Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 13:1 | Though I speake with the tongues of men & of Angels, and haue not charity, I am become as sounding brasse or a tinkling cymbal. |
| 13:2 | And though I haue the gift of prophesie, and vnderstand all mysteries and all knowledge: and though I haue all faith, so that I could remooue mountaines, and haue no charitie, I am nothing. |
| 13:3 | And though I bestowe all my goods to feede the poore, and though I giue my body to bee burned, and haue not charitie, it profiteth me nothing. |
| 13:4 | Charitie suffereth long, and is kinde: charitie enuieth not: charitie vaunteth not it selfe, is not puffed vp, |
| 13:5 | Doeth not behaue it selfe vnseemly, seeketh not her owne, is not easily prouoked, thinketh no euill, |
| 13:6 | Reioyceth not in iniquitie, but reioyceth in the trueth: |
| 13:7 | Beareth all things, beleeueth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. |
| 13:8 | Charitie neuer faileth: but whether there be prophesies, they shall faile; whether there bee tongues, they shall cease; whether there bee knowledge, it shall vanish away. |
| 13:9 | For we know in part, and we prophesie in part. |
| 13:10 | But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part, shalbe done away. |
| 13:11 | When I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I vnderstood as a childe, I thought as a childe: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. |
| 13:12 | For now we see through a glasse, darkely: but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know euen as also I am knowen. |
| 13:13 | And now abideth faith, hope, charitie, these three, but the greatest of these is charitie. |
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.