Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 15:1 | I am the true vine, and my Father is ye husbandman. |
| 15:2 | Euery branch in me that beareth not fruit, hee taketh away: and euery branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring foorth more fruit. |
| 15:3 | Now ye are cleane through the word which I haue spoken vnto you. |
| 15:4 | Abide in me, and in you: As the branch cannot beare fruit of itselfe, except it abide in the vine: no more can ye, except ye abide in me. |
| 15:5 | I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can doe nothing. |
| 15:6 | If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered, and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. |
| 15:7 | If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall aske what ye will, and it shall be done vnto you. |
| 15:8 | Herein is my Father glorified, that ye beare much fruit, so shall ye bee my Disciples. |
| 15:9 | As the Father hath loued me, so haue I loued you: continue ye in my loue. |
| 15:10 | If ye keepe my Commandements, ye shal abide in my loue, euen as I haue kept my Fathers Commandements, and abide in his loue. |
| 15:11 | These things haue I spoken vnto you, that my ioy might remaine in you, and that your ioy might be full. |
| 15:12 | This is my Commaundement, that ye loue one another, as I haue loued you. |
| 15:13 | Greater loue hath no man then this, that a man lay downe his life for his friends. |
| 15:14 | Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoeuer I command you. |
| 15:15 | Henceforth I call you not seruants, for the seruant knoweth not what his lord doth, but I haue called you friends: for all things that I haue heard of my Father, I haue made knowen vnto you. |
| 15:16 | Ye haue not chosen me, but I haue chosen you, and ordeined you, that you should goe and bring foorth fruit, and that your fruite should remaine: that whatsoeuer ye shall aske of the Father in my Name, he may giue it you. |
| 15:17 | These things I commaund you, that ye loue one another. |
| 15:18 | If the world hate you, yee know that it hated me before it hated you. |
| 15:19 | If ye were of the world, the world would loue his owne: But because yee are not of the world, but I haue chosen you out of the world, therfore the world hateth you. |
| 15:20 | Remember the word that I said vnto you, The seruant is not greater then the Lord: if they haue persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they haue kept my saying, they will keepe yours also. |
| 15:21 | But all these things will they doe vnto you for my Names sake, because they know not him that sent me. |
| 15:22 | If I had not come, and spoken vnto them, they had not had sinne: but now they haue no cloke for their sinne. |
| 15:23 | He that hateth me, hateth my Father also. |
| 15:24 | If I had not done among the the works which none other man did, they had not had sinne: but now haue they both seene, & hated both me & my father. |
| 15:25 | But this commeth to passe, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause. |
| 15:26 | But when the Comforter is come, whom I wil send vnto you from the Father, euen the Spirit of trueth, which proceedeth from the Father, hee shall testifie of me. |
| 15:27 | And ye also shall beare witnesse, because ye haue bene with me from the beginning. |
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.