Textus Receptus Bibles
Bishops Bible 1568
| 7:1 | My sonne kepe my words, and lay vp my commaundements by thee |
| 7:2 | Kepe my commaundementes & my lawe, euen as the apple of thyne eye, and thou shalt liue |
| 7:3 | Binde them vpon thy fingers, and wryte them in the table of thyne heart |
| 7:4 | Say vnto wysdome, thou art my sister: and call vnderstanding thy kinsewoman |
| 7:5 | That they may kepe thee from the straunge woman, and from the forraine woman which geueth sweete wordes |
| 7:6 | For at the windowe of my house I loked through the windowe |
| 7:7 | And behelde among the simple people and among the chyldren a young man voyde of wyt |
| 7:8 | Goyng ouer the streate by the corner in the way towarde her hous |
| 7:9 | In the twylight of the euening, when it began nowe to be night and darke |
| 7:10 | And behold there met hym a woman with open tokens of an harlot, onlye her heart was hid |
| 7:11 | She was full of loude wordes and redye to dallie, whose feete coulde not abide in the house |
| 7:12 | Nowe is she without, nowe in the streates, and lyeth in wayte at euery corner |
| 7:13 | She caught hym and kissed him, and was not ashamed, saying |
| 7:14 | I had a vowe of peace offeringes to pay, and this day I perfourme it |
| 7:15 | Therefore came I foorth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face, and so haue I founde thee |
| 7:16 | I haue deckt my bed with coueringes of tapessarie, and clothes of Egypt |
| 7:17 | My bed haue I made to smell of Myrre, Aloes, and Cinamon |
| 7:18 | Come let vs take our fill of loue vntyll the morning, and let vs solace our selues with the pleasures of loue |
| 7:19 | For the good man is not at home, he is gone farre of |
| 7:20 | He hath taken the bagge of money with hym, and wyll returne at the appointed solempne feast |
| 7:21 | Thus with many sweete wordes she ouercame him, and with her flattering lippes she entised hym |
| 7:22 | Sodainly he folowed her, as it were an oxe led to the slaughter, and lyke as it were a foole that laugheth when he goeth to the stockes to be punished |
| 7:23 | So long tyll she had wounded his lyuer with her dart: lyke as if a byrde hasted to the snare, not knowing that the perill of his life lieth thervpon |
| 7:24 | Heare me now therfore O my chylde, and marke the wordes of my mouth |
| 7:25 | Let not thyne heart wander in her wayes, and be not thou deceaued in her pathes |
| 7:26 | For many one hath she wounded and cast downe, yea many a strong man hath ben slaine by the meanes of her |
| 7:27 | Her house is the way vnto hell, and bryng men downe into the chaumbers of death |
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.