Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 3:1 | This know also, that in the last dayes perillous times shall come. |
| 3:2 | For men shall bee louers of their owne selues, couetous, boasters, proude, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, vnthankfull, vnholy, |
| 3:3 | Without naturall affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, |
| 3:4 | Traitours, heady, high minded, louers of pleasures more then louers of God, |
| 3:5 | Hauing a forme of godlinesse, but denying the power thereof: from such turne away. |
| 3:6 | For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and leade captiue silly women laden with sinnes, led away with diuers lusts, |
| 3:7 | Euer learning, and neuer able to come to the knowledge of the trueth. |
| 3:8 | Now as Iannes and Iambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the trueth: men of corrupt mindes, reprobate concerning the faith. |
| 3:9 | But they shal proceede no further: for their folly shall be manifest vnto all men, as theirs also was. |
| 3:10 | But thou hast fully knowen my doctrine, maner of life, purpose, faith, long suffering, charitie, patience, |
| 3:11 | Persecutions, afflictions which came vnto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra, what persecutions I indured: but out of them all the Lord deliuered me. |
| 3:12 | Yea, and all that will liue godly in Christ Iesus, shall suffer persecution. |
| 3:13 | But euill men and seducers shall waxe worse and worse, deceiuing, and being deceiued. |
| 3:14 | But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned, and hast been assured of, knowing of whome thou hast learned them. |
| 3:15 | And that from a childe thou hast knowen the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise vnto saluation through faith which is in Christ Iesus. |
| 3:16 | All Scripture is giuen by inspiration of God, & is profitable for doctrine, for reproofe, for correction, for instrution in righteousnesse, |
| 3:17 | That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished vnto all good workes. |
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.