Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 2:1 | But I determined this with my selfe, that I would not come againe to you in heauinesse. |
| 2:2 | For if I make you sorie, who is hee then that maketh mee glad, but the same which is made sorie by me. |
| 2:3 | And I wrote this same vnto you, least when I came, I should haue sorrow from them of whome I ought to reioyce, hauing confidence in you all, that my ioy is the ioy of you all. |
| 2:4 | For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote vnto you with many teares, not that you should bee grieued, but that yee might knowe the loue which I haue more abundantly vnto you. |
| 2:5 | But if any haue caused griefe, hee hath not grieued mee, but in part: that I may not ouercharge you all. |
| 2:6 | Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. |
| 2:7 | So that contrarywise, yee ought rather to forgiue him, and comfort him, lest perhaps, such a one should be swallowed vp with ouermuch sorrow. |
| 2:8 | Wherefore I beseech you, that you would confirme your loue towards him. |
| 2:9 | For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proofe of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. |
| 2:10 | To whom yee forgiue any thing, I forgiue also: for if I forgaue any thing, to whom I forgaue it, for your sakes forgaue I it, in the person of Christ, |
| 2:11 | Lest Satan should get an aduantage of vs: for wee are not ignorant of his deuices. |
| 2:12 | Furthermore when I came to Troas, to preach Christs Gospel, and a doore was opened vnto mee of the Lord, |
| 2:13 | I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother, but taking my leaue of them, I went from thence into Macedonia. |
| 2:14 | Now thankes bee vnto God, which alwayes causeth vs to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the sauour of his knowledge by vs in euery place. |
| 2:15 | For wee are vnto God, a sweet sauour of Christ, in them that are saued, and in them that perish. |
| 2:16 | To the one wee are the sauour of death vnto death; and to the other, the sauour of life vnto life: and who is sufficient for these things? |
| 2:17 | For wee are not as many which corrupt the word of God: but as of sinceritie, but as of God, in the sight of God speake we in Christ. |
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.