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King James Bible 1611
| 1:1 | Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the commaundement of God our Sauiour, & Lord Iesus Christ which is our hope, |
| 1:2 | Unto Timothie my own sonne in the Faith: Grace, mercie, and peace from God our Father, and Iesus Christ our Lord. |
| 1:3 | As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, |
| 1:4 | Neither giue heed to fables, and endlesse genealogies, which minister questions, rather then edifying which is in faith: so doe. |
| 1:5 | Now the end of the commandement is charity, out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith vnfained. |
| 1:6 | From which some hauing swarued, haue turned aside vnto vaine iangling, |
| 1:7 | Desiring to bee teachers of the Law, vnderstading neither what they say, nor whereof they affirme. |
| 1:8 | But we know that the Law is good, if a man vse it lawfully. |
| 1:9 | Knowing this, that the Law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawlesse and disobedient, for the vngodly, and for sinners, for vnholy, and profane, for murderers of fathers, and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, |
| 1:10 | For whoremongers, for them that defile themselues with mankinde, for men-stealers, for liars, for periured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, |
| 1:11 | According to the glorious Gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. |
| 1:12 | And I thanke Christ Iesus our Lord, who hath enabled mee: for that he counted me faithfull, putting me into the Ministerie, |
| 1:13 | Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecuter, and iniurious. But I obtained mercie, because I did it ignorantly, in vnbeliefe. |
| 1:14 | And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant, with faith, & loue, which is in Christ Iesus. |
| 1:15 | This is a faithfull saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Iesus came into the world to saue sinners, of whom I am chiefe. |
| 1:16 | Howbeit, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Iesus Christ might shew foorth all long suffering, for a paterne to them which should hereafter beleeue on him to life euerlasting. |
| 1:17 | Now vnto ye king eternal, immortall, inuisible, the onely wise God, be honour and glory for euer & euer. Amen. |
| 1:18 | This charge I commit vnto thee, sonne Timothie, according to the prophesies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest warre a good warfare, |
| 1:19 | Holding faith, and a good conscience, which some hauing put away, concerning faith, haue made shipwracke. |
| 1:20 | Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whome I haue deliuered vnto Satan, that they may learne not to blaspheme. |
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.