Verse 17

Therfore maye I boost myselfe thorow Iesu Christ, that I medle with thinges perteyninge vnto God.

Referenced Verses

  • Heb 5:1 : 1 For euery hye prest that is taken fro amoge men, is ordeyned for men in thinges pertayninge to God, to offer giftes and sacrifices for synne:
  • Phil 3:3 : 3 for we are the circumcision, euen we that serue God in the sprete, and reioyce in Christ Iesu, and haue no confidence in the flesh,
  • Heb 2:17 : 17 Wherfore in all thinges it became him to be made like vnto his brethren, that he mighte be mercyfull and a faithfull hye prest in thinges concernynge God, to make agrement for the synnes of ye people.
  • Rom 4:2 : 2 This we saye: Yf Abraham were made righteous thorow workes, then hath he wherin to reioyse, but not before God.
  • 2 Cor 2:14-16 : 14 Yet thankes be vnto God, which all waye geueth vs the victory in Christ, and openeth ye fauoure of his knowlege by vs in euery place. 15 For we are vnto God the good fauoure of Christ, both amonge the yt are saued, & amonge them yt perishe. 16 To these, ye sauoure of death vnto death: but vnto ye other, the sauoure of life vnto life. And who is mete therto?
  • 2 Cor 3:4-6 : 4 Soch trust haue we thorow Christ to God warde, 5 not that we are sufficient of oure selues to thynke eny thinge, as of oure selues, but oure ablenesse commeth of God, 6 which hath made vs able, to be mynisters of the new Testament: not of the letter, but of the sprete. For the letter kylleth, but the sprete geueth life.
  • 2 Cor 7:4 : 4 I am very bolde towarde you, I make moch boost of you, I am fylled with comforte, I am exceadynge ioyous in all oure tribulacion.
  • 2 Cor 11:16-30 : 16 I saye agayne, lest eny man thynke that I am folish: or els take me euen now as a fole, yt I maye boast my selfe a litle also. 17 That I speake now, that speake I not after the LORDE, but as it were in folishnes, whyle we are now come to boastinge: 18 Seynge that many boaste them selues after ye flesh, I wil boast my selfe also. 19 For ye suffre foles gladly, in so moch as ye youre selues are wyse. 20 For ye suffre euen yf a man brynge you in to bondage, yf a man put you to dishonesty, yf a man take ought fro you, yf a man exalte himselfe ouer you, yf a man smyte you on the face. 21 I speake concernynge rebuke, as though we were weake.Wherin so euer now eny man darre be bolde (I speake folishly) therin darre I be bolde also. 22 They are Hebrues, so am I. They are Israelites, euen so am I. They are the sede of Abraham, so am I. 23 They are the mynisters of Christ (I speake as a fole) I am more: in laboures more abudaunt, in strypes aboue measure, in presonmentes more plenteously, in death oft. 24 Of the Iewes receaued I fyue tymes fortye strypes, one lesse. 25 Thryse was I beaten with roddes. I was once stoned, I suffred thryse shypwracke: nighte and daye haue I bene in the depe of the see: 26 I haue oft iourneyed: I haue bene oft in parels of waters, in parels amonge murthurers, in parels amonge the Iewes, in parels amonge the Heythen, in parels in cities, in parels in the wylderners, in parels vpon the See, in parels amonge false brethre, 27 in laboure & trauayle, in moch watchinges, in honger and thyrst, in moch fastinges in colde and nakednesse: 28 Besyde those thynges which are outwarde, namely my daylie combraunce, my daylie care for all cogregacions. 29 Who is weake, and I be not weake? Who is offended, & I burne not? 30 Yf I must nedes make my boast, I wil boast my selfe of myne infirmyte.
  • 2 Cor 12:1 : 1 It profiteth me nothinge (no doute) to boaste. Neuertheles I wil come to ye visions and reuelacions off the LORDE.
  • 2 Cor 12:11-21 : 11 I am become a fole i boastinge my selfe: Ye haue copelled me. For I oughte to be comended of you, in so moch as I am in nothinge inferior to ye hye Apostles. Though I be nothinge, 12 yet are ye tokens of an Apostle wrought amoge you, with all paciece, with signes, & with woders & with mightie dedes. 13 For what is it, wherin ye are inferiours to the other congregacions? excepte it be yt I haue not bene greuous vnto you.Forgeue me this wroge. 14 Beholde, I am ready the thirde tyme to come vnto you, and wyl not be chargeable vnto you. For I seke not youres, but you. For ye childre ought not to gather treasure for the elders, but the elders for the children. 15 I wil very gladly bestowe, and wyl be bestowed for youre soules: though ye more I loue you, the lesse am I loued agayne. 16 But let it be so that I greued you not, neuertheles for so moch as I was craftye, I toke you wt gyle. 17 Haue I defrauded you by eny of the, who I sent vnto you? 18 I desyred Titus, & with him I sent a brother: dyd Titus defraude you? Haue we not walked in one sprete? Wete we not in like fotesteppes? 19 Agayne, thynke ye yt we excuse oure selues? We speake in Christ in the sighte off God. But all this (dearly beloued) is done for yor edifyenge. 20 For I feare, lest whan I come, I shal not fynde you soch as I wolde: and lest ye shal fynde me soch as ye wolde not: lest there be amonge you, debates, envyenges, wrathes, stryuynges, bacbytinges, whysperinges, swellinges, vproures: 21 lest whan I come agayne, God bringe me lowe amoge you & lest I be constrayned to bewayle many of the yt haue synned before, & haue not repented ouer ye vnclennesse and whordome, and wantonnes, which they haue comytted.