Proverbs 12 Cross References - Matthew

¹ Who so loueth wysdome, wil be content to be refourmed: but he that hateth to be reproued, is a foole. ² A good man is acceptable vnto the Lord, but the wicked will he condempne. ³ A man can not endure in vngodlinesse, but the rote of the righteous shall not be moued. ⁴ A stedfast woman is a croune vnto her husband: but she that behaueth her selfe vnhonestly is a corrupcion in hys bones. ⁵ The thoughtes of the righteous are righte, but the ymaginacion of the vngodly are disceatfull. ⁶ The talkyng of the vngodlye is howe they maye laye wayte for bloud, but the mouthe of the righteous wyll deliuer them. ⁷ Or euer thou canst turne the about, the vngodly shalbe ouerthrowen: but the house of the righteous shall stande. ⁸ A man shalbe commended for hys wysdome, but a fole shalbe despised. ⁹ A simple man which laboureth & worketh, is better then one that is gorgyous and wanteth bread. ¹⁰ A righteous man regardeth the lyfe of his cattell, but the vngodly haue cruel hertes. ¹¹ He that tilleth his lande, shal haue plenteousnesse of bread: but he that foloweth ydelnes, is a very foole. ¹² The desyre of the vngodly hunteth after mischief, but the rote of the righteous bryngeth forth frute. ¹³ The wicked falleth into the snare thorow the malyce of his own mouth, but the iust shal escape out of parel. ¹⁴ Euery man shall enioye good accordinge to the innocency of his mouth, & after the workes of his handes shal he be rewarded. ¹⁵ Loke what a foole taketh in hande, he thynketh it wel done: but he that is wyse, wil be counsayled. ¹⁶ A foole vttereth his wrath in all the hast, but a discrete man forgeueth wrong. ¹⁷ A iust man wil tel the trueth, & shewe the thynge that is right: but a false witnesse disceyueth. ¹⁸ A sclaunderous personne pricketh like a swerd, but a wise mans tonge is wholsome. ¹⁹ A true mouth is euer constant, but a dissemblyng tonge is soone chaunged. ²⁰ They that ymagyn euell in their mynde, will disceyue: but the counsaylers of peace shall haue ioy folowing them. ²¹ There shall no misfortune happen vnto the iust but the vngodly shalbe filled with misery. ²² The Lord abhorreth disceatful lyppes, but they that laboure for trueth please hym. ²³ He that hath vnderstanding, can hyde his wisdome: but an vndiscrete hert telleth oute hys folishnesse. ²⁴ A diligent hande shal beare rule, but the ydle shalbe vnder tribute. ²⁵ Heauinesse discorageth the hert of man, but a good worde maketh it glad again. ²⁶ The righteous is liberall vnto hys neyghbour, but the waye of the vngodly will disceyue them selfs. ²⁷ A disceatfull man shall fynde no vauntage, but he that is content with that he hath, is more worthe then golde. ²⁸ In the waye of righteousnesse there is lyfe, as for any other waye it is the pathe vnto death.

⁹ Be not ye now like horses & mules, which haue no vnderstandyng. Whose mouthes thou must hold with bit and bridle, if they wil not obey the.

⁶ An vnwyse man will not knowe thys, and a foole will not vnderstande it.

²⁷ Make me to vnderstand the waye of thy commaundementes, and so shall I talcke of thy wonderous workes.

⁹⁷ Mem. O what loue haue I vnto thy law? all the daye longe is my talkyng of it. ⁹⁸ Thou thorow thy commaundement hast made me wyser then myne enemyes, for it is euer by me. ⁹⁹ I haue more vnderstandyng then all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my studye. ¹⁰⁰ Yea, I am wyser then the aged, for I kepe thy commaundementes.

¹⁰ If wisdome entre into thyne hert, and thy soule delyte in knowlege: ¹¹ then shall counsayl preserue the, & vnderstanding shall kepe the.

¹² and then say: Alas why hated I nourtoure? why dyd my herte despys correction. ¹³ Wherfore was not I obedyente vnto the voyce of my teachers, & herkened not vnto them that infourmed me?

¹⁷ I am louyngevnto those that loue me, & they that seke me early, shall fynde me.

³² Therfore herken vnto me, O ye chyldren, for blessed are they that kepe my wayes.

⁷ Who so reproueth a scornefull personne, getteth hym self dishonour: & he that rebuketh the vngodly stayneth him self. ⁸ Reproue not a scorner, lest he owe the euel wil: but rebuke a wise man, & he wil loue the.

¹⁰ He that forsaketh the ryghte strete, shalbe sore punyshed: and who so hateth correccyon, falleth into death.

¹ Who so hath pleasure to sow dyscorde, pyketh a quarel in euery thyng.

³ An oxe knoweth hys Lorde, & an Asse his masters stall: but Israel knoweth nothynge, my people hath no vnderstanding.

¹⁰ and in all deceyuablenes of vnryghtuousnes, amonge them that peryshe: because they receyued not the loue of the truethe, that they myght haue bene sayed.

¹⁵ As for the Heathen, thei are suncken doune in the pytte that they made: in the same nette which they spred out priuely, is their owne feete taken.

⁵ Well is he that is mercyfull, and lendeth gladly, and pondereth his wordes wyth discrecyon,

³¹ Therfore shal they eate the frutes of their owne way, & be filled with their oune counsayls:

¹⁸ an hert that goeth about with wicked ymaginacions, fet that be swift in rening to do mischefe,

³⁵ For who so findeth me, findeth life and shall obtayne fauour of the Lorde.

⁸ Nether is there any man that hath power ouer the spirite, to kepe styll the spirite, ner to haue any power in the tyme of death: it is not he also that can make an ende of the battail, nether maye vngodlynes delyuer him that medleth with al.

⁵ Then shal the nygard be no more called gentle, nor the churle liberal. ⁶ But the churle wyll be churlyshly mynded, & his hert wil worcke euil & playe the Ipocrite, & ymagyn abhominacyons against God, to make the hungry leane, & to withhold drincke from the thurstie. ⁷ These are the perlous weapons of the couetous, these be hys shamefull councels: that he maye begyle the poore with disceatfull workes, yea euen there as he shuld geue sentence with the poore.

²⁴ For he was a good man, and ful of the holy ghoste and of faith: and much people was added vnto the Lord.

⁷ Yet scrace will anye man dye for a ryghtuouse man. Parauenture for a good man durst a man dye.

³³ And blessed be thy behaueoure, and blessed be thou whyche hast kept me this daye from coming to shed bloud and from aduenging my selfe with mine own hande.

³ I haue sene my selfe, when the folishe was depe roted, that hys bewty was sodenly destroied, ⁴ that his chyldren were without prosperite or healt: that they were slayne in the dore, and no man to delyuer them: ⁵ that hys haruest was eaten vp of the hungrye: that the weapened man had spoyled it, and that the thurstye had droncke vp his riches. It is not the earth that bringeth forth trauayle,

²⁹ He shal not be ryche, nether shall hys substaunce contynue, ner encrease vpon earth.

⁵ the prayse of the vngodlye hath bene shorte, and that the ioye of ypocrites continued but the twyncklyng of an eye? ⁶ Though he be magnifyed vp to the heauen, so that his heade reacheth vnto the cloudes: ⁷ yet he perisheth at the laste lyke dounge: In so moche that they which haue sene hym, saye: Where is he? ⁸ He vanysheth as a dreame, so that he can no more be founde, & passeth awaye as a visyon in the nyght. ⁹ So that the eye whiche sawe him before, getteth nowe no syght of hym, and his place knoweth hym no more.

¹⁶ Though he haue as muche money as the dust of the earthe, and raymente as ready as the claie, ¹⁷ he maye wel prepare it: but the godly shall put it vpon him, & the innocent shall deale oute the money. ¹⁸ His house shall endure as the moth, and as a bothe that the watcheman maketh.

⁵ He that geueth not his money vpon vsury, and taketh no rewarde agaynste the innocent. Who so doth these thinges, shall neuer be remoued.

¹ The song of the steares. They that put their truste in the Lord, are euen as the mounte Syon, which may not be remoued, but standeth fast for euer. ² The hylles stande about Ierusalem, euen so standeth the Lorde rounde about hys people, from this tyme forthe for euermore.

²⁵ The vngodly is lyke a tempest that passeth ouer, and is no more sene but the rightuous remayneth sure for eue

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

¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hertes by fayth, that ye beinge roted and grounded in loue,

⁷ roted and builte in him and stedfaste in the fayth as ye haue learned, and therin be plentuous in geuing thankes.

¹ A wise woman vpholdeth her house but a folish wife plucketh it doun

³⁰ A merye hert is the life of the bodye, but rancoure consumeth awaye the bones.

¹³ An vndiscrete sonne is the heuynes of hys father, & a braulyng wyfe is lyke the top of an house, where thorow it is euer droppyng. ¹⁴ House & ryches maye a man haue by the heritage of hys elders, but a discrete woman is the gifte of the Lord.

⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner vnder the house toppe, then wyth a braulynge woman in a wyde house.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a wyldernesse, then wyth a chidynge and an angrye woman.

¹⁵ A braulling woman and the rose of the house dropping in a rainy day may wel be compared together. ¹⁶ He that refrayneth her, refrayneth the wynde, and holdeth oyle fast in hys hande.

¹⁰ Aleph. Who so fyndeth an honest faythfull woman, she is much more worth then pearles. ¹¹ Beth. The hert of her husband may safely trust in her, so that he shal haue no nede of spoyles. ¹² Gimel. She will do him good & not euell all the dayes of her lyfe. ¹³ Daleth. She occupyeth woll and flax, and laboureth gladly with her handes. ¹⁴ He. She is lyke a merchauntes shyppe, that bringeth her vitayles from a farre. ¹⁵ Vau. She is vp in the night season, to prouyde meate for her housholde, and foode for her maydens. ¹⁶ Zain. She considreth lande, & byeth it, & wyth the frute of her handes she planteth a vyneyarde. ¹⁷ Heth. She gyrdeth her loynes with strength, and courageth her armes. ¹⁸ Teth. And if she perceyue that her houswyfrye doth good, her candle goeth not out by night. ¹⁹ Iod. She layeth her fingers to the spyndle, & her hande taketh holde of the rocke. ²⁰ Caph. She openeth her hande to the poore, yea, she stretched forthe her handes too suche as haue nede. ²¹ Lamed. She feareth not that the colde of wynter shall hurte her house, for all her housholde folkes are double clothed. ²² Mem. She maketh her selfe fayre ornamentes, her clothyng is whyte silke and purple. ²³ Nun. Her husband is much set by in the gates, when he sitteth among the rulers of the lande. ²⁴ Samech. She maketh cloth of silke & selleth it, and deliuereth a gyrdle vnto the marchaunt. ²⁵ Ain. Strength and honour is her clothynge, & in the latter daye she shall reioyse.

¹⁶ When I heare thys, my bodye is vexed, my lyppes tremble at the voyce therof, my bones corruppe, I am afrayed where I stande. O that I myght rest in the day of trouble, that I myght go vp vnto oure people, whiche are alredye prepared.

⁷ A man oughte not to couer his heade, for as muche as he is the ymage and glorye of God. The woman is the glorye of the man.

¹¹ Neuerthelesse, neyther is the man wythout the woman neyther the woman wythout the man in the Lorde.

² Euery man telleth lyes too his neyghbour, they do but flatter with their lyppes and dissemble in their herte. ³ O that the Lorde wolde rote out all disceatfull lyppes, and the tonge that speaketh proude thynges.

² For he dissembleth before his face, so longe tyll hys abhominable sinne be founde out. ³ The woordes of hys mouth are vnrighteousnes and disceate, he will not be learned to do good. ⁴ He ymagineth mischief vpon his bedde he wil come in no good waye, nor refuse the thyng that is euel.

⁶ Though he came in to se, yet meaned he falsede in his hert, heapyng myscheyfe vpon hym selfe. ⁷ All they that hate me, runne together agaynst me, and ymagyn euell against me.

¹⁵ I wyl exercise my selfe in thy commaundementes, and haue respect vnto thy fotepathe

²³ Trye me, O God, and seke the grounde of myne herte: proue me, and examen my thoughtes.

¹ To the chaunter, a Psalme of Dauid. Deliuer me, O Lorde, from the euel men, Oh preserue me from the wycked men. ² Which ymagin mischief in their hertes, and stere vp strife all the daye longe. ³ They sharpen their tonges lyke a serpent: adders poyson is vnder their lippes. Selah.

²³ The iust labour for peace and tranquyllite, but the vngodly for disquietnesse.

⁹ The thoughte of the folysh is synne, & the scorneful is an abhominacion vnto men.

⁷ Let the vngodly man forsake his wayes & the vnrighteous his ymaginacions, & turne agayne vnto the Lorde: so shall he be mercyfull vnto him: & to oure God, for he is redy to forgeue.

¹⁴ O Ierusalem wash thine herte from wyckednesse, that thou mayest be helped. Howe longe shal thy noysome thoughtes remayne with the.

³ When Herode the kinge had herde this, he was troubled, and al Ierusalem with him, ⁴ and he gathered al the chiefe priestes and scribes of the people, & axed of them where Christe shoulde be borne. ⁵ And they sayd vnto hym: at Bethleem in Iury. For thus it is wrytten by the prophete. ⁶ And thou Bethleem in the land of Iury, art not the least concerning the Princes of Iuda. For out of the shal come the captaine, that shall gouerne my people Israel. ⁷ Then Herode preuily called the wyse men, and diligently enquired of them, the tyme of the starre that apeared, ⁸ and sent them to Bethleem sayinge: Go and searche diligentlye for the childe. And when ye haue founde hym, bringe me worde, that I may come and worshyppe him also.

¹⁶ Then Herode perceauing that he was mocked of the wyse men, was excedinge wroth, & sent forth and slue al the children that were in Bethleem, and in all the costes therof, as many as were two yere olde and vnder according to the time which he had diligently searched out of the wise men.

⁴ and helde a counsell, howe they myghte take Iesus by sutteltie, and kyl hym.

⁵ Therfore iudge nothinge before the tyme vntill the Lorde come, who wyll lyghten thinges, that are hyd in darckenes, and open the counsels of the hertes. And then shall euery man haue praise of God.

² but haue caste from vs the clokes of vnhonestye, and walke not in craftynes, neyther corrupte we the word of God: but walke in open trueth, & reporte our selues to euerye mans conscience in the syght of God.

¹ Then Ahithophel sayd vnto Absalom: let me chose out, I pray the, twelue thousand men. And I will vp and folowe after Dauid by night. ² And I wil come vpon hym whyle he is werye and weake handed, and will feare him, that all the people that are wt hym shal flee. And so wyl I smyte the kinge onlye, ³ and wyl brynge agayne al the people vnto the. And when al these men whyche thou sekest, are turned to the, and al the people shal haue rest. ⁴ And the sayinge pleaseth Absalom well and all the elders of Israel.

⁷ And Mardocheus told him of all that had happened vnto him, and of the summe of siluer that Haman had promysed to weye doune in the kinges chamber because of the Iewes for to destroy them: ⁸ and he gaue him the copy of the commaundement, that was deuised at Susan to destroy them, that he might shewe it vnto Esther, and to speake to her, and charge her, that she shoulde go into the kynge and make her prayer and supplicacion vnto hym for her people. ⁹ And when Hathath came in, & told Esther the wordes of Mardocheus, ¹⁰ Esther spake vnto Hathath, and commaunded hym to saye vnto Mardocheus: ¹¹ all the kynges seruauntes, and the people in the landes of the king know that whosoeuer commeth within the courte vnto the king, whether it be man or woman, which is not called, the commaundement is that the same shall dye immediatly, excepte the kinge holde oute the goulden scepter vnto him, that he maye lyue. As for me, I haue not bene called to come into the kyng, now this thirty dayes. ¹² And when Mardocheus was certifyed of Esthers worde ¹³ Mardocheus bad say again vnto Esther: thynke not to saue thyne owne lyfe, whyle thou arte in the kynges house before all Iewes: ¹⁴ for yf thou holdest thy peace at this tyme, then shall the Iewes haue helpe and delyueraunce out of another place, and thou and thy fathers house shalbe destroied. And who knoweth wheter thou art come to the kyngedome, for this tymes sake?

⁴ for we are sold I & my people bothe to be destroyed, to be slayne & to perish: & would god we were solde to be bondmen & bondwemen, then would I hold my tonge, so should not the enemye be so hye to the kynges harme. ⁵ The kinge Ahasuerus spake and sayde vnto quene Esther: what is he that? Or where is he that darre presume in hys mynd to do such a thynge after that maner? ⁶ Esther sayde: the enemy and aduersarye is this wicked Haman. As for Haman, he was exceadingly afrayed before the Kynge & the quene.

¹¹ if they entise the, & say: come with vs, let vs leye wayte for bloud, and lurke preuely for the innocent without a cause: ¹² let vs swalow them vp like the hel, let vs deuour them quicke & whole, as those that go doune into the pyt. ¹³ So shal we finde al maner of costely riches, & fil our houses wt spoiles. ¹⁴ Cast in thy lot among vs, we shall haue all one purse. ¹⁵ My sonne, walke not thou with them, refrayn thy fote from their ways. ¹⁶ For their fete runne to euel, & are hasty to shed bloud. ¹⁷ But in vayn is the net laied forth before the byrdes eyes. ¹⁸ Yea, they themselfes laye wayte one for anothers bloud, & one of them wolde sley another. ¹⁹ These are the ways of all suche as be couetous, that one wolde rauish anothers life.

³ In the mouth of the folyshe is the boastynge of lordshyppe, but the lyppes of the wyse wylbe ware of such.

⁷ Their fete runne to euyll, & they make haste to shed innocent bloude. Their councels are wycked councel, harme and destruccion are in their wayes.

²⁶ For amonge my people are founde wicked personnes, that pryuelye laye snares & wayte for men, to take them & destroye them.

¹ Wo is me: I am become as one, that goeth a gleanynge in the haruest. There are no mo grapes to eate, yet wolde I fayne (with all my herte) haue of the best fruyte. ² There is not a godlye man vpon earth, there is not one ryghtuous amonge men. They laboure al to shed bloud, and euery man hunteth his brother to death:

¹² When daye was come, certayne of the Iewes gathered them selues together, & made a vowe, saiynge, that they woulde neyther eate nor drynke, tyll they had kylled Paul.

¹⁵ Nowe therfore geue ye knoweledge to the vpper captayne & to the counsell, that he brynge hym forthe vnto vs to morowe as thoughe we woulde knowe some thynge more perfectlye of hym: But we, or euer he come neare, are readye in the meane season to kyll hym.

³ and desiered fauoure agaynste him, that he would sende for him to Hierusalem: and layed awayte for him in the waye to kyl him.

¹⁶ And thyne house and thy kyngdome shall endure wythoute ende after the, and thy seate shalbe stablyshed for euer.

²⁶ And let thy name be great for euer, that men maye saye, the Lorde of hostes is the God of Israel: and let the house of thy seruaunt Dauid be stablyshed before the.

⁶ And at the castel of Susan slue the Iewes & destroyed fyue hundreth men: ⁷ & slewe Pharsandatha, Delphon, Asphatha, ⁸ Phoratha, Adalia, Aridatha, ⁹ Pharmastha, Arisai, Aridai, Daizatha, ¹⁰ the ten sonnes of Haman the sonne of Hamadatha the enemy of the Iewes: but on hys goodes they layed no handes.

¹⁴ And the Kyng charged to do so, & the commaundement was deuysed at Susan, & Hamans ten sonnes were hanged.

³ I haue sene my selfe, when the folishe was depe roted, that hys bewty was sodenly destroied, ⁴ that his chyldren were without prosperite or healt: that they were slayne in the dore, and no man to delyuer them:

²⁰ As for the eyes of the vngodly, they shalbe consumed, and not escape: theyr hope shalbe mysery and sorow of mynde.

¹⁵ Other men shall dwell in his house (which now is none of his) and brymstone shalbe scatered vpon his habitacion. ¹⁶ Hys rotes shalbe dryed vp beneth, and aboue shall his haruest be cutt downe. ¹⁷ Hys remembraunce shall perish from the earth, & hys name shall not be praysed in the stretes: ¹⁸ he shalbe dryuen from the lyght into darcknesse, and be cast cleane out of the world. ¹⁹ He shall nether haue chyldren nor kynsfolckes amonge his people, no, ner eny posterite in his countre: ²⁰ yonng & olde shalbe astonished at his death.

¹⁸ His house shall endure as the moth, and as a bothe that the watcheman maketh. ¹⁹ When the ryche man dyeth, he caried nothing with him: he is gone in the twinckelynge of an eye. ²⁰ Destruccyon taketh holde vpon him as a water floud, and the tempest stealeth hym awaie in the nyghte season. ²¹ A vehemente wynde caried him hence and departeth: a storme plucketh hym oute of his place. ²² It russheth in vpon hym, and spareth him not, he maye not escape from the power thereof. ²³ Then clappe men their handes at him, yea and yeast of him, when they loke vpon his place.

²⁵ For he knoweth theyr euyll and darcke worckes, therfore shall they be destroyed.

¹⁰ Suffre yet a litle whyle, and the vngodly shalbe cleane gone: thou shalt loke after hys place, and he shalbe awaye.

³⁵ I my selfe haue sene the vngodly in great power, & florishinge lyke a grene baye tree: ³⁶ but when I went by, lo, he was gone: I sought hym, but he coulde no where be founde. ³⁷ Kepe innocency, and take hede vnto the thynge that is ryghte, for that shall brynge a man peace at the last.

¹⁸ Namely, how thou hast set them in a slippery place, that thou mayst cast them doune headlinges and destroye them. ¹⁹ O how sodenly do they consume, perysh, and come to a fearful ende?

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

¹¹ The houses of the vngodly shalbe ouerthrowne, but the tabernacles of the rightuous shal florish.

²⁵ The Lord wyl breake downe the house of the proud, but he shal make fast the borders of the widdowe,

³ Thorow wysdome an house shalbe builded, & wt vnderstandyng shalbe set vp. ⁴ Thorow discrecion shal the chambers he fylled wyth al costly & plesant ryches.

²⁴ Whosoeuer heareth of me these sayinges and doethe the same, I wyll lyken hym vnto a wyse man which buylt hys housse on a rocke ²⁵ and aboundaunce of rayne descended, and the flouddes came, and the windes blew and bet vpon that same housse, and it fell not because it was grounded on the rocke. ²⁶ And whosoeuer heareth of me these sayinges and doeth them not, shalbe lykened vnto a folyshe man whyche buylt hys housse vpon the sande ²⁷ and abundance of rayne descended, and the floudes came, and the wyndes blewe and bet vpon that housse, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.

³⁹ wherfore Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: for as moch as God hath shewed the al this, there is no man of vnderstandyng or of wysdome lyke vnto the.

¹³ Then sayde Samuel to Saul, thou hast done folyshly & hast not kept the commaundement of the Lorde thy God whiche he commaunded the. For at thys tyme wolde the Lord haue stablished thy kyngdom vpon Israel for euer.

¹⁸ Then answered one of hys seruauntes, and saide. Beholde, I haue sene a sonne of Isai the Bethlehemyte, that can playe vpon instrumentes, and is an actyue felowe and a man of warre and prudent and well made, and the Lorde is with hym,

³⁰ And when the Philistines went out to warre, Dauid behaued hym selfe wyselyer then all the seruauntes of Saul: so that hys name was moche set bye.

¹⁷ Now take hede and se what thou hast to do, for it is concluded to do mischeue vnto our maister, and to al his houshold. And he is vngracyous to speake to.

¹⁸ As for hys enemyes, I shall clothe them wyth shame, but vpon hym selfe shall hys crowne florysh.

²⁶ Therfore shall I also laugh in your destruccion, & mocke you, when the thyng that ye feare cometh vpon you:

³⁵ The wise shall haue honour in possession, but shame is the promocion that foles shall haue.

²³ Because he wold not be refourmed he shall dye: and for his greate folyshnesse he shalbe destroyed.

¹ wher as no man hath wysdome and vnderstandynge, to geue answere thereunto. Wysdome maketh a mans face to shyne, but malyce putteth it oute of fauoure.

² Many of them that slepe in the dust of the earth, shal awake: some to euerlastinge lyfe, some to perpetual shame and reprofe.

⁸ But as for you, ye are gone cleane out of the waye, & haue caused the multitude to be offended at the lawe: ye haue broken the couenaunt of Leui, sayeth the Lord of hostes. ⁹ Therfore wil I also make you to be despised, and to be of no reputacion among al the people, because ye haue not kepte my wayes, but bene parcial in the lawe.

⁴ saying: I haue synned betrayinge the innocent bloud. And they sayde: what is that to vs? Se thou to that. ⁵ And he caste doune the syluer plates in the temple, and departed, and wente, and honge hym selfe.

⁴² And the Lorde sayd: Yf there be any faithful seruaunte and wyse, whom hys Lorde shall make ruler ouer hys housholde, to geue them theyr dutye of meate at due season: ⁴³ happy is that seruaunt: whom hys mayster when he commeth, shall fynde so doinge. ⁴⁴ Of a truth I say vnto you: that he wyl make hym ruler ouer all that he hath:

⁸ And the Lord commended the vniust steward because he had done wyslye. For the chyldren of thys worlde are in theyr kynde, wyser then the chyldren of lyght,

²³ And immediatly the aungell of the Lorde smote hym, because he gaue not God the glorye, and he was eaten of wormes, and gaue vp the ghost.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God geuen vnto me, as a wyse buylder haue I layde the foundation. And another buylte theron. But let euery man take hede how he buildeth vpon. ¹¹ For other foundation can no man laie, then that whiche is layde, whiche is Iesus Christ. ¹² Yf any man buylde on this foundacion, golde, syluer, precyous stones timber, haye or stobble: ¹³ euerye mans worke shall appeare. For the daye shal declare it, & it shalbe shewed in fyre. And the fyre shall trye euery mannes worke, what it is. ¹⁴ Yf any mannes worke that he hath buylt vpon, byde: he shall receiue a rewarde. ¹⁵ If any mannes worke burne, he shall suffer losse: but he shalbe safe him selfe: neuerthelesse yet as it were thorow fyre.

¹⁸ For he that prayseth hym self, is not allowed: but he whom the Lorde prayseth.

⁷ Some men are rych, thoughe they haue nothynge: againe some men are pore hauing greate ryches.

¹¹ For whosoeuer exalteth him selfe, shalbe broughte lowe. And he that humbleth him selfe, shalbe exalted.

¹³ And he said vnto him: my lord knoweth that I haue tender children, ewes, & kine with yong, vnder myne hand, whych if men shoulde ouerdriue but euen one day, the whole flocke wold dye. ¹⁴ Let my Lord therfore go before his seruaunte, and I wyl dryue fayre and softly, accordyng as the cattell that goth before me, & the chyldren, be able to endure: vntyll I come to my Lord vnto Seir.

²⁶ Than sayde Iuda to hys brethren, what auayleth it that we sley oure brother, & kepe hys bloude secret? ²⁷ come on, let vs sell hym to the Ismaelites, & let not our handes be defyled vpon him: for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content. ²⁸ Than as the Madianites marchaunt men passed by, they drewe Ioseph out of the pyt & solde hym vnto the Ismaelites for .xx. peces of syluer. And they brought him into Egypte.

²⁸ And the Lorde opened the mouth of the asse, & she sayed vnto Balam: what haue I done vnto the, that thou smyteste me thus .iij. tymes? ²⁹ And Balam sayed vnto the asse: bycause thou hast mocked me? I would that I had a swerde in myne hande, that I myght now kyll the. ³⁰ And the asse sayd vnto Balam am I not thyne asse whych thou hast ridden vpon sence thou wast borne vnto this daye? Was I euer wont to do so vnto the? And he sayed naye. ³¹ And the Lord opened the eyes of Balam that he sawe the angel of the Lord standyng in the waye, wyth hys swerd drawen in hys hande. And he bowed him selfe & fel flatt on hys face. ³² And the angell of the Lorde sayed vnto him. Wherfore smitest thou thyne asse thus .iij. tymes? behold I came out to resiste the for the waye is contrarye vnto me,

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

⁷ Then Adonibezek sayd: thre score & .x. kynges hauynge theyr thombes & greate toes cut of, gathered theyr meate vnder my table: wherfore as I haue done so, God hath done to me agayne. And they brought him to Ierusalem and there he dyed.

² And Nahas the Amonite said: herto will I make a couenaunt wt you, euen to thrust oute all youre ryght eyes, that I may bring that shame vpon al Israel.

¹¹ The woman sayd to hym: Syr thou hast nothinge to drawe wyth, and the well is depe: from whence then hast thou that water of lyfe?

³¹ The Iewes then because it was the saboth euen, that the bodyes shoulde not remayne vpon the crosse on the saboth day (for that Saboth daye was an hye daye) besought Pylate that theyr legges myghte be broken, and that they myghte be taken doune. ³² Then came the souldyers, and brake the legges of the fyrst & of the other, which was crucified with Iesus.

¹³ For there shalbe iudgemente mercyles to hym, that sheweth no mercy, & mercy reioyseth against iudgemente. ¹⁴ What auayleth it my brethren, thoughe a man saye he hath faythe, when he hath no deedes? Can fayth saue hym? ¹⁵ If a brother or a sister be naked or destitute of dayly fode, ¹⁶ and one of you saye vnto them: Departe in peace, God sende you warmnes and fode: not wyth standynge ye geue them not those thynges which are nedefull to the bodye: what helpeth it them?

¹⁷ Whosoeuer hath this worldes good, and seeth his brother haue nede, and shutteth vp his compassion from him, howe dwelleth the loue of God in hym?

¹⁹ In the swete of thy face shalt thou eate brede, vntyll thou returne vnto the erth whence thou wast taken: for erth thou art, & vnto erth shalt thou returne.

⁴ And thei gaue him .lxx. peces of syluer out of the house of Baal Berith, wyth whiche Abimelech hyred Iehel, and lyght persons which went with him.

⁴ I syt not amonge vayne personnes, & haue no feloshippe with the disceatfull.

² For thou shalte eate the laboures of thyne owne handes: O well is the, happy art thou.

¹⁰ My sonne, consent not vnto sinners,

¹⁴ Come not in the path of the vngodly, and walke not in the waye of the wycked. ¹⁵ Eschue it, and go not therein: departe a syde, and passe ouer by it.

³² But who so comitteth aduoutry wyth a womanne, he is a fole, and bringeth hys lyfe to destruccyon.

⁷ & beheld the simple people: and among other yong folkes I spyed one yonge fole

⁶ Forsake ignoraunce, & ye shall lyue: & se that ye go in the way of vnderstandinge.

¹³ A folysh restles woman, ful of words, and such one as hath no knowledge,

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

²⁰ He that goeth in the company of wyse men, shalbe wyse: but who so is a companyon of foles, shalbe hurte.

²³ Ther is plentuousnesse of fode in the feldes of the pore, and shalbe increased out of measure.

⁴ Where no oxen are, ther the cribbe is empty: but where the oxen labour ther is much frute.

²³ Diligent laboure bringeth ryches, but wher many vayne wordes are, trulye ther is scarcenesse.

²⁷ thou shalt haue goates mylcke ynough to fede the, to vpholde thy housholde, and to susteyne thy maydens.

¹⁹ He that tylleth his lande, shall haue plenteousnesse of bread: but he that foloweth ydilnesse, shall haue pouerte ynough.

⁸ They that holde of vayue vanyties, will forsake hys mercy.

²⁸ Let hym that stole, steale no more, but let hym rather laboure wyth his handes some good thynge, that he maye haue to geue vnto hym that nedeth.

¹¹ and that ye studye to be quyete, and to medle with youre owne busines, and to worke wyth youre owne handes, as we commaunded you: ¹² that ye may behaue your selues honestly towardes them that are wythout, and that nothinge be lackinge vnto you.

⁸ Neyther toke we bread of anye man for nought: but wroughte wyth laboure and trauayle nyght and daye, because we would not be greuous to anye of you:

¹⁰ For there are many dysobedyent: & talkers of vanitye and disceyuers of myndes, namely they of the circumcision, ¹¹ whose mouthes must be stopped: whiche peruerte whole houses teachynge thynges whiche they oughte not because of fylthy lucre.

³ Suche a man is lyke a tree planted by the watersyde, that bringeth forthe hys frute in due season. His leaues shall not fall af, & loke whatsoeuer he doth, it shall prospere.

⁹ He lyeth waytynge secretlye, as ti were a lyon in hys denne. He lurketh that he maye rauyshe the pore, yea, to rauysh the poore, when he hath gotten him into hys net.

¹⁵ The rich mans goodes are his strong hold, but pouerte oppresseth the poore.

⁵ Whoso flattereth hys neyghboure, layeth a nette for hys fete. ⁶ The synne of the wycked is his owne snare, but the ryghtuons shall be glad and reioyse.

⁶ It wyll come to thys poynte, that Iacob shalbe roted agayne, & Israel shallbe grene, and beare floures, and they shall fyll the whole worlde with theyr frute.

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

²⁶ For amonge my people are founde wicked personnes, that pryuelye laye snares & wayte for men, to take them & destroye them. ²⁷ And lyke as a net is ful of byrdes, so are their houses full of that which they haue gotten wt falshed and disceyte. Hereof commeth theyr greate substaunce and ryches, ²⁸ hereof are they fat and welthy, and are runne awaye fro me wyth shameful blasphemyes. They mynistre not the lawe, they make no ende of the fatherlesses cause, they iudge not the poore according to equite.

⁷ O blessed is the man, that putteth hys trust in the Lorde, and whose hope is the Lorde hym selfe. ⁸ For he shalbe as a tre, that is planted by the water syde: which spredeth out the rote vnto moystness, whom the heate can not harme, when it commeth, but his leaues are grene. And though there growe but lytle frute because of drouth, yet is he not carefull, but he neuer leaueth of to brynge forth fruite.

² There is not a godlye man vpon earth, there is not one ryghtuous amonge men. They laboure al to shed bloud, and euery man hunteth his brother to death:

¹⁵ They take vp all with theyr angle, they catche it in theyr net, and gather it in theyr yarne: whereof they reioyce, and are glad, ¹⁶ Therfore offre they vnto theyr net, and do sacryfyce vnto theyr yarne: because that thorowe it theyr porcyon is become so fat, & theyr meate so plenteous. ¹⁷ Wherfore they cast oute theyr net agayne, and neuer cease to slaye the people.

¹³ Thei on the stones, are thei which when they heare, receiue the worde with ioye. But these haue no rotes, whiche for a whyle beleue, & in tyme of temptacion go awaye. ¹⁴ And that whiche fell amonge thornes, are thei which heare, and go forth, and are choked with cares and with ryches, and voluptuouse liuinge, and bringe forth no fruite. ¹⁵ That in the good grounde, are they whyche with a good and pure herte, heare the worde and kepe it, and brynge forth fruyte wyth pacience.

⁵ I am the vyne, and ye are the braunches. He that abydeth in me, and I in him, the same bryngeth forth muche frute. For without me can ye do nothynge.

¹⁶ Ye haue not chosen me, but I haue chosen you and ordeyned you, that ye go & bringe forth frute, and that your frute remayne, and that whatsoeuer ye shall axe of the father in my name, he shoulde geue it to you.

²² But nowe are ye deliuered from synne, and made the seruauntes of God, and haue youre fruyte that ye shoulde be sanctified, & the ende euerlastynge lyfe.

¹⁶ And the augell which hath delyuered me from al euyll, blesse these laddes: that they may be called after my name, and after my father Abraham and Isaac, and that they may growe & multiplye vpon the erth.

⁹ And Dauid aunswered Rechab and Baanah hys brother, the sonnes of Reman the Berothite, and sayde vnto them: as surelye as the Lorde lyueth whiche hath delyuered my soule out of all aduersites:

²³ Then kynge Salomon sware by the Lorde sayinge: God do so to me, and so therto yf Adoniah haue not spoken this worde agaynst hym selfe.

⁶ Thou destroiest the lyers: the Lord abhorreth the bloude thursty and disceatful.

¹⁹ Great are the troubles of the righteous, but the Lorde delyuereth them out of all.

⁸ Yea their owne tonges shall make them fall, in somuch that who so seyth them, shall laugh them to scorne.

² yet thou art bound with thyne owne wordes, & taken wt thine owne speache.

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

² A wise tonge commendeth knowledg, a folysh mouth blabbeth oute no thynge but folyshnesse.

⁶ A fooles lippes are euer brawling, and his mouth prouoketh vnto battayll. ⁷ A fooles mouth is hys owne destruccion and his lippes are the snare for his owne soule.

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

¹⁸ It is good for the to take hold of thys, and not to let that go out of thy hand. For he that fereth God shal escape them al.

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

²⁵ Then aunswered al the people & sayed, his bloude be on vs and on oure children.

³⁵ Who shall seperate vs from the loue of God shall tribulation? or anguyshe? or persecution? othere honger? other nakednesse? other peryll? other swearde? ³⁶ As it is wrytten: For thy sake are we killed al day longe, and are counted as shepe appointed to be slayne. ³⁷ Neuerthelesse in all these thynges we ouercome stronglye thorowe hys helpe that loued vs.

⁹ The Lorde knoweth howe to deliuer the Godlye out of temptacion, and howe to reserue the vniuste vnto the daye of iudgement for to be punyshed,

⁵ My soule is satisfied euen as it were with mary and fatnesse, when my mouth prayseth the with ioyful lyps.

² A good man shall enioye the fruite of hys mouth, but he that hath a froward mind shalbe spoyled.

²³ O howe ioyfull a thing is it, a man to geue a conuenyente answere? O how pleasaunt is a word spoken in due season.

²⁰ A mans belly shalbe satisfied wyth the fruyte of hys owne mouthe, and wyth the increase of hys lyppes shall he be fylled. ²¹ Death & lyfe stand in the power of the tong, he that loueth it shal enioy the frute thereof.

¹⁰ Then shall they saye. O happye are the godly, for they maye enioye the frutes of theyr studyes. ¹¹ But wo be to the vngodlye & vnryghtuous for they shall be rewarded after theyr worckes.

⁴¹ He that receyueth a Prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receyue a prophetes reward. And he that receyueth a righteouse man in the name of a righteous man, shal receyue the rewarde of a righteous man. ⁴² And whosoeuer shall geue vnto one of these lytle ones to drinke, a cuppe of colde water only, in the name of a discypell: I tell you of a truthe, he shall not lose his rewarde.

²⁷ For the sonne of man shall come in the glorye of hys father, wyth hys aungels: & then shall he rewarde euery man accordyng to his dedes.

⁶ It is verely a ryghteous thing with God to recompence trybulacyon to them that trouble you: ⁷ and to you whiche are troubled, reste wyth vs, when the Lorde Iesus shall shewe hym selfe from heauen wyth hys myghtye Aungels,

² For yf the word which was spoken by Angels was stedfast, so that euery transgression and disobedience receyued a iuste recompence to rewarde,

²⁶ and estemed the rebuke of Christe greater ryches then the treasure of Egypte. For he had respect vnto the reward.

⁵ By hearing, the wyse man shall come by more wysedome: & by experience

⁷ Be not wyse in thyne own conceyte, but feare the Lord, & departe from euell:

⁹ Geue a discrete man but an occasion, & he wilbe the wiser, teache a righteous man, and he will increase.

¹² Ther is a waye whiche some men thinke to be ryght, but the ende thereof leadeth vnto death.

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

² A man thynketh al his waies to be cleane, but it is the Lord that fashyoneth the mindes

²⁵ Ther is away that men thinke to be right but the ende thereof leadeth vnto death.

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

² Euery man thynketh hys owne waye to be ryght, but the Lord iudgeth the herts.

¹² If thou seiest a man that is wyse in his owne conceate, there is more hope in a fole then in him.

¹⁶ The slogard thynketh hym selfe wyser then? .vij. men that sit & teach.

¹¹ The rych man thyncketh him selfe to be wyse, but the poore that hath vnderstandynge can perceaue him well ynough.

¹² The generacion that thynke them selfes cleane, shall not be clensed from their filthynesse.

¹³ A poore chylde beynge wyse, is better then an olde kynge, that doteth, & can not beware in tyme to come.

¹⁵ Then Ieremye answerde Zedekiah: Yf I be playne vnto the thou wilt cause me suffre death: yf I geue the councel, thou wylt not folow me. ¹⁶ So the king swore an oth secretly vnto Ieremye, sayinge: As truely as the Lorde lyueth, that made vs these soules, I wil not slay the, nor geue the into the handes of them that seke after thy lyfe. ¹⁷ Then sayde Ieremye vnto Zedekiah: Thus sayeth the Lord of Hostes the God of Israel: Yf case be, that thou wylt go forth vnto the kynge of Babilons Princes, thou shalt saue thy lyfe, and thys cyty shall not be brent, yea both thou and thy housholde shal escape wyth youre lyues. ¹⁸ But yf thou wylt not go forth to the kynge of Babylons prynces, then shall this cytye be delyuered into the handes of the Caldees whiche shal set fyre vpon it, & thou shalt not be able to escape them. ¹⁹ And Zedekiah sayde vnto Ieremy: I am afrayde for the Iewes, that are fled vnto the Caldees, lest I come in their handes, & so they to haue me in derysyon. ²⁰ But Ieremye answerde: No, they shall not betraye the. O herken vnto the voyce of the Lord (I beseche the) whyche I speake vnto the, so shalt thou be wel, and saue thy lyfe. ²¹ But yf thou wylt not go forth, the Lord hath told me this planely. ²² Beholde al the wemen that are left in the kynge of Iudaes house, shall go out to the kyng of Babylons princes. For they thincke, that thou art disceyued: and that men in whome thou diddest put thy truste, haue gotten the vnder, & set thy fete fast in the mire, and gone their waye from the. ²³ Therefore al thy wyues with their children shall fle vnto the Caldees, and thou shalte not escape their handes, but shalt be the kinge of Babylons presoner, and this cytie shalbe brente. ²⁴ Then sayd Zedekiah vnto Ieremy: loke that no body knowe of these wordes, & thou shalt not dye. ²⁵ But yf the princes perceyue, that I haue talked with the, & come vnto the, saying: O speake, what saide the kinge to the? hyde it not from vs, and we wil not put the to death. Tel vs (we pray the) what saide the kinge to the? ²⁶ Se thou geue them this answere: I haue humbly besought the kinge, that he will let me lye no more in Iehonathans house, that I dye not there? ²⁷ Then came all the princes vnto Ieremy, and asked him. And he tolde them, after the maner as the kinge bad him. Then they helde their peace, for they perceiued nothinge. ²⁸ So Ieremye abode still in the fore entrie of the preson, vntil the daye that Ierusalem was wonne.

¹¹ The Pharyse stode and prayed thus with hym selfe: God I thanke the, that I am not as other men are, extorsioners, vniust, aduouterers, or as this publican,

³ Yf anye man seme to hym selfe, that he is somwhat, when in dede he is nothynge the same deceyueth hym selfe in hys ymaginacyon.

³⁰ Then was Saul angry with Ionathas and sayde vnto hym: O frowarde and rebellyous, thyukest thou I knowe not howe thou hast chosen the sonne of Isai vnto thine owne rebuke, and vnto the rebuke & shame of thy mother. ³¹ For as longe as the sonne of Isai lyueth vpon the earth, thou shalt not be stabylyshed, nor yet thy kyngdome, wherfore now sende and fet him vnto me, for he is the child of the death. ³² But Ionathas answered Saul hys father and sayde to hym: wherefore should he dye? what hath he done? ³³ Then Saul cast a speare at hym to hyt hym, wherby Ionathas wyst well, that it was vtterlye determyned of hys father, to sley Dauid. ³⁴ And so Ionathas arose from the table in a great anger and dyd eate no meate the second daye of the moneth, for he was sory for Dauid, because his father had done hym shame.

¹ And Ahab tolde Iezabel, all that Eliah had done, and al together how he had slayne the Prophetes with the swerde. ² Then Iezabel sent a messenger vnto Eliah sayinge: so do God to me and so therto, except I make thy soule lyke one of theirs, by to morow this tyme:

¹² Euyll wyll stereth vp strife, but loue couereth the multytude of synnes.

³³ Wysdome resteth in the herte of him that hath vnderstandynge, and he wyll teach theym that are vnlearned.

²² Vnderstanding is a wel of lyfe vnto him that hath it, as for the chastenyng of foles, it is but folishnesse.

⁹ Who so couereth another mans offence seketh loue: but he that discloseth the faut setteth frends at variance.

²⁸ He that can not rule him self, is like a city which is broken doune, & hath no walles.

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

¹⁹ Wherfore deare brethren, let euerye man be swyfte to heare, slowe to speake, and slow to wrath.

¹⁴ And Ahymelech answered the kynge & sayde: who is so faythfull amonge all thy seruauntes as Dauid & therto the kinges sonne in lawe, and goeth at thy bidding, and is had in honoure in thyne house? ¹⁵ haue I thys daye begonne fyrst to aske councel of God for him? God forbyd that from me: let not the kynge put suche a thinge vnto hys seruaunt and on all the house of my father. For thy seruaunt knoweth nothinge of all thys, ether lesse or more.

¹⁹ a false witnes that bringeth vp lies, and such one as soweth dyscord amonge brethren,

⁵ A faithful witnesse will not dyssemble, but a false recorde wyll make a lye.

²⁵ A faythfull wytnesse delyuereth soules, but a lyar disceaueth them,

⁵ A false witnesse shall not remayne vnpunished, & he that speaketh lyes shal not escape.

²⁸ A false witnes laugheth iudgement to scorn & the mouth of the vngodly eateth vp wickednes.

²⁸ A false witnesse shall perish, but he that wilbe content to heare, shall alway haue power to speake him selfe.

²⁸ Be no false witnesse against thy neighbour hurte hym not with thy lyppes.

¹⁹ For out of the hert come euil thoughtes, murther, breakyng of wedlocke, whoredom, thefte, false, witnes bearing, blasphemye.

⁵⁹ The chiefe priestes and the elders, and all the counsell, sought false wytnes agaynst Iesus, for to put hym to death,

¹³ and brought him to the counsell and brought forth false witnesses whiche sayde. This man ceaseth not to speake blaspemous wordes against thys holy place, and the lawe,

¹⁶ hauinge a good conscience, that when they backbyte you as euyl doers, they maye be ashamed, for as muche as they haue falsely accused your good conuersation in Christ.

² Thy tonge ymagyneth wyckednesse, and with lyes it cutteth like a sharpe rasoure.

⁴ I lye wyth my soule among the cruel lions euen among the chyldren of men, whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tonge a sherpe sweard.

⁷ Beholde, they speake (agaynste me) wyth their mouth, swerdes are vnder their lippes for who reproueth them?

³ Which whet their tonges lyke a sweard, and shote wyth their veneymous words like as with arowes.

²² For they are lyfe vnto all those that fynde them, and health vnto all their bodyes.

²⁰ An innocent tong is a noble treasure, but the hert of the vngodly is nothynge worthe. ²¹ The lyppes of the rightuous fed a whole multitude, but foles shal die in their owne folye.

¹⁷ An vngodly messanger bryngeth myschyefe, but a faythfull embassytour is wholsome.

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

⁷ A wyse mouth poureth out knowledge, but the herte of the folysh doth not so.

²⁴ Fayre wordes are an hony combe, a refreshynge of the mynde, and helth of the bones.

¹⁸ Who so beareth false wytnesse agaynst hys neyghboure, he is a verye speare, a swearde, and a sharpe arowe.

³³ Those also that haue vnderstandyng among the people shall enfourme the multitude: and for a long season, they shalbe persecuted with swerde, with fyre, with captyuyte and with the takinge awaye of their goodes.

⁶ and the tonge is fyre, and a worlde of wickednes. So is the tong set among our members, that it defyleth the whole body and setteth a fyre all that we haue of nature, & is it selfe set a fyre euen of hell. ⁷ All the natures of beastes, and of byrdes, and of serpentes, and thynges of the sea, are meked and tamed of the nature of man. ⁸ But the tonge can no man tame. It is an vnrulye euyll ful of deadly poyson.

¹⁶ And he had in hys ryghthande .vij. starres. And out of his mouth went a sharp two edged sweard. And hys face shone euen as the sonne in hys strength.

² In the middes of the strete of it, and of eyther syde of the ryuer was the wode of lyfe: which bare .xij. maner of frutes: & gaue frute euerye moneth: and the leaues of the wodde serued to heale the people wythall.

⁵ the prayse of the vngodlye hath bene shorte, and that the ioye of ypocrites continued but the twyncklyng of an eye?

⁴ Thou louest to speake al wordes that may do hurte. O thou false tonge. ⁵ Therfore shall God cleane destroye the, smyte the in peces, pluke the out of thy dwellynge, and rote the out of the lande of the lyuynge. Selah.

⁹ A false witnesse shall not remayne vnpunished, & he that speaketh lyes shal perish.

⁴ Be not ye lyke youre forefathers, vnto whom the Prophetes cryed afore tyme, sayinge: Thus sayeth the Lord God of hostes. Turne you from youre euyll wayes, & from your wicked ymaginacyons. But thei wolde not heare, nor regarde me, sayeth the Lorde. ⁵ What is nowe become of your forefathers & the prophetes? are they yet styll aliue? ⁶ But dyd not my wordes and statutes (which I commaunded by my seruauntes the prophetes) touche your forefathers? Vpon this, they gaue aunswere and sayde: lyke as the Lord of hostes deuysed to do vnto vs, accordynge to oure owne wayes & ymagynacyons, euen so hath he dealte wyth vs.

³⁵ Heauen & earth shal perishe, but my wordes shal abide.

³ Then said Peter. Ananias, how is it, that Sathan hath fylled thyne hert, that thou shouldest lye vnto the holy ghost, and kepe awaye part of the pryce of the lyuelod: ⁴ Pertained it not vnto the onelie, and after it was solde, was not the price in thine owne power? Howe is that, thou hast conceiued this thinge in thyne herte? Thou hast not lied vnto men, but vnto God. ⁵ When Ananias hearde these wordes, he fell doune and gaue vp the ghost. And great feare came on all them that hearde these thinges. ⁶ And the younge men rose vp, and put him a parte and caryed hym out, and buried him. ⁷ And it fortuned as it were aboute the space of thre houres after that hys wyfe came in, ignoraunt of that whiche was done. ⁸ And Peter sayed vnto her: Tell me, gaue ye the lande for so much? And she said: ye for so much. ⁹ Then saied Peter vnto her: why haue ye agreed together to tempte the spiryte of the Lorde? Beholde, the fete of them whiche haue buried thy husbande, are at the dore, and shal cary the out. ¹⁰ Then she fell doune straighte waye at his fete, and yelded vp the ghoste. And the yonge men came in and founde her dead, and caryed her out & buried her by her housbande.

²⁴ An enemy dissembleth with hys lyps, and in the meane season he ymagineth mischefe: ²⁵ but when he speaketh fayre, beleue hym not, for ther are seuen abhomynacons in hys herte. ²⁶ Who so kepeth euel wil, secretly to do hurte, his malice shalbe shewed before the whole congregacion.

⁶ For vnto vs a chylde shalbe borne, and vnto vs a sonne shalbe geuen. Vpon his shoulder shall the kyngedome lye, and he shalbe called with hys owne name. The wonderous geuer of councel, the myghty God, the euerlastinge father, the prynce of peace, ⁷ he shall make no ende to encrease the kyngedome and peace, and shall sytte vpon the seate of Dauid, and in his kyngedome, to set vp the same, to stablyshe it wyth equyte and ryghteousnesse, from thence forth for euermore. This shall the gelousy of the Lorde of hostes brynge to paste.

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

¹³ yea euen he shall buylde vp the temple of the Lord. He shall beare the prayse, he shal syt vpon the Lordes trone, and haue the domynacyon. A Priest shall be also vpon hys trone, & a peaceable councell shalbe betwixte them both.

⁹ Blessed are the peace makers: for thei shalbe called the children of God.

²¹ For from within, euen out of the herte of men, procede euel thoughtes: aduoutry, fornication, murther, ²² theft, coueteousnes, wickednes, deceyte: vncleanenesse and a wicked eye, blasphemy, pryde, folishenes:

¹⁴ And assone as they were come, they saied vnto him: maister, we know that thou arte true, and carest for no man: for considerest not the degre of men, but teacheste the waye of God truly. Is it lawfull to paye trybute to Cesar or not. ¹⁵ Oughte we to geue, or ought we not to geue? He vnderstode theyr simulacyon, and sayde vnto them: Why tempte you me? Brynge me a peny that I maye se it. ¹⁶ And they broughte. And he sayde vnto them: Whose is thys Image and superscripcion? And they sayde vnto hym: Cesars ¹⁷ And Iesus aunswered and sayde vnto them: Then geue to Cesar that which belongeth to Cesar: and to God that whiche pertayneth to God. And they meruayled at hym.

²⁹ beyng ful of al vnryghtuous doing, of fornicacion, wickednes, couetousnes, maliciousnes, full of enuye, murther, debate, disceite, euyl condicioned, whisperers,

¹⁴ Embrace peace wt all men and holynes, wythout the whiche no man shall se the Lorde.

⁸ In conclusyon be ye all of one mynd, one suffer wyth another, loue as brethren, be petifull, be curteous, ⁹ not rendringe euyll for euyll, neyther rebuke for rebuke, but contrarywyse, blesse, remembryng that ye are thervnto called, euen that ye shoulde be heyres of blessinge. ¹⁰ If anye man longe after lyfe, and loueth to se good dayes, let him refrayne his tonge from euil, & his lippes that they speake not gyle. ¹¹ Let hym eschue euyll and do good, let him seke peace, and ensue it. ¹² For the eyes of the Lorde are ouer the rightuous, and his eares are open vnto theyr prayers. But the face of the Lorde beholdeth them that do euil. ¹³ Morouer who is it that wyll harme you, yf ye folowe that whiche is good?

¹⁰ There shall no euell happen vnto the, neither shall any plage come nye thy dwelling.

¹⁴ An vnfaythful personne shalbe filled wyth hys owne wayes, but a good man wyl beware of suche.

¹² Therfore laye thys rydle before them, and saye: Thus sayeth the Lorde God of Israel: Euery pot shalbe fylled with wyne. And they shall saye: thinckest thou we knowe not, that euery pot shalbe fylled with wyne? ¹³ Then shalt thou saye vnto them: Thus sayeth the Lorde: Beholde: I shall fyll all the inhabytours of this lande with dronckennes, the Kynges that syt vpon Dauids stole, the Prestes and Prophetes, with all that dwell at Ierusalem. ¹⁴ And I wyll shute them one agaynst another, yee the fathers agaynst the sonnes, sayeth the Lorde. I wyll not pardon them, I will not spare them, ner haue pytye vpon them: but destroye them.

¹⁶ Therfore wyth shame shalte thou be fylled, in steade of honoure. Drincke thou also tyll thou slombre wyth al: for the cuppe of the Lordes ryght hande shall compasse the about and shamefull spewyng in steade of thy worshippe.

²⁸ For we knowe that all thynges worke for the beste vnto them that loue God, whyche also are called of purpose.

²² whether it be Paule, other Apollo, other Cephas: whether it be the world, other lyfe, other deathe, whether they be present thynges or thinges to come: all are youres, ²³ and ye are Christes & Christ is Gods.

¹⁷ For oure excedynge trybulation whiche is momentanye and lyghte, prepareth an excedynge and eternall wayghte of glory vnto vs,

¹³ Morouer who is it that wyll harme you, yf ye folowe that whiche is good?

⁶ Reward her euen as she rewarded you, & geue her double accordinge to her workes. And youre in double to her in the same cuppe, which she fylled vnto you.

¹⁶ There be sixe thinges which the Lorde hateth, and the seuenth he vtterly abhorreth: ¹⁷ A proude loke, a dyssemblynge tonge, handes that shede innocent bloud,

¹ A false balance is an abhomynation vnto the Lord, but a true weight pleaseth him.

²⁰ The Lord abhorreth a fayned hert, but he hath pleasur in them that are vndefiled.

⁸ The Lorde aborreth the sacryfyce of the vngodlye, but the prayer of the rightuous is acceptable vnto hym.

¹⁵ By the heade, is vnderstande the Senatoure and honorable man, and by the tayle, the Prophet that preacheth lyes.

²⁴ But who so wyl reioyse, let hym reioyse in this, that he vnderstandeth and knoweth me: for I am the Lorde, which do mercy, equite, and ryghtuousnes vpon the earth. Therefore haue I pleasure in suche thynges, sayeth the Lorde.

¹⁹ and dishonoure me to my people, for an handfull of barleye, and for a pece of breade: when ye kyll the soules of them, that dye not, & promes lyfe to them, that lyue not: Thus ye dyssemble with my people, that beleueth youre lyes.

²² Seynge that with youre lyes ye discomforte the herte of the ryghteous, whome I haue not discomforted: Agayne. For so muche as ye corage the hande of the wycked, so that he maye not turne from hys wicked waye, and lyue:

⁸ But the fearful and vnbeleuing, & the abhominable, & murtherers, & whoremongers, & sorcerers, & ydolaters, & al lyars shall haue their parte in the lake which burneth wt fyre & brymstone, which is the seconde death.

¹⁵ For without shal be dogges & inchaunters, & whoremongers, and murtherers & Idolaters and whosoeuer loueth or maketh leasynges.

¹⁴ Wyse men laie vp knowledge, but the mouth of the folysh is nye destruction.

¹⁹ Where much babling is, ther must nedes be offence: he that refraineth his lippes is wisest of all.

¹³ A dissembling person will discouer preuy thinges, but he that is of a faythful hert, wil kepe counsayl.

¹⁶ A wyse man doth al thinges with dyscrecyon, but a foole wyl declare his folly.

³ A dotyng foole thynketh, that euery man doth as folishly as hym selfe.

¹² The wordes of out a wyse mans mouth are gracious, but the lippes of a fole wil destroy hym self. ¹³ The begynnyng of his talkynge is foolishnes, and the last worde of his mouth is great madnesse. ¹⁴ A foole is so full of woordes, that a man can not tell what ende he will make: who will then warne hym to make a conclusion?

¹⁵ and sawe that rest was good and the land that it was pleasant, and bowed his shulder to beare, and became a seruaunte vnto trybute.

²¹ the chyldren of the sayde nacyons that were lefte in the lande, because the chyldren of Israel were not able to destroy them, dyd Salomon make trybutaryes vnto thys day.

²⁸ And thys felowe Ieroboam was an actyue man. And when Salomon sawe the younge man, that he wroughte so lustelye in the worke, he made hym ruler ouer all the charges of the house of Ioseph.

²⁰ And when all Israell hearde that Ieroboam was come agayn, they sent & called hym vnto the congregacyon and made him kyng ouer Israel: so there folowed the house of Dauid, but the trybe of Iuda only.

⁴ An ydle hand maketh pore, but a quicke laboryng hand maketh ryche.

²⁷ A disceatfull man shall fynde no vauntage, but he that is content with that he hath, is more worthe then golde.

⁴ The slogarde woulde fayne haue, and can not get his dsyre: but the soule of the diligente shall haue plenty.

² A discrete seruaunt shall haue more rule then the sonnes that haue no wysdom, and shal haue like heritage with the brethren.

¹⁵ Slouthfulnes bringeth slepe, & an ydel soule shall suffer hunger.

²⁵ The voluptuousnesse of the slouthfull is hys owne death, for hys handes wyll not laboure. ²⁶ He coueteth and desyreth all the day longe, but the ryghtuous is alwaye geuynge, and kepeth nothynge backe.

¹³ The slouthful body sayeth: ther is a lyon wythoute, I myghte be slayne in the strete.

²⁹ Seyst thou nat, that they whyche be diligent in ther busines stand before kinges and not among the simple people?

³⁰ I went by the felde of the slouthful, and by the vineiarde of the feld of the slouthful and by the vyneyeardes of the folish man. ³¹ And lo, it was all couered wyth nettels, and stode ful of thistles. and the stone wall was broken doune. ³² Thys I saw, and consydered it well I loked vpon it, and toke it for a warnyng. ³³ Yea slepe on styl a lytle, slomber a lytle, fold thyne handes together yet a lytle, ³⁴ so shal pouertye come vnto the as one that trauayleth by the way, and necessite like a weapened man.

¹³ The slouthful sayeth: there is a leopard in the way, and a lion in the myddest of the stretes. ¹⁴ Lyke as the dore turneth aboute vpon the thresholde, euen so doth the slouthfull welter hym self in his bedde. ¹⁵ The slouthful bodye thrusteth his hand into his bosome, and it greueth him to put it agayne to his mouth. ¹⁶ The slogard thynketh hym selfe wyser then? .vij. men that sit & teach.

¹ In the moneth Nisan in the twentieth yeare of kynge Arthaxerses, when the wyne stode before him, I toke vp the wyne, & gaue it vnto the kynge & I was heauy in hys presence. ² Then sayd the kyng vnto me: why lokest thou so sadly? Thou arte not sick, that is not the matter, but thou arte heuy herted. Neuerthelesse I was sore afrayed

⁶ I am broughte into so greate trouble and mysery, 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 wyll yet thanke hym for the helpe of hys countenaunce, and because he is my God.

¹⁸ A sclaunderous personne pricketh like a swerd, but a wise mans tonge is wholsome.

¹⁰ The hert of him that hath vnderstandyng wyll neyther dyspaire for any sorow, ner be to presumptuous for any sodaine ioy.

¹³ A mery hert maketh a chearful countinance but an vnquiet mynd maketh it heuy.

¹⁵ All the dayes of the pore are myserable, but a quyet herte is as a continnual feaste.

²² A merye hert maketh a lusty age, but a sorowful mind dryeth vp the bones.

¹⁴ A good stomacke driueth awaye a mans disease, but when the sptrite is vexed, who may abide it?

¹¹ A worde speken in due season, is lyke apples of golde in a syluer dish.

⁹ The hert is glad of a swet ointment and sauoure, but a stomake that can geue good councel, reioiseth a mans neyghboure.

⁴ The Lorde God hath geuen me a wel learned tunge, so that I can comforte them whiche are troubled, yea & that in due ceason. He waked myne eare vp by tymes in the mornynge (as the scolemasters do) that I myght herken.

¹³ So the Lorde gaue a louynge and a confortable aunswere vnto the aungell that talcked wyth me.

³³ And he toke with him Peter, Iames, and Iohn, & he began to waxe abashed, and to be in an agonye, ³⁴ and said vnto them: My soule is very heauye euen vnto the death: tarye here & watche.

⁴ For in great affliction and anguyshe of herte I wrote vnto you with many teares: not to make you sory, but that ye myght perceyue the loue which I haue most specially vnto you. ⁵ Yf anye man haue caused sorowe the same hath not made me sory, but partelye: leaste I shoulde greue you all. ⁶ It is suffycyente vnto the same man, that he was rebuked of many. ⁷ So that nowe contrarywyse ye ought to forgeue hym, and comforte hym: leaste that same persone shoulde be swalowed vp, with ouer muche heauynes.

³ All my delytes is vpon the saynctes that are in the earth, and vpon suche lyke.

¹² At the brightnes of his presence the cloudes remoued, wyth hayle stones and coales of fyre. ¹³ The Lord also thondred out of the heauen and the heygth gaue his thonder wyth haile stones and coales of fyre.

¹³ The wicked falleth into the snare thorow the malyce of his own mouth, but the iust shal escape out of parel.

²⁷ He is wyse and discrete, that tempereth his wordes: and he is a man of vnderstandinge, that maketh much of his spirite.

⁴⁶ For if ye loue them, whiche loue you: what rewarde shall ye haue? Doo not the publicanes euen so? ⁴⁷ And if ye be frendly to your brethren only what synguler thinge doo ye? Do not the publycanes likewyses? ⁴⁸ Ye shall therfore be perfect, euen as your father which is in heauen, is perfect.

³² Yf ye loue them which loue you, what thanke are ye worthy of? For the verye synners loue their louers. ³³ And if ye do for them which do for you, what thanke are ye worthye of? For the verye synners do euen the same. ³⁴ If ye lende to them of whom ye hope to receiue, what thanke shall ye haue: for the very synners lende to synners to receiue much againe. ³⁵ Wherfore, loue ye your enemyes, do good and lende, lokinge for nothynge againe, and your rewarde shall be greate, and ye shalbe the children of the hyest for he is kinde vnto the vnkinde and to the euyll. ³⁶ Be ye therfore mercifull, as your father is mercyfull.

¹³ Let no man saye when he is tempted, that he is tempted of God. For god tempteth not vnto euyl, neyther tempteth he any man: ¹⁴ But euerye man is tempted, drawne awaye, & entysed of hys owne concupiscence.

¹⁸ Seruauntes obeye your maysters wyth al feare, not onelye yf they be good, and courteous: but also thoughe they be frowarde. ¹⁹ For it is thanke worthy yf a man for conscience towarde God endure griefe, suffering wrongfullye. ²⁰ For what prayse is it, yf when ye be buffeted for your faultes, ye take it pacientlye? But and yf when ye do well, ye suffre wrong and take it pacyently, then is there thanke wt God. ²¹ for here vnto verelye were ye called: for Christe also suffered for vs, leauynge vs an ensample that we shoulde folowe his steppes,

¹⁸ For when they haue spoken the swellinge wordes of vanitie, they begyle with wantonnes thorowe the lustes of the fleshe, them that were cleane escaped, but nowe are wrapped in errours. ¹⁹ They promis them libertie, and are them selues the bonde seruauntes of corrupcyon. For of whomsoeuer a man is ouer come, vnto the same is he in bondage. ²⁰ For yf they, after they haue escaped from the fylthines of the worlde thorowe the knowledge yf the Lord and of the sauiour Iesus Christe, are yet tangled agayne therin and ouercome, then is the latter ende worsse wyth them then the beginninge. ²¹ For it had bene better for them not haue knowen the way of rightuousnes then after they haue knowen it to turne from the commaundementes geuen vnto them. ²² It is happened to them accordinge to the true prouerbe: The dogge is turned to his vomet againe, and the sowe that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.

²⁶ This haue I written vnto you concerning them, that disceyue you.

⁹ And the great dragon, that olde serpente called the deuyll and Sathanas was caste out. Whiche deceyueth al the worlde. And he was cast into the earth, and his angelles were cast out also.

¹⁴ And deceiued them that dwelt on the earth by the meanes of those sygnes, which he had power to do in the syght of the beaste, saying to them that dwelt on the earth, that they should make an ymage vnto the beaste, whyche had the wounde of a swearde, and dyd lyue.

¹⁶ A small thinge that the righteous hath, is better then great ryches of the vngodly.

¹⁶ Better is a litle with the feare of the Lord then great tresure, for they are not without sorowe.

⁸ Better is it to haue a lyttle thinge with rightuousnes, then greate rentes wrngeously gotten.

² Measure thine appetite: and if thou wilt rule thyne owne selfe,

¹⁵ The slouthful bodye thrusteth his hand into his bosome, and it greueth him to put it agayne to his mouth.

¹⁵ Beholde I haue set before you thys daye lyfe and good, death and euyll:

¹¹ For thorow me thy dayes shalbe prolonged, and the yeares of thy lyfe shalbe manye.

¹⁶ The ryghtwyse laboureth to do good, but the vngodly vseth his encrease vnto sinne.

¹⁹ Like as righteousnes bringeth lyfe: euen so to cleue vnto euel, bringeth death.

⁹ he walked in my commaundementes, and kepeth my lawes, and perfourmeth them faithfully: This is a ryghteous man, he shal surely liue sayeth the Lord God.

²⁰ The same soule that synneth, shall dye. The sonne shal not beare the fathers offence, neyther shall the father beare the sonnes offence. The ryghteousnes of the righteous shalbe vpon him, and the wickednes of the wycked shalbe vpon him selfe also. ²¹ But yf the vngodlye will turne away from all his synnes that he hath done, and kepe al my commaundementes, and do the thinge that is equall and ryght, doutles he shall lyue, and not dye. ²² As for all his synnes that he did before, they shall not be thought vpon: but in his ryghteousnes, that he hath done, he shall lyue. ²³ For haue I any pleasure in the death of a synner, sayeth the Lorde God, but rather that he conuerte and lyue. ²⁴ Agayne, yf the righteous turne awaye from his righteousnes, and do iniquytie, according to all the abhomynacyons, that the wycked man doth: shal he lyue? Al the ryghteousnes that he hath done, shal not be thought vpon: but in the faute that he hath offended withall and in the synne that he hath done, he shall dye.

²¹ that as synne had reygned vnto death, euen so myght grace raygne thorow rightuousnes vnto eternall lyfe, by the helpe of Iesus Christe.

²² But nowe are ye deliuered from synne, and made the seruauntes of God, and haue youre fruyte that ye shoulde be sanctified, & the ende euerlastynge lyfe. ²³ For the rewarde of sinne is death: but eternal lyfe is the gyfte of God, thorow Iesus Christ oure Lorde.

¹¹ For the grace of God, that bringeth saluacion vnto al men, hath apered ¹² & teacheth vs that we shoulde denye vngodlynes & worldly lustes, and that we shoulde lyue sobre mynded ryghtuouslye and Godly in this present worlde,

²⁹ If ye knowe that he is rightuous, knowe also that he whiche foloweth rightuousnes, is borne of hym.

⁷ Babes let no man deceiue you. He that doth rightuousnes is rightuous, euen as he is righteous.

¹¹ Beloued, folowe not that whiche is euyll, but that which is good. He that doth well, is of God, but he that doth euyl, seeth not God.