Letters to the Churches

The God of peace shall treade Satan vnder your feete shortly. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you.

Timotheus my helper, and Lucius, and Iason, and Sosipater my kinsemen, salute you.

I Tertius, which wrote out this Epistle, salute you in the Lord.

Gains mine hoste, and of the whole Church saluteth you. Erastus the steward of the citie saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.

The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

To him nowe that is of power to establish you according to my Gospel, and preaching of Iesus Christ, by the reuelation of the mysterie, which was kept secrete since the worlde began:

(But nowe is opened, and published among all nations by the Scriptures of the Prophetes, at the commandement of the euerlasting God for the obedience of faith)

To God, I say, only wise, be praise through Iesus Christ for euer. Amen. Written to the Romans from Corinthus, and sent by Phebe, seruaunt of the Church which is at Cenchrea.

Paul called to be an Apostle of Iesus Christ, through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

Vnto the Church of God, which is at Corinthus, to them that are sanctified in Christ Iesus, Saintes by calling, with all that call on the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ in euery place, both their Lord, and ours:

Grace be with you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.

I thanke my God alwayes on your behalfe for the grace of God, which is giuen you in Iesus Christ,

That in all things ye are made rich in him, in all kinde of speach, and in all knowledge:

As the testimonie of Iesus Christ hath bene confirmed in you:

So that ye are not destitute of any gift: wayting for the appearing of our Lord Iesus Christ.

Who shall also confirme you vnto the ende, that ye may be blamelesse, in the day of our Lord Iesus Christ.

God is faithfull, by whom ye are called vnto the fellowship of his Sonne Iesus Christ our Lord.

Nowe I beseeche you, brethren, by the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ, that ye all speake one thing, and that there be no dissensions among you: but be ye knit together in one mind, and in one iudgement.

For it hath bene declared vnto me, my brethren, of you by them that are of the house of Cloe, that there are contentions among you.

Nowe this I say, that euery one of you saith, I am Pauls, and I am Apollos, and I am Cephas, and I am Christs.

Is Christ deuided? was Paul crucified for you? either were ye baptized into the name of Paul?

I thanke God, that I baptized none of you, but Crispus, and Gaius,

Lest any should say, that I had baptized into mine owne name.

I baptized also the houshold of Stephanas: furthermore knowe I not, whether I baptized any other.

For CHRIST sent me not to baptize, but to preache the Gospel, not with wisdome of wordes, lest the crosse of Christ should be made of none effect.