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Matthew's Bible 1537
| 2:1 | And I brethren when I came to you, came not in gloriousnes of wordes, or of wysdome, shewynge vnto you the testimonye of God. |
| 2:2 | Neither shewed I my selfe that I knew any thinge amonge you saue Iesus Christe, euen the same that was crucified. |
| 2:3 | And I was amonge you in weaknes, & in feare and in muche tremblinge. |
| 2:4 | And my wordes and my preachinge were not wyth entisynge wordes of mannes wysdome but in shewinge of the spirite, and of power, |
| 2:5 | that youre fayth shoulde not stande in the wysdome of men, but in the power of God. |
| 2:6 | That we speake of, is wisdome amonge that are perfecte: not the wisdome of this world (whiche go to nought) |
| 2:7 | but we speake that wysdome of God, whiche is in secrete and lyeth hyd, whiche God ordeined before the world vnto oure glory, |
| 2:8 | whiche wisdome none of the rulars of this worlde knewe. For had they knowen it, they would not haue crucified the Lorde of Glorye. |
| 2:9 | But as it was written: The eye hath not sene, and the eare hath not hearde, neither haue entred into the herte of man the thinges, which God hath prepared for them that loue him. |
| 2:10 | But God hath opened them to vs by hys spirite. For the spirite searcheth al thinges, ye the bottome of Goddes secretes. |
| 2:11 | For what man knoweth the thynges of a man, saue the spyryte of a man, whiche is wythin him. Euen so the thinges of God knoweth no man, but the spirite of God. |
| 2:12 | And we haue not receiued the spirite of the world: but the spyryte whiche cometh of God, for to knowe the thinges, that are geuen to vs of God, |
| 2:13 | which thinges also we speake, not in the conninge wordes of mannes wysdome, but wyth the conning wordes of the holye ghost, makinge spyritual comparisons of spirituall thinges. |
| 2:14 | For the naturall man perceiueth not the thinges of the spyrite of God. For they are but folishnes vnto him. Neither can he perceiue them, because he is spiritually examined. |
| 2:15 | But he that is spyrytuall, discusseth all thinges: yet he hym selfe is iudged of no man. |
| 2:16 | For who knoweth the minde of the Lorde? other who shall informe him? But we vnderstand the minde of Christ. |
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.