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husband, that I may prefent you as a chafte virgin to Chrift.

3 But I fear left by any means, as the ferpent beguiled Eve through his fubtilty, fo your minds fhould be corrupted from the fimplicity that is in Chrift.

4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jefus whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another fpirit which ye have not received, or another gospel which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. 5 For I fuppofe I was not a whit behind the very chiefeft apostles.

have kept myself from being burdenfome unto you, and Jo will I keep myself.

10 As the truth of Chrift is in me, no man fhall ftop me of this boafting in the regions of Achaia.

11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occafion from them which defire occafion; that wherein they glory they may be found even as we,

13 For fuch are falfe apoftles, deceitful workers, transforming themfelves into the apostles of Chrift.

14 And no marvel: for 6 But though I be rude in Satan himself is transformed fpeech, yet not in know-into an angel of light. ledge; but we have been throughly made manifeft among you in all things.

7 Have I committed an offence in abafing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gofpel of God freely? 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you fervice.

15 Therefore it is no great thing if his minifters alfo be transformed as the minifters of righteoufnefs; whofe end fhall be according to their works.

16 I fay again, Let no man think me a fool: if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boaft myself a little.

9 And when I was pre17 That which I speak, I fent with you and wanted, I fpeak it not after the Lord, was chargeable to no man: but as it were foolishly, in for that which was lacking this confidence of boasting. to me the brethren which 18 Seeing that many glocame from Macedonia fup-ry after the flesh, I will glory plied and in all things I alfo.

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19 For ye fuffer fools gladly, feeing ye yourselves are wife. 20 For ye fuffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man finite you on the face.

21 I fpeak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinfoever any is bold, (I fpeak foolishly,) I am bold also.

22 Are they Hebrews? fo am I. Are they Ifraelites? fo am I. Are they the feed of Abraham? fo am I.

23 Are they ministers of Chrift? (I fpeak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prifons more frequent, in deaths oft.

24 Of the Jews five times received I forty Stripes fave

one.

25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I ftoned, thrice I fuffered fhipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils

of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wildernefs, in perils in the fea, in perils among false brethren;

27 In wearinefs and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirft, in faftings often, in cold and nakednefs.

28 Befides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

30 If I muft needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

31 The God and Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, which is bleffed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

32 In Damafcus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damafcenes with a garrifon, defirous to apprehend mne :

33 And through a window in a bafket was I let down by the wall, and efcaped his hands.

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From the Epiftle of PAUL to the EPHESIANS.

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CHAP. IV. Therefore, the prifoner of the Lord, befeech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

2 With all lowlinefs and meekness, with long-fuffering, forbearing one another in love;

3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

7 But unto every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the gift of Chrift.

8 Wherefore he faith, When he afcended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto

men.

9 (Now that he afcended, what is it but that he alfo defcended firft into the lower parts of the earth?

10 He that defcended is the same also that afcended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things)

11 And he gave fome, apoftles; and fome, prophets; and fome, evangelifts; and fome, paftors and teachers;

12 For the perfecting of the faints, for the work of the miniftry, for the edifying of the body of Chrift :

13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the ftature of the fulness of Christ:

14 That we henceforth be no more children toffed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the fleight of men, and cunning craftinefs, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

15 But fpeaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint fupplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

17 This I fay therefore, and teftify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk, not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

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18 Having the underftanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being paft feeling, have given themfelves over unto lafcivioufnefs, to work all uncleannefs with greediness.

his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minifter grace unto the hearers.

30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby

20 But ye have not fo ye are fealed unto the day of learned Chrift; redemption,

21 If fo be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jefus :

22 That ye put off concerning the former converfation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lufts;

23 And be renewed in the fpirit of your mind:

24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

25 Wherefore, putting away lying, fpeak every man truth with his neighbour for we are members one of another.

26 Be ye angry and fin not let not the fun go down upon your wrath :

27 Neither give place to the devil.

28. Let him that ftole, fteal no more but rather let him labour, working with

31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

32 And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Chrift's fake hath forgiven you.

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2 And walk in love, as Chrift alfo hath loved us, and hath given himself for us, an offering and a facrifice to God for a sweet-fmelling favour.

3 But fornication, and all uncleannefs, or covetoufnefs, let it not be once named among you as becometh faints;

4 Neither filthinefs, nor foolish talking, nor jefting, which are not convenient :

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7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

8 For ye were fometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light :

9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth ;) 10 Proving what is ceptable unto the Lord.

16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

17 Wherefore, be ye not unwife, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excefs; but be filled with the Spirit;

19 Speaking to yourselves in pfalms and hymns and fpiritual fongs, finging and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father, in the name of our Lord Jefus Chrift;

21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

22 Wives, fubmit yourac-felves unto your own bufbands as unto the Lord.

II And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

12 For it is a fhame even to speak of those things which are done of them in fecret.

13 But all things that are reproved, are made manifeft by the light for whatsoever doth make manifeft is light.

14 Wherefore he faith, Awake thou that fleepeft, and arife from the dead, and Chrift fhall give thee light. 15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wife,

23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Chrift is the head of the church: and he is the faviour of the body.

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24 Therefore, church is fubject unto Chrift, fo let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

25 Hufbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

26 That he might fanc tify and cleanse it with the wafhing of water by the word,

27 That he might present

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