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6 The husbandman that laboureth, must fyrst receaue of the frutes.
7 Consyder what I saye. The Lorde geue the vnderstandynge in all thynges.
8 Remember that Iesus Christ of the sede of Dauid, rose agayne from deeth according to my Gospell,
9 wherin I suffre trouble as an euyll doar, euen vnto bondes. But the worde of God was not bounde.
10 Therfore I suffre all thynges, for the electes sakes, that they myght also obtayne the saluacion, which is in Christ Iesu, with eternall glory.
11 It is a true sayinge for yf we be deed wt hym, we shall also lyue wyth hym.
12 If we be pacient, we shall also raygne wyth hym. If we denye hym, he also shall denye vs.
13 If we beleue not, yet abydeth he faythfull. He cannot denye hym selfe.
14 Of these thinges put them in remembraunce, and testifye before the Lorde, that they folowe no contencyous wordes: which are to no profet, but to the peruertynge of the hearers.
15 Study to shewe thy selfe laudable vnto God, a workman that nedeth not to be a shamed distributynge the worde of trueth iustly.
16 As for vngoostly vanyties of voyces, passe thou ouer them. For they wyll encreace vnto greater vngodlynes,
17 & theyr wordes shall fret euen as doeth the disease of a cancre: of whose nombre is. Hymeneus and Philetus,
18 whych (as concernynge the trueth) haue erred, sayinge, that the resurreccyon is past all redy, and do destroye the fayth of some.