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King James Bible 1611
| 8:1 | Now as touching things offered vnto idoles, wee know that wee all haue knowledge. Knowledge puffeth vp: but Charitie edifieth. |
| 8:2 | And if any man thinke that hee knoweth any thing, hee knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. |
| 8:3 | But if any man loue God, the same is knowen of him. |
| 8:4 | As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice vnto idoles, wee know that an idole is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. |
| 8:5 | For though there bee that are called gods, whether in heauen or in earth (as there be gods many, and lords many:) |
| 8:6 | But to vs there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him, and one Lord Iesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. |
| 8:7 | Howbeit there is not in euerie man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idole vnto this houre, eate it as a thing offred vnto an idole, and their conscience being weake, is defiled. |
| 8:8 | But meate commendeth vs not to God: for neither if we eate, are we the better: neither if wee eate not, are we the worse. |
| 8:9 | But take heed lest by any meanes, this libertie of yours become a stumbling blocke to them that are weake. |
| 8:10 | For if any man see thee which hast knowledge, sit at meat in the idols temple: shall not the conscience of him which is weake, be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols? |
| 8:11 | And through thy knowledge shal the weake brother perish, for whome Christ died? |
| 8:12 | But when ye sinne so against the brethren, and wound their weake conscience, ye sinne against Christ. |
| 8:13 | Wherefore if meate make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. |
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.