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Bishops Bible 1568
| 1:1 | The elder to the elect Lady & her chyldren, whom I loue in the trueth: and not I only, but also all that haue knowen ye trueth: |
| 1:2 | For the truthes sake which dwelleth in vs, and shalbe in vs for euer: |
| 1:3 | Grace be with you, mercie, and peace from God the father, & from the Lorde Iesus Christe the sonne of the father, in trueth and loue. |
| 1:4 | I reioyced greatly, that I founde of thy chyldren walkyng in trueth, as we haue receaued a commaundement of the father. |
| 1:5 | And nowe beseche I thee Lady, not as though I wrote a newe commaundement vnto thee: but that same which we haue had from the begynnyng, that we shoulde loue one another. |
| 1:6 | And this is the loue, that we shoulde walke after his comaundement. This commaundement is, that as ye haue hearde from the begynnyng, ye shoulde walke in it. |
| 1:7 | For many deceauers are entred into the worlde, which confesse not that Iesus Christe is come in the fleshe. This is a deceauer and an antichriste. |
| 1:8 | Loke on your selues, that we loose not that we haue wrought: but that we may haue a full rewarde. |
| 1:9 | Whosoeuer transgresseth, and bideth not in the doctrine of Christe, hath not God: He that endureth in the doctrine of Christe, hath both the father and the sonne. |
| 1:10 | If there come any vnto you, and bring not this learnyng, hym receaue not to house: neither byd hym God speede. |
| 1:11 | For he that byddeth hym God speede, is partaker of his euyll deedes. |
| 1:12 | I had many thynges to write vnto you: neuerthelesse, I woulde not write with paper & inke, but I trust to come vnto you, and speake with you mouth to mouth, that our ioy may be full. |
| 1:13 | The sonnes of thy elect sister greete thee. Amen. |
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.