Matthew(i)
16 I saye agayne, lest anye man thynke that I am folyshe, or els euen nowe take me as a fole, that I maye boaste my selfe a lyttell.
17 That I speake, I speake it not after the wayes of the Lorde, but as it were folishly, while we are nowe come to bostynge.
18 Seyng that manye reioyce after the fleshe, I will reioyse also.
19 For ye suffer foles gladly, because that ye youre selues are wyse.
20 For ye suffre euen yf a man brynge you into bondage: yf a man deuoure, yf a man take yf a man exalte hym selfe, yf a man smite you on the face.
21 I speake as concernynge rebuke, as thoughe we had bene weake. Howe be it, wherein soeuer any man dare be bolde (I speake folyshly) I dare be bolde also.
22 They are Hebrues, so am I: They are Israelytes, euen so am I. They are the seede of Abraham, euen so am I.
23 They are the ministers of CHRISTE (I speake as a fole) I am more: In labours more aboundaunte: In strypes aboue measure: In pryson more plentuouslye: In death ofte.
24 Of the Iewes .v. tymes receyued I euerye tyme .xl. strypes saue one.
25 Thryse was I beaten with roddes. I was once stoned. I suffered thryse shipwracke. Nyght and daye haue I bene in the depe of the sea.
26 In iorneyeyng often: in parils of waters: in parylles of robbers: in ieoperdyes amonge the heathen. I haue bene in peryls in cytyes, in peryls in wyldernes, in peryls in the sea, in peryls among false brethren,
27 in laboure and trauayle, in watchyng often, in hunger, in thyrste, in fastynges often, in colde, and in nakednes.
28 And besyde the thynges whiche outwardelye happen vnto me, I am combered dayelye, and do care for all congregations.
29 Who is weake, and I am not weake? Who is hurte in the faythe, and my herte burneth not?
30 Yf I muste nedes reioyce, I wyll reioyce of myne infirmities.