Seynge that we have soche promeses
derely beloved / let vs clense oure selves
from all fylthynes of the flesshe
and sprete / and growe vp to full holynes in þe;
feare of God. Vnderstonde vs. we have hurte
no man: we have corrupte no man: we have
defrauded no man. I speake not this to condempne
you: for I have shewed you before þt;
ye are in oure hertes to dye ∧ live with you.
I am very bolde over you / and reioyce greatly
in you. I am filled with comforte and am excadinge
ioyouse in all oure tribulacions. For
when we were come into Macedonia / oure
flesshe had no rest / but we were troubled on
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every syde. Outwarde was fightynge / inwarde
was feare. Neverthelesse God that comfortith
the abiecte / comforted vs at the commynge
of Titus.
B And not with his commynge only: but also
with the consolacion wherwith he was comforted
of you. For he tolde vs youre desyre /
youre mornynge / youre fervent mynde to me
warde: so that I now reioyce the more. Wherfore
though I made you sory with a letter / I
repent not: though I did repent. For I perceave
that þe; same pistle made you sory / though
it were but for a ceason. But I now reioyce /
not that ye were sory / but that ye so sorowed /
that ye repented. For ye sorowed godly: so þt;
in nothynge ye were hurte by vs. For godly
sorowe causeth repentaunce vnto salvacion note
not to be repented of: when worldly sorow
causeth deeth.
C Beholde what diligence this godly sorowe
that ye toke / hath wrought in you: yee it
caused you to cleare youre selves. It caused
indignacion / it caused feare / yt caused desyre /
it caused a fervent mynde / it caused punysshment.
For in all thynges ye have shewed youreselues
that ye were cleare in that matter.
Wherfore though I wrote vnto you / I did it
not for his cause that did hurte / nether for
his cause that was hurte: but that oure good
mynde whych we have towarde you in the
sight of god / myght appere vnto you.
D Therfore we are comforted / because ye are
comforted: yee and excedyngly the moare ioyed
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we / for the ioye that Titus had: because
his sprete was refresshed of you all. I &abar; therfor
/ not now ashamed / though I bosted my
sylfe to hym of you. For as all thynges which
I preached vnto you are true / even so is oure
bostynge / that I bosted my silfe to Titus &wt;
all / founde true. And now is his inwarde affection
more aboundant towarde you / when
he remembreth the obedience of every one of
you: how with feare and trymblynge ye receaved
hym. I reioyce that I maye be bolde over
you in all thynges.
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].
