Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 23:1 | When thou sittest to eate with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee, |
| 23:2 | And put the knife to thy throte, if thou be a man giuen to the appetite. |
| 23:3 | Be not desirous of his deintie meates: for it is a deceiuable meate. |
| 23:4 | Trauaile not too much to be rich: but cease from thy wisdome. |
| 23:5 | Wilt thou cast thine eyes vpon it, which is nothing? for riches taketh her to her wings, as an eagle, and flyeth into the heauen. |
| 23:6 | Eate thou not the bread of him that hath an euil eye, neither desire his deintie meates. |
| 23:7 | For as though he thought it in his heart, so will hee say vnto thee, Eate and drinke: but his heart is not with thee. |
| 23:8 | Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes. |
| 23:9 | Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisdome of thy wordes. |
| 23:10 | Remooue not the ancient boundes, and enter not into the fieldes of the fatherlesse. |
| 23:11 | For he that redeemeth them, is mightie: he will defend their cause against thee. |
| 23:12 | Apply thine heart to instruction, and thine eares to the wordes of knowledge. |
| 23:13 | Withhold not correction from the childe: if thou smite him with the rodde, he shall not die. |
| 23:14 | Thou shalt smite him with the rodde, and shalt deliuer his soule from hell. |
| 23:15 | My sonne, if thine heart be wise, mine heart shall reioyce, and I also. |
| 23:16 | And my reynes shall reioyce, when thy lips speake righteous things. |
| 23:17 | Let not thine heart bee enuious against sinners: but let it bee in the feare of the Lord continually. |
| 23:18 | For surely there is an ende, and thy hope shall not be cut off. |
| 23:19 | O thou my sonne, heare, and bee wise, and guide thine heart in the way. |
| 23:20 | Keepe not company with drunkards, nor with gluttons. |
| 23:21 | For the drunkard and the glutton shall bee poore, and the sleeper shalbe clothed with ragges. |
| 23:22 | Obey thy father that hath begotten thee, and despise not thy mother when she is olde. |
| 23:23 | Bye the trueth, but sell it not: likewise wisdome, and instruction, and vnderstanding. |
| 23:24 | The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce, and hee that begetteth a wise childe, shall haue ioy of him. |
| 23:25 | Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce. |
| 23:26 | My sonne, giue mee thine heart, and let thine eyes delite in my wayes. |
| 23:27 | For a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a strange woman is as a narrowe pitte. |
| 23:28 | Also she lyeth in wait as for a praye, and she increaseth the transgressers among men. |
| 23:29 | To whome is woe? to whome is sorowe? to whom is strife? to whom is murmuring? to whom are woundes without cause? and to whome is the rednesse of the eyes? |
| 23:30 | Euen to them that tarie long at the wine, to them that goe, and seeke mixt wine. |
| 23:31 | Looke not thou vpon the wine, when it is red, and when it sheweth his colour in the cup, or goeth downe pleasantly. |
| 23:32 | In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise. |
| 23:33 | Thine eyes shall looke vpon strange women, and thine heart shall speake lewde things. |
| 23:34 | And thou shalt bee as one that sleepeth in the middes of the sea, and as hee that sleepeth in the toppe of the maste. |
| 23:35 | They haue stricken mee, shalt thou say, but I was not sicke: they haue beaten mee, but I knew not, when I awoke: therefore will I seeke it yet still. |
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
The Geneva Bible is one of the most influential and historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James translation by 51 years. It was the primary Bible of 16th century Protestantism and was the Bible used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan. The language of the Geneva Bible was more forceful and vigorous and because of this, most readers strongly preferred this version at the time.
The Geneva Bible was produced by a group of English scholars who, fleeing from the reign of Queen Mary, had found refuge in Switzerland. During the reign of Queen Mary, no Bibles were printed in England, the English Bible was no longer used in churches and English Bibles already in churches were removed and burned. Mary was determined to return Britain to Roman Catholicism.
The first English Protestant to die during Mary's turbulent reign was John Rogers in 1555, who had been the editor of the Matthews Bible. At this time, hundreds of Protestants left England and headed for Geneva, a city which under the leadership of Calvin, had become the intellectual and spiritual capital of European Protestants.
One of these exiles was William Whittingham, a fellow of Christ Church at Oxford University, who had been a diplomat, a courtier, was much traveled and skilled in many languages including Greek and Hebrew. He eventually succeeded John Knox as the minister of the English congregation in Geneva. Whittingham went on to publish the 1560 Geneva Bible.
This version is significant because, it came with a variety of scriptural study guides and aids, which included verse citations that allow the reader to cross-reference one verse with numerous relevant verses in the rest of the Bible, introductions to each book of the Bible that acted to summarize all of the material that each book would cover, maps, tables, woodcut illustrations, indices, as well as other included features, all of which would eventually lead to the reputation of the Geneva Bible as history's very first study Bible.