William Tyndale (Pentateuch, Jonah &NT)

The pistle of S Paul to the Colossyans.
The Prologe vpon the epistle of S. Paul to the Colossyans.

As the pistle to the Galathyans holdeth the maner & fassion of the epistle to the Romayns / breflye comprehendinge all that is therin at length disputed: Eu so this pistle foloweth the ensample of the pistle to the Ephesis / cobar.giftayninge the tenor of the same pistle with fewer wordes.

In the fyrst Chapter / he prayseth them and wyssheth that they continew in the fayth / and growe perfecter therin / and then describeth he the Gospell / how that it is a wysdome that confesseth Christ to be the Lorde and God / crucified for vs / and a wysdome that hath bene hyd in Christ sence afore the begininge of the worlde / and now fyrst begonne to be opened thorow the preachynge of the Apostles.

In the seconde / he warneth th of mnes doctryne / and describeth the false prophetes to the vttermost and rebuketh them accordinge.


In the thyrde / he exhorteth to be frutefull in the pure fayth with all maner of good workes one to another / and descrybeth all degrees & what their dutyes are.

In the fourth he exhorteth to praye / and also to praye for him / and saluteth them

The pistle of S Paul to the Colossyans.
The fyrst Chapter.

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[Untitled Possibly Huge Image] Paul an Apostle of Iesu Christ by the wyll of God / and brother Timotheus.

To the sayntes which are at Colossa / & brethren that beleve in Christ.

Grace be with you and peace from God oure father / and from the Lorde Iesus Christ.

We geve thankes to God the father of oure Lorde Iesus Christ / alwayes prayenge for you / sence we hearde of youre 1.A faith which ye have in Christ Iesu & of the love which ye beare to all sayntes for the hopes sake which is layde vp in store for you in heven / of which hope ye have herde before by þe true worde of the gospell / which is come vnto you / ev as it is in to all þe worlde / & is frutefull / as it is amobar.gifge you / frobar.gif the fyrst daye in þe which ye herde of it / & had experice in þe grace of God in the


trueth / as ye learned of Epaphra oure deare felowe servaunt / which is for you a faythfull minister of Christ / which also declared vnto vs youre love which ye have in the sprete.

cross.gif For this cause we also / sence the daye we herde of it have not ceasyd prayinge for you and desyringe that ye myght be fulfilled with the knowledge of his will /

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in all wisdome & spretuall vnderstobar.gifdynge / that ye myght walke worthy of the lorde in all thynges that please / beynge frutfull in all good workes and encreasynge in þe knowledge of God / strengthed with all myght / thorowe hys glorious power / vnto all pacience and longe sufferynge with ioyfulnes cross.gif gevynge thankes vnto the father which hath made vs mete to be part takers of the enheritaunce of sainctes in light.

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Which hath delivered vs from the power of dercknes / and hath translated vs in to the kyngdome of his dere sone / 2.C in whom we have redempcion thurow his bloud / that is to saye the forgevenes of sinnes / which is the ymage of the invisible god / fyrst begotten of all creatures. For by him were all thynges created / thynges that are in heven / and thynges that are in erth: thynges visible and thynges invisible: whether they be maieste or lordshippe / ether rule or power. All thing[es] are creatyd by hym / and in him / & he is before all thing[es] / and in him all thynges have their beynge.

And he is the heed of the body / that is to wit of the congregacion: he is the begynnynge and fyrst 3.C begotten of the deed / that in all


thynges he might have the preeminence. For it pleased the father that in him shuld all fulnes dwell / and by him to reconcile all thynge vnto him silfe / and to set at peace by him thorow the bloud of his crosse / both thynges in heven and thynges in erth.

And you (which were in tymes past straungers and enymes / because youre myndes were set in evyll workes) hath he now recobar.gifcilied in þe body of his flesshe thorowe deeth / to make you holy vnblameable and with out faut in his awne syght / yf ye continue grounded and stablysshed in the fayth / and be not moved awaye from the hope of the gospell / wher of ye have herde / howe that it is preached amonge all creatures which are vnder heven / wher of I Paul am made a minister.

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Now ioye I in my 4.D soferinges which I suffre for you / and fulfill that which is behynde of the passions of Christ in my flesshe for his bodies sake / which is the congregacion / wher of I am made a minister acordynge to the ordinaunce of god / which ordinaunce was geven me vnto you warde / to fulfill þe worde of god / that mistery hid sence the worlde beganne / & sence þe begynnynge of generacions: 5.D but now is opened to his saynctes / to whom god wolde make knowen the glorious riches of this mistery amonge the gentyls / which riches is Christ in you / the hope of glory / whom we preach / warnynge all men / and teachinge all men in all wisdome / to make all men parfect in Christ Iesu. Wherin I also laboure and stryve
/ even as farforth as hys workynge worketh in me myghtely.

The .ii. Chapter.

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I wolde ye knewe what fyghtinge I have for youre sak[es] & for them of Laodicia / & for as many as have not sene my parson in the flesshe / that their hertes myght be cobar.gifforted & knet togedder in love / & in all ryches of full vnderstondynge / for to knowe þe mistery of God þe father & of Christ / in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom & knowledge. This I saye lest eny man shuld begyle you with entysinge wordes. For though I be absent in the flesshe / 6.A yet am I present with you in the sprete / ioyinge and beholdinge the order that ye kepe / and youre stedfast fayth in Christ. As ye have therfore receaved Christ Iesu the Lorde / even so walke / roted and bylt in him and stedfaste in the fayth / as ye have learned: and therin be plenteous in gevynge thankes.

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cross.gif Beware lest eny m come & spoyle you thorow philosophy & disceatfull vanitie / 7.B thorow the tradicions of m / & ordinaunces after the worlde / & not after christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulnes of the godheed bodyly / & ye are complete in him which is the heed of all rule 8.B & power / in whom also ye are circcised with circumcision made mith out hond[es] / by puttinge of the sinfull boddy of the flesshe / thorow the circumcision þt is in Christ / 9.B in that ye are buryed with him thorow baptim / in whom ye are also rysen agayne thorowe fayth / that is
wrought by the operacion of god which raysed him from deeth.

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And ye which weare deed in synne thorow þe vncirccision of youre flesshe / hath he quyckened [wt] him & hath forgev vs all oure trespases cross.gif & hath put out þe 10.C handwritinge þt was agaynst vs / cobar.giftayned in þe lawe writt / & that hath he tak out of the waye & hath fastened it to his crosse / & hath spoyled rule and power and hath made a shewe of th openly / & hath triumphed over them in his awne persone.

Let no m therfore trouble youre conscices aboute meate & drynke or for a pece of an holydaye / as the holydaye of the newe mone or of the sabboth dayes / which are nothinge but shaddowes of thynges to come: but the body is in Christ. Let no man make you shote at a wrobar.gifge (marke) / which after his awne ymaginacion walketh in the humblenes and holynes of angels / thinges which he never sawe: causlesse puft vp with his flesshly mynde / & holdeth not the heed / 11.C wherof all the body by ioyntes and couples receaveth norisshment / and is knet to gedder / & encreaseth with the in creasynge that commeth of god.

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Wherfore if ye be deed with Christ frobar.gif ordinaunces of the worlde / why as though ye yet lived in the worlde / are ye ledde with tradiciobar.gifs of them that saye? Touche not / tast not / handell not: which all perysshe [wt] the vsinge of th & are after the cobar.gifmaundmentes & doctrins of men which thing[es] have the similitude of wisdome in chosen holynes and humblenes
/ 12.D and in that they spare not the body / & do the flesshe no worshype vnto his nede.

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If ye be then rysen agayne with christ / seke those thynges which are above / where Christ sitteth on the right honde of god. Set youre affeccion on thynges þt are above / and not on thinges which are on þe erth. For ye are deed / and youre lyfe is hid with Christ in god. When Christ which is oure lyfe / shall shewe him silfe / then shall ye also appere with him in glory. cross.gif

Mortifie therfore youre membres which are on the erth / fornicaciobar.gif / vnclennes / vnnaturall lust / evyll cobar.gifcupiscce / and coveteousnes which is worshippynge of ydols: 13.A for which thynges sakes the wrath of God cometh on the chyldren of vnbeleve. In which thynges ye walked once. when ye lived in them.

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14.BBut now put ye also awaye from you all thynges / wrath / fearsnes / maliciousnes / cursed speakynge / filthy speakynge out of youre mouthes. Lye not one to another that the olde man with his workes be put of / and the new put on / which is renued in knowledge after the ymage of him that made him / where is nether gentile ner Iewe / 15.B circumcision nor vncircumcision / Barbarous or Sithian / bonde or fre: but Christe is all in all thynges.

cross.gif Now therfore as electe of god / holy and beloved / 16.B put on tender mercie / kyndnes / humblenes of myndes / meknes / longe sufferynge / forbearynge one another / & forgevynge one another


/ if eny man have a quarrell to a nother / 17.B even as Christ forgave you / even so do ye. Above all these thinges put on love / which is the bonde of parfectnes.
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And þe peace of god rule in youre hertes / to þe which peace ye are called in one body. And se that ye be thankfull. Let the worde of Christ dwell in you plenteously in all wisdome. Teache & exhorte youre awne selves / in psalmes / and hymnes / and spretuall songes which have favour [wt] them syngynge in youre hertes to the lorde. And all thynges (whatsoever ye do in worde or dede) 18.C do in the name of the lorde Iesu / gevinge thkes to god the father by him. cross.gif

19.CWyves / submit youre selves vnto youre awne husbandes / as it is comly in the Lorde. Husbandes love youre wyves and be not bitter vnto them.

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Children / obey youre fathers & mothers / in all thinges / for that is wel pleasynge vnto the lorde. Fathers / rate not youre children / lest they be of a desperate mynde. Servauntes / be obedient vnto youre bodyly masters in all thynges: not with eye service as men pleasers / but in synglenes of herte / fearynge god. And whatsoever ye do / do it hertely as though ye did it to the lorde / and not vnto men for as moche as ye knowe that of the lorde ye shall receave the rewarde of inheritaunce / for ye serve the lorde Christ. But he that doth wronge / 20.D shall receave for the wronge that he hath done: for there is no respect of persons. Ye masters / do vnto youre servauntes that which is iust and egall seinge ye
knowe that ye also have a master in heven.

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Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thankes gevynge / prayenge also for vs / that God open vnto vs the dore of vtteraunce / that we maye speake the mistery of Christ / 21.A wherfore I am in bondes: þt I maye vtter it / as it becobar.gifmeth me to speake. Walke wysely to them that are with out / & redeme þe tyme. Let youre speache be all wayes well favoured & be powdred with 22.A salt / that ye maye know how to answer every m.

The deare brother Tichicos shall tell you of all my busynes /

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which is a faythfull minister & felowe servaunt in the Lorde / whom I have sent vnto you for the same purpose / that he myght knowe how ye do / and myght comfort youre hertes / [wt] one Onesimus a faythfull & a beloved brother / which is one of you. They shall shewe you of all thinges which are adoynge here.

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23.CAristarchus my preson felowe saluteth you / and Marcus Barnabassis systers sonne: touchinge whom / ye receaved commaundementes. Yf he come vnto you receave him: & Iesus which is called Iustus / which are of the circumcision. These only are my workefelowes vnto the kyngdome of God / which were vnto my consolacion. Epaphras the servat of Christ / which is one of you / saluteth you / and all wayes laboreth fervently for you in prayers / that ye maye stonde perfect & full in all that is the will of God. I beare him recorde
that he hath a fervt mynde towarde you 24.C and towarde them of Laodicia & them of Hierapolis. Deare Lucas the Phisicion greteth you / and Demas.
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Salute the brethren which are of Laodicia / and salute Nymphas and the congregaciobar.gif which is in his housse. And wh the pistle is reed of you / make that it be reed in the congregacion of the Laodicians also: & that ye lyke wyse reade þe epistle of Laodicia. And saye to Archippus: take hede to the office that thou hast receaved in the Lorde / that thou fulfill it. The salutacion by the honde of me Paul. Remember my bondes. Grace be with you. Amen.

Sent from Rome by Tichicus / and Onesimus.

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