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The Great Bible 1539
| 11:1 | Wold to God, ye could haue suffred me a lytell in my folyshnes: yee, ye do also forbeare me. |
| 11:2 | For I am gelous ouer you wt godly gelousye: For I haue coupled you to one man, that ye shulde make your selues a chaste virgin vnto Christ. |
| 11:3 | But I feare lest it come to passe that as the serpent begyled Eue thorowe hys subteltye, euen so your wittes shulde be corrupte from the synglenes that ye had toward Christ. |
| 11:4 | For yf he that commeth preache another Iesus then hym whom we preached: or yf ye receaue another sprete then that which ye haue receaued, ether another Gospell then that ye haue receaued, ye might right well haue bene content. |
| 11:5 | For I suppose that I was not behynde the chefe Apostles. |
| 11:6 | But though I be rude in speakinge, yet I am not so in knowledge. Howbeit amonge you, we haue bene well knowen to the vtmost what we are in all thinges. |
| 11:7 | Dyd I therin synne, because I submytted my selfe, that ye might be exalted: & because I preached to you the Gospell of God fre? |
| 11:8 | I robbed other congregacyons, & toke wages of them, to do you seruyce. |
| 11:9 | And when I was present wt you, & had nede I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lackynge vnto me, the brethren which came from Macedonia, supplied, and in all thinges I kept my selfe so that I shuld not be chargeable to any man, and so wyll I kepe my selfe. |
| 11:10 | If the trueth of Christ be in me, thys reioysyng shall not be taken from me in the regions of Achaia. |
| 11:11 | Wherfore? Because I loue you not? God knoweth. |
| 11:12 | Neuertheles, what I do, that wyll I do, to cut awaye occasyon from them which desyre occasion: that they might be founde lyke vnto vs, in that wherin they reioyce. |
| 11:13 | For soch fals apostles are disceatfull workers, and fassy on them selues lyke vnto the apostles of Christ. |
| 11:14 | And no maruayle: for Satan him selfe is chaunged into the fassyon of an angell of light. |
| 11:15 | Therfore it is no great thynge though hys mynisters fassyon them selues, as though they were the ministers of ryghtewesnes: whose ende shalbe accordyng to theyr dedes. |
| 11:16 | I saye agayne, lest eny man thynke that I am folysshe: or els euen nowe take ye me as a foole, that I also maye boast my selfe a lytell. |
| 11:17 | That I speake, I speake not after the Lorde: but as it were folyshly, in thys matter of boastinge. |
| 11:18 | Seynge that many reioyce after the flesshe, I wyll reioyce also. |
| 11:19 | For ye suffre foles gladly, seynge ye youre selues are wyse. |
| 11:20 | For ye suffre yf a man bryng you into bondage, yf a man deuoure, yf a man take yf a man exalte him selfe, yf a man smyte you on the face. |
| 11:21 | I speake as concerning rebuke, as though we had bene weake, Howbeit, wherinsoeuer eny man dare be bolde (I speake folyshly) I dare be bolde also. |
| 11:22 | They are Ebrues, euen so am I. They are Israelites, euen so am I. They are the seede of Abraham, euen so am I. |
| 11:23 | They are the mynisters of Chryst (I speake as a foole) I am more. In labours more aboundante: In strypes aboue measure: In preson more plenteouslye: In deeth ofte. |
| 11:24 | Of the Iewes fyue tymes receaued I euery tyme .xl. strypes saue one. |
| 11:25 | Thryse was I beaten wt roddes, I was once stoned, I suffered thryse shypwracke. Nyght and daye haue I bene in the deepe see. |
| 11:26 | In iorneying often: in parels of waters: in parels of robbers: in ieopardyes of myne awne nacyon: in ieopardyes among the hethen: in parels in the citie: in parels in wildernes: in parels in the see: in parels amonge false brethren: |
| 11:27 | in laboure & trauayle: in watchinges often: in honger and thyrst: in fastynges often: in colde and nakednes: |
| 11:28 | besyde the thinges which outwardly happen vnto me. I am combred daylye, and do care for all congregacyons. |
| 11:29 | Who is weake, and I am not weake? who is offended, & I burne not? |
| 11:30 | If I must nedes boast, I wyll boaste of the thynges that concerne myne infirmyties. |
| 11:31 | The God & father of oure Lorde Iesus Christ, which is blessed for euermore knoweth that I lye not. |
| 11:32 | In the cytie of Damascon the gouerner of the people vnder king Aretas, layd watch in the cytie of the Damascens, and wold haue caught me, |
| 11:33 | and at a windowe was I let doune in a basket thorowe the wall, and so scaped I hIs handes. |
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."