Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 101:1 | [A Psalme of Dauid.] I will sing of Mercie and Iudgement: vnto thee, O Lord, wil I sing. |
| 101:2 | I will behaue my selfe wisely in a perfect way, O when wilt thou come vnto me? I will walke within my house with a perfect heart. |
| 101:3 | I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the worke of them that turne aside, it shal not cleaue to me. |
| 101:4 | A froward heart shall depart from me, I will not knowe a wicked person. |
| 101:5 | Whoso priuily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high looke, and a proud heart, will not I suffer. |
| 101:6 | Mine eyes shall be vpon the faithfull of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serue me. |
| 101:7 | He that worketh deceit, shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarie in my sight. |
| 101:8 | I will earely destroy all the wicked of the land: that I may cut off all wicked doers from the citie of the Lord. |
King James Bible 1611
The commissioning of the King James Bible took place at a conference at the Hampton Court Palace in London England in 1604. When King James came to the throne he wanted unity and stability in the church and state, but was well aware that the diversity of his constituents had to be considered. There were the Papists who longed for the English church to return to the Roman Catholic fold and the Latin Vulgate. There were Puritans, loyal to the crown but wanting even more distance from Rome. The Puritans used the Geneva Bible which contained footnotes that the king regarded as seditious. The Traditionalists made up of Bishops of the Anglican Church wanted to retain the Bishops Bible.
The king commissioned a new English translation to be made by over fifty scholars representing the Puritans and Traditionalists. They took into consideration: the Tyndale New Testament, the Matthews Bible, the Great Bible and the Geneva Bible. The great revision of the Bible had begun. From 1605 to 1606 the scholars engaged in private research. From 1607 to 1609 the work was assembled. In 1610 the work went to press, and in 1611 the first of the huge (16 inch tall) pulpit folios known today as "The 1611 King James Bible" came off the printing press.