Letters to the Churches

So that nowe contrariwise yee ought rather to forgiue him, and comfort him, lest the same shoulde bee swalowed vp with ouermuch heauinesse.

Wherefore, I pray you, that you woulde confirme your loue towards him.

For this cause also did I write, that I might knowe the proofe of you, whether yee would be obedient in all things.

To whome yee forgiue any thing, I forgiue also: for verely if I forgaue any thing, to whome I forgaue it, for your sakes forgaue I it in the sight of Christ,

Lest Satan should circumuent vs: for we are not ignorant of his enterprises.

Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christs Gospell, and a doore was opened vnto me of the Lord,

I had no rest in my spirit, because I founde not Titus my brother, but tooke my leaue of them, and went away into Macedonia.

Now thankes be vnto God, which alwaies maketh vs to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the sauour of his knowledge by vs in euery place.

For wee are vnto God the sweete sauour of Christ, in them that are saued, and in them which perish.

To the one we are the sauour of death, vnto death, and to the other the sauour of life, vnto life: and who is sufficient for these things?

For wee are not as many, which make marchandise of the woorde of God: but as of sinceritie, but as of God in ye sight of God speake we in Christ.

Doe we begin to praise our selues againe? or neede we as some other, epistles of recommendation vnto you, or letters of recommendation from you?

Yee are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is vnderstand, and read of all men,

In that yee are manifest, to be the Epistle of Christ, ministred by vs, and written, not with yncke, but with the Spirite of the liuing God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

And such trust haue we through Christ to God:

Not that we are sufficient of our selues, to thinke any thing, as of our selues: but our sufficiencie is of God,

Who also hath made vs able ministers of the Newe testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirite: for the letter killeth, but the Spirite giueth life.

If then the ministration of death written with letters and ingrauen in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel coulde not beholde the face of Moses, for the glorie of his countenance (which glorie is done away.)

Howe shall not the ministration of the Spirite be more glorious?

For if the ministerie of condemnation was glorious, much more doeth the ministration of righteousnesse exceede in glorie.

For euen that which was glorified, was not glorified in this point, that is, as touching the exceeding glorie.

For if that which should be abolished, was glorious, much more shall that which remaineth, be glorious.

Seeing then that we haue such trust, we vse great boldnesse of speach.

And we are not as Moses, which put a vaile vpon his face, that the children of Israel should not looke vnto the ende of that which should be abolished.

Therefore their mindes are hardened: for vntill this day remaineth the same couering vntaken away in the reading of the olde Testament, which vaile in Christ is put away.