Bible verses about "trustees" | Wycliffe

⁷ For thou schalt yyue hym in to blessing in to the world of world; thou schalt make hym glad in ioye with thi cheer.

⁵ For my wickidnessis ben goon ouer myn heed; as an heuy birthun, tho ben maad heuy on me.

⁴ For whi thouy Y schal go in the myddis of schadewe of deeth; Y schal not drede yuels, for thou art with me. Thi yerde and thi staf; tho han coumfortid me.

³ I schal crye to God altherhiyeste; to God that dide wel to me.

¹ But in tho daies, whanne the noumbre of disciplis encreesside, the Grekis grutchiden ayens the Ebrews, for that her widewis weren dispisid in euery daies mynystryng. ² And the twelue clepiden togidere the multitude of disciplis, and seiden, It is not ryytful, that we leeuen the word of God, and mynystren to boordis. ³ Therfor, britheren, biholde ye men of you of good fame, ful of the Hooli Goost and of wisdom, whiche we schulen ordeyne on this werk; ⁴ for we schulen be bisi to preier, and preche the word of God. ⁵ And the word pleside bifor al the multitude; and thei chesiden Styuen, a man ful of feith and of the Hooli Goost, and Filip, and Procore, and Nycanor, and Tymon, and Parmanam, and Nycol, a comelyng, a man of Antioche. ⁶ Thei ordeyneden these bifor the siyt of apostlis, and thei preyeden, and leiden hoondis on hem. ⁷ And the word of the Lord wexide, and the noumbre of the disciplis in Jerusalem was myche multiplied; also myche cumpany of preestis obeiede to the feith. ⁸ And Steuen, ful of grace and of strengthe, made wondris and grete signes in the puple. ⁹ But summe rysen of the synagoge, that was clepid of Libertyns, and Cirenensis, and of men of Alisaundre, and of hem that weren of Cilice and of Asie, and disputiden with Steuene. ¹⁰ And thei miyten not withstonde the wisdom and the spirit, that spak. ¹¹ Thanne thei priueli senten men, that schulden seie, that thei herden hym seiynge wordis of blasfemye ayens Moises and God. ¹² And so thei moueden togidere the puple, and the eldre men, and the scribis; and thei rannen togidre, and token hym, and brouyten in to the counsel. ¹³ And thei ordeyneden false witnessis, that seiden, This man ceessith not to speke wordis ayens the hooli place, and the lawe. ¹⁴ For we herden hym seiynge, That this Jhesus of Nazareth schal destrye this place, and schal chaunge the tradiciouns, whiche Moyses bitook to us. ¹⁵ And alle men that seten in the counsel bihelden hym, and sayn his face as the face of an aungel.

¹⁰ A nyyt theef cometh not, but that he stele, sle, and leese; and Y cam, that thei han lijf, and haue more plenteousli.

⁴² and weren lastynge stabli in the teching of the apostlis, and in comynyng of the breking of breed, in preieris.

¹ Be not youre herte afraied, ne drede it; ye bileuen in God, and bileue ye in me.

¹ But in tho daies, whanne the noumbre of disciplis encreesside, the Grekis grutchiden ayens the Ebrews, for that her widewis weren dispisid in euery daies mynystryng. ² And the twelue clepiden togidere the multitude of disciplis, and seiden, It is not ryytful, that we leeuen the word of God, and mynystren to boordis. ³ Therfor, britheren, biholde ye men of you of good fame, ful of the Hooli Goost and of wisdom, whiche we schulen ordeyne on this werk; ⁴ for we schulen be bisi to preier, and preche the word of God. ⁵ And the word pleside bifor al the multitude; and thei chesiden Styuen, a man ful of feith and of the Hooli Goost, and Filip, and Procore, and Nycanor, and Tymon, and Parmanam, and Nycol, a comelyng, a man of Antioche. ⁶ Thei ordeyneden these bifor the siyt of apostlis, and thei preyeden, and leiden hoondis on hem.

¹³ And God of hope fulfille you in al ioye and pees in bileuynge, that ye encrees in hope and vertu of the Hooli Goost.

² Therfor it bihoueth a byschop to be with out repreef, the hosebonde of o wijf, sobre, prudent, chast, vertewous, holdinge hospitalite, a techere;

¹⁴ And this is the trist which we han to God, that what euer thing we axen aftir his wille, he schal here vs.

¹ Apocalips of Jhesu Crist, which God yaf to hym to make open to hise seruauntis, whiche thingis it bihoueth to be maad soone. And he signyfiede, sending bi his aungel to his seruaunt Joon, ² whiche bar witnessing to the word of God, and witnessing of Jhesu Crist, in these thingis, what euer thingis he say. ³ Blessid is he that redith, and he that herith the wordis of this prophecie, and kepith tho thingis that ben writun in it; for the tyme is niy. ⁴ Joon to seuene chirchis, that ben in Asie, grace and pees to you, of him that is, and that was, and that is to comynge; and of the seuene spiritis, that ben in the siyt of his trone; and of Jhesu Crist, ⁵ that is a feithful witnesse, the firste bigetun of deed men, and prince of kingis of the erthe; which louyde vs, and waischide vs fro oure synnes in his blood, ⁶ and made vs a kyngdom, and preestis to God and to his fader; to hym be glorie and empire in to worldis of worldis. ⁷ Amen. Lo! he cometh with clowdis, and ech iye schal se hym, and thei that prickiden hym; and alle the kynredis of the erthe schulen beweile hem silf on hym. ⁸ Yhe, Amen! Y am alpha and oo, the bigynnyng and the ende, seith the Lord God, that is, and that was, and that is to comynge, almyyti. ⁹ I, Joon, youre brothir, and partener in tribulacioun, and kingdom, and pacience in Crist Jhesu, was in an ile, that is clepid Pathmos, for the word of God, and for the witnessyng of Jhesu. ¹⁰ Y was in spirit in the Lordis dai, and Y herde bihynde me a greet vois, as of a trumpe, ¹¹ seiynge to me, Write thou in a book that thing that thou seest, and sende to the seuene chirchis that ben in Asie; to Ephesus, to Smyrma, and to Pergamus, and to Tiatira, and to Sardis, and to Filadelfia, and to Loadicia. ¹² And Y turnede, that Y schulde se the vois that spak with me; and Y turnede, and Y say seuene candelstikis of gold, ¹³ and in the myddil of the seuene goldun candelstikis oon lijk to the sone of man, clothid with a long garnement, and gird at the tetis with a goldun girdil. ¹⁴ And the heed of hym and his heeris weren whijt, as whijt wolle, and as snow; and the iyen of hym as flawme of fier, ¹⁵ and hise feet lijk to latoun, as in a brennynge chymney; and the vois of hym as the vois of many watris. ¹⁶ And he hadde in his riyt hoond seuene sterris, and a swerd scharp on euer ethir side wente out of his mouth; and his face as the sunne schyneth in his virtu. ¹⁷ And whanne Y hadde seyn hym, Y felde doun at hise feet, as deed. And he puttide his riyt hond on me, and seide, Nyle thou drede; Y am the firste and the laste; and Y am alyue, and Y was deed; ¹⁸ and lo! Y am lyuynge in to worldis of worldis, and Y haue the keyes of deth and of helle. ¹⁹ Therfor write thou whiche thingis thou hast seyn, and whiche ben, and whiche it bihoueth to be don aftir these thingis. ²⁰ The sacrament of the seuene sterris, which thou seiyest in my riyt hond, and the seuene goldun candelstikis; the seuene sterris ben aungels of the seuene chirchis, and the seuene candelstikis ben seuene chirchis. ²¹ for prophesie was not brouyt ony tyme bi mannus wille, but the hooli men of God inspirid with the Hooli Goost spaken.

² and seide, A soule that synneth, and dispisith the Lord, and denyeth to his neiybore a thing bitakun to kepyng, that was bitakun to his feith, ethir takith maisterfuli a thing bi violence, ether makith fals chaleng, ³ ether fyndith a thing lost, and denyeth ferthermore and forswerith, and doth ony other thing of manye in whiche thingis men ben wont to do synne, ⁴ `if it is conuict of the gilt, ⁵ it schal yelde hool alle thingis whiche it wolde gete bi fraude, and ferthermore the fyuethe part to the lord, to whom it dide harm. ⁶ Sotheli for his synne it schal offre a ram vnwemmed of the floc, and it schal yyue that ram to the preest, bi the valu and mesure of the trespas; ⁷ and the preest schal preie for hym bifor the Lord, and it schal be foryouun to hym, for alle thingis whiche he synnede in doyng.

⁵ Haue thou trist in the Lord, of al thin herte; and triste thou not to thi prudence. ⁶ In alle thi weies thenke thou on hym, and he schal dresse thi goyngis.

¹⁶ For God louede so the world, that he yaf his `oon bigetun sone, that ech man that bileueth in him perische not, but haue euerlastynge lijf.

¹⁹ And my God fil alle youre desire, by hise richessis in glorie in Crist Jhesu.

¹⁸ But now God hath set membris, and ech of hem in the bodi, as he wolde.

² but he is vndur keperis and tutoris, in to the tyme determyned of the fadir.

¹⁰ ech man as he hath resseyued grace, mynystringe it in to ech othere, as good dispenderis of the manyfold grace of God.

³ Schewe thi werkys to the Lord; and thi thouytis schulen be dressid.

¹⁴ For as a man that goith in pilgrimage, clepide hise seruauntis, and bitook to hem hise goodis; ¹⁵ and to oon he yaf fyue talentis, and to another tweyne, and to another oon, to ech after his owne vertu; and wente forth anoon. ¹⁶ And he that hadde fyue besauntis, wente forth, and wrouyte in hem, and wan othere fyue. ¹⁷ Also and he that hadde takun tweyne, wan othere tweyne. ¹⁸ But he that hadde takun oon, yede forth, and dalf in to the erthe, and hidde the money of his lord. ¹⁹ But after long tyme, the lord of tho seruauntis cam, and rekenede with hem. ²⁰ And he that hadde takun fyue besauntis, cam, and brouyte othere fyue, and seide, Lord, thou bytokist to me fyue besauntis, loo! Y haue getun aboue fyue othere. ²¹ His lord seide to hym, Wel be thou, good seruaunt and feithful; for on fewe thingis thou hast be trewe, Y schal ordeyne thee on manye thingis; entre thou in to the ioye of thi lord. ²² And he that hadde takun twey talentis, cam, and seide, Lord, thou bitokist to me twey besauntis; loo! ²³ Y haue wonnen ouer othir tweyne. His lord seide to him, Wel be thou, good seruaunt and trewe; for on fewe thingis thou hast be trewe, Y schal ordeyne thee on many thingis; entre thou in to the ioie of thi lord. ²⁴ But he that hadde takun o besaunt, cam, and seide, Lord, Y woot that thou art an hard man; thou repist where thou hast not sowe, and thou gederist togidere where thou hast not spred abrood; ²⁵ and Y dredynge wente, and hidde thi besaunt in the erthe; lo! thou hast that that is thin. ²⁶ His lord answeride, and seide to hym, Yuel seruaunt and slowe, wistist thou that Y repe where Y sewe not, and gadir to gidere where Y spredde not abrood? ²⁷ Therfor it bihofte thee to bitake my money to chaungeris, that whanne Y cam, Y schulde resseyue that that is myn with vsuris. ²⁸ Therfor take awei fro hym the besaunt, and yyue ye to hym that hath ten besauntis.