Proverbs 12 Cross References - Coverdale

¹ Who so loueth wy?dome, wil be content to be refourmed: but he that hateth to be reproued, is a foole. ² A good man is acceptable vnto the LORDE, but ye wicked wyl he condempne. ³ A man ca not endure in vngodlynesse, but ye rote of ye righteous shal not be moued. ⁴ A stedfast woman is a crowne vnto hir hu?bonde: but she that behaueth herself vnhonestly, is a corrupcion in his bones. ⁵ The thoughtes of ye righteous are right, but the ymaginacion of the vngodly are disceatfull. ⁶ The talkynge of the vngodly is, how they maye laye wayte for bloude, but the mouth of ye righteous wil delyuer them. ⁷ Or euer thou canst turne the aboute, the vngodly shal be ouerthrowne, but the house of the righteous shal stode. ⁸ A man shalbe commended for his wy?dome, but a foole shal be despysed. ⁹ A simple man which laboureth and worketh, is better the one that is gorgious and wanteth bred. ¹⁰ A righteous man regardeth the life of his catell, but the vngodly haue cruell hertes. ¹¹ He that tilleth his lode, shal haue plenteousnesse of bred: but he yt foloweth ydylnes, is a very foole. ¹² The desyre of ye vngodly hunteth after myschefe, but the rote of the righteous bryngeth forth frute. ¹³ The wicked falleth in to the snare thorow ye malyce of his owne mouth, but the iust shal escape out of parell. ¹⁴ Euery man shal enioye good acordinge to the innocency of his mouth, and after the workes of his hades shal he be rewarded. ¹⁵ Loke what a foole taketh in honde, he thinketh it well done: but he that is wyse, wyl be couceled. ¹⁶ A foole vttereth his wrath in all the haist, but a discrete man forgeueth wronge. ¹⁷ A iust man will tell the trueth, & shewethe thinge yt is right: but a false wytnesse disceaueth. ¹⁸ A slaunderous personne pricketh like a swerde, but a wyse mans tonge is wholsome. ¹⁹ A true mouth is euer constat, but a dyssemblinge toge is soone chaunged. ²⁰ They that ymagin euell in their mynde, wil disceaue: but the councelers of peace shal heaue ioye folowinge the. ²¹ There shal no mysfortune happen vnto the iust, but the vngodly shal be fylled with misery. ²² The LORDE abhorreth disceatfull lippes, but they that laboure for treuth, please him. ²³ He that hath vnderstodinge, can hyde his wysdome: but an vndiscrete herte telleth out his foolishnesse. ²⁴ A diliget hande shal beare rule, but the ydle shal be vnder tribute. ²⁵ Heuynesse discorageth ye herte of man, but a good worde maketh it glad agayne. ²⁶ The righteous is liberall vnto his neghboure, but the waye of the vngodly wil disceaue them selues. ²⁷ A disceatfull man shal fynde no vautage, but he that is content wt that he hath, is more worth the golde. ²⁸ In the waye of righteousnesse there is life, as for eny other waye, it is the path vnto death.

⁹ Sela. I wil enforme the, and shewe the the waye wherin thou shalt go: I wil fasten myne eyes vpon the.

⁶ An vnwyse man wil not knowe this, & a foole wil not vnderstode it.

²⁷ Make me to vnderstonde the waye of thy commaundemetes, & so shal I talke of thy wonderous workes.

⁹⁷ O what a loue haue I vnto thy lawe? all the daye longe is my talkynge of it. ⁹⁸ Thou thorow thy commaundement hast made me wyser the myne enemies, for it is euer by me. ⁹⁹ I haue more vnderstondinge then all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my studye. ¹⁰⁰ Yee I am wyser then the aged, for I kepe thy comaundementes.

¹⁰ Yf wy?dome entre in to thine herte, and yi soule delyte in knowlege: ¹¹ then shal councell preserue the, and vnderstondinge shal kepe the.

¹² and then saye: Alas, why hated I nurtoure? why dyd my hert despyse correccion? ¹³ Wherfore was not I obedient vnto the voyce of my teachers, & herkened not vnto them that infourmed me?

¹⁷ I am louynge vnto those that loue me, and they that seke me early, shal fynde me.

³² Therfore harken vnto me (o ye children) for blessed are they that kepe my wayes.

⁷ Who so reproueth a scornefull personne, getteth him self dishonoure: and he that rebuketh the vngodly, stayneth himself. ⁸ Reproue not a scorner, lest he owe the euell wil: but rebuke a wyse man, and he wil loue the.

¹⁰ He that forsaketh ye right strete, shalbe sore punyshed: & who so hateth correccion, falleth in to death.

¹ Who so hath pleasure to sowe discorde, piketh a quarell in euery thinge.

³ An oxe knoweth his LORDE, and an Asse his masters stall, but Israel knoweth nothinge, my people hath no vnderstondinge.

¹⁰ and with all deceauablenes of vnrighteousnes amonge them that perishe, because they receaued not the loue of ye trueth, that they might haue bene saued.

¹⁵ As for the Heithen, the are suncke downe in the pytte that they made: in the same nette, which they spred out priuely, is their owne fote take.

⁵ Wel is him that is mercifull, & lendeth gladly, & podreth his wordes wt discrecion.

³¹ Therfore shal they eate ye frutes of their owne waye, and be fylled wt their owne councels:

¹⁸ an herte yt goeth aboute wt wicked ymaginacios, fete that be swift in rennynge to do myschefe,

³⁵ For who so fyndeth me, fyndeth life, and shal optayne fauoure of the LORDE.

⁸ Nether is there eny ma yt hath power ouer ye sprete, to kepe stil ye sprete, ner to haue eny power in the tyme of death: It is not he also that can make an ende of the batayll, nether maye vngodlynes delyuer him yt medleth withall.

⁵ Then shal the nygarde be no more called gentle, ner the churle lyberall. ⁶ But the churle wil be churlishly mynded, and his hert wil worke euell and playe the ypocrite, and ymagyn abhominacios agaynst God, to make the hungrie leane, and to withholde drinke from the thurstie: ⁷ These are the perlous weapons of the cuvetous, these be his shameful councels: that he maye begyle the poore with disceatful workes, yee euen there as he shulde geue sentence with the poore.

²⁴ For he was a good man, full of the holy goost and faith. And there was a greate multitude of people added vnto the LORDE.

⁷ Now dyeth there scace eny man for the righteous sake: Peraduenture for a good man durst one dye.

³³ and blessed be thy speach, and blessed be thou, which hast kepte me backe this daye, that I am not come agaynst bloude, to auenge me with myne awne hande.

³ I haue sene my self, when the foolish was depe roted, that his bewty was sodely destroyed: ⁴ that his children were without prosperite or health: that they were slayne in the dore, and no ma to delyuer them: ⁵ that his haruest was eaten vp off the hungrie: that the weapened man had spoyled it, and that the thurstie had droncke vp his riches. It is not the earth that bryngeth forth trauayle,

²⁹ He shall not be rich, nether shall his substaunce continue, ner encrease vpon earth.

⁵ the prayse of the vngodly hath bene shorte, and that the ioye of Ypocrytes continued but ye twincklinge of an eye? ⁶ Though he be magnified vp to the heaue, so that his heade reacheth vnto the cloudes: ⁷ yet he perisheth at the last like donge: In so moch yt they which haue sene him, saye: Where is he? ⁸ He vanysheth as a dreame, so that he can nomore be founde, & passeth awaye as a vision in ye night. ⁹ So that the eye which sawe him before, getteth now no sight of him, & his place knoweth him nomore.

¹⁶ Though he haue as moch money as the dust of the earth, & raymet as ready as the claye, ¹⁷ he maye well prepare it: but the godly shal put it vpon him, and the innocet shal deale out the money. ¹⁸ His house shal endure as the moth, & as a bothe that the watch man maketh.

⁵ He that geueth not his money vpon vsury, and taketh no rewarde agaynst the innocet. Who so doth these thiges, shal neuer be remoued.

¹ They that put their trust in ye LORDE, are eue as the mount Sion, which maye not be remoued, but stodeth fast for euer. ² The hilles stonde aboute Ierusalem, euen so stondeth the LORDE rounde aboute his people, fro this tyme forth for euermore.

²⁵ The vngodly is like a tempest that passeth ouer & is nomore sene, but the rightuous remayneth sure for euer.

¹² The desyre of ye vngodly hunteth after myschefe, but the rote of the righteous bryngeth forth frute.

¹⁷ that Christ maye dwell in youre hertes by faith, that ye beynge roted and grounded in loue,

⁷ and be roted & buylded in him, and be stedfast in faith, as ye haue learned: & be plenteous in the same in geuynge thankes.

¹ A wyse woma vpholdeth hir house, but a foolish wife plucketh it downe.

³⁰ A mery herte is the life of the body, but rancoure consumeth awaye the bones.

¹³ An vndiscrete sonne is ye heuynes of his father, & a braulynge wife is like the topp of an house, where thorow it is euer droppynge. ¹⁴ House & riches maye a ma haue by ye heretage of his elders, but a discrete woma is the gifte of the LORDE.

⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner vnder ye house toppe, then with a braulinge woman in a wyde house.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a wyldernesse, the with a chydinge and an angrie woman.

¹⁵ A brawlynge woman and the rofe of the house droppynge in a raynie daye, maye well be compared together. ¹⁶ He that refrayneth her, refrayneth the wynde, and holdeth oyle fast in his hode.

¹⁰ Who so fyndeth an honest faithful woma, she is moch more worth the perles. ¹¹ The herte of hir husbande maye safely trust in her, so that he shal haue no nede of spoyles. ¹² She wil do him good & not euel all ye dayes of hir life. ¹³ She occupieth woll & flax, & laboureth gladly wt hir handes. ¹⁴ She is like a marchauntes shippe, that bryngeth hir vytayles from farre. ¹⁵ She is vp in ye night season, to prouyde meate for hir housholde, & foode for hir maydens. ¹⁶ She considreth lode, & byeth it, and wt the frute of hir handes she planteth a vynyarde. ¹⁷ She gyrdeth hir loynes with strength, and courageth hir armes. ¹⁸ And yf she perceaue that hir houswifrie doth good, hir candle goeth not out by night. ¹⁹ She layeth hir fyngers to the spyndle, & hir hande taketh holde of ye rocke. ²⁰ She openeth hir hande to ye poore, yee she stretcheth forth hir hades to soch as haue nede. ²¹ She feareth not yt the colde of wynter shal hurte hir house, for all hir housholde folkes are duble clothed. ²² She maketh hir self fayre ornametes, hir clothige is whyte sylke & purple. ²³ Hir hu?bade is moch set by in ye gates, whe he sytteth amonge ye rulers of ye londe. ²⁴ She maketh cloth of sylke & selleth it, and delyuereth a gyrdle vnto ye marchaut. ²⁵ Stregth and honoure is hir clothinge, & in the latter daye she shal reioyse.

¹⁶ Whe I heare this, my body is vexed, my lippes tremble at ye voyce therof, my bones corruppe, I am afrayed where I stonde. O that I might rest in the daye of trouble, that I might go vp vnto oure people, which are alredy prepared.

⁷ Neuertheles the man oughte not to couer his heade, for so moch as he is the ymage and glory of God: but the woma is the glory of the man.

¹¹ Neuertheles nether is the man without ye woman, nether the woman without the ma in the LORDE.

² Euery man telleth lyes to his neghbor, they do but flater with their lippes and dissemble in their herte. ³ O that the LORDE wolde rote out all disceatfull lippes, ad the tonge that speaketh proude thinges.

² For he dyssembleth before his face, so longe till his abhominable synne be founde out. ³ The wordes of his mouth are vnrightuousnesse and disceate, he wil not be lerned to do good. ⁴ He ymagineth myschefe vpon his bedde, he will come in no good waye, ner refuse the thinge that is euell.

⁶ Though he came in to se, yet meaned he falsede in his hert, heapinge myschefe vpon himself. ⁷ All they that hate me, runne together agaynst me, and ymagin euell agaynst me.

¹⁵ I wil exercise my self in thy comaundementes, & haue respecte vnto thy fotepathes.

²³ Trye me (o God) and seke the grounde of myne hert: proue me, & examen my thoughtes.

¹ Delyuer me (o LORDE) from the euell men, oh preserue me from the wicked men. ² Which ymagin myschefe in their hertes, & stere vp strife all the daye longe. ³ They sharpen their tonges like a serpent, Adders poyson is vnder their lippes.

²³ The iust laboure for peace and traquylite, but the vngodly for disquyetnesse.

⁹ The thoughte of ye foolish is synne, & ye scornefull is an abhominacion vnto me.

⁷ Let the vngodly man forsake his wayes, ad the vnrightuous his ymaginacios, & turne agayne vnto the LORDE, so shal he be merciful vnto him: and to oure God, for he is redy to forgeue.

¹⁴ O Ierusalem, wash thine hert from wickednesse, that thou mayest be helped. How longe shal thy noysome thoughtes remayne with the?

³ When Herode ye kynge had herde thys, he was troubled, & all Ierusale with hym, ⁴ and he gathered all the hye Prestes and Scribes of ye people, & axed of them, where Christ shulde be borne. ⁵ And they sayde vnto hym: at Bethleem in Iury. For thus it is written by the Prophet: ⁶ And thou Bethleem in the londe of Iury, art not the leest amonge the Princes of Iuda. For out of ye shall come vnto me the captayne, that shall gouerne my people Israel. ⁷ Then Herod preuely called the wyse men, and dyligently enquyred of them, what tyme the starre appered, ⁸ and sent them to Bethleem, sainge: Go, and searche dyligently for the chylde. And when ye haue founde hym, bringe me worde agayne, that I maye come and worshippe hym also.

¹⁶ Then Herod perceauynge yt he was disceaued of the wyse men, was excedynge wroth, and sent forth, and slue all the chyldren that were in Bethleem, and in all the coastes there of, as many as were two yere olde and vnder, accordynge to the tyme which he had diligently searched out of the wyse men.

⁴ and helde a councell, how they might take Iesus by disceate, and kyll him.

⁵ Therfore iudge ye nothinge before ye tyme, vntyll the LORDE come, which shal brynge it to lighte that is hyd in darknesse, and ope the councels of ye hertes, and the shal euery one haue prayse of God.

² but cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestye, and walke not in craftines: nether corruppe we the worde of God but open the trueth, and reporte oure selues to euery mans conscyence in the sighte of God.

¹ And Achitophel sayde vnto Absalom: I wil chose out twolue thousande me, and wyl get me vp, and persue Dauid by nighte, ² and fall vpo him whan he is feble and weery: When I vexe him the, so that all the people which is by him, flieth, I wil smite the kynge onely, ³ and brynge all the people vnto the agayne. So whan euery man is brought vnto the as thou desyrest, then shal all the people be in peace. ⁴ Absalom thought that good, and so dyd all the Elders in Israel.

⁷ And Mardocheus tolde him of all yt had happened vnto him, and of the summe of siluer that Ama had promysed to weie downe in the kynges chamber because of ye Iewes for to destroye them, ⁸ and he gaue him the copye of the commaundement, that was deuysed at Susan to destroye them, that he mighte shewe it vnto Hester, and to speake to her and charge her, yt she shulde go into the kynge, and make her prayer and supplicacion vnto him for hir people. ⁹ And wha Hathat came in, and tolde Hester the wordes of Mardocheus, ¹⁰ Hester spake vnto Hathat, and comaunded him to saye vnto Mardocheus: ¹¹ All the kynges seruauntes, and the people in the londes of the kynge knowe, that who so euer commeth within the courte vnto ye kynge, whether it be man or woman, which is not called, the comaundement is that the same shal dye immediatly, excepte the kynge holde out the golde cepter vnto him, that he maye lyue. As for me, I haue not bene called to come in to the kynge now this thirtie dayes. ¹² And wha Mardocheus was certified of Hesters wordes, ¹³ Mardocheus bad saie againe vnto Hester: Thynke not to saue thine awne life, whyle thou art in ye kynges house before all Iewes: ¹⁴ for yf thou holdest thy peace at this tyme, then shal the Iewes haue helpe and delyueraunce out of another place, & thou & thy fathers house shalbe destroyed. And who knoweth whether thou art come to the kyngdome, for this tymes sake?

⁴ for we are solde to be destroyed, to be slayne, and to perishe. And wolde God we were solde to be bondmen and bondwemen, then wolde I holde my tonge, so shulde not the enemye be so hye to the kynges harme. ⁵ The kynge Ahasuerus spake & saide vnto quene Hester: What is he that? Or where is he yt darre presume in his mynde to do soch a thinge after that maner? ⁶ Hester sayde: The enemye and aduersary is this wicked Aman. As for Ama, he was exceadingly afraied before ye kynge & ye quene.

¹¹ yf they entyse the, and saye: come wyth us, let us laye wayte for bloude, & lurke preuely for the innocet wythout a cause: ¹² let us swalowe the vp like ye hell, let us deuoure the quycke and whole, as those that go downe in to the pytt. ¹³ So shal we fynde all maner of costly riches, and fyll oure houses wyth spoyles. ¹⁴ Cast in thy lott amonge us, we shal haue all one purse. ¹⁵ My sonne, walke not thou wt them, refrayne yi fote fro their wayes. ¹⁶ For their fete rune to euell, & are haistie to shed bloude. ¹⁷ But in vayne is ye net layed forth before the byrdes eyes. ¹⁸ Yee they the selues laye wayte one for anothers bloude, and one of the wolde slaye another. ¹⁹ These are the wayes of all soch as be couetous, that one wolde rauysh anothers life.

³ In the mouth of the foolish is the boostinge of lordshipe, but ye lippes of ye wyse wilbe warre of soch.

⁷ Their fete runne to euell, & they make haist to shed innocet bloude. Their coucels are wicked coucels, harme & destruccio are in their wayes.

²⁶ For amonge my people are founde wicked personnes, that priuely laye snares and waite for men, to take them, and destroye them.

¹ Wo is me: I am become as one, that goeth a gleenynge in the haruest. There are no mo grapes to eate, yet wolde I fayne (with all my herte) haue of the best frute. ² There is not a godly man vpo earth, there is not one rightuous amoge me. They laboure all to shed bloude, & euery ma hunteth his brother to death:

¹² Now whan it was daye, certayne of the Iewes gathered them selues together, and made a vowe nether to eate ner drynke, tyll they had kylled Paul.

¹⁵ Now therfore geue ye knowlege to the vpper captayne and to the councell, that he maye brynge him forth vnto you tomorow, as though ye wolde heare him yet better: As for vs, we are ready to kyll him, or euer he come nye you.

³ and desyred fauoure agaynst him, that he wolde sende for him to Ierusalem, and layed wayte for him, that they might slaye him by the waye.

¹⁶ As for yi house & thy kyngdome, it shal be stablished for euer before the, & thy seate shal endure fast for euermore.

²⁶ So shall thy name be greate for euer, so that it shal be sayde: The LORDE Zebaoth is the God ouer Israel, & the house of thy seruaunt Dauid shal be made sure before the.

⁶ And at ye castell of Susan slewe the Iewes and destroied fyue hudreth men: ⁷ & slewe Parsandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha, ⁸ Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha, ⁹ Parmastha Arissai, Aridai, Vaiesatha, ¹⁰ the ten sonnes of Aman ye sonne of Amadathi ye enemie of the Iewes: but on his goodes they layed no handes.

¹⁴ And the kynge charged to do so, and the commaundement was deuysed at Susan, & Amans ten sonnes were hanged.

³ I haue sene my self, when the foolish was depe roted, that his bewty was sodely destroyed: ⁴ that his children were without prosperite or health: that they were slayne in the dore, and no ma to delyuer them:

²⁰ As for the eyes of the vngodly, they shal be consumed, and not escape: their hope shalbe misery and sorow of mynde.

¹⁵ Other men shall dwel in his house (which now is none of his) and brymstone shalbe scatered vpon his habitacion. ¹⁶ His rotes shalbe dryed vp beneth, & aboue shall his haruest be cut downe. ¹⁷ His remembraunce shall perish from the earth, & his name shall not be praysed in the stretes: ¹⁸ he shalbe dryuen from the light into darcknesse, and be cast clene out of the worlde. ¹⁹ He shall nether haue children ner kyn?folkes amonge his people, no ner eny posterite in his countre: ²⁰ yonge & olde shalbe astonyshed at his death.

¹⁸ His house shal endure as the moth, & as a bothe that the watch man maketh. ¹⁹ When the rich man dyeth, he carieth nothinge with him: he is gone in ye twincklynge of an eye. ²⁰ Destruccion taketh holde vpo him as a water floude, & ye tepest stealeth him awaye in the night season. ²¹ A vehement wynde carieth him hence, & departeth: a storme plucketh him out of his place. ²² It ru?sheth in vpon him, and spareth him not, he maye not escape from the power therof. ²³ Than clappe me their hodes at him, yee and ieast of him, whe they loke vpon his place.

²⁵ For he knoweth their euell & darcke workes, therfore shal they be destroyed.

¹⁰ Suffre yet a litle whyle, & ye vngodly shalbe clene gone: thou shalt loke after his place, & he shal be awaye.

³⁵ Hope thou in the LORDE, & kepe his waye: & he shal so promote the, that thou shalt haue the lode by enheritauce, & se, when the vngodly shall perishe. ³⁶ I myself haue sene the vngodly in greate power, & florishinge like a grene baye tre: ³⁷ but when I wente by, lo, he was gone: I sought him, but he coude no where be founde.

¹⁸ Namely, how thou hast set the in a slippery place, that thou maiest cast the downe headlynges & destroye the. ¹⁹ O how sodenly do they consume, perish, & come to a fearfull ende?

²¹ It shal not helpe ye wicked, though they laye all their hondes together, but the sede of the rightuous shalbe preserued.

¹¹ The houses of the vngodly shalbe ouerthrowne, but the tabernacles of ye righteus shal florishe.

²⁵ The LORDE wyl breake downe ye house of ye proude, but he shal make fast ye borders of ye wyddowe.

³ Thorow wy?dome an house shalbe buylded, & wt vnderstondinge it shalbe set vp. ⁴ Thorow discrecion shal ye chabers be fylled wt all costly & pleasaunt riches.

²⁴ Whosoeuer therfore heareth of me these sayinges, and doeth the same, I wyll lycke hym vnto a wyse man, which buylt hys house vpon a rocke: ²⁵ Now whan abundaunce of rayne descended, and the wyndes blewe and bet vpon that same house, it fel not, because it was grounded on the rocke. ²⁶ And who soeuer heareth of me these sayinges, & doth the not, shalbe lyckened vnto a folysh ma, which buylt his housse apon the sonde: ²⁷ Now whan abudaunce of rayne desceded, & the wyndes blewe, & bet vpon yt housse, it fell, and great was the fall of it.

³⁹ And sayde vnto Iosep: For so moch as God hath shewed ye all this, there is none of soch vnderstondinge & wysdome as thou.

¹³ Samuel sayde vnto Saul: Thou hast done foolishly, and not kepte the commaundement of the LORDE thy God, which he commaunded the. For (yf thou haddest not done this) he had prospered thy kyngdome vpo Israel for euer:

¹⁸ Then answered one of the children, & sayde: Beholde, I sawe a sonne of Isai ye Bethleemite, which can playe vpon the instrumete, an honest & valeaut man, and one yt hath vnderstodinge in matters, & is welfauoured.

³⁰ And whan the prynces of the Philistynes wete forth, Dauid behaued him selfe more wysely then all the seruauntes of Saul in their outgoynge: so that his name was in greate reputacion.

¹⁷ Take hede now therfore, and loke well what thou doest, for there is surely a mysfortune at hande agaynst oure lorde, & agaynst all his house. And he is a man of Belial, to whom no man darre saye eny thinge.

¹⁸ There shall I make the horne of Dauid to florish, I haue ordened a lanterne for myne anoynted. As for his enemies, I shal clothe the wt shame, but vpon himself shal his crowne florish.

²⁶ Therfore shal I also laugh in yor destruccion, and mocke you, when ye thinge that ye feare cometh vpon you:

³⁵ The wyse shal haue honor in possession, but shame is the promocio that fooles shal haue.

²³ Because he wolde not be refourmed, he shal dye: and for his greate foolishnesse he shal be destroyed.

¹ where as no man hath wy?dome & vnderstodinge, to geue answere there vnto. Wy?dome maketh a mas face to shyne, but malice putteth it out of fauoure.

² Many of them that slepe in the dust of the earth, shal awake: some to euerlastinge life, some to perpetuall shame & reprofe.

⁸ But as for you, ye are gone clene out off the waye, and haue caused the multitude to be offended at the lawe: ye haue broken the couenaunt of Leui, sayeth the LORDE of hoostes. ⁹ Therfore wil I also make you to be despised, and to be of no reputacion amonge all ye people: because ye haue not kepte my wayes, but bene parciall in the lawe.

⁴ and sayde: I haue done euell, in that I haue betrayed innocet bloude. They sayde: What haue we to do with yt? Se thou therto. ⁵ And he cast the syluer pens in the teple, and gat him awaye, and wente and hanged him self.

⁴² The LORDE sayde: How greate a thinge is a faithfull and wyse stewarde, whom his lorde setteth ouer his houssholde, to geue the their dewtye in due season? ⁴³ Blessed is that seruaunt, whom his lorde (whan he cometh) shal fynde so doynge. ⁴⁴ Verely I saye vnto you: he shal set him ouer all his goodes.

⁸ And the lorde comended the vnrighteous stewarde, because he had done wysely. For the children of this worlde are in their kynde wyser, the the children of light.

²³ Immediatly the angell of the LORDE smote him, because he gaue not God the honoure: And he was eaten vp of wormes, and gaue vp the goost.

¹⁰ Acordinge to the grace of God which is geuen vnto me, as a wyse buylder haue I layed the foundacion, but another buyldeth theron. Yet let euery man take hede how he buyldeth theron. ¹¹ For other foudacion can noman laye, then that which is layed, the which is Iesus Christ. ¹² But yf eny man buylde vpon this foundacion, golde, syluer, precious stones, tymber, haye, stobble, ¹³ euerymas worke shal be shewed. For the daye of the LORDE shal declare it, which shal be shewed with fyre: and the fyre shal trye euery mas worke what it is. ¹⁴ Yf eny mans worke that he hath buylde theron, abyde, he shal receaue a rewarde: ¹⁵ Yf eny mans worke burne, he shal suffre losse: but he shal be saued himselfe, neuertheles as thorow fyre.

¹⁸ for he yt prayseth him selfe, is not alowed, but he who ye LORDE prayseth.

⁷ Some men are riche, though they haue nothinge: agayne, some me are poore hauynge greate riches.

¹¹ For who so euer exalteth himself, shalbe brought lowe: and he yt humbleth himself, shalbe exalted.

¹³ But he sayde vnto him: My lorde, thou knowest that I haue tender children by me, and small and greate catell also, which are yet but yonge: yf they shulde be dryue ouer in one daye, the whole flocke wolde dye. ¹⁴ Let my lorde go on before his seruaut. I wyll dryue after fayre and softly, (there after as the catell & the children can go,) tyll I come to my lorde in Seir.

²⁶ Then saide Iuda vnto his brethre: what helpeth it vs, that we sleye oure brother, and hyde his bloude? ²⁷ Come, let vs sell him vnto the Ismaelites, that oure handes be not defyled vpon him, for he is oure brother, oure flesh and bloude. And they herkened vnto him. ²⁸ And as the Madianites marchaunt men wente by, they drew Ioseph out of the pytt, and solde him vnto the Ismaelites (for twetye syluer pens) which brought him in to Egipte.

²⁸ Then opened the LORDE the mouth of ye Asse, and she sayde vnto Balaam: What haue I done vnto the, that thou hast smytten me now thre tymes? ²⁹ Balaam sayde vnto ye Asse: Because thou hast mocked me. Oh yt I had a swerde now in my hande, I wolde kyll the. ³⁰ The Asse sayde vnto Balaam: Am not I thine Asse, which thou hast rydden vpon in yi tyme vnto this daye? Was I euer wonte to do so vnto the? He sayde: No. ³¹ Then opened the LORDE the eyes of Balaam, yt he sawe ye angell of the LORDE stondinge in ye waye, & a drawe swerde in his hade. And he enclyned him selfe, & bowed downe wt his face. ³² And the angell of the LORDE sayde vnto him: Wherfore hast thou smytte thine Asse now thre tymes? Beholde, I am come out to resiste ye, for yi waye is frowarde, & cotrary vnto me.

⁴ Thou shalt not mosell the mouth of the oxe, that treadeth out the corne.

⁷ Then sayde Adoni Besek: Thre score and ten kynges wt the thombes of their hades & fete cut of, gathered vp the meate yt was lefte vnder my table. Now as I haue done, so hath God rewarded me agayne. And he was broughte vnto Ierusale, where he dyed.

² But Nahas ye Ammonite answered them: I wil make a couenauut with you, of this condicion, that I maye thrust out all youre right eyes, and put you to shame amonge all Israel.

¹¹ The woman sayde vnto him: Syr, thou hast nothinge to drawe withall, and the well is depe, from whence hast thou then that water of life?

³¹ The Iewes then, for so moch as it was the daye of preparinge, that ye bodies shulde not remayne vpon the crosse on the Sabbath, (for ye same Sabbath daye was greate) besought Pilate, that their legges might be broken, and that they might be taken downe. ³² Then came the soudyers, and brake the legges of the first, and of the other that was crucifyed with him.

¹³ For ther shalbe iudgement merciles to him that sheweth no mercy, & mercy reioiseth against iudgment. ¹⁴ What a vayleth it my brethre, though a man saye he hath faith, when he hath no dedes? Can faith saue him? ¹⁵ If a brother or a sister be naked or destitute of dayly fode, ¹⁶ & one of you saye vnto them: Departe in peace, God sende you warmnes and fode: notwithstodinge ye geue them not tho thinges which are nedfull to the body: what helpeth it them?

¹⁷ But he yt hath this worldes good, & seyth his brother haue nede, and shutteth vp his hert fro him, how dwelleth the loue of God in him?

¹⁹ In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate thy bred, tyll thou be turned agayne vnto earth, whece thou art take: for earth thou art, and vnto earth shalt thou be turned agayne.

⁴ and gaue him thre score and ten syluerlinges out of ye house of Baal Berith. And wt them Abimelech hyred men that were vagabundes and of light condicions, which folowed him.

⁴ I syt not amoge vayne personnes, and haue no fellishepe with the disceatfull.

² For thou shalt eate the laboures of thine owne hondes: o well is the, happie art thou.

¹⁰ My sonne, cosente not vnto synners,

¹⁴ Come not in the path of the vngodly, and walke not in the waye of the wicked. ¹⁵ Eschue it, & go not therin: departe asyde, & passe ouer by it.

³² But who so comitteth aduoutrie with a woma, he is a foole, and bryngeth his life to destruccion.

⁷ & behelde the simple people: & amonge other yonge folkes I spyed one yonge foole

⁶ Forsake ignorauce, and ye shal lyue: and se that ye go in the waye of vnderstondinge.

¹³ A foolish restlesse woman, full of wordes, and soch one as hath no knowlege,

¹⁶ Who so is ignoraunt (sayeth she) let him come hither, and to the vnwyse she sayeth:

²⁰ He that goeth in the company of wyse men, shal be wyse: but who so is a copanyo of fooles, shal be hurte.

²³ There is plenteousnesse of fode in the feldes of the poore, & shalbe increased out of measure.

⁴ Where no oxen are, there the crybb is emptie: but where the oxen laboure, there is moch frute.

²³ Diliget labor bryngeth riches, but where many vayne wordes are, truly there is scarcenesse.

²⁷ Thou shalt haue goates mylck ynough to fede the, to vpholde thy husholde, & to susteyne thy maydens.

¹⁹ He yt tylleth his londe, shal haue plenteousnesse of bred: but he that foloweth ydilnesse, shal haue pouerte ynough.

⁸ They that holde of vayne vanyties, wil forsake his mercy.

²⁸ He that hath stollen, let him steale nomore: but let him laboure rather, and do some good with his hondes, that he maye haue to geue vnto him that nedeth.

¹¹ and that ye study to be quyete, and to medle with youre awne busynesse, and to worke with youre awne hades, as we commaunded you, ¹² that ye maye walke honestly towarde the that are without, and that nothinge be lackynge vnto you.

⁸ nether toke we bred of eny man for naughte but wrought wt laboure and trauayle night and daye, lest we shulde be chargeable to eny of you.

¹⁰ For there are many dishobedient, and talkers of vanite, and disceauers of myndes: namely they of the circucision, ¹¹ whose mouthes must be stopped: which peruerte whole houses, teachinge thinges which they oughte not, because of filthye lucre.

³ Soch a ma is like a tre plated by ye watersyde, yt brigeth forth his frute in due season. His leeues shal not fall off, ad loke what soeuer he doth, it shal prospere.

⁹ yee to rauish the poore, when he hath gotten him in to his nett.

¹⁵ The rich mas goodes are his stroge holde, but pouerte oppresseth the poore.

⁵ Who so flatreth his neghbor, layeth a nette for his fete. ⁶ The synne of ye wicked is his owne snare, but ye righteous shal be glad and reioyse.

⁶ It wil come to this poynte, yt Iacob shalbe rooted againe, and Israel shalbe grene & beare floures, & they shal fyll ye whole worlde wt their frute.

³¹ And soch of the house of Iuda as are escaped, shal come together, and the remnaunt shal take rote beneth, & bringe forth frute aboue.

²⁶ For amonge my people are founde wicked personnes, that priuely laye snares and waite for men, to take them, and destroye them. ²⁷ And like as a net is full of byrdes, so are their houses full of that, which they haue gotten with falsede and disceate. Herof cometh their greate substaunce and riches, ²⁸ herof are they fat and welthy, and are runne awaye fro me with shamefull blasphemies. They ministre not the lawe, they make no ende of the fatherlesses cause, they iudge not the poore acordinge to equite.

⁷ O Blissed is the man, that putteth his trust in the LORDE, and whose hope the LORDE is himself. ⁸ For he shalbe as a tre, that is planted by the water syde: which spredeth out the rote vnto moystnesse, whom the heate can not harme, when it commeth, but his leaues are grene. And though there growe but litle frute because off drouth, yet is he not carefull, but he neuer leaueth of to bringe forth frute.

² There is not a godly man vpo earth, there is not one rightuous amoge me. They laboure all to shed bloude, & euery ma hunteth his brother to death:

¹⁵ They take vp all with their angle, they catch it in their net, & gather it in their yarne: wherof they reioyce and are glad. ¹⁶ Therfore offre they vnto their net, and do sacrifice vnto their yarne: because that thorow it their porcion is become so fat, and their meate so pleteous. ¹⁷ Wherfore they cast out their net agayne, & neuer ceasse to slaye the people.

¹³ But they on ye stone, are soch as whan they heare it, receaue the worde with ioye, and these haue no rote: they beleue for a whyle, and in the tyme of temptacion they fall awaye. ¹⁴ As for it that fel amonge the thornes, are soch as heare it, and go forth amonge the cares, riches and volupteousnesses of this life, and are choked and brynge forth no frute. ¹⁵ But that on the good grounde, are they that heare the worde, and kepe it in a pure good hert, and brynge forth frute in pacience.

⁵ I am the vyne, ye are the braunches. He that abydeth in me, and I in him, the same bryngeth forth moch frute: for without me can ye do nothinge.

¹⁶ Ye haue not chosen me, but I haue chosen you, and ordeyned you, that ye go, and bringe forth frute, and that youre frute contynne, that what soeuer ye axe the father in my name, he shulde geue it you.

²² But now that ye be fre from synne, and are become the seruauntes of God, ye haue youre frute that ye shulde be holy: but the ende is euerlastinge life.

¹⁶ the angell which hath delyuered me fro all euell, blesse these laddes, yt they maye be called after my name, & after ye name of my fathers Abraha & Isaac, yt they maye growe & multiplye vpon earth.

⁹ Then answered Dauid vnto Rehob and Baena his brother, ye sonnes of Rimon ye Berothite, & sayde: As truly as the LORDE lyueth, which hath deliuered my soule out of all trouble,

²³ And the kynge sware by the LORDE, and sayde: God do this and that vnto me, Adonias shall haue spoken this agaynst his lyfe.

⁶ But as for me, I wil come in to thy house, euen vpon the multitude of thy mercy: ad in thy feare wyll I worshipe towarde thy holy teple.

¹⁹ Greate are ye troubles of the rightuous, but the LORDE delyuereth them out of all.

⁸ Yee their owne tunges shall make them fall, In so moch that who so seyth the, shal laugh the to scorne.

² yee thou art boude with thine owne wordes, and taken wt thine owne speach.

⁸ The rightuous shalbe delyuered out of trouble, & the vngodly shal come in his steade.

² A wyse tonge commendeth knowlege, a foolish mouth blabbeth out nothinge but foolishnesse.

⁶ A fooles lippes are euer brawlinge, and his mouth prouoketh vnto batayll. ⁷ A fooles mouth is his owne destruccion, and his lippes are ye snare for his owne soule.

²³ Who so kepeth his mouth and his tonge, the same kepeth his soule from troubles.

¹⁸ It is good for the to take holde of this, & not to let yt go out of thy hande. For he yt feareth God shal escape them all.

²⁴ And as for those men which had accused Daniel, the kige commaunded to bringe them, and to cast them in the lyons denne: them, their children and their wyues. So the lyons had the mastry of them, and brake all their bones a sonder, or euer they came at the grounde.

²⁵ Then answered all the people, and sayde: His bloude come vpon vs, and vpon oure children.

³⁵ Who will separate vs from the loue of God? Trouble? or anguysh? or persecucio? or honger? or nakednesse? or parell? or swerde? ³⁶ As it is wrytten: For thy sake are we kylled all the daye longe, we are counted as shepe appoynted to be slayne. ³⁷ Neuerthelesse in all these thinges we ouercome farre, for his sake that loued vs.

⁹ The LORDE knoweth how to delyuer the godly out of tentacion, and how to reserue the vniust vnto the daye of iudgment for to be punyshed:

⁵ As loge as I liue wil I magnifie the, & lift vp my hondes in thy name.

² A good ma shal enioye the frute of his mouth, but he that hath a frowarde mynde, shalbe spoyled.

²³ O how ioyfull a thinge is it, a man to geue a conuenient answere? O how pleasaunt is a worde spoken in due season?

²⁰ A mans bely shalbe satisfied with the frute of his owne mouth, and with the increase of his lippes shal he be fylled. ²¹ Death and life stonde in the power of the tonge, he that loueth it, shal enioye the frute therof.

¹⁰ Then shal they saye: O happie are the godly, for they maye enioye the frutes of their studies. ¹¹ But wo be to ye vngodly and vnrightuous for they shalbe rewarded after their workes.

⁴¹ He that receaueth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shal receaue a prophetes rewarde. He yt receaueth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shal receane a righteous mans rewarde: ⁴² And who soeuer geueth vnto one of the least of these a cupp of colde water onely to drinke, in ye name of a disciple, verely I saie vnto you: he shal not lose his rewarde.

²⁷ For it wil come to passe, that the sonne of ma shal come in the glory of his father with his angels, and then shal he rewarde euery one acordinge to his dedes.

⁶ For it is a righteous thinge with God, to recopence tribulacion vnto the yt trouble you: ⁷ but vnto you which are troubled, rest with vs, wha the LORDE Iesus shal shewe himselfe from heauen, with the angels of his power,

² For yf the worde which was spoke by angels, was stedfast, and euery trasgression and dishobedience receaued a iust recompence of rewarde,

²⁶ and estemed the rebuke of Christ greater riches, then the treasure of Egipte: for he had respecte vnto the rewarde.

⁵ By hearinge, the wyse ma shal come by more wysdome: and by experience,

⁷ Be not wyse in thine owne conceate, but feare ye LORDE and departe from euell:

⁹ Geue a discrete man but an occasion, & he wilbe the wyser: teach a rightuous man, and he wil increase.

¹² There is a waye, which some men thinke to be right, but the ende therof ledeth vnto death.

¹⁶ A wyse man, feareth, and departeth from euell, but a foole goeth on presumptuously.

² A ma thinketh all his waies to be clene, but it is ye LORDE yt fashioneth ye myndes.

²⁵ There is a waye yt men thinke to be right, but the ende therof leadeth vnto death.

²⁰ O geue eare vnto good councell, & be content to be refourmed, that thou mayest bewyse here after.

² Euery man thinketh his owne waye to be right, but the LORDE iudgeth ye hertes.

¹² Yf thou seyest a man yt is wyse in his owne conceate, there is more hope in a foole then in hi.

¹⁶ The slogarde thinketh him self wyser, then vij. men that sytt and teach.

¹¹ The rich man thynketh him self to be wyse, but the poore that hath vnderstondinge, ca perceaue him wel ynough.

¹² The generacion that thynke them selues cleane, shal not be clensed from their fylthynesse.

¹³ A poore childe beynge wyse, is better then an olde kinge, that doteth, and can not bewarre in tyme to come.

¹⁵ The Ieremy answerde Sedechias: Yf I be playne vnto the, thou wilt cause me suffre death: yf I geue the coucell, thou wilt not folowe me. ¹⁶ So the kynge swore an ooth secretly vnto Ieremy, sayenge: As truly as the LORDE lyueth, that made vs these soules, I will not slaye the, ner geue the in to the hodes of them, that seke after thy life. ¹⁷ Then sayde Ieremy vnto Sedechias: Thus saieth ye LORDE off hoostes the God of Israel: Yf case be, that thou wilt go forth vnto the kynge off Babilons prynces, thou shalt saue thy life, and this cite shall not be bret, yee both thou and thy housholde shall escape with youre lyues. ¹⁸ But yff thou wilt not go forth to the kynge off Babilons prynces, then shal this cite be delyuered in to the hondes of the Caldees which shal set fyre vpon it, and thou shalt be able to escape them. ¹⁹ And Sedechias sayde vnto Ieremy: I am afrayde for the Iewes, that are fled vnto the Caldees, lest I come in their hodes, and so they to haue me in derision. ²⁰ But Ieremy answerde: No, they shal not betraye the: O herken vnto the voyce off the LORDE (I beseke ye) which I speake vnto the, so shalt thou be well, and saue thy life. ²¹ But yf thou wilt not go forth, the LORDE hath tolde me this planely: ²² Beholde, all the women that are left in the kynge of Iudaes house, shal go out to the kynge of Babilons prynces. For they thynke, yt thou art disceaued: and that ye men in whom thou didest put thy trust, haue gotten the vnder, and set thy fete fast in the myre, and gone their waye from the. ²³ Therfore all thy wyues with their children shall fle vnto the Caldees, and thou shalt not escape their hondes, but shalt be ye kynge of Babilons presoner, & this cite shall be brent. ²⁴ Then sayde Sedechias vnto Ieremy: loke yt no body knowe off these wordes, and thou shalt not dye. ²⁵ But yf the prynces perceaue, that I haue talked with the, and come vnto the, sayenge: O speake, what sayde the kynge to the? hyde it not from vs, and we wil not put the to death. Tell vs (we praye the) what sayde ye kynge to the? ²⁶ Se thou geue them this answere: I haue humbly besought the kynge, that he will let me lye nomore in Ionathas house, that I dye not there? ²⁷ Then came all the princes vnto Ieremy, and axed him, And he tolde them, after the maner as the kynge bad him. Then they helde their peace, for they perceaued nothinge. ²⁸ So Ieremy abode still in the fore entrie off the preson, vntill the daye that Ierusalem was wonne.

¹¹ The Pharise stode, and prayed by himself after this maner: I thanke the God, that I am not as other men, robbers, vnrighteous, aduouters, or as this publican.

³ But yf eny man thinke himselfe to be somwhat (whan in dede he is nothinge) the same disceaueth himselfe.

³⁰ Then was the kynge wroth at Ionathas, and sayde vnto him: Thou wicked and vnthrifte, I knowe how that thou hast chosen the sonne of Isai, to the shame of thy selfe and of yi shamefull mother. ³¹ For as longe as ye sonne of Isai lyueth vpo earth nether thou ner thy kingdome shal prospere. Sende now therfore, and cause him to be fetched vnto me, for he is a childe of death. ³² Ionathas answered his father Saul and sayde vnto him: Wherfore shal he dye? what hath he done? ³³ Then shot Saul the iauelynge at him, that he might smite him. The perceaued Ionathas, that his father was vtterly determed to kyll Dauid, ³⁴ and he rose vp from ye table in a wrothfull displeasure, and ate no bred yt same seconde daye of the new Mone: for he was vexed because of Dauid, that his father had done him soch dishonor.

¹ And Achab tolde Iesabel all yt Elias had done, & how he had slayne all Baals prophetes wt the swerde. ² The sent Iesabel a messaunger vnto Elias, sayenge: The goddes do this & that vnto me, yf I tomorow aboute this tyme, make not thy soule as one of these.

¹² Euell will stereth vp strife, but loue couereth ye multitude of synnes.

³³ Wy?dome resteth in the herte of him that hath vnderstondinge, and he wyll teach them that are vnlerned.

²² Vnderstondinge is a well of life vnto him yt hath it, as for ye chastenynge of fooles, it is but foolishnesse.

⁹ Who so couereth another mans offence, seketh loue: but he yt discloseth the faute, setteth frendes at variaunce.

²⁸ He that can not rule himself, is like a cite, which is broken downe, and hath no walles.

¹¹ A foole poureth out his sprete alltogether, but a wyse man kepeth it in till afterwarde.

¹⁹ Wherfore deare brethren, let euery man be swifte to heare, slowe to speake, and slowe to wrath.

¹⁴ Ahimelech answered the kynge and saide: And who is amonge all thy seruauntes like Dauid, which is faithfull, and hath maried the kynges doughter, and goeth in thine obedience, & is honorably taken in thine house? ¹⁵ Haue I begonne then first this daye to axe councell at God for him? That be farre frome. Let not the kinge laie soch to his seruautes charge in all my fathers house: for thy seruaunt knewe not of all these thinges nether small ner greate.

¹⁹ a false wytnesse yt bringeth vp lyes, & soch one as soweth discorde amonge brethren.

⁵ A faithfull wytnesse wyl not dyssemble, but a false recorde wil make a lye.

²⁵ A faithfull wytnesse delyuereth soules, but a lyar dysceaueth them.

⁵ A false wytnesse shal not remayne vnpunyshed, and he that speaketh lyes shal not escape.

²⁸ A false wytnes laugheth iudgmet to scorne, & the mouth of the vngodly eateth vp wickednes.

²⁸ A false wytnesse shal perishe, but he yt wilbe content to heare, shal allwaye haue power to speake himself.

²⁸ Be no false wytnesse agaynst yi neghbor, & hurte him not wt yi lyppes.

¹⁹ For out of ye hert come euell thoughtes murthur, breakynge of wedlocke, whordome theft, false witnesse, blasphemy.

⁵⁹ But the hye prestes and the elders, and the whole councell sought false wytnesse ageynst Iesus, that they might put him to death,

¹³ and brought him before the councell, and set false witnesses there, which sayde: This man ceasseth not to speake blasphemous wordes agaynst this holy place and the lawe.

¹⁶ hauynge a good conscience, that they which bacbyte you as euell doers, maye be ashamed, that they haue falsely accused youre good couersacion in Christ.

² Where as the goodnesse of God endureth yet daylie.

⁴ Sela. This shal God sende, for his mercy and faithfulnesse sake. I lye with my soule amonge the cruell lyons:

⁷ Beholde, they speake (agaynst me) wt their mouth, swerdes are vnder their lippes, for who reproueth the?

³ Which whette their tuges like a swerde, & shute wt their venimous wordes like as wt arowes.

²² For they are life vnto all those that finde the, and health vnto all their bodies.

²⁰ An innocent tonge is a noble treasure, but the herte of the vngodly is nothinge worth. ²¹ The lippes of the rightuous fede a whole multitude, but fooles shal dye in their owne foly.

¹⁷ An vngodly messauger bryngeth myschefe, but a faithfull embassitoure is wholsome.

⁴ A wholsome tonge is a tre of life, but he that abuseth it, hath a broken mynde.

⁷ A wyse mouth poureth out knowlege, but ye herte of the foolish doth not so.

²⁴ Fayre wordes are an hony combe, a refreshinge of ye mynde, & health of ye bones.

¹⁸ Who so beareth false wytnesse agaynst his neghboure, he is a very speare, a swearde & a sharpe arowe.

³³ Those also that haue vnderstondinge amonge the people, shal enfourme the multitude: & for a longe season, they shalbe persecuted with swearde, with fyre, with captyuyte & with the takynge awaye of their goodes.

⁶ and the tonge is fyre, and a worlde of wyckednes. So is the tonge set amonge oure membres, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth a fyre all that we haue of nature, and is it selfe set a fyre euen of hell. ⁷ All the natures of beastes, and of byrdes, and of serpentes, and thinges of the see, are meked and tamed of the nature of ma. ⁸ But the toge can no man tame. Yt is an vnruely euell full of deedly poysou.

¹⁶ And he had in his right honde seue starres. And out of his mouth went a sharpe two edged swearde. And his face shone euen as the sonne in his strength.

² in the myddes of the strete of it, and of ether syde of the ryuer was there wod of life: which bare twolue maner of frutes: and gaue frute euery moneth: and the leaues of the wodd serued to heale the people withall.

⁵ the prayse of the vngodly hath bene shorte, and that the ioye of Ypocrytes continued but ye twincklinge of an eye?

⁴ Thou louest vngraciousnesse more the good, to talke of lyes more then rightuousnesse. ⁵ Sela. Thou louest to speake all wordes yt maye do hurte, O thou false toge.

⁹ A false wytnesse shal not remayne vnpunyshed, & he yt speaketh lyes shal perishe.

⁴ Be not ye like youre forefathers, vnto whom the prophetes cried a fore tyme, sayege: Thus saieth the LORDE God of hoostes: Turne you from youre euell wayes, & from youre wicked ymaginacions. But they wolde not heare, ner regarde me, saieth the LORDE. ⁵ What is now become of youre forefathers and the prophetes? are they yet still alyue? ⁶ But dyd not my wordes & statutes (which I comaunded by my seruauntes ye prophetes) touch yor forefathers? Vpo this, they gaue answere & sayde: like as ye LORDE of hoostes deuysed to do vnto vs, acordinge to or owne wayes & ymaginacions, euen so hath he dealte with vs.

³⁵ Heauen and earth shal perishe, but my wordes shal not perishe.

³ But Peter sayde: Ananias, Wherfore hath Sathan fylled thine hert, that thou shuldest lye vnto the holy goost, and withdrawe awaye parte of the money of the lyuelod? ⁴ Mightest thou not haue kepte it, whan thou haddest it? And whan it was solde, the money was also in thy power: Why hast thou then conceaued this thinge in thine hert? Thou hast not lyed vnto me, but vnto God. ⁵ Whan Ananias herde these wordes, he fell downe, & gaue vp the goost. And there came a greate feare vpon all the that herde of this. ⁶ The yonge men rose vp, and put him asyde, and caried him out, and buried him. ⁷ And it fortuned as it were aboute ye space of thre houres after, his wife came in, and knewe not what was done. ⁸ But Peter answered vnto her. Tell me, solde ye the londe for somoch? She sayde: Yee, for so moch. ⁹ Peter sayde vnto her: Why haue ye agreed together, to tempte the sprete of the LORDE? Beholde, the fete of the which haue buried thy hussbande, are at the dore, & shal carye the out. ¹⁰ And immediatly she fell downe at his fete, and gaue vp the goost. Then came in the yonge men, and founde her deed, and caried her out, and buried her by hir hussbade.

²⁴ An enemie dyssembleth with his lippes, and in the meane season he ymagineth myschefe: ²⁵ but wha he speaketh fayre, beleue him not, for there are seuen abhominacios in his herte. ²⁶ Who so kepeth euell will secretly to do hurte, his malyce shalbe shewed before the whole congregacion.

⁶ For vnto us a childe shalbe borne, and vnto us a sonne shalbe geue. Vpo his shulder shal the kyngdome lye, and he shalbe called wt his owne name: The woderous geuer of councel, the mightie God, the euerlastinge father, the prynce of peace, ⁷ he shal make no ende to encrease the kyngdome and peace, and shal syt vpon the seate of Dauid and in his kyngdome, to set vp the same, to stablish it with equyte and rightuousnesse, from thence forth for euermore. This shal the gelousy of the LORDE of hoostes bringe to passe.

¹⁶ Where as I neuertheles ledinge the flock in thy wayes, haue compelled none by violence. For I neuer desyred eny mas deeth, this knowest thou well. My wordes also were right before the.

¹³ yee euen he shall buylde vp the temple of the LORDE. He shal beare the prayse, he shall syt vpon the LORDES trone, and haue the dominaciou. A prest shall he be also vpon his trone, & a peaceable councell shalbe betwixte them both.

⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shalbe called the chyldren of God.

²¹ that defyleth the man. For from within out of the hert of man proceade euell thoughtes, aduoutrye, whordome, murthur, ²² theft, coueteousnes, wickednes, disceate, vnclennes, a wicked eye, blasphemy, pryde, foolishnes.

¹⁴ And they came, and sayde vnto hi: Master, we knowe that thou art true and carest for no man. For thou regardest not the outwarde appearaunce of men, but teachest ye waye of God truly. Is it laufull to geue tribute vnto the Emperoure, or not? ¹⁵ Ought we to geue it, or ought we not to geue it? But he perceaued their ypocrisye, and sayde vnto them: Why tempte ye me? Brynge me a peny, that I maye se it. ¹⁶ And they brought it him. Then sayde he: Whose ymage and superscripcion is this? They sayde vnto him: The Emperours. ¹⁷ Then answered Iesus and sayde vnto the: Geue therfore vnto the Emperoure that which is the Emperours, and vnto God that which is Gods. And they marueled at him.

²⁹ beynge full of all vnrighteousnes, whordome, wickednes, couetousnes, maliciousnes, full of enuye, murthur, strife, disceate, euell codicioned whisperers,

¹⁴ Folowe after peace with all men, and holynes, without the which no man shal se the LORDE,

⁸ But in conclusion be ye all of one mynde, one suffre with another, loue as brethren, be pitefull, be curteous. ⁹ Recopence not euell for euell, nether rebuke for rebuke: but cotrary wyse, blesse: and knowe that ye are called therto, euen yt ye shulde be heyres of ye blessynge. ¹⁰ For who so listeth to lyue, and wolde fayne se good dayes, Let him refrayne his tonge from euell, and his lippes yt they speake no gyle. ¹¹ Let him eschue euell, & do good: Let him seke peace and ensue it. ¹² For ye eyes of the LORDE are ouer the righteous, & his eares are open vnto their prayers. But ye face of the LORDE beholdeth the yt do euell. ¹³ And who is it that can harme you, yf ye folowe that which is good?

¹⁰ There shal no euell happen vnto the, nether shal eny plage come nye thy dwellinge.

¹⁴ An vnfaithfull personne shal be fylled with his owne wayes, but a good ma wyl bewarre of soch.

¹² Therfore laye this ryddle before them, and saye: Thus saieth the LORDE God of Israel: euery pot shal be fylled with wyne. And they shal saye: thinkest thou we knowe not, yt euery pot shalbe fylled with wyne? ¹³ Then shalt thou saye vnto them: Thus saieth the LORDE: Beholde, I shal fyll all the inhabitours of this lode wt dronckenes, the kynges that syt vpo Dauids stole, the prestes and prophetes, with all yt dwell at Ierusalem. ¹⁴ And I will shute them one agaynst another, yee ye fathers agaynst the sonnes, saieth the LORDE. I wil not pardon them, I wil not spare them, ner haue pitie vpon them: but destroye them.

¹⁶ Therfore with shame shalt thou be fylled, in steade of honoure. Dryncke thou also, till thou slombre withall: for the cuppe of the LORDES right hode shall compasse the aboute, and shamefull spewinge in steade of thy worshipe.

²⁸ But sure we are, that all thinges serue for the best vnto them that loue of God, which are called of purpose.

²² whether it be Paul or Apollo, whether it be Cephas or the worlde, whether it be life or death, whether it be presente or for to come. All is youres, ²³ but ye are Christes, and Christ is Gods.

¹⁷ For oure trouble, which is but temporall and lighte, worketh an exceadinge and an eternall weighte of glorye

¹³ And who is it that can harme you, yf ye folowe that which is good?

⁶ Rewarde her euen as she rewarded you, and geue her dubble acordinge to her workes. And poure in dubble to her in the same cuppe, which she fylled vnto you.

¹⁶ There be sixe thinges, which the LORDE hateth, & the seuenth he vtterly abhorreth: ¹⁷ A proude loke, a dyssemblynge tonge, hades that shed innocent bloude,

¹ A false balaunce is an abhominacion vnto the LORDE, but a true weight pleaseth him.

²⁰ The LORDE abhorreth a fayned hert, but he hath pleasure in them that are vndefyled.

⁸ The LORDE abhorreth ye sacrifice of the vngodly, but the prayer of the rightuous is acceptable vnto him.

¹⁵ By the heade, is vnderstonde the Senatoure and honorable man, and by ye tale, the prophet that preacheth lyes.

²⁴ But who so wil reioyse, let him reioyse in this, that he vnderstodeth, and knoweth me: for I am the LORDE, which do mercie, equite and rightuousnes vpon earth. Therfore haue I pleasure in soch thinges, saieth ye LORDE.

¹⁹ and dishonoure me to my people, for an handfull of barly, & for a pece of bred: when ye kyll the soules of them that dye not, & promyse life to them, that lyue not: Thus ye dyssemble with my people, yt beleueth yor lies.

²² Seinge yt with youre lyes ye discomforte the herte of the rightuous, whom I haue not discomforted: Agayne: For so moch as ye corage the honde of the wicked, so that he maye not turne from his wicked waye, & lyue:

⁸ But the fearefull and vnbeleuynge, and the abhominable, and murthurers, and whormongers, and sorcerers, and ydolaters, & all lyars, shal haue their parte in the lake, that burneth with fyre and brymstone, which is the seconde death.

¹⁵ For without are dogges and inchaunters and whormongers, and mortherers, and ydolaters, and whosoeuer loueth or maketh lesinges.

¹⁴ Wyse me laye vp knowlege, but ye mouth of ye foolish is nye destruccio.

¹⁹ Where moch bablinge is, there must nedes be offence: he that refrayneth his lippes, is wysest of all.

¹³ A dyssemblynge person wil discouer preuy thinges, but he that is of a faithfull hert, will kepe councel.

¹⁶ A wyse man doth all thinges with discrecion, but a foole wil declare his foly.

³ A dotinge foole thinketh, yt euery ma doth as foolishly as himself.

¹² The wordes out of a wyse mans mouth are gracious, but the lippes of a foole wil destroye himself. ¹³ The begynnynge of his talkynge is foolishnes, and the last worde of his mouth is greate madnesse. ¹⁴ A foole is so full of wordes, that a man can not tell what ende he wyll make: who wyl then warne him to make a conclucion?

¹⁵ And he saw rest, that it was good, and the lande, that it was pleasaunt. And bowed downe his shulder to beare, and became a seruaut vnto trybute.

²¹ their children which they lefte behynde them in the londe (whom the children of Israel coulde not vtterly destroye) those dyd Salomon make tributaries vnto this daye.

²⁸ And Ieroboam was a ma of armes. And whan Salomon sawe that it was a mete yonge man, he set him ouer all the burthens of the house of Ioseph.

²⁰ Now whan all Israel herde, that Ieroboam was come againe, they sent for to call him to the whole congregacion, and made him kynge ouer all Israel. And no man folowed the house of Dauid, saue onely the tribe of Iuda.

⁴ An ydle hande maketh poore, but a quycke laboringe hande maketh riche.

²⁷ A disceatfull man shal fynde no vautage, but he that is content wt that he hath, is more worth the golde.

⁴ The slogarde wolde fayne haue, and can not get his desyre: but the soule of the diligent shal haue plenty.

² A discrete seruaut shal haue more rule then the sonnes yt haue no wysdome, and shal haue like heretage wt the brethren.

¹⁵ Slouthfulnes bryngeth slepe, & an ydell soule shal suffer hoger.

²⁵ The voluptuousnesse of the slouthfull is his owne death, for his hades wyll not labor. ²⁶ He coueteth and desyreth all the daye longe, but the rightuous is allwaye geuynge & kepeth nothinge backe.

¹³ The slouthfull body sayeth: there is a lyo wt out, I might be slayne in ye strete.

²⁹ Seist thou not, yt they which be diligent in their busines stonde before kynges, and not amonge the symple people?

³⁰ I wente by ye felde of ye slouthfull, & by ye vynyarde of the foolish ma. ³¹ And lo, it was all couered wt nettels, & stode full of thistles, & ye stone wall was broke downe. ³² This I sawe, & cosidered it wel: I loked vpo it, & toke it for a warnynge. ³³ Yee slepe on still a litle, slobre a litle, folde thine hodes together yet a litle: ³⁴ so shall pouerte come vnto the as one yt trauayleth by ye waye, & necessite like a wapened man.

¹³ The slouthfull sayeth: there is a leoparde in ye waye, and a lyon in ye myddest of the stretes. ¹⁴ Like as the dore turneth aboute vpon the tresholde, euen so doth the slouthfull welter himself in his bedd. ¹⁵ The slouthfull body thrusteth his hode in to his bosome, and it greueth him to put it agayne to his mouth. ¹⁶ The slogarde thinketh him self wyser, then vij. men that sytt and teach.

¹ In the moneth Nisan of the twentieth yeare of kynge Artaxerses, wha the wyne stode before him, I toke vp the wyne, and gaue it vnto ye kynge, and I was heuy in his presence. ² Then sayde ye kynge vnto me: Why lokest thou so sadly? Thou art not sicke, that is not ye matter, but thou art heuy harted. Neuertheles I was sore afrayed,

⁶ I am brought into so greate trouble and misery, that I go mournynge all the daye longe.

¹¹ Why art thou so heuy (o my soule) & why art thou so disquieted within me? O put thy trust in God, for I wil yet thanke him for the helpe of his countenaunce, and because he is my God.

¹⁸ A slaunderous personne pricketh like a swerde, but a wyse mans tonge is wholsome.

¹⁰ The herte of him that hath vnderstondinge wil nether dispare for eny sorow, ner be to presumptuous for eny sodane ioye.

¹³ A mery herte maketh a chearfull countenaunce, but an vnquyet mynde maketh it heuy.

¹⁵ All the dayes of the poore are miserable, but a quyete herte is as a cotynuall feast.

²² A mery herte maketh a lusty age, but a sorowfull mide dryeth vp ye bones.

¹⁴ A good stomacke dryueth awaye a mas disease, but wha ye sprete is vexed, who maye abyde it?

¹¹ A worde spoken in due season, is like apples of golde in a syluer dyshe.

⁹ The herte is glad of a swete oyntment and sauoure, but a stomacke that ca geue good councell, reioyseth a mans neghboure.

⁴ The LORDE God hath geue me a wel lerned tuge, so that I can conforte them which are troubled, yee & yt in due season. He waked myne eare vp by tymes in ye mornynge (as ye scolemasters do) yt I might herke.

¹³ So the LORDE gaue a louynge and a confortable answere, vnto the angel that talked with me.

³³ And he toke with him Peter & Iames, & Ihon, and begane to waxe fearefull, & to be in an agonye, ³⁴ & sayde vnto the: My soule is heuy eue vnto ye death: tary ye here and watch.

⁴ For in greate trouble and anguysh of hert wrote I vnto you with many teares: not yt ye shulde be sory, but that ye mighte perceaue the loue, which I haue most specially vnto you. ⁵ But yf eny man haue caused sorowe, the same hath not made me sory, but partely, lest I shulde greue you all. ⁶ It is sufficient, that the same man is so rebuked of many, ⁷ so that from hence forth ye oughte the more to forgeue him and to comforte him, lest he be swalowed vp in ouer moch heuynesse.

³ All my delyte is vpon the sanctes that are in the earth, and vpon soch like.

¹² At the brightnes off his presence the cloudes remoued, with hale stones & coales of fyre. ¹³ The LORDE also thondred out of ye heaue, & the heyth gaue his thondre wt hale stones & coales of fyre.

¹³ The wicked falleth in to the snare thorow ye malyce of his owne mouth, but the iust shal escape out of parell.

²⁷ He is wyse and discrete, yt tempereth his wordes: and he is a ma of vnderstodinge, yt maketh moch of his sprete.

⁴⁶ For yf ye loue them which loue you, what rewarde shall ye haue? Do not the Publicans eue so? ⁴⁷ And yf ye be frendly to youre brethren onlye: what singuler thynge do ye? Do not the Publicans also lyke wyse? ⁴⁸ Ye shall therfore be perfecte, euen as youre father in heaue is perfecte.

³² And yf ye loue them that loue you, what thake haue ye therfore? For synners also loue their louers. ³³ And yf ye do good for youre good doers, what thanke haue ye therfore? For synners also do euen the same. ³⁴ And yf ye lende vnto them, of who ye hope to receaue what thake haue ye ther fore? For synners also lende vnto synners, that they maye receaue as moch agayne. ³⁵ But rather loue ye yor enemies, do good, and lende, lokynge for nothinge therof agayne: so shal yor rewarde be greate, and ye shalbe the children of the Hyest, for he is kynde, euen to the vnthankfull and to the euell. ³⁶ Be ye therfore mercifull, as youre father also is mercifull.

¹³ Let no man saye when he is tempted, yt he is tempted of God. For God tepteth not vnto euell, nether tepteth he eny man. ¹⁴ But euery ma is tepted, drawne awaye, & entysed of his awne cocupiscece.

¹⁸ Ye seruautes, obey youre masters with all feare: not onely yf they be good and curteous, but also though they be frowarde. ¹⁹ For that is grace, yf a man for conscience towarde God endure grefe, and suffre wronge. ²⁰ For what prayse is it, yf wha ye be buffeted for yor fautes, ye take it paciently? But yf whan ye do well, ye suffre wronge, and take it paciently, that is grace with God. ²¹ For here vnto are ye called, for so moch as Christ also suffred for vs, leauynge vs an ensample, that ye shulde folowe his fotesteppes,

¹⁸ For they speake ye proude wordes of vanite, vnto ye vttemost, and entyse thorow wantannes vnto ye luste of the flesh, euen them that were cleane escaped, and now walke in erroure: ¹⁹ and promyse them libertye, where as they them selues are seruauntes off corrupcion. For off whom so euer a man is ouercome, vnto the same is he in bondage. ²⁰ For yf they (after they haue escaped from the fylthynes of the worlde, thorow the knowlege of ye LORDE and Sauioure Iesus Christ) are yet tangled agayne therin and ouercome, then is the latter ende worse vnto them then the begynnynge. ²¹ For it had bene better for them, not to haue knowne the waye of righteousnes, then after they haue knowne it, to turne from the holy commaundemet, that was geuen vnto them. ²² It is happened vnto them acordynge vnto the true prouerbe: ye dogg is turned to his vomyte agayne: and ye sowe that was wasshed, vnto hir walowynge in the myre.

²⁶ This haue I wrytte vnto you cocerninge the that disceaue you.

⁹ And the greate dragon that olde serpent (called the deuell and Sathanas) was cast out. Which disceaued all the worlde. And he was cast in to the earth, and his angelles were cast out with him also.

¹⁴ And deceaued them that dwelt on the earth by ye meanes of those signes which he had power to do in the sight of the beest, sayenge to them that dwelt on the earth: that they shulde make an ymage vnto the beest, which had the wounde of a swearde and dyd liue.

¹⁶ A small thinge yt the rightuous hath, is better then greate riches of the vngodly.

¹⁶ Better is a litle with the feare of the LORDE then greate treasure, for they are not without sorowe.

⁸ Better is it to haue a litle thinge wt rightuousnes, the greate rentes wrongeously gotten.

² that are set before ye Measure thine appetite:

¹⁵ The slouthfull body thrusteth his hode in to his bosome, and it greueth him to put it agayne to his mouth.

¹⁵ Beholde, I haue layed before you this daye, life and good, death and euell.

¹¹ For thorow me yi dayes shalbe prolonged, and the yeares of thy life shal be many.

¹⁶ The rightuous laboureth to do good, but the vngodly vseth his increase vnto synne.

¹⁹ Like as rightuousnes bryngeth life, eue so to cleue vnto euell, bryngeth death.

⁹ he walbeth in my commaundementes, & kepeth my lawes, & perfourmeth the faithfully:) This is a rightuous ma, he shal surely lyue, saieth the LORDE God.

²⁰ The same soule yt synneth, shall dye. The sonne shal not beare the fathers offence, nenether shal the father beare the sonnes offence. The rightuousnes of the rightuous shall be vpon himself, and the wickednes of the wicked shal be vpon him self also. ²¹ But yf ye vngodly will turne awaye, from all his synnes that he hath done, and kepe all my commaundemetes, and do the thinge ye is equall & right: doutles he shal lyue, and not dye. ²² As for all his synnes that he dyd before, they shall not be thought vpon: but in his rightuousnes that he hath done, he shall lyue. ²³ For haue I eny pleasure in the death of a synner, saieth the LORDE God? but rather that he conuerte, and lyue? ²⁴ Agayne: yf the rightuous turne awaye from his rightuousnes, and do iniquyte, acordinge to all the abhominacions, that ye wicked ma doth: shal he lyue? All the rightuousnes that he hath done, shall not be thought vpo: but in the fawte that he hath offended withall, and in the synne that he hath done, he shal dye.

²¹ that, like as synne had reigned vnto death, eue so mighte grace reigne also thorow righteousnes to euerlastinge life by the meanes of Iesus Christ.

²² But now that ye be fre from synne, and are become the seruauntes of God, ye haue youre frute that ye shulde be holy: but the ende is euerlastinge life. ²³ For death is the rewarde of synne, but the gifte of God is euerlastinge life.

¹¹ For the grace of God that bryngeth Saluacion vnto all men, hath appeared, ¹² and teacheth vs, that we shulde denye vngodlynes, and wordly lustes: and that we shulde lyue discretly, righteously, and godly in this worlde,

²⁹ Yf ye knowe yt he is righteous, knowe also that he which doth righteousnes, is borne of him.

⁷ Babes, let noman disceaue you. He that doeth righteousnes, is righteous, euen as he is righteous.

¹¹ My beloued, folowe not yt which is euell, but that which is good. He that doeth well, is of God: but he that doeth euell, seyth not God.