1Warne the that they submitte them selves to rule and power to obey the officers that they be readie vnto all good workes

2that they speake evyll of no man that they be no fyghters but softe shewynge all meknes vnto all men.

3For we oure selves also were in tymes past vnwyse disobedient deceaved in daunger to lustes and to diuers maners of volupteousnes livynge in maliciousnes and envie full of hate hatinge one another.

4But after that the kyndnes and love of oure saveoure God to manwarde appered

5not of the dedes of rightewesnes which we wrought but of his mercie he saved vs by the foutayne of the newe birth and with the renuynge of the holy goost

6which he shed on vs aboundantly thorow Iesus Christ oure saveoure

7that we once iustified by his grace shuld be heyres of eternall lyfe thorowe hope

8This is a true sayinge. Of these thinges I wolde thou shuldest certifie that they which beleve God myght be diligent to go forwarde in good workes. These thinges are good and proffitable vnto me.

9Folisshe questions and genealogies and braulinges and stryfe aboute the lawe avoyde for they are vnproffitable and superfluous.

10A man that is geue to heresie after the fyrst and the seconde admonicion avoyde

11remembrynge that he that is soche is perverted and synneth even damned by his awne iudgement.

12When I shall sende Artemas vnto the or Tichicus be diliget to come to me vnto Nichopolis. For I have determined ther to wynter.

13Brynge zenas the lawear and Apollos on their iorney diligently that nothynge be lackynge vnto them.

14And let oures olso learne to excell in good workes as farforth as nede requyreth that they be not vnfrutefull.

15All that are with me salute the. Grete them that love vs in the fayth. Grace be with you all Amen. ‘Written from Nichopolis a citie of Macedonia.’