The Collection for the Saints 1Concernynge the gadderynge that is made for the sayntes, as I haue ordeyned in the congregacions of Galacia, euen so do ye also. 2Vpon some Sabbath daye let euery one of you put aside by him selfe, and laye vp what so euer he thinketh mete, that the colleccion be not to gather whan I come. 3Whan I am come, whom so euer ye shal alowe by youre letters, the wyll I sende to brynge youre liberalite vnto Ierusalem. 4Neuertheles yf it be mete that I go thither also, they shal go with me. Paul’s Travel Plans 5But I wil come vnto you, whan I go thorow Macedonia: for thorow Macedonia wyl I take my iourney. 6With you peradueture wil I abyde, or els wynter, that ye maye brynge me on my waye, whither so euer I go. 7I wyl not se you now in my passage, for I hope to abyde a whyle with you, yf the LORDE shal suffre me. 8But I wil tary at Ephesus vntyll whitsontyde. 9For a greate and frutefull dore is opened vnto me, and there are many aduersaries. Timothy and Apollos 10Yf Timotheus come, se that he be without feare with you, for he worketh ye worke of the, LORDE as I do. 11Let no man therfore despyse him, but conuaye him forth in peace, that he maye come vnto me, for I loke for him with the brethren. 12As for brother Apollo, be ye sure, that I greatly desyred him to come vnto you with the brethre. And his mynde was not at all to come at this tyme,but he wyl come wha he hath oportunyte. Concluding Exhortations 13Watch ye, stonde fast in the faith, quyte you like men, and be stronge: 14let all youre thinges be done in loue. 15But brethren (ye knowe the house off Stephana, that they are the first frutes in Achaia, and that they haue appoynted the selues to mynister vnto the sayntes) 16I exhorte you to be obedient vnto soche, and to all that helpe and laboure. 17I am glad of the comynge of Stephana and Fortunatus, and Achaicus. For loke what was lackynge vnto me on youre parte, yt haue they suppleed: 18they haue refresshed my sprete and youres. Knowe them therfore that are soch. Signature and Final Greetings 19The congregacions of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you moch in the LORDE, and so doth the cogregacion that is in their house. 20All the brethren salute you. Salute ye one another with an holy kysse. 21The salutacion of me Paul wt myne awne hande. 22Yf eny ma loue not the LORDE Iesus Christ, the same be Anathema Maharan Matha. 23The grace of the LORDE Iesus Christ be with you. 24My loue be with you all in Christ Iesu. Amen. |