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Bishops Bible 1568
| 2:1 | And I brethren, when I came to you, came not in gloriousnesse of wordes, or of wisedome, shewing vnto you the testimonie of God. |
| 2:2 | For I esteemed not to knowe any thyng among you saue Iesus Christe, and hym crucified. |
| 2:3 | And I was among you in weaknesse, and in feare, and in much tremblyng. |
| 2:4 | And my wordes and my preachyng was not with entysing wordes of mans wisedome, but in shewyng of the spirite, and of power: |
| 2:5 | That your fayth should not stande in the wisedome of men, but in the power of God. |
| 2:6 | And we speake wisedome among the that are perfite: not the wisedome of this world, neither of the princes of this world, which come to naught. |
| 2:7 | But we speake the wisedome of God in a misterie [euen] the hyd [wisedome] which God ordeyned before the worlde, vnto our glorie. |
| 2:8 | Which none of ye princes of this world knewe: For had they knowen it, they woulde not haue crucified the Lorde of glorie. |
| 2:9 | But as it is written: The eye hath not seen, & the eare hath not heard, neither haue entred into the heart of man, the thynges which God hath prepared for them that loue hym. |
| 2:10 | But God hath reuealed the vnto vs by his spirite: For the spirite searcheth all thinges, yea the deepe thinges of God. |
| 2:11 | For what man knoweth the thynges of a man, saue ye spirite of man which is in hym? Euen so, the thinges of God, knoweth no man, but ye spirite of God. |
| 2:12 | And we haue receaued, not the spirite of the worlde, but the spirite which is of God, that we myght know the thinges that are geuen to vs of God. |
| 2:13 | Which thynges also we speake, not in the wordes which mans wisedome teacheth, but which ye holy ghost teacheth, comparyng spirituall thynges with spirituall thynges. |
| 2:14 | But the naturall man perceaueth not the thynges of ye spirite of God, for they are foolyshenesse vnto hym: Neither can he knowe [them] because they are spiritually discerned. |
| 2:15 | But he that is spirituall, discerneth all thynges, yet he hym selfe is iudged of no man. |
| 2:16 | For who hath knowen the mynde of the Lorde, that he myght instruct hym? But we haue the mynde of Christe. |
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.