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¶ Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ, by y e will of God, and Timotheus our brother,

We giue thanks to God, and the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, praying alwayes for you,

Since we heard of your faith in Christ Iesus, and of the loue which yee haue to all the Saints,

For the hope which is layd vp for you in heauen, whereof ye heard before in the word of the trueth of the Gospel,

Which is come vnto you as it is in all the world, and bringeth foorth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day yee heard of it, and knew the grace of God in trueth,

As yee also learned of Epaphras our deare felow seruant, who is for you a faithfull Minister of Christ:

For this cause wee also, since the day we heard it, doe not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisedome and spirituall vnderstanding:

That ye might walke worthy of the Lord vnto all pleasing, being fruitfull in euery good worke, & increasing in the knowledge of God:

Giuing thanks vnto the Father, which hath made vs meete to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light:

Who hath deliuered vs from the power of darkenesse, and hath translated vs into the kingdome of his deare Sonne,

1611 marginal noteGr. the Sonne of his loue.