall not the conscience of hym which is weake / be boldened to eate those thingꝭ which are offered vnto yᵉ ydole?

11 And so thorow thy knowledge shall yᵉ weake brother perisshe for whom christ dyed.

12 Whē ye synne so agaynst the brethren and wounde their weake consciences ye synne agaynst Christ.

13 Wherfore yf meate hurt my brother / I will eate no flesshe⁴⁴ whill the worlde stondeth / because I will not hurte my brother.

Notes to Chapter 8

Chapter 9

¶ The .ix. Chapter.

1 AM I not an Apostle? am I not fre? have I not sene Iesus Christ oure lorde? [A] Are not ye my worke in the lorde.

2 Yf I be not an Apostle vnto other / yet am I vnto you. For the seale of myne Apostle shippe are ye in the lorde.

3 Myne answer to them that axe me / is this.

4 Have we not power to eate & to drynke?

5 Ether have we not power to leade about a sister to wyfe as wel as other Apostles / and as the brethren of the lorde / and Cephas?

6 Ether only I and Barnabas have not power this to do?

7 who goeth a warfare eny tyme at his awne cost? who planteth a vynearde & eateth not of the frute? Who fedeth a flocke and eateth not of the mylke?

8 Saye I these thinges after the manner of [B] men? Or sayth not the lawe the same also?

9 For it ys written in the lawe of Moses. Thou shall not mosell the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne. Doth God take thought for oxen?

10 Ether sayth he it not all to gedder for oure sakes? For oure sakes no doute this is written: that he which eareth / shuld⁴⁵ eare in hope: and that he which thressheth in hope / shuld beparttaker of his hope.

11 Yf we sowe vnto you spirituall thynges: is it a greate thynge yf we reepe youre carnall thynges

12 Yf other be parttakers of this power over you? wherfore are not we rather. Neverthelesse we have not vsed this power: but suffre all thinges lest we shuld hynder the gospell of Christ.

13 Do ye not vnderstōder how that they which minister in the temple / have their fyndynge of the temple? And they which wayte at the aulter / are partakers with yᵉ aultre?

14 Even so also dyd yᵉ lorde ordayne / that they which preache yᵉ gospell / shuld live of the gospell.

15 But I have vs⟨illegible⟩d none of these thinges. Nether wrote I these thinges that it shuld [C] be so done vnto me. For it were better for me to dye / thē yᵗ eny man shuld take this reioysinge from me.

16 In that I preache the gospell / I have nothinge to reioyce of. For necessite is put vnto me. Wo is it vnto me yf I preache not the gospell.

17 If I do it with a good will / I⁴⁶ have a rewarde. But yf I do it agaynst my will / an office is committed vnto me.

18 What is my rewarde then? Verely that whē I preache the gospell / I make the gospell of Christ fre / yᵉ I misvse not myne auctorite in yᵉ gospel

19 For though I be fre from all men / yet have [D] I made my silfe servaunt vnto all men / that I myght wynne the mo⟨illegible⟩.

20 Vnto the Iewes /⁴⁷ I be came as a Iewe / to winne yᵉ Iewes. To thē that were vnder the lawe / was I made as though I had bene vnder the lawe / to wynne thē that were vnder the lawe.

21 To them that were with out lawe / be cā I as though I had bene with out lawe (whē I was not without lawe as perteyninge to god / but vnder a lawe as concerninge Christ) to wynne thē that were with out lawe.

22 To the weake became I as weake / to wynne the weake. In all thingꝭ I [E] fassioned my silfe to all men / to save at yᵉ lest waye some.

23 And this I do for the gospels▪ sake / that I might have my parte therof.

24 ✚ Perceave ye not how that they which runne in a course / runne all / yet but one receaveth the rewarde. So runne that ye maye obtayne.

25 Euery man yᵗ proveth masteryes / abstaineth from all thinges. And they do it to obtayne a corruptible croune: but we to obtayne an vncorruptible croune:

26 I therfore so runne / not as at an vncertayne thinge. So fyght I / not as one yᵉ beateth the ayer:

27 but I tame my body and bringe it into subiecciō / lest after that I have preached to other / I my silfe shuld be a castawaye.

Notes to Chapter 9

Chapter 10

¶ The .x. Chapter.

1 BRethren I wolde not that ye shuld be [A]⁴⁸ ignoraunt of this / how yᵗ oure fathers were all vnder a cloude / and all passed thorow the see /

2 and were all baptised vnder Moses / in the cloude / and in the see:

3 & dyd all eate of one spirituall meate /

4 & did all drincke of one maner of spirituall drincke. And they dranke of that spretuall rocke that folowed them / which rocke was Christ.

5 ✚ But in many of them had god no delite. For they were overthrowen in the wildernes.

6 These are ensamples to vs ✚ that weshuld⁴⁹ not lust after evyll thinge / as they lusted

7 Nether be ye worshippers of Images as were some of them accordynge as it is written: [B] The people sate doune to eate and drynke / &⁵⁰ rose vp agayne to playe.

8 Nether let vs cōmit fornicacion as some of them committed fornicacion / and were destroyed in one daye .xxiii. thousande.

9 Nether let vs tempte Christ / as some of them tempted / and were destroyed of serpentes.⁵¹

10 Nether murmure ye as some of them murmured / and were destroyed of yᵉ destroyer

11 All these thingꝭ happened vnto them for ensamples / and were written to put vs in remembraunce / whom the endes of the worlde [C] are come apon.

12 Wherfore let hym that thynketh hestōdeth / take hede least he fall.

13 There hath none other temptacion taken you / but soche as foloweth yᵉ nature of mā. But God is faythfull / which shall not suffer you to be tempted above youre strenght: but shall in the myddes of the temptacion make awaye to escape out.

14 ✚ Wherfore my deare beloued / fle from worshippynge of ydols.

15 I speake as vnto them which have discrecion / Iudge [D]⁵² ye what I saye.

16 Ys not the cuppe of blessinge which we blesse / partakynge of yᵉ bloude of Christ? ys not the breed which we breake / partetakynge of the body of Christ?

17 because that we (though webe many) yet are one breed / and one bodyein as moch as we all are partetakers of one breed.

18 Beholde Israhell which walketh carnally. Are not they which eate of the sacrifyse / partetakers of the aultre?

19 What saye I then? that the ymage is eny thinge? or that it which is offered to ymages is eny thinge?

20 Nay / but I saye / that those thinges which the gentyls offer / they offer [E] to devyls / and not to god. ✚ And I wolde not that ye shuld have fellishippe with yᵉ devils

21 Ye cānot drincke of the cup of the lorde / & of y[ᵗ] cup of yᵉ deuyls. Ye cnanot be partetakers⁵³ of the lordes table / & of the table of deuelles.

22 Ether shall we provoke the lorde? Or are we stronger then he?

23 All thynges are laufull vnto me / but all thynges are not expedient. All thynges are lawfull to me / but all thinges⁵⁴ edifye not.

24 Let noman seke his awne proffet: but let every man seke anothers welthe.

25 What soever is solde in the market / that [F] eate / and axe no questions for conscience sake

26 For the erth is the lord is / and all that therein is▪

27 Yf eny of them which beleve not / bid you to a feest / & yf ye be disposed to goo / what soever is seet before you: eate / axinge no question for conscience sake.

28 But and yf eny man saye vnto you: this is dedicate vnto ydols / eate not of it for his sake that shewed it / and for hurtynge of conscience. The erth is the lordes & all that there in is.

29 Conscience I saye / not thyne: but the cōscieuce of that other.⁵⁵ For why shuld my▪ liberte be iudged of another mānes conscience:

30 For yf I take my parte with thākes: why am I evell spoken of for that thynge wherfore I geve thankes.

31 Whether therfore ye eate or dryncke / or what soever ye do / do all to the prayse of God.

32 ✚ Se that ye geve occasion of evell / nether to yᵉ [G] Iewes / nor yet to the gentyls / nether to yᵉ cōgregacion of god:

33 euen as I please all men in⁵⁶ all thinges / not sekynge myne awne proffet / but the proffet of many / that they myght be saved.

11:1 Folowe me as I do Christ.

Notes to Chapter 10

Chapter 11

The .xi. Chapter.

2 I Commende you brethren that ye remēber [A] me in all thinges / and kepe the ordinaunces even as I delyvered them to you.

3 I wolde ye knew that Christ is the heed of every man. And the man is the womans heed. And God is Christes heed.

4 Eevery mā prayinge or prophesyinge havynge eny thynge on his heed / shameth his heed.

5 Every woman that prayeth or prophisieth bare hedded / dishonesteth hyr heed. For it is even all one / and the very same thinge / even as though she were shaven.

6 If the woman be not covered / lett her also beshoren. If it beshame for a womā to be shorne or shavē / let her cover her heed.

7 A man ought not to cover his heed / for as [B] moche as he is the image and glory of God. The woman is the glory of the man.

8 For the⁵⁷ man is not of the woman / but the woman of the mā.

9 Nether was the man created for yᵉ womās sake: but the womā for the mannes sake

10 For this cause ought the womā to have⁵⁸ power on her heed / for the angels sakes.

11 Neverthelesse / nether is the mā with oute the womā nether the womā with out the man in the lorde.

12 For as the woman is of the man / evē so is the man by the woman: but all is of God.

13 Iudge in youre selves whether it be cōly yᵗ [C] a woman praye vnto god bare heeded.

14 Or els doth not nature teach you / that it is a shame for a man / if he have longe heere:

15 and a prayse to a woman / yf she have longe heere? For her heere is geven her to cover her with all.

16 If there be eny man amonge you yᵗ lusteth to stryve let him knowe that we have no soche custome / nether the congregacions of God.

17 This I warne you of / and commende not that ye come to gedder: not after a better maner but after a worsse.

18 Fyrst of all when ye come togedder in the cōgregacion / I heare that ther is dissencion amonge you: & I partly / beleve it.

19 For ther must be sectes amonge you /⁵⁹ that they which are perfecte amonge you / myght be knowen.

20 ✚ When ye come togedder [D] a man can not eate the lordes supper.

21 For every man begynneth a fore to eate his awne supper. And one is hongrye / and another is dronken.

22 Have ye not houses to eate and to drinke in? Or els despyse ye the congregacion of god and shame them that have not? What shall I saye vnto you? shall I prayse you: In this prayse I you not. ⊢

23 ✚ That which I delyvered vnto you / I receaved of yᵉ lorde. For yᵉ lorde Iesus the same [E] nyght in which he was betrayed / toke breed:

24 &⁶⁰ thanked and brake / and sayde. Take ye / & eate ye: this is my body which is broken for you. This do ye in the remembraunce of me.

25 After the same maner he toke the cup / when sopper was done / sayinge. This cup is the newe testament in my bloude. This do as oft as ye drynke it / in the temēbraunce of me.

26 For as often as ye shall eate this breed / and drynke this cup / ye shall shewe the lordes deeth tyll he come.

27 Wherfore who soevere shall eate of [F] this bred / or drynke of the cup vnworthely / shalbe giltie of the body & bloud of the Lorde

28 Let a mā therfore examen him silfe / & so let h⟨illegible⟩ eate of the breed & drynke of the cup.

29 For he yᵗ eateth or drinketh vnworthely / eateth & drynketh his awne damnacion / because he maketh no difference of the lordis body. ⊢

30 For this cause many are weake and sicke [G] amōge you / & many slepe.

31 Yf we had truly iudged oure selves / we shuld not have bene iudged.

32 But when we are iudged of the lorde we are chastened / because we shuld not be dāned with the worlde.

33 Wherfore my brethren when ye come to gedder to eate / tary one for another.

34 Yf eny mā hōger / let hi eate at home / yᵗ ye come not togedder vnto condēnaciō. Other thingꝭ will I set in order whē I come.

Notes to Chapter 11

Chapter 12

¶ The .xii. Chapter.

1 IN spirituall thinges brethren I wolde [A]⁶¹ not have you ignoraunt.

2 ✚ Ye knowe that ye were gentyls / and went youre wayes vnto domme ydoles / even as ye were ledde.

3 Wherfore I declare vnto you that no man speakvnge in the sprete of god / defieth Iesus. Also no man can saye that Iesus is the lorde: but by the holy goost.

4 Ther are diversities of gyftes verely / yet but one sprete.

5 And ther are differences of administracions /⁶² & yet but one lorde.

6 And ther are divers maners of operacions / and yet but [B] one God / which worketh all thingꝭ that are wrought / in all creatures.

7 The gyftes⁶³ of yᵉ sprete are geven to every man to proffit yᵉ congregacion.

8 To one is geven thorow the spirite the vtteraunce of wisdome? To another is geven the vtteraunce of knowledge by yᵉ same sprete.

9 To another is geuen fayth / by yᵉ same sprete. To another y[ᵉ] gyftes of healynge by the same sprete.

10 To another power to do myracles. To another prophesie? To another iudgement of spretes. To another divers tonges.⁶⁴ To another the interpretacion of tōges.

11 And these all worketh evē yᵉ silfe same sprete / devydynge to every man severall gyftes / even as he will. ⊢

12 For as the body is one / and hath many mēbres / & all the membres of one body though they be many / yet are but one body: even so is [B] Christ.

13 For in one sprete are we all baptysed to make one body / whether we be Iewes or gētyls whether we be bonde or fre: and have all dronke of one sprete.

14 For the body is not one member / but many.

15 Yf the fote saye: I am not the honde / therfore I am not of the body: is he therfore not of y[ᵉ] body:

16 And if yᵉ care saye / I am not the eye: therfore I am not of the body: is he therfore not of the body?

17 If all the body were an eye / where were then the care? If all were hearynge: where were the smellynge?

18 But now hath god disposed the membres every one of them in the body / at his awne pleasure.

19 If they were all one member: where were the body?

20 Now are ther many membres / yet but one body.

21 And the eye can not saye vn to the honde / I have no nede of the: nor yᵉ heed also to the fete. I have no nede of you.

22 Ye [C] rather a greate deale those mēbres of the body which seme to be most feble / are most necessary.

23 And apō those mēbres of yᵗ body which we thinke lest honest / put we most honestie on. And oure vngodly parties have most beauty on.

24 For oure honest members nede it not. But God hath so disposed the body / ād hath geven most honoure to that parte which laked /

25 lest there shuld be eny stryfe in the body: but that the members shuld indifferētly care one for another.

26 And yf one member suffer / all suffer with him: yf one member be had in honoure / all members be glad also.

27 [G] Ye are the body of Christ / and members one of another.

28 And God hath also ordeyned in the congregacion / fyrst the Apostels / secōdarely⁶⁵ prophetes / thyrdly teachers / then thē that do miracles: after that / the gyftes of healynge / helpers / governers / diversite of tonges.

29 Are all Apostles? Are all Prophetes? Are all teachers? Are all doars of miracles?

30 Have all the gyftes of healinge? Do all speake wᵗ tonges? Do all interprete?

31 Covet after yᵉ best giftes. Amd yet shewe I vnto you a moare excellent waye.

Notes to Chapter 12

Chapter 13

¶ The .xiii. Chapter. ✚

1 THough I spake with the tonge of mē [A] & angels / & yet had no love / I were evē as soundinge brasse: or as a tynklynge Cymball.

2 And though I coulde prophesy / and vnderstode all secretes / & all knowledge: yee / yf I had⁶⁶ all fayth so that I coulde move moūtayns oute of ther places / & yet had no love / I were nothynge.

3 And though I bestowed all my gooddes to fede y[ᵉ] poore / & though I gave my body even that I burned / and yet had no love / it profeteth me nothinge.

4 Love suffreth longe / & is corteous. Love envieth [B]⁶⁷ not. Love doth not frowardly / swelleth not

5 dealeth not dishonestly / seketh not her awne⁶⁸ / is not provoked to anger / thynketh not evyll /

6 reioyseth not in iniquite: but reioyseth in yᵉ trueth /

7 suffreth all thyngꝭ / beleveth all thynges / hopeth all thynges / endureth in all thynges.

8 [C] Though that prophesyinge fayle / other tonges shall cease / or knowledge vanysshe awaye / yet love falleth never awaye.

9 For oure knowledge is vnparfect / and oure prophesyinge is vnperfet.

10 But when y[ᵗ] which is parfect is come / then yᵗ which is vnparfet shall bedone awave.

11 When I was a chylde / I spake as a chylde / I vnderstode as a childe / [D] I ymagened as a chylde. But assone as I was a man / I put awaye childesshnes.

12 Now we se in a glasse even in a darke speakynge: but then shall we se face to face. Now I knowe vnparfectly: but then shall I knowe even as I am knowen.

13 Now abideth fayth / hope / and love / even these thre: but the chefe of the se is love. ⊢

Notes to Chapter 13

Chapter 14

¶ The .xiiii. Chapter.

1 LAbour for love and covet spretuall giftes: [A] & most chefly forto prophesye.

2 For he that speaketh with tōges speaketh⁶⁹ not vnto men / but vnto god / for no man heareth him / howbeit in the sprete he speaketh misteries.

3 But he that prophesieth / speaketh vnto men / to edifyinge / to exhortacion and to comforte.

4 He that speaketh with tonges / proffiteth him silfe: he that prophesyeth edifieth the congregacion.

5 I wolde that ye all spake with tonges: but rather that ye prophesied. For greater is he that prophisieth? then he yᵗ speaketh with tonges / except he expounde it⁷⁰ also / that the congregacion maye have edifyinge.

6 [B] Now brehren if I come vnto you speak⟨illegible⟩ge wᵗ tonges: what shall I profit you / excepte I speake vnto you / other by revelaciō or knowledge / or prophesyinge / or doctrine.

7 Moreover whē thingꝭ with out lyfe / geve sounde: whether it be a pype or an harpe: except they make a distinccion in the soundes: how shall it beknowen what is pyped or harped?

8 And also if the trōpe geve an vncertayne voyce / who shall prepare him silfe to fyght?

9 Evē so lykwyse whē ye speake with tōge / excepte ye speake wordes that have signification / how shall yt be vnderstonde what is spokē? For ye shall but speake in the ayer.

10 Many kyndes of voyces are in the worlde [C] and none of them are with out signification.

11 If I knowe not what the voyce meaneth / I shalbe vnto him that speaketh / an alient: and and he that speaketh shalbe an alient vnto me

12 Evē so ye (for as moche as ye covet spretuall giftes) seke that ye maye have plentye vnto y[ᵉ] edifyinge of the congregacion.

13 Wherfore let him that speaketh with tonges / praye that he maye interpret also.

14 If I praye with tonge / my sprete prayeth: but my mynde is with out frute.

15 What is it then? I will praye with the sprete / ād will praye wᵗ the mynde also. I will singe with the sprete / and will singe with the mynde also.

16 For els when thou blessest with yᵉ⁷¹ sprete / [A] how shall he that occupieth the roume of the vnlearned / saye amen at thy gevinge of thankes / seynge he vnderstondeth not what thou sayest.

17 Thou verely gevest thanke well / but [D] the other is not edyfied.

18 I thanke my god / I speake with tōges moare then ye all.

19 Yet had I lever in yᵉ cōgregaciō / to speake five wordes with my mynde to y[ᵉ] informaciō of other / rather then ten thousande wordes wᵗ the tonge.

20 Brethrē be not chyldrē in⁷² witte. How be it as cōcerninge maliciousnes be chyldrē: but in witte be perfet.

21 In the lawe it is written / with other tōges / & with other lyppes wyll I speake vnto this people / & yet for all that will they not heare me / sayth the Lorde.

22 Wherfore / tonge are for a signe / not to them that beleve: but to them that beleve not. Contrary wyse / prophesyinge serveth not for them that beleve not: but for them which beleve.

23 Yf therfore when all the cōgregacion is come to gedder / & all speake with tonges / ther come in they y[ᵗ] are vnlearned / or they which beleve not: will they not saye that ye are out of youre wittes?

24 But & yf all prophesy / & ther [E] come in one that beleveth not / or one vnlearned / he is rebuked of all men / & is iudged of every man:

25 & so are y[ᵉ] secretes of his hert opēned & so falleth he doune on his face / & worshippeth God / & sayth yᵗ God is wᵗ you in dede.

26 How is it then brethrē? When ye come to▪ gedder / every mā hath his songe / hath his doctryne / hath his tōge / hath his revelaciō / hath his interpretaciō. Let all thingꝭ be done vnto edifyinge.

27 If eny man speake wᵗ tonges / let it be two atonce or at the most thre atonce & that by course: & let another interprete it.

28 But yf ther be no interpreter / let him kepe silence in the cōgregacion / and let him speake to him selfe and to God.

29 Let the Prophete speake two atonce / or thre [F] at once / & let other iudge.

30 Yf eny revelaciō be made to another that sitteth by / let the fyrst holde his peace.

31 For ye maye all prophesy one by one / that all maye learne / & all maye have comforte.

32 For y[ᵉ] spretes of the Prophete are in the power of the Prophetes.

33 For God is not causer of stryfe: but of peace / as he is in all other congregacions of the saynctes.

34 Let youre wyves kepe silence in the cōgregacions. [G] For it is not permitted vnto them to⁷³ speake: but let them be vnder obedience / as sayth the lawe.

35 If they will learne eny thinge / let thē aye their husbandes at home. For⁷⁴ it is a shame for wemen to speake in the cōgregaciō.

36 Sprōge yᵉ worde of god frō you? Ether came it vnto you only?

37 Yf eny mā thinke him sylfe a prophet ether spirituall: let him vnder stonde / what thinges I write vnto you. For they are the cōmaundementes of the Lorde.

38 But & yf eny man be ignorāt / let him beignorant.

39 Wherfore brethren covet to prophesye / & forbyd not to speake with tonges.

40 And let all thinges be done honestly & in order.

Notes to Chapter 14

Chapter 15

¶ The .xv. Chapter. ✚

1 BRethren as pertayninge to the gospell [A] which I preached vnto you / which ye have also accepted / and in the which ye continue /

2 by which also ye are saved: I do you to wit / after what maner I preached vnto you yf ye kepe it / except ye have beleved in vayne.

3 For fyrst of all I delivered vnto you that⁷⁵ which I receaved: how that Christ dyed for oure synnes / agreinge to the scriptures:

4 and that he was buried / and that he arose agayne [B] the thyrd daye accordinge to the scriptures:

5 and that he he was sene of Cephas / then of the twelve.

6 After that he was sene of moo⁷⁶ thē five hōdred brethren atonce: of which many remayne vnto this daye / and many are fallen a slepe.

7 After that appered he to Iames / then to all the Apostles.

8 And last of all he was sene of me / as of one that was borne out of due tyme.

9 For I am the lest of all the Apostles / which am not worthy to be called an Apostle / because I persecuted the congregacion of God.

10 But by the grace of God I am that I am. And his grace which is in me / was not in vayne: ✚ but I labored moare aboundauntly then they all / not [C] I / but the grace of God which is with me.

11 Whether it were I or they / so we preache / & so have ye beleved.

12 ✚ If Christ be preached how that he rose frō deeth: how saye some that are amōge you /⁷⁷ that ther is no resurreccion from deeth?

13 If ther be no rysynge agayne from deeth: then is Christ not rysen.

14 If Christ be not rysen / then is oure preachinge vayne / and youre faith is also in vayne.

15 Ye and we are founde falce witnesses of God. For we have testifyed of God / how that he raysyd vp Christ / whom he raysyd not vp / yf it be so that the deed ryse not vp agayne.

16 For yf the deed ryse not agayne / then is Christ not rysen agayne.

17 If it beso yᵉ Christ rose not / then is youre fayth in vayne and yet are ye in youre synnes.

18 And therto they which are fallen a slepein Christ / are perisshed.

19 If in this lyfe only we beleve on christ / then are we of all men the miserablest.

20 But now is Christ rysen from deeth / & is⁷⁸ be come the fyrst frutes of them that slept.

21 For by a man came deeth / & by a man came resurreccion⁷⁹ frō deeth.

22 For as by Adam alldye: evē so by Christ / shall all be made alive /

23 and [D]⁸⁰ every man in his awne order. ✚ The fyrst is Christ / then they y[ᵗ] are Christis at his commynge.

24 Then cōmeth the ende / when he hath delivered vp yᵉ kyngdome to God y[ᵉ] father / when he hath put doune all rule / auctorite & power.

25 For he must raygne tyll he have put⁸¹ all his enemyes vnder his fete.

26 The last enemye that shalbe destroyed is deeth.

27 For he hath put all thinges vnder his fete. But when he sayth / all thinges are put vnder him / it is many fest that he is excepted / which dyd put all thinges vnder him.

28 When all thinges are subdued vnto him: then shall the sonne also him selfe be subiecte vnto him that put all thinges vnder him / y[ᵗ] God maye be all in all thinges.

29 Ether els what do they which are baptised over yᵉ deed / yf the deed ryse not at all? Why are they then baptised over the deed?

30 Ye and why stonde we in ieoperdy every houre?

31 By oure reioysinge which I have in Christ Iesu oure Lorde / I dye dayly.

32 That I have fought⁸² with beastes at Ephesus after the maner of men / what avaūtageth it me / yf the deed ryse⁸³ not agayne? Let vs eate & drynke / to morowe [E] we shall dye.

33 Be not deceaved: malicious speakinges corupte good māners.

34 Awake truely cut of slepe / and synne not. For some have not the knowlege of God. I speake this vnto youre rebuke.

35 But some mā will saye: how aryse yᵉ deed? with what bodyes come they in?

36 Thou fole / that which thou sowest / is not quickened except it dye.

37 And what sowest thow? Thow sowest not that body that shalbe: but bare corne (I meane ether of wheet / or of some other)

38 and God geveth it a body at his pleasure / to every seed a severall body.

39 ✚ All flesshe is not one manner of flesshe: but their is one maner flesshe of men / another maner flesshe of beastes / another maner flesshe of fysshes / & another of byrdes.

40 Ther are celestiall bodyes / & ther are bodyesterrestriall. But yᵉ glory of yᵉ celestiall is one / & yᵉ glory of the terrestriall is another.

41 Ther is one maner [F] glory of the sonne / and another glory of the mo[n]e / & another glory of the starres. For one starre differth frō another in glory.

42 So is the resurrecciō of yᵉ deed. It is sowē in corrupciō / & ryseth in incorrupcion.

43 It is sowen in dishonoure / & ryseth in honoure. It is sowē in weaknes / and ryseth in power.

44 It is sowne a naturall body / and ryseth a spretuall body. Ther is a naturall bodye & ther is a spretuall body:

45 as it is written: the fyrste man Adam was made a livinge soule: & yᵉ last ⟨illegible⟩o⟨illegible⟩ was made a quickeninge sprete.

46 How beit yᵗ⁸⁴ is not fyrst which is spirituall: but yᵗ which is naturall / & then yᵗ which is spretuall.

47 ✚ The fyrst mā is of the erth / erthy: the seconde man is y[ᵉ] Lorde frō heavē.

48 As is the erthy / soche are they that are erthye. And as is the hevēly / soche are they yᵗ are hevenly.

49 And as we⁸⁵ have borne the ymage of the erthy / so shall we beare the ymage of the hevenly.

50 This saye I brethren / that flesshe & bloud cānot inheret the kyngdome of God. Nether corrupcion inhereth vncorrupcion.

51 Beholde [G]⁸⁶ I shewe you a mystery. We shall not all slepe: but we shall all be chaunged /

52 & that in a moment / and in the twinclinge of an eye / at the sounde of the last trompe. For the trompe shall blowe / & yᵉ deed shall ryse incorruptible / & we shalbe chaunged.

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruptibilite: & this mortall must put on immortalite.

54 When this corruptible hath put on incorruptibilite / & this mortall hath put on immortalite: then shalbe brought to passe y[ᵉ] sayinge yᵗ is writtē. Deeth is consumed in to victory.⁸⁷

55 Deeth where is thy stynge? Hell where is thy victory?

56 The stynge of deeth is synne: and the⁸⁸ strength ofsynne is the lawe.

57 But thanks be vnto God / which hath geven vs victory / thorow oure Lorde Iesus Christ.

58 Therfore my deare brethren / be ye stedfast and vnmovable / alwayes ryche in the workes of the Lorde / for as moch as ye knowe how yᵗ youre labour is not in vayne in the Lorde.

Notes to Chapter 15

Chapter 16

¶ The .xvi. Chapter.

1 OF the gadderynge for the sayncte / as I have ordeyned in the congregaciōs of Galacia / even so do ye.

2 Vpon some [A] sondaye let every one of you put a syde at home & laye vp what soever he thinketh mete / that ther be no gaderinges when I come.

3 When I am come / who soever ye shall alowe by youre letters / them will I sende to bringe youre liberalite vnto Ierusalem.

4 And yf it be mete yᵗ I goo / they shall go with me.

5 I will come vnto you after I have gone over Macedonia. For I will goo thorowout Macedonia.

6 With you paravēture I wyll abyde a whyle: or els winter / that ye maye brynge me on my waye whyther soever I goo.

7 I will not se you now in my passage: but I [B] trust to abyde a whyle with you / yf God shall suffreme.

8 I willtary at Ephesus vntyllwhit sontyde.

9 For a greate dore and a frutefull is opēned vnto me: & ther are many adversaries.

10 If Timotheus come / se yᵗ he be with out feare with you. For he worketh the worke of the Lorde as I doo.

11 Let no man despyse him: but convaye him forthe in peace / yᵗ he maye come vnto me. For I loke for him with the brethrē.

12 To speake of brother Apollo: I greatly desyred him to come vnto you with yᵉ brethren / but his mynde was not at allto come at this tyme. How be it he will come when he shall have conveniēt tyme.

13 Watche ye / stonde fast in the fayth / auyte you lyke men / & be stronge.

14 Let all youre busynes be done in love.

15 Brethren (ye knowe the housse of Stephana / how yᵗ they are the fyrst frutes of Achaia /⁸⁹ & that they have appoynted them selves to minister vnto the saynctes)

16 I beseche you yᵗ ye be obedient vnto soche / and to all that helpe and laboure.

17 I am gladde of the cōmynge of Stephana / Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lackinge on youre parte / they have supplied.

18 They have comforted my sprete and youres. Loke therfore that ye knowe them that are soche.

19 The congregacions of Asia salute you. [D] Aquila and Priscilla salute you moche in the Lorde / and so doeth the congregaciō that is in their housse.

20 All the brethren grete you. Grete ye one another with an holy kysse.

21 The salutacion of me Paul with myne awne hande.

22 Yf eny man love not the Lorde Iesus Christ /⁹⁰ the same be anathema maranatha.

23 The grace of yᵉ Lorde Iesus Christ be with you all.

24 My love be with you all in Christ Iesu. Amē

¶ The epistle vnto the Corinthyans sent from Philippos / by Stephana / and Fortunatus / and Acaichus / and Timotheus.

Notes to Chapter 16

Colophon

Transcribed from The newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale (Antwerp: Marten Emperowr, November 1534; STC 2826), British Library copy, as keyed by the Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP Phase I, text A68940): keyed by Apex CoVantage from the ProQuest page images in 2005, then sampled and proofread by Judith Siefring. The TCP transcription was released into the public domain under CC0 1.0. The printed text is in the public domain.

Spelling, capitals, punctuation (including the virgule /), abbreviation marks (the macron, as in thē, and ꝭ) and the signs ¶ ✚ ⊢ ❧ are kept as printed. The only changes are these: long s (ſ) is set as s; superscript letters are set as ᵉ ᵗ ᵒ (yᵉ = the, yᵗ = that); ▪ marks a stop the transcribers could not identify; a word divided at the end of a line, with or without a printed hyphen, is joined into one word; a letter supplied from another text, as explained below, is set in square brackets; page breaks and catchwords are removed. Woodcuts and decorated initials are not reproduced, but woodcut captions are given. The margin notes are given as numbered footnotes. Printed headings are kept, including their misprints, as italic lines under the library's chapter headings. The letters [A] to [G] are the section letters printed in the margin, by which the 1534 margin references (for example "Esaie vij. c.") and the table of lessons find a passage.

The 1534 print has no verse numbers. They are supplied here from the eBible.org Tyndale New Testament (1534), a public-domain, verse-numbered electronic text of the same edition. A word-by-word alignment showed that about 97 per cent of the two texts' words are identical across the New Testament, and the remainder differ in spelling and abbreviation, with a few slips of keying in one text or the other. The paragraphs of the print give way to one paragraph per verse. This edition divides some chapters differently from later Bibles: verse 11:1 of later Bibles stands in chapter 10 of this edition. Such verses are numbered in chapter:verse form.

Words that the transcribers could not read are marked ⟨illegible⟩ (41 places on this page, 28 of them in the margin notes).

In the verse text of this book, 38 places that the transcribers could not read in the printed book have been supplied from the eBible.org Tyndale New Testament (1534), a later electronic transcription of Tyndale's New Testament whose transcriber is not named. Each supplied letter is set in square brackets, as in y[ᵉ] or fal[c]e, so that it can be told from a letter the transcribers read in the print. A place was supplied only where the verse alignment was exact on both sides, the eBible reading agreed letter for letter with every legible letter, and no macron could have stood in the gap. Where the small superscript letter after y was supplied, the eBible text is the only evidence for that letter.

This is an archival transcription of Tyndale's printed English, not a Good Works Translation: nothing here has been translated or modernised by the library.

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