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¹Therefore for Christ suffered in flesh, be ye also armed by the same thinking; for he that suffered in flesh ceased from sins,

²that that is left now of time in flesh live not now to the desires of men, but to the will of God.

³For the time that is passed is enough to the will of heathen men to be ended, which walked in lecheries, and lusts, in much drinking of wine, in unmeasurable or oft eatings, and drinkings, and unleaveful worshipping of maumets or of idols.

⁴In which now they be astonied, in which thing they wonder, for ye run not together into the same confusion of lechery, and blaspheme.

⁵And they shall give reason to him, that is ready to deem the quick and the dead.

⁶For why for this thing it is preached or it is evangelized also to dead men, that they be deemed by men in flesh, and that they live by God in Spirit.

⁷For the end of all things shall nigh. Therefore be ye prudent, and wake ye in prayers;

⁸before all things have ye charity each to other in yourselves always lasting; for charity covereth the multitude of sins.

⁹Hold ye hospitality together with-out grutching;

¹⁰each man as he hath received grace, ministering it into each other or ministering each to other, as good dispensers of the manyfold grace of God.

¹¹If any man speaketh, speak he as the words of God; if any man ministereth, as of the virtue which God ministereth; that God be honoured in all things by Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom is glory and lordship into worlds of worlds. Amen.

¹²Most dear brethren, do not ye go in pilgrimage in fervour, that is made to you to temptation, as if any new thing befall to you;

¹³but commune ye with the passions of Christ, and have ye joy, that also ye be glad, and have joy in the revelation of his glory.

¹⁴If ye be despised for the name of Christ, ye shall be blessed; for that that is of the honour, and of the glory, and of the virtue of God, and the Spirit that is his, shall rest on you.

¹⁵But no man of you suffer as a manslayer, either a thief, either curser, either a desirer of other men’s goods or things;

¹⁶but if he suffer as a christian man, shame he not, but glorify he God in this name.

¹⁷For time is, that doom begin at God’s house; and if it begin first at us, what end shall be of them, that believe not to the gospel?

¹⁸And if a just man scarcely shall be saved, where shall the unfaithful man and the sinner appear?

¹⁹Therefore and they that suffer by the will of God, betake their souls in good deeds to the faithful Maker of nought.