Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 5:1 | For we knowe that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be destroyed, we haue a building giuen of God, that is, an house not made with handes, but eternall in the heauens. |
| 5:2 | For therefore we sighe, desiring to be clothed with our house, which is from heauen. |
| 5:3 | Because that if we be clothed, we shall not be found naked. |
| 5:4 | For in deede we that are in this tabernacle, sigh and are burdened, because we would not be vnclothed, but would be clothed vpon, that mortalitie might be swalowed vp of life. |
| 5:5 | And he that hath created vs for this thing, is God, who also hath giuen vnto vs the earnest of the Spirit. |
| 5:6 | Therefore we are alway bolde, though we knowe that whiles we are at home in the bodie, we are absent from the Lord. |
| 5:7 | (For we walke by faith, and not by sight.) |
| 5:8 | Neuerthelesse, we are bolde, and loue rather to remoue out of the body, and to dwell with the Lord. |
| 5:9 | Wherefore also we couet, that both dwelling at home, and remouing from home, we may be acceptable to him. |
| 5:10 | For we must all appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ, that euery man may receiue the things which are done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or euill. |
| 5:11 | Knowing therefore that terrour of the Lord, we persuade men, and we are made manifest vnto God, and I trust also that we are made manifest in your consciences. |
| 5:12 | For we prayse not our selues againe vnto you, but giue you an occasion to reioyce of vs, that ye may haue to answere against them, which reioyce in the face, and not in the heart. |
| 5:13 | For whether we be out of our wit, we are it to God: or whether we be in our right minde, we are it vnto you. |
| 5:14 | For that loue of Christ constraineth vs, |
| 5:15 | Because we thus iudge, that if one be dead for all, then were all dead, and he died for all, that they which liue, shoulde not henceforth liue vnto themselues, but vnto him which died for them, and rose againe. |
| 5:16 | Wherefore, henceforth know we no man after the flesh, yea though wee had knowen Christ after the flesh, yet nowe henceforth know we him no more. |
| 5:17 | Therefore if any man be in Christ, let him be a newe creature. Olde things are passed away: beholde, all things are become newe. |
| 5:18 | And all things are of God, which hath reconciled vs vnto himselfe by Iesus Christ, and hath giuen vnto vs the ministerie of reconciliation. |
| 5:19 | For God was in Christ, and reconciled the world to himselfe, not imputing their sinnes vnto them, and hath committed to vs the word of reconciliation. |
| 5:20 | Now then are we ambassadours for Christ: as though God did beseeche you through vs, we pray you in Christes steade, that ye be reconciled to God. |
| 5:21 | For he hath made him to be sinne for vs, which knewe no sinne, that we should be made the righteousnesse of God in him. |
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.