Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 4:1 | Now the Spirit speaketh expresly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giuing heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of deuils: |
| 4:2 | Speaking lies in hypocrisie, hauing their conscience seared with a hote iron, |
| 4:3 | Forbidding to marry, and commanding to absteine from meates, which God hath created to bee receiued with thankesgiuing of them which beleeue, and know the trueth. |
| 4:4 | For euery creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be receiued with thankesgiuing: |
| 4:5 | For it is sanctified by the word of God, and prayer. |
| 4:6 | If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Iesus Christ, nourished vp in the wordes of faith, and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. |
| 4:7 | But refuse prophane and olde wiues fables, and exercise thy selfe rather vnto godlinesse. |
| 4:8 | For bodily exercise profiteth litle, but godlinesse is profitable vnto all things, hauing promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. |
| 4:9 | This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation: |
| 4:10 | For therfore we both labour, and suffer reproch, because we trust in the liuing God, who is the Sauiour of all men, specially of those that beleeue. |
| 4:11 | These things command & teach. |
| 4:12 | Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an example of the beleeuers, in word, in conuersation, in charitie, in spirit, in faith, in puritie. |
| 4:13 | Till I come, giue attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. |
| 4:14 | Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was giuen thee by prophesie, with the laying on of the hands of the Presbyterie. |
| 4:15 | Meditate vpon these things, giue thy selfe wholly to them, that thy profiting may appeare to all. |
| 4:16 | Take heed vnto thy selfe, and vnto the doctrine: continue in them: for in doing this, thou shalt both saue thy selfe, and them that heare thee. |
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.