Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 2:1 | For I would that ye knew what great conflict I haue for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as haue not seene my face in the flesh: |
| 2:2 | That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in loue, and vnto all riches of the full assurance of vnderstanding, to the acknowledgement of the mysterie of God, and of the Father, and of Christ, |
| 2:3 | In whom are hid all the treasures of wisedome, and knowledge. |
| 2:4 | And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with entising words. |
| 2:5 | For though I bee absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, ioying and beholding your order, and the stedfastnesse of your faith in Christ. |
| 2:6 | As yee haue therefore receiued Christ Iesus the Lord, so walke yee in him: |
| 2:7 | Rooted and built vp in him, and stablished in the faith, as yee haue bene taught, abounding therein with thankesgiuing. |
| 2:8 | Beware lest any man spoile you through Philosophie and vaine deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ: |
| 2:9 | For in him dwelleth all the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily. |
| 2:10 | And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principalitie, & power. |
| 2:11 | In whom also ye are circumcised with the Circumcision made without handes, in putting off the body of the sinnes of the flesh, by the Circumcision of Christ: |
| 2:12 | Buried with him in Baptisme, wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. |
| 2:13 | And you being dead in your sinnes, and the vncircumcision of your flesh, hath hee quickened together with him, hauing forgiuen you all trespasses, |
| 2:14 | Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances, that was against vs, which was contrary to vs, and tooke it out of the way, nayling it to his Crosse: |
| 2:15 | And hauing spoyled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing ouer them in it. |
| 2:16 | Let no man therefore iudge you in meat, or in drinke, or in respect of an Holy day, or of the New moone, or of the Sabbath dayes: |
| 2:17 | Which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ. |
| 2:18 | Let no man beguile you of your reward, in a voluntary humilitie, and worshipping of Angels, intruding into those things which hee hath not seene, vainely puft vp by his fleshly minde: |
| 2:19 | And not holding the head, from which all the body by ioynts and bands hauing nourishment ministred, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. |
| 2:20 | Wherefore if yee bee dead with Christ fro the rudiments of the world: why, as though liuing in the world, are ye subiect to ordinances? |
| 2:21 | (Touch not, taste not, handle not: |
| 2:22 | Which all are to perish with the vsing) after the commandements and doctrines of men: |
| 2:23 | Which things haue in deed a shew of wisedome in will-worship and humilitie, and neglecting of the body, not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. |
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.