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The Great Bible 1539
| 10:1 | Brethren, I wolde not that ye shulde be ignoraunt, howe that our fathers were all vnder the cloude, and all passed thorowe the see, |
| 10:2 | and were all baptysed vnder Moses in the cloude and in the see: |
| 10:3 | and dyd all eate of one spirituall meate |
| 10:4 | and dyd all dryncke of one maner of spirituall dryncke. And they drancke of that spirituall rocke that folowed them, whych rocke was Chryst. |
| 10:5 | But in many of them had God no delyte: For they were ouerthrowen in the wyldernes. |
| 10:6 | These weare ensamples to vs that we shuld not lust after euyll thynges, as they lusted. |
| 10:7 | And that ye shuld not be worshyppers of ymages, as were some of them, accordynge as it is wrytten: The people sate downe to eate & drincke, & rose vp to playe. |
| 10:8 | Nether let vs be defyled wt fornicacyon, as some of them were defyled wyth fornicacyon, & fell in one daye .xxiij. thousand. |
| 10:9 | Nether let vs tempte Christ, as some of them tempted, & were destroyed of serpentes. |
| 10:10 | Nether murmure ye, as some of them murmured, & were destroyed of the destroyer. |
| 10:11 | All these thynges happened vnto them for ensamples, but are wrytten to put vs in remembraunce, whom the endes of the worlde are come vpon. |
| 10:12 | Wherfore, let him that thynketh he stondeth, take hede, lest he fall. |
| 10:13 | Ther hath none other temptacyon taken you, but soche as foloweth the nature of man. But God is faythfull whych shall not suffer you to be tempted aboue youre strength: but shall in the myddes of the temptacyon make awaye, that ye maye be able to beare it. |
| 10:14 | Wherfore my deare beloued, fly from worshyppynge of ymages. |
| 10:15 | I speake as vnto them whych haue discrecyon, iudge ye what I saye. |
| 10:16 | Is not the cupp of blessynge which we blesse, partakynge of the bloude of Christ? |
| 10:17 | is not the breed whych we breake, partetakynge of the body of Chryst? because that we (though we be many) yet are one breed & one bodye, in as moche as we all are partakers of one bred. |
| 10:18 | Behold Israel after the flessh. Are not they which eate of the sacrifyce, partakers of the temple? |
| 10:19 | What saye I then? that the ymage is eny thynge? or that it whych is offered to ymages, is eny thynge? |
| 10:20 | Nay, but thys I saye: that the thynges whych the gentyls offer, they offer to deuyls, and not to God. I wolde not that ye shulde haue felloshyppe wyth the deuyls. |
| 10:21 | Ye can not dryncke of the cup of the Lorde, and of the cup of deuyls. Ye cannot be the partakers of the Lordes table, and of the table of deuelles. |
| 10:22 | Ether do we prouoke the Lord? Are we stronger then he? I maye do all thynges, but all thynges are not expedient. |
| 10:23 | I maye do all thynges, but all thynges edifye not. |
| 10:24 | Let no man seke that whych is hys awne: but let euery man seke that whych belongeth to another: |
| 10:25 | Whatsoeuer is solde in the flesshe market, that eate, and aske no questyon for conscyence sake. |
| 10:26 | For the erth is the Lordes, and all that therin is. |
| 10:27 | If eny of them whych beleue not, byd you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go, whatsoeuer is sett before you, eate, askynge no questyon for conscience sake. |
| 10:28 | But and yf eny man saye vnto you: thys is offred vnto ymages, eate not of it for hys sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake. The erth is the Lordes and all that therin is. |
| 10:29 | Conscience I saye, not thyne, but of the other. For why is my liberte, iudged of another mannes conscience? |
| 10:30 | For yf I take my parte with thankes, why am I euyll spoken of, for that thynge wherfore I geue thankes? |
| 10:31 | Whether therfore ye eate or dryncke, or whatsoeuer ye do, do all to the prayse of God. |
| 10:32 | Se that ye geue none occasyon of euyll, nether to the Iewes, nor yet to the gentyls, nether to the congregacyon of God: |
| 10:33 | euen as I please all men in all thynges, not sekynge myne awne profet, but the profet of many, that they myght be saued. |
The Great Bible 1539
The Great Bible of 1539 was the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale, working under commission of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Secretary to Henry VIII and Vicar General. In 1538, Cromwell directed the clergy to provide "one book of the bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it."