Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 4:1 | Heare, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know vnderstanding. |
| 4:2 | For I giue you good doctrine: forsake you not my law. |
| 4:3 | For I was my fathers sonne, tender and onely beloued in the sight of my mother. |
| 4:4 | He taught me also, and said vnto me, Let thine heart reteine my wordes: keepe my commandements, and liue. |
| 4:5 | Get wisedome, get vnderstanding: forget it not, neither decline from the wordes of my mouth. |
| 4:6 | Forsake her not, and she shall preserue thee: loue her, and she shall keepe thee. |
| 4:7 | Wisedome is the principall thing, therefore get wisedome: and with all thy getting, get vnderstanding. |
| 4:8 | Exalt her, and shee shall promote thee: shee shall bring thee to honour, when thou doest imbrace her. |
| 4:9 | She shall giue to thine head an ornament of grace, a crowne of glory shall she deliuer to thee. |
| 4:10 | Heare, O my sonne, and receiue my sayings: and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many. |
| 4:11 | I haue taught thee in the way of wisedome: I haue lead thee in right pathes. |
| 4:12 | When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitned, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. |
| 4:13 | Take fast hold of instruction, let her not goe; keepe her, for she is thy life. |
| 4:14 | Enter not into the path of the wicked, and goe not in the way of euill men. |
| 4:15 | Auoid it, passe not by it, turne from it, and passe away. |
| 4:16 | For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and their sleepe is taken away vnlesse they cause some to fall. |
| 4:17 | For they eate the bread of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence. |
| 4:18 | But the path of the iust is as the shining light that shineth more and more vnto the perfect day. |
| 4:19 | The way of the wicked is as darknes: they know not at what they stumble. |
| 4:20 | My sonne, attend to my words, incline thine eare vnto my sayings. |
| 4:21 | Let them not depart from thine eyes: keepe them in the midst of thine heart. |
| 4:22 | For they are life vnto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. |
| 4:23 | Keepe thy heart with all diligence: for out of it are the issues of life. |
| 4:24 | Put away from thee a froward mouth, and peruerse lips put farre from thee. |
| 4:25 | Let thine eyes looke right on, and let thine eye lids looke straight before thee. |
| 4:26 | Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy wayes be established. |
| 4:27 | Turne not to the right hande nor to the left: remoue thy foot fro euil. |
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.