Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 2016
New Testament
| 4:1 | Furthermore then brethren, we urge you and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that just as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you should abound more and more. |
| 4:2 | Because, you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. |
| 4:3 | Because, this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; |
| 4:4 | that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor, |
| 4:5 | not in the passion of lust, just as the Gentiles who do not know God; |
| 4:6 | that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in any matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we have also forewarned you and testified. |
| 4:7 | Because, God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness. |
| 4:8 | Therefore he who despises, does not despise man, but God, who has also given to us His Holy Spirit. |
| 4:9 | But concerning brotherly love you do not need that I should write to you, because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another; |
| 4:10 | and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more; |
| 4:11 | that you also study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, |
| 4:12 | that you may walk honestly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing. |
| 4:13 | But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you do not mourn just like others who have no hope. |
| 4:14 | Because, if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, in the same way, God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. |
| 4:15 | Because, we say this to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will not go before those who are asleep. |
| 4:16 | Because, the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. Then the dead in Christ will rise first. |
| 4:17 | Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And then we will always be with the Lord. |
| 4:18 | Therefore comfort one another with these words. |
King James Bible 2016
Unlike most other modern versions, this Bible's text is based upon the same Hebrew Masoretic Text, and Greek Textus Receptus, of the King James Version of 1611.
In non Textus Receptus versions, the issue of having the best underlying manuscripts, is often overshadowed by the massive amount of omissions in the text. Because the KJV 2016 is not dealing with issues of omission and addition, the focus has been upon definition, and the KJV translators choices have been used as the benchmark.
One issue not often majored upon in the bible version debate is simply the way Greek words are defined. Many times, the NKJV leans upon the definition choices of modern versions as well as defaulting to Vines and Strong's definitions, which are almost always favorable to the Revised Version. In other words, one may have a correct text to translate from, but use erroneous modern version/modern dictionary definitions which change or distort the meaning of the words. Jay Green was accused of having a good TR bible but with "Alexandrian readings".
The KJV 2016 Edition rejects such erroneous modern definitions and restores the distinctness of historical KJV readings. The NKJV also tended to gravitate toward KJV marginal notes, which are in truth, rejected readings, and also toward Geneva Bible definitions, which the KJV had already cleared up.
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