Textus Receptus Bibles
Bishops Bible 1568
| 13:1 | Nowe come I the third time vnto you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall euery worde be stablisshed. |
| 13:2 | I tolde you before, and tell you before, as though I had ben present with you the seconde tyme, so write I nowe beyng absent, to them which in time past haue sinned, and to all other, that yf I come agayne, I wyll not spare, |
| 13:3 | Seyng yt ye seeke experience of Christe which speaketh in me, which to you ward is not weake, but is mighty in you. |
| 13:4 | For though he was crucified of weakenesse, yet liueth he of the power of God. And we no doubt, are weake in hym: but we shall lyue with hym, by ye might of God towarde you. |
| 13:5 | Examine your selues, whether ye are in the fayth: Proue your owne selues. Knowe ye not your owne selues, howe that Iesus Christe is in you? except ye be reprobates. |
| 13:6 | I trust ye shal knowe that we are not reprobates. |
| 13:7 | Truely I pray to God that ye do none euyll, not that we shoulde seeme approued: but yt ye shoulde do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. |
| 13:8 | For we can do nothyng agaynst the trueth: but for the trueth. |
| 13:9 | For we are glad when we are weake, and ye are strong. Truely this also we wishe, euen your perfection. |
| 13:10 | Therfore write I these thynges beyng absent, lest when I am present, I should vse sharpenesse, accordyng to the power which the Lorde hath geuen me to edification, and not to destruction. |
| 13:11 | Finally brethren, fare well, be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mynde, lyue in peace, and the God of loue and peace shalbe with you. |
| 13:12 | Greete one another in an holy kisse. |
| 13:13 | All the saintes salute you. |
| 13:14 | The grace of our Lorde Iesus Christ, and the loue of God, and the comunion of the holy ghost, be with you all. Ame. |
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.