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  • 1. Let as many seruauntes as are vnder the yoke, count their maisters worthy of all honour, that the name of god and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
  • 2. And they whiche haue beleuyng maisters, despise them not because they are brethren: but rather do seruice, forasmuch as they are beleuyng and beloued and partakers of the benefite. These thynges teache and exhort.
  • 3. Yf any man teache otherwyse, and consenteth not vnto the wholsome wordes of our Lorde Iesus Christe, and to the doctrine whiche is accordyng to godlynesse:
  • 4. He is puft vp, knowyng nothing, but dotyng about questions and strifes of wordes, wherof commeth enuie, stryfe, raylynges, euyll surmysynges,
  • 5. Uayne disputations of men of corrupte myndes, destitute of the trueth, thynkyng lucre to be godlynesse. From suche be thou separate.
  • 6. Godlynesse is great lucre, if a man be content with that he hath.
  • 7. For we brought nothyng into the worlde, and it is certayne that we may carry nought away.
  • 8. But hauyng foode and rayment, we must therwith be content.
  • 9. For they that wyll be riche, fall into temptations and snares, and into many folishe &amp; noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction.
  • 10. For loue of money, is the roote of all euyll, whiche whyle some lusted after, they erred from the fayth, &amp; pearced the selues through with many sorowes.
  • 11. But thou O man of God, flee these thynges, and folow after righteousnes, godlynes, faith, loue, pacience, mekenes.
  • 12. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hand on eternall lyfe, wherevnto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
  • 13. I geue thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all thynges, and before Iesus Christe, which vnder Pontius Pilate witnessed a good profession,
  • 14. That thou kepe the commaundement without spot, vnrebukeable, vntyll the appearyng of our Lorde Iesus Christ:
  • 15. Which in his tymes he shall shewe that is blessed and prince only, the kyng of kynges, and Lorde of Lordes,
  • 16. Who only hath immortalitie, dwelling in the light that no man can attayne vnto, Whom no man hath seene, neither can see, vnto whom be honour &amp; power euerlastyng. Amen.
  • 17. Charge them which are riche in this world, that they be not hie minded, nor trust in vncertayne riches: but in ye lyuyng God, which geueth vs aboundauntly all thinges to enioy:
  • 18. That they do good, that they be riche in good workes, that they be redye to geue, glad to distribute:
  • 19. Laying vp in store for them selues a good foundation agaynst the tyme to come, that they may lay holde on eternall lyfe.
  • 20. O Timotheus, saue that which is geuen thee to kepe, auoydyng prophane [and] vayne bablynges, and oppositions of science, falslie so called:
  • 21. Which some professyng, haue erred concernyng the fayth. Grace [be] with thee. Amen. [Sent from Laodicea, which is the chiefest citie of Phrygia Pacaciana.]