And ye are witnesses of these thynges.
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TSK · 1 Peter 5:1
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But ye shall receaue power, after that the holy ghost is come vpon you: And ye shalbe witnesses vnto me, both in Hierusalem, and in al Iurie, & in Samarie, and euen vnto the worldes ende.
This Iesus hath God raysed vp, wherof we all are witnesses.
The God of our fathers raysed vp Iesus, whom ye slewe, & hanged on tree.
Which thyng they also dyd, and sent it to the elders by the handes of Barnabas and Saul.
And when they were come to Hierusalem, they were receaued of ye Church, and of the Apostles and elders: And they declared all thynges that God had done with them.
Then pleased it the Apostles & elders, with the whole Church, to sende chosen me of their owne companie to Antioch, with Paul and Barnabas: That is Iudas, whose sirname was Barsabas, and Silas, which were chiefe men among the brethren,
Take heede therfore vnto your selues, and to all the flocke, ouer the which the holy ghost hath made you ouerseers, to rule the Church of God, which he hath purchased with his owne blood.
If we be sonnes, then are we also heyres, the heyres of God, and ioyntheyres with Christe: So that we suffer together, that we may be also glorified together.
Neuerthelesse, we are of good comfort, and had rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lorde.
For Christe is to me lyfe, and death is to me aduantage.
Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father, the younger men as brethren,
Hencefoorth there is layde vp for me a crowne of ryghteousnesse, which the Lorde, the ryghteous iudge, shall geue me at that day: not to me only, but vnto the also yt haue loued his appearyng.
Yet for loues sake, I rather beseche thee, beyng such a one as Paul the aged, & nowe also a prisoner of Iesus Christe.
That the triall of your fayth, beyng much more precious then golde that perisheth, though it be tried with fyre, myght be founde vnto laude, glorie, and honour, at the appearyng of Iesus Christe,
And when the chiefe shephearde shall appeare, ye shall receaue an incorruptible crowne of glory.
The elder to the elect Lady & her chyldren, whom I loue in the trueth: and not I only, but also all that haue knowen ye trueth: