Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 6:1 | So we therefore as workers together beseech you, that ye receiue not the grace of God in vaine. |
| 6:2 | For he sayth, I haue heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of saluation haue I succoured thee: beholde nowe the accepted time, beholde nowe the day of saluation. |
| 6:3 | We giue no occasion of offence in any thing, that our ministerie shoulde not be reprehended. |
| 6:4 | But in all things we approue our selues as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, |
| 6:5 | In stripes, in prisons, in tumults, in labours, |
| 6:6 | By watchings, by fastings, by puritie, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindnesse, by the holy Ghost, by loue vnfained, |
| 6:7 | By the worde of trueth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousnesse on the right hand, and on the left, |
| 6:8 | By honour, and dishonour, by euill report, and good report, as deceiuers, and yet true: |
| 6:9 | As vnknowen, and yet knowen: as dying, and beholde, we liue: as chastened, and yet not killed: |
| 6:10 | As sorowing, and yet alway reioycing: as poore, and yet make many riche: as hauing nothing, and yet possessing all things. |
| 6:11 | O Corinthians, our mouth is open vnto you: our heart is made large. |
| 6:12 | Ye are not kept strait in vs, but ye are kept strait in your owne bowels. |
| 6:13 | Nowe for the same recompence, I speake as to my children, Be you also inlarged. |
| 6:14 | Be not vnequally yoked with the infidels: for what fellowship hath righteousnesse with vnrighteousnesse? and what communion hath light with darkenesse? |
| 6:15 | And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath the beleeuer with the infidell? |
| 6:16 | And what agreement hath the Temple of God with idols? for ye are the Temple of the liuing God: as God hath said, I will dwell among them, and walke there: and I will be their God, and they shalbe my people. |
| 6:17 | Wherefore come out from among them, and separate your selues, saith the Lord, and touch none vncleane thing, and I wil receiue you. |
| 6:18 | And I will be a Father vnto you, and ye shalbe my sonnes and daughters, saith the Lord almightie. |
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.