This pistle declareth it selfe fr&obar;
Chapter to Chapter / that it nedeth
no Prologe or introducci&obar;
to declare it. When Paule had
c&obar;uerted 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 of lyuinge / or what false opinions
were am&obar;ge 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 ∧ sobrenes / 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 Sacram&ebar;t and the goynge
bare hedded of maryed wemen.
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In the .xij. xiij. ∧ .xiiij. he teacheth of the manyfolde
gyftes of the spirite / ∧ proueth by a symylitude
of the bodye / that all gyftes are geu&ebar;
that eche shuld helpe other / ∧ thorow loue do
seruyce to other / ∧ proueth that where loue is
not / there is no thinge 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 poore
saynctes.
¶ The fyrst epistle of S. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthyans.
Tyndale [1534], ¶ The newe Testament / dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale: and fynesshed in the yere of oure Lorde God A. M. D. ∧. xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember (, ANWERP) [word count] [B03000].
