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Bishops Bible 1568
| 3:1 | My brethren, be not manie maisters, knowyng howe that we shall receaue the greater damnation: |
| 3:2 | For in many thynges we sinne all. If a man sinne not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle all the body. |
| 3:3 | Beholde, we put bittes in the horses mouthes, that they may obey vs, and we turne about all the body of them: |
| 3:4 | Beholde also ye shippes, which though they be so great, and are dryuen of fierce windes, yet are they turned about with a very small helme, whither soeuer the violence of the gouernour wyll. |
| 3:5 | Euen so the tongue is a litle member also, & boasteth great thynges. Beholde how great a matter a litle fire kindleth. |
| 3:6 | And the tongue is fyre, euen a worlde of wickednesse. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fyre the course of nature, & it is set on fyre of hell. |
| 3:7 | All the natures of beastes, & of byrdes, and of serpentes, and thynges of the sea, are meeked and tamed of the nature of man: |
| 3:8 | But the tongue can no man tame, it is an vnruly euyll, full of deadly poyson. |
| 3:9 | Therwith blesse we God the father: and therwith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. |
| 3:10 | Out of one mouth proceadeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these thynges ought not so to be. |
| 3:11 | Doth a fountayne sende foorth at one place, sweete water, and bitter also? |
| 3:12 | Can the fygge tree, my brethren, beare oliue beries? either a vine beare figges? So can no fountayne geue both salt water and freshe also. |
| 3:13 | Who is a wise man, and endued with knoweledge among you? let him shewe his workes out of good conuersation with mekenesse of wisdome. |
| 3:14 | But yf ye haue bitter enuiyng & strife in your hearte, glorie not, neither be lyers agaynst the trueth. |
| 3:15 | For such wisdome descendeth not fro aboue: but is earthlie, sensuall, and deuelishe. |
| 3:16 | For where enuiyng and strife is, there is sedition & all maner of euyll workes. |
| 3:17 | But the wisdome that is from aboue, is first pure, then peaseable, gentle, and easie to be entreated, full of mercie and good fruites, without iudgyng, without simulation: |
| 3:18 | Yea, and the fruite of ryghteousnes is sowen in peace, of the that make peace. |
Bishops Bible 1568
The Bishops' Bible was produced under the authority of the established Church of England in 1568. It was substantially revised in 1572, and the 1602 edition was prescribed as the base text for the King James Bible completed in 1611. The thorough Calvinism of the Geneva Bible offended the Church of England, to which almost all of its bishops subscribed. They associated Calvinism with Presbyterianism, which sought to replace government of the church by bishops with government by lay elders. However, they were aware that the Great Bible of 1539 , which was the only version then legally authorized for use in Anglican worship, was severely deficient, in that much of the Old Testament and Apocrypha was translated from the Latin Vulgate, rather than from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. In an attempt to replace the objectionable Geneva translation, they circulated one of their own, which became known as the Bishops' Bible.