Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 4:1 | Let a man so thinke of vs, as of the ministers of Christ, and disposers of the secrets of God: |
| 4:2 | And as for the rest, it is required of the disposers, that euery man be found faithfull. |
| 4:3 | As touching me, I passe very litle to be iudged of you, or of mans iudgement: no, I iudge not mine owne selfe. |
| 4:4 | For I know nothing by my selfe, yet am I not thereby iustified: but he that iudgeth me, is the Lord. |
| 4:5 | Therefore iudge nothing before the time, vntill the Lord come, who will lighten things that are hid in darkenesse, and make the counsels of the hearts manifest: and then shall euery man haue praise of God. |
| 4:6 | Nowe these things, brethren, I haue figuratiuely applied vnto mine owne selfe and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye might learne by vs, that no man presume aboue that which is written, that one swell not against another for any mans cause. |
| 4:7 | For who separateth thee? and what hast thou, that thou hast not receiued? if thou hast receiued it, why reioycest thou, as though thou haddest not receiued it? |
| 4:8 | Nowe ye are full: nowe ye are made rich: ye reigne as kings without vs, and would to God ye did reigne, that we also might reigne with you. |
| 4:9 | For I thinke that God hath set forth vs the last Apostles, as men appointed to death: for we are made a gasing stocke vnto the worlde, and to the Angels, and to men. |
| 4:10 | We are fooles for Christes sake, and ye are wise in Christ: we are weake, and ye are strong: ye are honourable, and we are despised. |
| 4:11 | Vnto this houre we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwelling place, |
| 4:12 | And labour, working with our owne handes: we are reuiled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffer it. |
| 4:13 | We are euill spoken of, and we pray: we are made as the filth of the world, the offskowring of all things, vnto this time. |
| 4:14 | I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloued children I admonish you. |
| 4:15 | For though ye haue tenne thousand instructours in Christ, yet haue ye not many fathers: for in Christ Iesus I haue begotten you through the Gospel. |
| 4:16 | Wherefore, I pray you, be ye folowers of me. |
| 4:17 | For this cause haue I sent vnto you Timotheus, which is my beloued sonne, and faithfull in the Lord, which shall put you in remembrance of my wayes in Christ as I teache euery where in euery Church. |
| 4:18 | Some are puffed vp as though I woulde not come vnto you. |
| 4:19 | But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will knowe, not the wordes of them which are puffed vp, but the power. |
| 4:20 | For the kingdome of God is not in worde, but in power. |
| 4:21 | What will ye? shall I come vnto you with a rod, or in loue, and in ye spirite of meekenes? |
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.