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King James Bible 1611
| 4:1 | Let a man so account of vs, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. |
| 4:2 | Moreouer, it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithfull. |
| 4:3 | But with mee it is a very small thing that I should bee iudged of you, or of mans iudgement: yea, I iudge not mine owne selfe. |
| 4:4 | For I know nothing by my selfe, yet am I not hereby iustified: but hee that iudgeth me is the Lord. |
| 4:5 | Therefore iudge nothing before the time, vntill the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkenesse, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall euery man haue prayse of God. |
| 4:6 | And these things, brethren, I haue in a figure transferred to my selfe, and to Apollo, for your sakes: that ye might learne in vs not to thinke of men, aboue that which is written, that no one of you bee puffed vp for one against another. |
| 4:7 | For who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that thou didst not receiue? Now if thou didst receiue it, why doest thou glory as if thou hadst not receiued it? |
| 4:8 | Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye haue reigned as kings without vs, and I would to God ye did reigne, that we also might reigne with you. |
| 4:9 | For I thinke that God hath set forth vs the Apostles last, as it were approued to death. For wee are made a spectacle vnto the world, and to Angels, and to men. |
| 4:10 | We are fooles for Christs sake, but ye are wise in Christ. We are weake, but ye are strong: yee are honourable, but we are despised. |
| 4:11 | Euen vnto this present houre we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwelling place, |
| 4:12 | And labour, working with our owne hands: being reuiled, wee blesse: being persecuted, we suffer it: |
| 4:13 | Being defamed, we intreate: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the off-scouring of all things vnto this day. |
| 4:14 | I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloued sonnes I warne you. |
| 4:15 | For though you haue ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet haue yee not many fathers: For in Christ Iesus I haue begotten you through the Gospel. |
| 4:16 | Wherefore I beseech you, be yee followers of me. |
| 4:17 | For this cause haue I sent vnto you Timotheus, who is my beloued sonne, and faithfull in the Lord, who shal bring you into remembrance of my wayes which be in Christ, as I teach euery where in euery Church. |
| 4:18 | Nowe some are puffed vp as though I would not come to you. |
| 4:19 | But I wil come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will knowe, not the speach of them which are puffed vp, but the power. |
| 4:20 | For the kingdome of God is not in word, but in power. |
| 4:21 | What will ye? Shall I come vnto you with a rod, or in loue, and in the spirit of meekenesse? |
King James Bible 1611
The commissioning of the King James Bible took place at a conference at the Hampton Court Palace in London England in 1604. When King James came to the throne he wanted unity and stability in the church and state, but was well aware that the diversity of his constituents had to be considered. There were the Papists who longed for the English church to return to the Roman Catholic fold and the Latin Vulgate. There were Puritans, loyal to the crown but wanting even more distance from Rome. The Puritans used the Geneva Bible which contained footnotes that the king regarded as seditious. The Traditionalists made up of Bishops of the Anglican Church wanted to retain the Bishops Bible.
The king commissioned a new English translation to be made by over fifty scholars representing the Puritans and Traditionalists. They took into consideration: the Tyndale New Testament, the Matthews Bible, the Great Bible and the Geneva Bible. The great revision of the Bible had begun. From 1605 to 1606 the scholars engaged in private research. From 1607 to 1609 the work was assembled. In 1610 the work went to press, and in 1611 the first of the huge (16 inch tall) pulpit folios known today as "The 1611 King James Bible" came off the printing press.