Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 2:1 | Bvt speake thou the thinges which become wholesome doctrine, |
| 2:2 | That the elder men be watchful, graue, teperate, sounde in the faith, in loue, and in patience: |
| 2:3 | The elder women likewise, that they be in such behauiour as becommeth holinesse, not false accusers, not subiect to much wine, but teachers of honest things, |
| 2:4 | That they may instruct the yong women to be sober minded, that they loue their husbands, that they loue their children, |
| 2:5 | That they be temperate, chaste, keeping at home, good and subiect vnto their husbands, that the word of God be not euill spoken of. |
| 2:6 | Exhort yong men likewise, that they bee sober minded. |
| 2:7 | In all things shewe thy selfe an ensample of good woorkes with vncorrupt doctrine, with grauitie, integritie, |
| 2:8 | And with the wholesome woorde, which can not be condemned, that hee which withstandeth, may be ashamed, hauing nothing concerning you to speake euill of. |
| 2:9 | Let seruants be subiect to their masters, and please them in al things, not answering again, |
| 2:10 | Neither pickers, but that they shew al good faithfulnesse, that they may adorne the doctrine of God our Sauiour in all things. |
| 2:11 | For that grace of God, that bringeth saluation vnto all men, hath appeared, |
| 2:12 | And teacheth vs that we should denie vngodlinesse and worldly lusts, and that we should liue soberly and righteously, and godly in this present world, |
| 2:13 | Looking for that blessed hope, and appearing of that glorie of that mightie God, and of our Sauiour Iesus Christ, |
| 2:14 | Who gaue him selfe for vs, that hee might redeeme vs from all iniquitie, and purge vs to bee a peculiar people vnto himselfe, zealous of good woorkes. |
| 2:15 | These things speake, and exhort, and conuince with all authoritie. See that no man despise thee. |
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.