Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 5:1 | For euery high Priest taken from among men, is ordeined for men in things pertaining to God, that hee may offer both giftes & sacrifices for sins. |
| 5:2 | Who can haue compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way, for that he himselfe also is compassed with infirmitie. |
| 5:3 | And by reason heereof hee ought as for the people, so also for himselfe, to offer for sinnes. |
| 5:4 | And no man taketh this honour vnto himselfe, but hee that is called of God, as was Aaron. |
| 5:5 | So also, Christ glorified not himselfe, to bee made an High Priest: but hee that saide vnto him, Thou art my Sonne, to day haue I begotten thee. |
| 5:6 | As he saith also in another place, Thou art a Priest for euer after the order of Melchisedec. |
| 5:7 | Who in the dayes of his flesh, when hee had offered vp prayers and supplications, with strong crying and teares, vnto him that was able to saue him from death, and was heard, in that he feared. |
| 5:8 | Though hee were a Sonne, yet learned hee obedience, by the things which he suffered: |
| 5:9 | And being made perfect, he became the authour of eternall saluation vnto all them that obey him, |
| 5:10 | Called of God an high Priest after the order of Melchisedec: |
| 5:11 | Of whom we haue many things to say, and hard to be vttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. |
| 5:12 | For when for the time yee ought to bee teachers, yee haue neede that one teach you againe which be the first principles of the Oracles of God, and are become such as haue need of milke, and not of strong meat. |
| 5:13 | For euery one that vseth milke, is vnskilful in the word of righteousnes: for he is a babe. |
| 5:14 | But strong meate belongeth to them that are of full age, euen those who by reason of vse haue their senses exercised to discerne both good and euil. |
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.