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Matthew's Bible 1537
| 17:1 | Better is a dry morsell with quietnes, then a full house and many fat catell with stryfe. |
| 17:2 | A discrete seruaunt shall haue more rule then the sonnes that haue no wysdom, and shal haue like heritage with the brethren. |
| 17:3 | Lyke as syluer is tryed in the fyre and golde in the fornace, euen so doeth the Lorde proue the hertes. |
| 17:4 | A wycked bodye holdeth muche of false lippes, and a dissemblyng personne geueth eare to a dysceatefull tonge. |
| 17:5 | Who so laugheth the pore to scorne blasphemeth hys maker: & he that is glad of another mans hurt, shall not be vnpunished. |
| 17:6 | Chylders chyldren are a worshyppe vnto the elders, & the fathers are the honoure of the children. |
| 17:7 | An eloquent speach becommeth not a fole, a dissemblyng mouth also besemeth not a prince. |
| 17:8 | Liberalite is a precyous stone vnto hym that hath it, for whersoeuer he becometh, he prospereth. |
| 17:9 | Who so couereth another mans offence seketh loue: but he that discloseth the faut setteth frends at variance. |
| 17:10 | One reprofe only doth more good to him that hath vnderstandinge then an .C. stripes vnto a fole. |
| 17:11 | A sedicious personne seketh myschefe, but a cruell messaunger shall be sent against hym. |
| 17:12 | It were better to come against a shee Bere robbed of her whelpes, then agaynst a fole in his foolyshnes. |
| 17:13 | Who so rewardeth euell for good, the plage shall not departe frome hys house. |
| 17:14 | He that soweth discord & strife, is lyke one that dyggeth vp a water broke: but an open enemy is like the water that breaketh out & renneth abroad. |
| 17:15 | The Lord hateth as wel hym that iustifyeth the vngodly, as him that condemneth the innocent, |
| 17:16 | What helpeth it to geue a foole mony in his hand, wher as he hath no mind to bye wysdome? |
| 17:17 | He is a frende that alway loueth, and in aduersite a man shal know who is hys brother. |
| 17:18 | Whoso promyseth by the hande, and is suertye: or another, he is a foole. |
| 17:19 | He that loueth stryfe, delyteth in synne: & who so setteth his dore to hye, seketh after a fall. |
| 17:20 | Who so hath a frowarde herte obtayneth no good: & he that hath an ouerthwarte tonge, shall fall into myschyefe. |
| 17:21 | An vnwyse body bringeth him selfe into sorow, and the father of a foole can haue no ioye. |
| 17:22 | A merye hert maketh a lusty age, but a sorowful mind dryeth vp the bones. |
| 17:23 | The vngodlye taketh gyftes out of the bosome, to wrest the waies of iudgment. |
| 17:24 | Wysdome shineth in the face of hym that hath vnderstanding, but the eies of fooles wander thorow out all landes. |
| 17:25 | An vndiscrete sonne is a grefe vnto his father, & an heuynesse vnto hys mother that bare him |
| 17:26 | To punish the innocent, and to smite the princes that geue true iudgmente, are both euell. |
| 17:27 | He is wyse and discrete, that tempereth his wordes: and he is a man of vnderstandinge, that maketh much of his spirite. |
| 17:28 | Yea a verye foole (when he holdeth his tonge) is counted wyse, and to haue vnderstandinge, when he shutteth his lyppes. |
Matthew's Bible 1537
The Matthew Bible, also known as Matthew's Version, was first published in 1537 by John Rogers, under the pseudonym "Thomas Matthew". It combined the New Testament of William Tyndale, and as much of the Old Testament as he had been able to translate before being captured and put to death, with the translations of Myles Coverdale as to the balance of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, except the Apocryphal Prayer of Manasses. It is thus a vital link in the main sequence of English Bible translations.