Letters to the Churches

Let vs therefore by him offer the sacrifice of prayse alwaies to God, that is, the fruite of the lippes, which confesse his Name.

To doe good, and to distribute forget not: for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

Obey them that haue the ouersight of you, and submit your selues: for they watche for your soules, as they that must giue accountes, that they may doe it with ioy, and not with griefe: for that is vnprofitable for you.

Pray for vs: for we are assured that we haue a good conscience in all things, desiring to liue honestly.

And I desire you somewhat the more earnestly, that yee so doe, that I may be restored to you more quickly.

The God of peace that brought againe from the dead our Lord Iesus, the great shepheard of the sheepe, through the blood of the euerlasting Couenant,

Make you perfect in all good workes, to doe his will, working in you that which is pleasant in his sight through Iesus Christ, to whom be praise for euer and euer, Amen.

I beseeche you also, brethren, suffer the wordes of exhortation: for I haue written vnto you in fewe wordes.

Knowe that our brother Timotheus is deliuered, with whome (if hee come shortly) I will see you.

Salute all them that haue the ouersight of you, and all the Saintes. They of Italie salute you.

Grace be with you all, Amen. Written to the Hebrewes from Italie, and sent by Timotheus.

Iames a seruant of God, and of the Lord Iesus Christ, to the twelue Tribes, which are scattered abroade, salutation.

My brethren, count it exceeding ioy, when ye fall into diuers tentations,

Knowing that ye trying of your faith bringeth forth patience,

And let patience haue her perfect worke, that ye may be perfect and entier, lacking nothing.

If any of you lacke wisedome, let him aske of God, which giueth to all men liberally, and reprocheth no man, and it shalbe giuen him.

But let him aske in faith, and wauer not: for hee that wauereth, is like a waue of the sea, tost of the winde, and caried away.

Neither let that man thinke that hee shall receiue any thing of the Lord.

A double minded man is vnstable in all his waies.

Let the brother of lowe degree reioyce in that he is exalted:

Againe hee that is rich, in that hee is made lowe: for as the flower of the grasse, shall he vanish away.

For as when the sunne riseth with heate, then the grasse withereth, and his flower falleth away, and the goodly shape of it perisheth: euen so shall the rich man wither away in all his waies.

Blessed is ye man, that endureth tentation: for when he is tried, hee shall receiue the crowne of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that loue him.

Let no man say when hee is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God can not bee tempted with euill, neither tempteth he any man.

But euery man is tempted, when hee is drawen away by his owne concupiscence, and is entised.