Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 4:1 | Therefore, seeing we haue this ministery, as we haue receiued mercie wee faint not: |
| 4:2 | But haue renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftines, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the trueth, commending our selues to euery mans conscience, in the sight of God. |
| 4:3 | But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: |
| 4:4 | In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which beleeue not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine vnto them. |
| 4:5 | For we preach not our selues, but Christ Iesus the Lord, and our selues your seruants for Iesus sake. |
| 4:6 | For God who commaunded the light to shine out of darkenes, hath shined in our hearts, to giue the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Iesus Christ. |
| 4:7 | But we haue this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellencie of the power may be of God, and not of vs. |
| 4:8 | Wee are troubled on euery side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despaire, |
| 4:9 | Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast downe, but not destroyed. |
| 4:10 | Alwayes bearing about in the body, the dying of the Lord Iesus, that the life also of Iesus might bee made manifest in our body. |
| 4:11 | For we which liue, are always deliuered vnto death for Iesus sake, that the life also of Iesus might bee made manifest in our mortall flesh. |
| 4:12 | So then death worketh in vs, but life in you. |
| 4:13 | We hauing the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I beleeued, and therefore haue I spoken: wee also beleeue, and therefore speake. |
| 4:14 | Knowing that hee which raised vp the Lord Iesus, shall raise vp vs also by Iesus, and shall present vs with you. |
| 4:15 | For all things are for your sakes, that the abundat grace might, through the thankesgiuing of many, redound to the glory of God. |
| 4:16 | For which cause we faint not, but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. |
| 4:17 | For our light affliction, which is but for a momet, worketh for vs a farre more exceeding and eternall waight of glory, |
| 4:18 | While we looke not at the things which are seene, but at ye things which are not seene: for the things which are seene, are temporall, but the things which are not seene, are eternall. |
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.