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King James Bible 1611
| 2:1 | But speake thou the things which become sound doctrine: |
| 2:2 | That the aged men be sober, graue, temperate, sound in faith, in charitie, in patience. |
| 2:3 | The aged women likewise that they be in behauiour as becommeth holinesse, not false accusers, not giuen to much wine, teachers of good things, |
| 2:4 | That they may teach the young women to bee sober, to loue their husbands, to loue their children, |
| 2:5 | To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God bee not blasphemed. |
| 2:6 | Yong men likewise exhort, to bee sober minded. |
| 2:7 | In all things shewing thy selfe a patterne of good workes: in doctrine shewing vncorruptnesse, grauity, sinceritie, |
| 2:8 | Sound speech that cannot be condemned, that hee that is of the contrarie part, may bee ashamed, hauing no euill thing to say of you. |
| 2:9 | Exhort seruants to be obedient vnto their own masters, and to please them well in all things, not answering againe: |
| 2:10 | Not purloyning, but shewing all good fidelitie, that they may adorne the doctrine of God our Sauiour in all things. |
| 2:11 | For the grace of God that bringeth saluatio, hath appeared to all men, |
| 2:12 | Teaching vs that denying vngodlinesse and worldly lusts we should liue soberly, righteously and godly in this present world, |
| 2:13 | Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Sauiour Iesus Christ, |
| 2:14 | Who gaue himselfe for vs, that he might redeeme vs from all iniquitie, and purifie vnto himselfe a peculiar people, zealous of good workes. |
| 2:15 | These things speake and exhort, and rebuke with all authoritie. Let no man despise 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.