William Tyndale (Pentateuch, Jonah &NT)

The epistle of S. Paul vnto the Philippians.
The Prologe vpon the epistle of S. Paul to the Philippians.

Paule prayseth the philippians / and exhorteth them to stande fast in the true fayth / and to encrease in loue. And because that false prophetes studye all wayes to impunge and destroye the true fayth / he warneth them


of soche workelerners or teachers of workes / & prayseth Epaphroditus. And all this dothe he in the fyrst and second Chapters.

In the thyrde he reproueth faythlesse & mannes ryghteousnes / which false prophetes teache and maynteme. And he setteth him for an ensample / how that he him selfe had liued in soche false rightewesnes and holynes vnrebukable / that was so that no man coulde complayne on him / & yet now setteth nought therby / for Christes righteousnes sake. And finallye affyrmeth that soche false Prophetes are the enemyes of the crosse / and make their bellyes their God. Forther then they maye safelie and withoute all perell and soffering / wyll they not preache Christ.

The epistle of S. Paul vnto the Philippians.
The fyrst Chapter.

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[Untitled Possibly Huge Image] Paul and Timotheus the servauntes of Iesu Christ To all þe sainct[es] in Christ 1.A Iesu which are at Philippos / with þe Bisshops and Deacons.

Grace be with you and peace from God oure father / and from the Lorde Iesus Christ.


I thanke my God with all remembraunce of you / all wayes in all my prayers for you & praye with gladnes / because of the fellowshyp which ye have in the gospell from the fyrst daye vnto now: cross.gif and am suerly certified of this / that he which beganne a good worke in you / shall go forthe with it vntyll the daye of Iesus Christ / as it becobar.gifmeth me so to iudge of you all / because I have you in my herte / and have you also every one companiobar.gifs of grace with me / even in my bondes / as I defende and stablysshe the gospell.

For God beareth me recorde how greatly I longe after you all from the very herte rote in Iesus Christ.

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And this I praye / þt youre love maye increace more & more in knowledge / and in all fealinge / that ye myght accepte thinges most excellent / that ye myght be pure and soche as shuld hurte no mnes conscience / vntyll the daye of Christ / filled with the frutes of rightewesnes / which frutes come by Iesus Christ vnto the glory and laude of God. cross.gif

I wolde ye vnderstode brethern that my busynes is happened vnto the greater furtherynge of the gospell. So that my bondes in Christ are manyfest thorow out all the iudgement hall and in all other places: In so moche that many of the brethr in þe lorde are boldned thorow my bobar.gifdes / and dare more largely speake the worde with out feare. Some ther are which preache Christ of envie & stryfe / and some of good wyll. The one parte preacheth


Christ of stryfe & not purely / supposinge to adde more adversitie to my bondes. The other parte of love / because they se that I am set to defend the gospell.

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What then? So that Christ be preached all maner wayes / whether it be by occasion / or of true meaninge / I therin ioye: ye and will ioye. For I knowe that this shall chaunce to my salvacion / thorow youre prayer and ministringe of the sprete of Iesu Christ / as I hertely loke for & hope / that in nothinge I shalbe ashamed: but that with all confidence / as all wayes in tymes past / even so now Christ shalbe magnified in my body / whether it be thorowe lyfe / or els deeth. For Christ is to me lyfe / and deeth is to me a vauntage.

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Yf it chaunce me to live in the flesshe / that is to me frutefull forto worke / & what to chose I wote not. I am constrayned of two thinges: I desyre to be lowsed & to be with Christ / which thinge is best of all. Neverthelesse to abyde in the flesshe is moare nedfull for you. And this am I sure of / that I shall abyde / & with you all continue / for the furtheraunce and ioye of youre fayth / that ye maye moare aboundantly reioyce in Iesus Christ thorowe me / by my comminge to you agayne.

Only let yovre conversacion be / as it be cobar.gifmeth the gospell of Christ: that whether I come & se you / or els be absent / I maye yet heare of you / that ye contynue in one sprete / and in one soule / labouringe as we do / to mayntayne the fayth of the gospell / & in nothynge


fearinge youre adversaries: which is to them a token of perdicion / & to you of salvacion / & that of God. For vnto you it is geven / that not only ye shulde beleve on Christ: but also suffre 2.D for his sake / & have ev the same fight which ye sawe me have and now heare of me.

The .ii. Chapter.

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If ther be amobar.gifge you eny consolacion in Christ / yf ther be eny cobar.giffortable love / yf there be eny fellishippe of the sprete / yf ther be eny cobar.gifpassion or mercy: fulfyll my ioye / that ye drawe one waye / havinge one love / beynge of one accorde / and of one mynde / that nothinge be done thorow stryfe or vayne glory / but that in mekenes of mynde every man esteme other better then him selfe / & that no man consyder his awne / but what is mete for other. 3.A

cross.gif Let the same mynde be in you that was in Christ Iesu: Which beynge in the shape of god / and thought it not robbery to be equall with god. Neverthelesse he made him silfe of no reputacion / and toke on him the shape of a servaunte / & became lyke vnto men / and was founde in his aparell as a man. He humbled him silfe & became obedit vnto þe deeth /

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even the deeth of the crosse. Wherfore god hath exalted him / 4.B and gev him a name above all names: that in the name of Iesus shuld every knee bowe / 5.B bothe of thing[es] in hev & thinges in erth & thing[es] vnder erth / 6.B and that all tonges shuld confesse that Iesus Christ is the lorde vnto the prayse of God the father. cross.gif


Wherfore my dearly beloved / as ye have al ways obeyed / not when I was present only / but now moche more in myne absence / even so worke out youre awne 7.B saluaciobar.gif with feare & tremblynge. For it is god which worketh in you /

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both þe will & also þt dede / ev of good will

Do all thynge with out murmurynge & disputynge / that ye maye be fautelesse and pure / and the sonnes of God with out rebuke / in þe middes of a croked & a perverse nacion / amonge which se that ye shyne as lightes in the worlde / holdinge fast the worde of lyfe / vnto my reioysynge in þe daye of Christ / that I have not runne in vayne / nether have labored in vayne. Yee & though I be offered vp vpon the offerynge and sacrifice of youre fayth: I reioyce / and reioyce with you all. For the same cause also / reioyce ye / and reioyce ye with me.

I trust in the lorde Iesus for to sende Timotheus shortly vnto you / that I also maye be of good comforte / when I knowe what case ye stonde in. For I have no m that is so lyke mynded to me / which with so pure affecciobar.gif careth for youre matters. For all other seke þtir awne / and not that which is Iesus Christ[es] Ye knowe the proffe of him / howe that as a sone with the father / so with me bestowed he his labour apon the gospell. Him I hope to sende assone as I knowe how it will go with me. I trust in the lorde I also my silfe shall come shortly.

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I supposed it necessary to sende brother Epaphroditus vnto you / my companion in laboure
& felowe soudier / youre Apostel and my minister at my nedes. For he longed after you and was full of hevines /
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because that ye had hearde saye that he shuld be sicke. And no doute he was sicke / and that nye vnto deeth. But god had mercy on him: not on him only / but on me also / lest I shuld have had sorowe apon sorowe.

I sent him therfore the diligentliar / that when ye shuld se him / ye myght reioyce agayne / and I myght be the lesse sorowfull. Receave him therfore in the lorde with all gladnes / and make moche of soche: because that for þe worke of Christ he went so farre / that he was nye vnto deeth / and regarded not his lyfe / to fulfill that service which was lackynge on youre parte towarde me.

The .iii. Chap.

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Morover my brethren / reioyce in the lorde. It greveth me not to write one thinge often to you. For to you it is a sure thynge. Beware of dogges / beware of evyll workers. Beware of dissencion. For we are circcision which 8.A worshippe god in the sprete / and reioyce in Christ Iesu / and have no confidence in the flesshe: though I have wherof I myght reioyce in the flesshe. Yf eny other man thynketh that he hath wherof he myght trust in the flesshe: moche moare I: circumcised the eyght daye / of þe kynred of Israhell / of þe trybe of Beniamyn / an Ebrue borne of þe Ebrues: as concernynge the lawe / a pharisaye / and as concernynge fervtnes /
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I perseuted the congregacion / and as touchynge the
rightewesnes which is in the lawe I was 9.B vnrebukable.

But the thynges that were vauntage vnto me I counted losse for Christes sake. Ye I thinke all thynges but losse for that excellt knowledges sake of Christ Iesu my lorde.

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For whom I have counted all thynge losse / & do iudge them but donge / that I myght wynne Christ / and myght be founde in him / not havynge myne awne rightewesnes which is of the lawe: But that which spryngeth of the fayth which is in Christ. I meane the rightewesnes which cobar.gifmeth of God thorowe fayth in knowynge him and the vertue of his resurreccion / and the fellowshippe of his passions / that I myght be cobar.gifformable vnto his (deeth) yf by eny meanes I myght attayne vnto the resurreccion from deeth.

Not as though I had all redy attayned to it / Ether were all redy parfect: but I folowe / yf þt I maye comprehende that / wherin I am comprehended of Christ Iesu. Brethren I counte not my silfe that I have gotten it: but one thynge I saye: I 10.C forget þt which is behynde and stretche my silfe vnto that which is before and preace vnto þe marke apoynted / to obtayne the rewarde of the hye callynge of god in Christ Iesu. Let vs therfore as many as be perfect be thus wyse minded: and yf ye be other wyse mynded / I praye God open even this vnto you. Neverthelesse in that wher vnto we are come /

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let vs procede by one rule / þt we maye be of one acorde.


cross.gif Brethren be folowers of & me loke on them which walke even so / as ye have vs for an ensample.

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For many walke (of whom I have tolde you often / 11.D and now tell you wepynge) that they are þe enemyes of þe crosse of Christ / whose ende is dampnaciobar.gif / whose God is their bely / and whose glory is to their shame / which are worldely mynded. 12.DBut oure conversacion is in heven / from whence we loke for a saveour enen the lorde Iesus Christ / which shall chaunge oure vile bodies / that they maye be fassioned lyke vnto his glorious body / acordinge to the workynge wherby he is able to subdue all thinges vnto hym silfe. cross.gif

The .iiii. Chapter.

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Herfore my brethren dearly beloved and longed for / my ioye and croune / so continue in the lorde ye beloved. I praye Evodias / and beseche Sintiches that they be of one accorde in the lorde. Yee and I beseche the faythfull yockfelowe / helpe the wemen which labored with me in the gospell / and with Clement also / and with other my labour felowes / whose names are in the boke of lyfe. cross.gif Reioyce in the Lorde alwaye / and agayne I saye reioyce. Let youre softenes be knowen vnto all men. The lorde is even at honde. Be not carfull: but in all thynges shewe youre peticion vnto god in prayer and suplicacion [wt] gevynge of thankes. And the peace of god which passeth all vnderstondinge / kepe youre hertes & myndes in christ Iesu. cross.gif

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Furthermore brethren / whatsoever thing[es]
are true / whatsoever thyng[es] are honest / what soever thynges are iust / whatsoever thynges are pure / whatsoever thynges pertayne to love / whatsoever thynges are of honest reporte: yf ther be eny verteous thynge / yf there be eny laudable thynge / those same have ye in youre mynde / which ye have both learned & receaved /
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herde and also sene in me: those thyngs do / and the god of peace shalbe with you. I reioyse in the lorde greatly / that now at the last ye are revived agayne to care for me / in þt wherein ye were also carefull / but ye lacked oportunite. I speake not because of necessitie. For I have learned in whatsoever estate I am therewith to be content. I can both cast doune my silfe / I can also excede. Every where and in all thynges I am instructed / both to be full / and to be hongry: to have plenty / & to suffre nede. I can do all thynges thorow the helpe of Christ which strengtheth me. Not wistondynge ye have well done / that ye bare parte with me in my tribvlacion.

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Ye of Philippos knowe that in the begynnynge of the gospell / when I departed from Macedonia / no congregacion bare parte with me as concernynge gevynge and receavynge / but ye only. For when I was in Tessalonica / ye sent once and afterwarde agayne vnto my nedes: not that I desyre gyftes: but I desyre abodant frute on youre parte. I receaved all / and have plentie. I was even filled after that I had receaved of Epaphroditus / that which came from you / an odour that smelleth swete / 13.D
a sacrifice accepted and plesaunt to God. My god fulfill all youre nedes thorow his glorious riches in Iesu Christ. Vnto God and oure father be prayse for ever more. Amen. Salute all the sainctes in Christ Iesu. The brethren which are with me grete you. All the saynctes salute you: & most of all they which are of the Emperours housholde. The grace of oure lorde Iesu Christ be [wt] you all. Amen

Sent from Rome by Epaphroditus.

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