LORDE Iesus Christ.
We are bounde to thanke God allwayes
for you brethren, as it is mete: because that
youre faith groweth exceadingly, and the
loue of euery one of you increaseth towarde
another am&obar;ge youre selues, so that we oure
selues make oure boast of you (in the congregacions
of God) of youre paci&ebar;ce and faith
in all youre persecucions and troubles that
ye suffre, which is a token of the righteous
iudgment of God, that ye are counted worthy
of the kyngdome of God, for the which
ye also suffre.
For it is a righteous thinge with God,
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to rec&obar;pence tribulacion vnto th&ebar; þt; trouble
you: but vnto you which are troubled, rest
with vs, note wh&abar; the LORDE Iesus shal shewe
himselfe from heauen, with the angels of
his power, and with flammynge note fyre, to
geue vengea&ubar;ce vnto them that knowe not
God, note and to them that obeye not the Gospell
of oure LORDE Iesus Christ. noteWhich
shalbe punyshed with euerlastinge damnacion,
note from þe; presence of the LORDE, and
from the glory of his power, whan he shal
come to be glorified in his sayntes, and to become
maruelous in all them that beleue: because
ye haue beleued oure testimony vnto
you of the same daye. Wherfore we praye
allwayes for you, that oure God make you
worthy of þe; callynge, and fulfill all delectacion
of goodnes, and the worke of faith in
power, that þe; name of oure LORDE Iesus
Christ maye be praysed in you, and ye in him,
acordinge to the grace of oure God, and of
the LORDE Iesus Christ.
Coverdale [1535], BIBLIA The Bible / that is, the holy Scripture of the Olde and New Testament, faithfully and truly translated out of Douche and Latyn in to Englishe () [word count] [B04000].
