Ecclesiastes 4:12
One maye be ouercome, but two maye make resistauce: A thre folde cable is not lightly broken.
One maye be ouercome, but two maye make resistauce: A thre folde cable is not lightly broken.
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8 There is one man, no mo but himself alone, hauynge nether childe ner brother: yet is there no ende of his carefull trauayle, his eyes can not be satisfied with riches, (yet doth he not remembre himself, & saye:) For whom do I take soch trauayle? For whose pleasure do I thus consume awaye my lyfe? This is also a vayne and miserable thinge.
9 Therfore two are better then one, for they maye well enioye the profit of their laboure.
10 Yf one of them fall, his companyon helpeth him vp againe: But wo is him that is alone, for yf he fall, he hath not another to helpe him vp.
11 Agayne, when two slepe together, they are warme: but how can a body be warme alone?
3 Maye twaine walke together excepte they be agreed amonge them selues?
13 A poore childe beynge wyse, is better then an olde kinge, that doteth, and can not bewarre in tyme to come.
16 One is so ioyned to another, that no ayre can come in:
17 Yee one hangeth so vpon another, and sticke so together, that they can not be sundered.
24 And yf a realme be deuyded in it self, how can it endure?
25 And yf a house be deuyded agaynst it self, it can not contynue.
19 Wy?dome geueth more corage vnto the wyse, then ten mightie men of the citie:
29 There be thre thinges yt go stiffly, but the goinge of the fourth is the goodliest of all.
11 Yf two men stryue together, and the wyfe of one renne to, to delyuer hir husbande from the hande of him that smyteth him, & put forth hir hande, and take him by the secretes,
3 yee him that is yet vnborne to be better at ease the they both, because he seith not the miserable workes that are done vnder the Sonne.
52 For from hence forth there shal be at varyauce in one house: thre agaynst two, and two agaynst thre.
15 One witnesse shal not stonde vp alone agaynst a man, ouer eny trespace or synne, what maner of synne so euer it be, yt a man can do, but in the mouth of two or thre witnesses shal euery matter be stablished.
16 But yf he heare the not, then take yet with the one or two, that in the mouth of two or thre wytnesses, euery matter maye be stablyshed.
24 A frende that delyteth in loue, doth a man more fredshipe, and sticketh faster vnto him then a brother.
21 Thorow thre thinges the earth is disquieted, & the fourth maye it not beare:
17 He is a frende that allwaye loueth, and in aduersite a man shal knowe who is his brother.
18 Who so promiseth by the hande, & is suertie for another, he is a foole.
6 One handfull (saieth he) is better wt rest, the both ye handes full with labor and trauayle.
22 but whan a stronger then he commeth vpo him, and ouer commeth him, he taketh fro him all his wapens, wherin he trusted, and deuydeth the spoyle.
14 Where no good councel is there the people decaye: but where as are many that can geue councell, there is wealth.
5 A wyse ma is stroge, yee a ma of vnderstodinge is better, the he yt is mightie of stregth.
6 For with discrecion must warres be take in honde, and where as are many yt can geue councell, there is ye victory.
6 Now are they not twayne then, but one flesh. Let not man therfore put a sunder, yt which God hath coupled together.
17 Like as one yro whetteth another, so doth one man comforte another.
4 The bowe of the mightie is broken, and the weake are gyrded aboute with strength.
31 And as for the glory of these thinges, it shalbe turned to drie strawe, and he that made them to a sparke. And they shal both burne together, so that no man shalbe able to quench them.
10 Yf thou be ouersene & necliget in tyme of nede, the is thy stregth but small.
8 and they two shalbe one flesh. Now are they not twayne the, but one flesh.
9 Let not man therfore put asunder that, which God hath coupled together.
24 For this cause shal a man leaue father and mother, and cleue vnto his wife, & they two shalbe one flesh.
22 Vnaduysed thoughtes shal come to naught, but where as are men yt can geue councell, there is stedfastnesse.
6 Or euer the syluer lace be taken awaye, and or the golden bende be broken: Or the pott be broken at the well, & the whele vpon the Cisterne:
31 Or what kynge wil go to make battayl agaynst another kynge, and sytteth not downe first, and casteth in his mynde, whether he be able with ten thousande, to mete him that commeth agaynst him with twentye thousande?
14 There was a litle cite, & a few me within it: so there came a greate kynge & beseged it, & made greate bulworkes agaynst it.
3 Yf he wil argue with him, he shall not be able to answere him vnto one amonge a thousande.
4 He is wyse of hert, and mightie in strength. Who euer prospered, that toke parte agaynst him?
15 Yf a man haue two wyues, one that he loueth, and one that he hateth, and they beare him children, both the beloued and the hated,
12 Doth one yron hurte another, or one metall that cometh from the north, another?
18 There be thre thinges to hye for me, and as for the fourth, it passeth my knowlege.
14 Vse well the tyme of prosperite, and remembre the tyme of mysfortune: for God maketh the one by the other, so that a man can fynde nothinge els.
16 A small thinge yt the rightuous hath, is better then greate riches of the vngodly.
15 And I perceaued, yt all men lyuynge vnder the Sonne, go wt the seconde childe, that commeth vp in the steade of the other.
1 Now come I the thirde tyme vnto you. In the mouth of two or thre witnesses shal euery matter be stablisshed.
22 A wyse man wynneth the cite of the mightie, and as for the strength yt they trust in, he bryngeth it downe.
13 Yee with God is wy?dome and strength, it is he that hath councell & foreknowlege.