Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 3:1 | Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heauenly vocation, consider the Apostle and high Priest of our profession Christ Iesus: |
| 3:2 | Who was faithfull to him that hath appointed him, euen as Moses was in al his house. |
| 3:3 | For this man is counted worthy of more glory then Moses, inasmuch as he which hath builded the house, hath more honour then the house. |
| 3:4 | For euery house is builded of some man, and he that hath built all things, is God. |
| 3:5 | Now Moses verely was faithfull in all his house, as a seruant, for a witnesse of the thinges which should be spoken after. |
| 3:6 | But Christ is as the Sonne, ouer his owne house, whose house we are, if we holde fast that confidence and that reioycing of that hope vnto the ende. |
| 3:7 | Wherefore, as the holy Ghost sayth, To day if ye shall heare his voyce, |
| 3:8 | Harden not your hearts, as in the prouocation, according to the day of the tentation in the wildernes, |
| 3:9 | Where your fathers tempted me, prooued me, and sawe my workes fourtie yeeres long. |
| 3:10 | Wherefore I was grieued with that generation, and sayde, They erre euer in their heart, neither haue they knowen my wayes. |
| 3:11 | Therefore I sware in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest. |
| 3:12 | Take heede, brethren, least at any time there be in any of you an euill heart, and vnfaithfull, to depart away from the liuing God. |
| 3:13 | But exhort one another dayly, while it is called to day, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulnes of sinne. |
| 3:14 | For we are made partakers of Christ, if we keepe sure vnto the ende that beginning, wherewith we are vpholden, |
| 3:15 | So long as it is sayd, To day if ye heare his voyce, harden not your hearts, as in the prouocation. |
| 3:16 | For some when they heard, prouoked him to anger: howbeit, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. |
| 3:17 | But with whome was he displeased fourtie yeeres? Was hee not displeased with them that sinned, whose carkeises fell in the wildernes? |
| 3:18 | And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but vnto them that obeyed not? |
| 3:19 | So we see that they could not enter in, because of vnbeliefe. |
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.