Textus Receptus Bibles
Bishops Bible 1568
| 26:1 | Iudge thou me O God, for I haue walked in my perfection: my trust also hath ben in God therfore I shall not fall |
| 26:2 | Examine me O God and proue me: trye out my reynes and my heart |
| 26:3 | For thy louing kindnes is before mine eyes: and I wyll walke in thy trueth |
| 26:4 | I haue not sit in company with vayne persons: neither haue I entred once acquaintaunce with dissemblers |
| 26:5 | I haue hated the congregation of the malitious: and I wyll not sit amongst the vngodly |
| 26:6 | I haue wasshed my handes in innocencie: and so I haue gone about thine aulter O God |
| 26:7 | That in a publique confession I myght heare: and set foorth all thy wonderous workes |
| 26:8 | O God, I haue loued the habitation of thine house: and the place where thine honour dwelleth |
| 26:9 | O gather not my soule with sinners: nor my life with bloodie men |
| 26:10 | In whose handes is wickednes: and their right hande is full of gyftes |
| 26:11 | But as for me I wyll walke in my perfection: O redeeme me, and be mercyfull vnto me |
| 26:12 | My foote standeth vpon a playne grounde: therfore I wyll blesse God in the congregations |
Bishops Bible 1568
The Bishops' Bible was produced under the authority of the established Church of England in 1568. It was substantially revised in 1572, and the 1602 edition was prescribed as the base text for the King James Bible completed in 1611. The thorough Calvinism of the Geneva Bible offended the Church of England, to which almost all of its bishops subscribed. They associated Calvinism with Presbyterianism, which sought to replace government of the church by bishops with government by lay elders. However, they were aware that the Great Bible of 1539 , which was the only version then legally authorized for use in Anglican worship, was severely deficient, in that much of the Old Testament and Apocrypha was translated from the Latin Vulgate, rather than from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. In an attempt to replace the objectionable Geneva translation, they circulated one of their own, which became known as the Bishops' Bible.