Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 2:1 | I exhort therefore, that first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giuing of thanks be made for all men: |
| 2:2 | For Kings, and for all that are in authoritie, that we may leade a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honestie. |
| 2:3 | For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Sauiour, |
| 2:4 | Who will haue all men to bee saued, and to come vnto the knowledge of the trueth. |
| 2:5 | For there is one God, and one Mediatour betweene God and men, the man Christ Iesus, |
| 2:6 | Who gaue himselfe a ransome for all, to be testified in due time. |
| 2:7 | Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an Apostle (I speake the trueth in Christ, and lie not) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and veritie. |
| 2:8 | I will therefore that men pray euery where, lifting vp holy handes without wrath, and doubting. |
| 2:9 | In like maner also, that women adorne themselues in modest apparell, with shamefastnesse and sobrietie, not with broided haire, or gold, or pearles, or costly aray, |
| 2:10 | But (which becommeth women professing godlines) with good works. |
| 2:11 | Let the woman learne in silence with all subiection: |
| 2:12 | But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to vsurpe authoritie ouer the man, but to be in silence. |
| 2:13 | For Adam was first formed, then Eue: |
| 2:14 | And Adam was not deceiued, but the woman being deceiued was in the transgression: |
| 2:15 | Notwithstanding she shall be saued in child-bearing, if they continue in faith and charitie, and holinesse, with sobrietie. |
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.