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Bishops Bible 1568
| 4:1 | Furthermore we besech you brethren, & exhorte you by the Lorde Iesus, that ye encrease more and more, as ye haue receaued of vs, how ye ought to walke and to please God. |
| 4:2 | For ye knowe what commaundementes we gaue you by the Lorde Iesus. |
| 4:3 | For this is the wyll of God, your holynesse, that ye should abstayne from fornication: |
| 4:4 | That euery one of you should knowe how to possesse his vessell in holynesse and honour: |
| 4:5 | Not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the gentiles, which knowe not God. |
| 4:6 | That no man oppresse and defraude his brother in [any] matter, because that the Lorde is the auenger of all suche: as we also haue forewarned you, and testified. |
| 4:7 | For God hath not called vs vnto vncleanenesse, but into holynesse. |
| 4:8 | He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath geuen to you his holy spirite. |
| 4:9 | But as touchyng brotherly loue, ye nede not that I write vnto you: For ye are taught of God to loue one another. |
| 4:10 | Yea and that thyng veryly ye do vnto all ye brethren which [are] in al Macedonia: But we beseche you brethren, that ye encrease more and more: |
| 4:11 | And that ye studie to be quiet, and to do your owne [busynesse] and to worke with your owne handes as we commaunded you: |
| 4:12 | That ye may walke honestly toward them that are without, & that nothyng be lackyng in you. |
| 4:13 | But I woulde not haue you to be ignoraunt brethren, concernyng them which sleepe, that ye sorowe not euen as other, which haue no hope. |
| 4:14 | For yf we beleue that Iesus dyed and rose agayne: euen so them also whiche sleepe by Iesus, wyll God bryng with hym. |
| 4:15 | For this say we vnto you in the worde of the Lorde, that we whiche lyue, remayning vnto the comyng of the Lord, shall not preuent them which sleepe. |
| 4:16 | For the Lorde hym selfe shal descende from heauen in a shoute, [and] in the voyce of the Archangell, and in the trumpe of God: And the dead in Christ shall aryse first. |
| 4:17 | Than we which lyue, which remaine, shalbe caught vp together with them in the cloudes, to meete the Lorde in the ayre: And so shall we euer be with the Lorde. |
| 4:18 | Wherfore comfort your selues one another in these wordes. |
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.