Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 3:1 | Wherefore when wee could no longer forbeare, wee thought it good to bee left at Athens alone: |
| 3:2 | And sent Timotheus our brother and minister of God, and our fellow labourer in the Gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith: |
| 3:3 | That no man should be mooued by these afflictions: for your selues know that we are appointed therunto. |
| 3:4 | For verily when wee were with you, we told you before, that we should suffer tribulation, euen as it came to passe and ye know. |
| 3:5 | For this cause when I could no longer forbeare, I sent to know your faith, lest by some meanes the tempter haue tempted you, and our labor be in vaine. |
| 3:6 | But now when Timotheus came from you vnto vs, and brought vs good tidings of your faith and charitie, and that ye haue good remembrance of vs alwayes, desiring greatly to see vs, as we also to see you: |
| 3:7 | Therefore brethren, wee were comforted ouer you in all our affliction and distresse, by your faith: |
| 3:8 | For now we liue, if ye stand fast in the Lord. |
| 3:9 | For what thankes can we render to God againe for you, for all the ioy wherewith wee ioy for your sakes before our God, |
| 3:10 | Night & day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith? |
| 3:11 | Now God himselfe and our Father, and our Lord Iesus Christ direct our way vnto you. |
| 3:12 | And the Lorde make you to increase, & abound in loue one towards another, and towards all men, euen as we doe towards you: |
| 3:13 | To the end hee may stablish your hearts vnblameable in holinesse before God euen our Father, at the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ with all his Saints. |
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.