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Matthew's Bible 1537
| 1:1 | Paul an Apostle, not of men, neyther by man, but by Iesus christ and by God the father, which raysed hym from death: |
| 1:2 | and all the brethren whiche are with me. Vnto the congregacyons of Galacia. |
| 1:3 | Grace be with you and peace from God the father, and from our Lorde Iesus Christ, |
| 1:4 | whiche gaue hym selfe for oure synnes, to delyuer vs from thys present euyll worlde, thorow the wyll of God our father, |
| 1:5 | to whom be prayse for euer and euer. Amen. |
| 1:6 | I maruayle that ye are so sone turned from hym that called you in the grace of Christ, vnto an other Gospell: |
| 1:7 | whiche is nothynge els, but that there be some which trouble you, and entende to peruert the Gospell of Christe. |
| 1:8 | Neuerthelesse thoughe we oure selues, or an Angell from heauen, preache any other Gospell vnto you then that whiche we haue preached vnto you, holde hym as accurssed. |
| 1:9 | As I haue sayed before, so saye I nowe agayne, yf anye man preache any other thynge vnto you, then that you haue receyued, holde hym accursed. |
| 1:10 | Preache I mans doctryne or Goddes? Eyther go I aboute to please men? Yf I studyed to please men, I were not the seruauat of Christe. |
| 1:11 | I certifye you brethren, that the Gospell which was preached of me, was, not after the maner of men, |
| 1:12 | neyther receyued I it of man, neyther was I taughte it, but receyued it by the reuelacyon of Iesus Christ. |
| 1:13 | For ye haue hearde of my conuersacyon in tyme paste, in the Iewes wayes, howe that beyonde measure I persecuted the congregacyon of God, & spoyled it, |
| 1:14 | and preuayled in the Iewes lawe, aboue many of my companyons, which were of myne own nacyon, & was a much more feruent mayntayner of the tradicions of the elders. |
| 1:15 | But when it pleased God (whiche separated me from my mothers wombe, and called me by hys grace, |
| 1:16 | for to declare hys sonne by me) that I shoulde preache hym amonge the heathen immediatly I communed not of the matter with fleshe and bloude, |
| 1:17 | neyther returned to Hierusalem to them whiche were Apostles before me, but went my wayes into Arabia, and came agayne to Damasco. |
| 1:18 | Then after .iij. yere I returned to Ierusalem to se Peter and abode with hym .xv. dayes, |
| 1:19 | no nother of the Apostles sawe I, saue Iames the Lordes brother. |
| 1:20 | The thynges which I wryte beholde God knoweth I lye not. |
| 1:21 | After that I went into the costes of Syria, and Cilicia, |
| 1:22 | and was knowen as touchynge my person vnto the congregacyons of Iewry, whiche were in Christe, |
| 1:23 | But they hearde onlye that he which persecuted vs in tyme past nowe preacheth the fayth which before he destroyed. |
| 1:24 | And they gloryfyed God on my be halfe. |
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.