2 Corinthians 4:1

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Therfore seynge we haue soch an office (euen as mercy is come vpon vs) we faynte not,

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  • 2 Thess 3:13 : 13 Neuertheles brethren, be not ye weery of well doynge.
  • Gal 6:9 : 9 Let vs not be weery of well doynge: for wha the tyme is come, we shal reape without ceassinge.
  • Eph 3:13 : 13 Wherfore I desyre that ye faynte not because of my tribulacions, yt I suffre for you, which is youre prayse.
  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 As concernynge virgins, I haue no commaundement of the LORDE, neuertheles I saye my goodmeanynge, as I haue optayned mercy of the LORDE to be faithfull.
  • 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 which hath made vs able, to be mynisters of the new Testament: not of the letter, but of the sprete. For the letter kylleth, but the sprete geueth life.
  • 2 Cor 4:16 : 16 Therfore are we not weery, but though or outwarde man be corrupte, yet the inwarde is renewed daye by daye.
  • Rev 2:3 : 3 and hast suffred. And hast paciece: and for my names sake hast laboured and hast not faynted.
  • Isa 40:30 : 30 Children are weery and faynt, and the strongest men fall:
  • 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 wha before I was a blasphemer, & a persecuter, & a tyraunt: but I optayned mercy, because I dyd it ignorauntly in vnbeleue.
  • Heb 12:3 : 3 Cosidre him therfore that endured soch speakinge agaynst hi of synners, lest ye be weery and faynte in youre myndes:
  • 1 Pet 2:10 : 10 Euen you which in tyme past were not a people, but now are the people of God: which were not vnder mercy, but now haue optayned mercy.
  • 2 Cor 5:18 : 18 Neuertheles all thinges are off God, which hath reconcyled vs vnto himselfe by Iesus Christ, and hath geuen vs the office to preach the attonement.
  • 2 Cor 3:12 : 12 Seynge then that we haue soch trust, we vse greate boldnesse,
  • Phil 4:13 : 13 I can do all thinges thorow Christ, which stregtheth me.
  • Eph 3:7-8 : 7 wherof I am made a mynister acordynge to the gifte of the grace of God, which is geue me acordinge to the workynge of his power. 8 Vnto me the leest of all sayntes is this grace geuen, that I shulde preach amonge the Heythe ye vnsearcheable riches of Christ,

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  • 2 but cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestye, and walke not in craftines: nether corruppe we the worde of God but open the trueth, and reporte oure selues to euery mans conscyence in the sighte of God.

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    15 For all thinges do I for youre sakes, that the pleteous grace by the thakesgeuynge of many, maye redounde to the prayse of God.

    16 Therfore are we not weery, but though or outwarde man be corrupte, yet the inwarde is renewed daye by daye.

    17 For oure trouble, which is but temporall and lighte, worketh an exceadinge and an eternall weighte of glorye

    18 vnto vs, which loke not on the thinges that are sene, but on them which are not sene. For ye thinges which are sene, are temporall: but the thinges that are not sene, are eternall.

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    5 For we preach not or selues, but Iesus Christ to be the LORDE, and oure selues youre seruauntes for Iesus sake.

    6 For God that comaunded the light to shyne out of darcknesse, hath geuen a cleare shyne in oure hertes, yt by vs ye light of ye knowlege of the glory of God mighte come forth, in the face of Iesus Christ.

    7 But this treasure haue we in earthen vessels, that ye power which excelleth might be of God, and not of vs.

    8 We are troubled on euery syde, yet are we not without shift. We are in pouertie, but not vtterly without somwhat.

    9 We are persecuted, but we are not forsaken. We are oppressed, neuertheles we perish not.

    10 We allwayes beare aboute in oure body the dyenge of the LORDE Iesus yt the life also of the LORDE Iesus might appeare in oure body.

    11 For we which lyue, are alwayes delyuered vnto death for Iesus sake, that the life also of Iesus might appeare in oure mortall flesh.

    12 Therfore is death now mightie in vs, but life in you.

    13 But seynge that we haue the same sprete of faith (acordinge as it is wrytten: I beleued, and therfore haue I spoke.) we also beleue, & therfore we speake,

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    4 but as we are alowed of God, that the Gospell shulde be commytted vnto vs to preache, euen so we speake, not as though we wolde please me, but God, which tryeth oure hertes.

    5 For we haue not gone aboute with flateringe wordes (as ye knowe) ner wayted for oure owne profit ( God is recorde)

    6 nether soughte we prayse of men, nether of you ner of eny other, whan we mighte haue bene chargeable vnto you as the Apostles off Christ,

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    3 Let vs geue no man occasion of euell, that oure office be not euell spoken of:

    4 but in all thinges let vs behaue oure selues as the mynisters of God: in moch pacience, in troubles, in necessities, in anguysshes,

  • 1 We as helpers therfore exhorte you, that ye receaue not ye grace of God in vayne.

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    8 Brethren we wolde not haue you ignoraunt of oure trouble, which happened vnto vs in Asia, for we were greued out off measure passynge strength, so that we euen dispared of life,

    9 and had concluded in oure selues yt we must nedes dye. But this was done, because we shulde not put oure trust in oure selues, but in God, which rayseth vp the deed to life agayne:

  • 16 Let vs therfore go boldely vnto the seate of grace that we maye receaue mercy, and fynde grace to helpe in the tyme of nede.

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    4 Soch trust haue we thorow Christ to God warde,

    5 not that we are sufficient of oure selues to thynke eny thinge, as of oure selues, but oure ablenesse commeth of God,

    6 which hath made vs able, to be mynisters of the new Testament: not of the letter, but of the sprete. For the letter kylleth, but the sprete geueth life.

  • 1 Let euery man this wyse esteme vs, euen for the mynisters of Christ, and stewardes of the secretes of God.

  • 17 For we are not as many are, which choppe & chaunge wt the worde of God, but eue out of purenesse, and out of God, in ye sighte of God, so speake we in Christ.

  • 12 Seynge then that we haue soch trust, we vse greate boldnesse,

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    11 Seynge then that we knowe, how that the LORDE is to be feared, we fare fayre with men, but we are knowne well ynough vnto God: I trust also, that we are knowne in youre consciences.

    12 We prayse not oure selues agayne vnto you, but geue you an occasion to reioyse of vs, yt ye maye haue to reioyse agaynst them, which reioyse after the outwarde appearaunce, and not after the hert.

    13 For yf we do to moch, we do it vnto God: yf we kepe measure,we do it for youre sakes.

  • 10 We are fooles for Christes sake, but ye are wyse in Christ: We weake, but ye stroge: Ye honorable, but we despysed.

  • 4 and prayed vs with greate instauce, that we wolde receaue their benefite and fellishippe of the hadreachinge that is done for the sayntes:

  • 20 and to bewarre, lest eny ma reporte euell of vs because of this plenteousnes, which is mynistred by vs:

  • 9 Not but that we had auctorite, but to geue oure selues for an ensample vnto you to folowe vs.

  • 4 which comforteth vs in all oure trouble: in so moch yt we are able to comforte them that are in eny maner of trouble, with the same comforte wher with we oure selues are comforted of God.

  • 13 Wherfore I desyre that ye faynte not because of my tribulacions, yt I suffre for you, which is youre prayse.

  • 7 for we walke in faith, and se him not.

  • 18 Neuertheles all thinges are off God, which hath reconcyled vs vnto himselfe by Iesus Christ, and hath geuen vs the office to preach the attonement.

  • 2 Vnderstode vs right. We haue hurte no ma, we haue corrupte no man, we haue defrauded no man.

  • 4 so that we oure selues make oure boast of you (in the congregacions of God) of youre paciece and faith in all youre persecucions and troubles that ye suffre,

  • 18 The LORDE graunte vnto him, that he maye fynde mercy with the LORDE in that daye. And how moch he mynistred vnto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.

  • 12 and laboure and worke with oure awne handes. We are reuyled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffre it:

  • 12 For oure reioysinge is this, euen the testimony of oure conscience, that in synglenes & godly purenesse, not in fleshlye wyssdome, but in the grace of God, we haue had oure conuersacion in the worlde, but most of all with you.

  • 16 Notwithstondynge for this cause optayned I mercy, that Iesus Christ mighte pryncipally shewe in me all longe pacience, to the ensample of them which shulde beleue in him vnto eternall life.

  • 4 But God which is riche in mercy thorow his greate loue wherwith he loued vs

  • 5 But watch thou in all thinges, suffre aduersite, do the worke of a preacher of the Gospell, fulfyll thine office vnto the vttemost.

  • 12 But yf other be partakers of this power on you, wherfore are not we rather? Neuertheles we haue not vsed this power, but suffre all thinges, lest we shulde hynder the Gospell off Christ.

  • 16 For we folowed not deceaueable fables, whan we declared vnto you the power and commynge of oure LORDE Iesus Christ: but with oure eyes we sawe his maiestie,