Textus Receptus Bibles
The Great Bible 1539
| 4:1 | From whence commeth warre, and fyghtyng amonge you? come they not here hence? euen of youre lustes, that fight in your membres? |
| 4:2 | Ye lust, and haue not. Ye enuye & haue indignacyon, & can not obtayne. Ye fight & warre. Ye haue not because ye aske not. |
| 4:3 | Ye aske and receaue not, because ye aske amysse: euen to consume it vpon your lustes. |
| 4:4 | Ye aduouterars, and wemen that breke matrimonye: knowe ye not how that the frendshyp of the worlde is enmytie wt God? whosoeuer therfore wilbe a frende of the worlde, is made the enemye of God. |
| 4:5 | Ether do ye thynke that the scripture sayth in vayne. The sprete the dwelleth in vs, lusteth euen contrary to enuy: |
| 4:6 | but geueth more grace. |
| 4:7 | Submit your selues therfore to God: but resyst the deuyll, and he will flye from you. |
| 4:8 | Drawe nye to God, and he will drawe nye to you. Clense your handes ye siners, & pourge your hertes ye waueryng mynded. |
| 4:9 | Suffre afflictions & mourne, & wepe. Let your laughter be turned to mournyng, & youre ioye to heuynes. |
| 4:10 | Humble youre selues in the sight of the lord, & he shal lyft you vp. |
| 4:11 | Backbyte not one another, brethren. He that backbyteth his brother, & he that iudgeth hys brother, backbyteth the lawe, and iudgeth the lawe. But & yf thou iudge the lawe, thou art not an obseruer of the lawe: but a iudge. |
| 4:12 | Ther is one lawe geuer which is able to saue and to destroye. What art thou that iudgest another? |
| 4:13 | Go to now ye that saye: to daye and to morow let vs go into soch a citye, and continue there a yeare, and bye and sell, and wynne: |
| 4:14 | & yet can not ye tell, what shall happen on the morow. For what thing is your lyfe? It is euen a vapour, that apereth for a lytell time, and then vanissheth awaye: |
| 4:15 | For that ye ought to saye: yf the Lord will, and yf we lyue, let vs do this or that. |
| 4:16 | But now ye reioyce in your boastynges. All soch reioysynge is euyll. |
| 4:17 | Therfore to hym that knoweth how to do good, and doth it not, to hym it is synne. |
The Great Bible 1539
The Great Bible of 1539 was the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale, working under commission of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Secretary to Henry VIII and Vicar General. In 1538, Cromwell directed the clergy to provide "one book of the bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it."