Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 6:1 | Dare any of you, hauing businesse against an other, be iudged vnder the vniust, and not vnder the Saintes? |
| 6:2 | Doe ye not knowe, that the Saintes shall iudge the worlde? If the worlde then shalbe iudged by you, are ye vnworthie to iudge the smallest matters? |
| 6:3 | Knowe ye not that we shall iudge the Angels? howe much more, things that perteine to this life? |
| 6:4 | If then ye haue iudgements of things perteining to this life, set vp them which are least esteemed in the Church. |
| 6:5 | I speake it to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise man among you? no not one, that can iudge betweene his brethren? |
| 6:6 | But a brother goeth to law with a brother, and that vnder the infidels. |
| 6:7 | Nowe therefore there is altogether infirmitie in you, in that yee goe to lawe one with another: why rather suffer ye not wrong? why rather susteine yee not harme? |
| 6:8 | Nay, yee your selues doe wrong, and doe harme, and that to your brethren. |
| 6:9 | Knowe yee not that the vnrighteous shall not inherite the kingdome of God? Be not deceiued: neither fornicatours, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor wantons, nor buggerers, |
| 6:10 | Nor theeues, nor couetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners shall inherite the kingdome of God. |
| 6:11 | And such were some of you: but yee are washed, but yee are sanctified, but yee are iustified in the Name of the Lord Iesus, and by the Spirit of our God. |
| 6:12 | All thinges are lawfull vnto mee, but all thinges are not profitable. I may doe all things, but I will not be brought vnder the power of any thing. |
| 6:13 | Meates are ordeined for the bellie, and the belly for the meates: but God shall destroy both it, and them. Nowe the bodie is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the bodie. |
| 6:14 | And God hath also raised vp the Lord, and shall raise vs vp by his power. |
| 6:15 | Knowe yee not, that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. |
| 6:16 | Doe ye not knowe, that he which coupleth himselfe with an harlot, is one body? for two, sayeth he, shalbe one flesh. |
| 6:17 | But hee that is ioyned vnto the Lord, is one spirite. |
| 6:18 | Flee fornication: euery sinne that a man doeth, is without the bodie: but hee that committeth fornication, sinneth against his owne bodie. |
| 6:19 | Knowe yee not, that your body is the temple of the holy Ghost, which is in you, whom ye haue of God? and yee are not your owne. |
| 6:20 | For yee are bought for a price: therefore glorifie God in your bodie, and in your spirit: for they are Gods. |
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
The Geneva Bible is one of the most influential and historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James translation by 51 years. It was the primary Bible of 16th century Protestantism and was the Bible used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan. The language of the Geneva Bible was more forceful and vigorous and because of this, most readers strongly preferred this version at the time.
The Geneva Bible was produced by a group of English scholars who, fleeing from the reign of Queen Mary, had found refuge in Switzerland. During the reign of Queen Mary, no Bibles were printed in England, the English Bible was no longer used in churches and English Bibles already in churches were removed and burned. Mary was determined to return Britain to Roman Catholicism.
The first English Protestant to die during Mary's turbulent reign was John Rogers in 1555, who had been the editor of the Matthews Bible. At this time, hundreds of Protestants left England and headed for Geneva, a city which under the leadership of Calvin, had become the intellectual and spiritual capital of European Protestants.
One of these exiles was William Whittingham, a fellow of Christ Church at Oxford University, who had been a diplomat, a courtier, was much traveled and skilled in many languages including Greek and Hebrew. He eventually succeeded John Knox as the minister of the English congregation in Geneva. Whittingham went on to publish the 1560 Geneva Bible.
This version is significant because, it came with a variety of scriptural study guides and aids, which included verse citations that allow the reader to cross-reference one verse with numerous relevant verses in the rest of the Bible, introductions to each book of the Bible that acted to summarize all of the material that each book would cover, maps, tables, woodcut illustrations, indices, as well as other included features, all of which would eventually lead to the reputation of the Geneva Bible as history's very first study Bible.