Textus Receptus Bibles
English Majority Text Version 2009
New Testament
| 4:1 | Finally then, brothers, we request of you and exhort [you] in the Lord Jesus, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you should abound more. |
| 4:2 | For you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. |
| 4:3 | For this is [the] will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication, |
| 4:4 | that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, |
| 4:5 | not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God, |
| 4:6 | that no one should transgress against and to defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger concerning all, just as we told you before and solemnly testified. |
| 4:7 | For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification. |
| 4:8 | Therefore he who rejects [this] does not reject man, but God, who has given His Holy Spirit to you. |
| 4:9 | Now concerning brotherly love you have no need [for me] to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. |
| 4:10 | For indeed you do so toward all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you increase more and more, |
| 4:11 | and that you aspire to be quiet, and to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you, |
| 4:12 | in order that you may walk decently toward those that are outside, and may have need of nothing. |
| 4:13 | Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you be sorrowful as those who have no hope. |
| 4:14 | For if we believe that Jesus died and rose [again], thus also God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. |
| 4:15 | For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall by no means precede those who are asleep. |
| 4:16 | Because the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a word of command, with [the] voice of an archangel, and with [the] trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. |
| 4:17 | Then we who are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. |
| 4:18 | So then comfort one another with these words. |
English Majority Text Version
PREFACE
Welcome to the third edition of The English Majority Text Version (EMTV) of the Holy Bible. This latest edition has Greek explanatory notes throughout the Bible, to aid the reader in understanding the meanings in some select places of the original Koine Greek. Also, the third edition finds itself closer to the Robinson/Pierpoint printed edition of the Byzantine majority text, rather than the Hodges/Farstad text, which the EMTV was translated from. You will notice these differences in John 7:53-8:11, as well as the entire book of Revelation.
The English Majority Text Version draws from the work of both Dr.’s Hodges and Farstad, and their text, “The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text,” as well as from Dr. Wilbur Pickering, ThM. PhD., and the EMTV has incorporated his hard work in the field of producing evidence of just what does constitute a majority reading, and, as a result of his work, and the work of others, John 7:53-8:11, and the book of Revelation reflect these variant readings. This is one of the great things about having a Bible that is translated from the majority of the trustworthy Byzantine manuscripts that are in existence—the much greater probability of accuracy.
On the other side of the fence, most modern Bibles are translated from a few scant manuscripts (literally), and more often than not they do not even agree with each other. Not so with a Bible that is translated out of the majority! The experts in linguistics who have put these readings together, and diligently compared the manuscripts, had hundreds and hundreds of manuscripts to compare. It is my prayer that this work will bring honor to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and to our God and Father; because all of this, all that we do, we do to know Him better, and to better understand His word, which He has given to mankind. “Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar. (Prove 30:5,6). Peace of Christ to you all. In His service, Paul W Esposito Stauros Ministries