2 Timothy · Chapter 3

[ edit] Forſoþe wite þou þis þing, þat in þe laſte dayes perelouſe tymes ſchulen ſtonde nyȝ, and men ſchulen be louynge hem ſilf, coueitous, hiȝ of beringe, proude, blasfemes, not obedient to fadir and modir, vnkynde, curſid, wiþoute affeccioun, or good wille, wiþoute pees, fals blameris, vncontynent, vnmylde, wiþoute benygnyte, traitours, proterue, or ouerþwert, bollun wiþ proude þouȝtis, loueris of luſtis more þan of God, hauynge ſoþli þe ſpice, or licneſſe, of pite, forſoþe denyinge þe vertu of it. And eſchewe þou þeſe.

Of þeſe ſoþli þei ben þat peerſen houſis, and leeden litle wymmen caytifs chargid wiþ ſynnes, þe whiche ben ledd wiþ diuerſe deſyris, euermore lernynge, and neuere perfitly comyng to ſcience of treuþe. Forſoþ as Jannes and Mambre aȝen ſtooden Moyſes, ſo and þeſe aȝen ſtonden treuþe, men corupt in ſoule, or vndirſtondynge, reproued aboute þe feiþ. But ferþer þei ſchulen not profyte, ſoþli þe vnwyſdom of hem ſchal be knowen to alle men, as and hern was.

Forſoþ þou haſt getyn my teching, and ordynaunce, purpoſyng, feiþ, longe abidyng, loue, pacience, perſecuciouns, paſſiouns, what maner ben maad to me at Antyoche, at Iconye, at Liſtris, what maner perſecuciouns I ſuffride, and þe Lord haþ delyuered me of alle. And alle men þat wolen lyue piteuouſly in Criſt Jheſu, ſchulen ſuffre perſecucioun. Forſoþ yuel men and diſceyueris ſchulen profyte into worſe, errynge, and ſendyng into errour. But dwelle þou in þeſe þingis þat þou haſt lerd, and ben bitakun to þee, witynge of whom þou haſt lerud; and for þou haſt knowun hooly lettris fro þi ȝongþe, or childhod, þe whiche mouwn lerne þee to heelþ, by feiþ þat is in Criſt Jheſu.

Forſoþ al ſcripture of God ynſpyrid is profitable to teche, to arguwe, or proue, to reproue, for to lerne in riȝtwyſneſſe, þat þe man of God be perfyt, lerud to al good werk.