Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 3:1 | Put them in minde to bee subiect to Principalities & Powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to euery good worke, |
| 3:2 | To speake euill of no man, to bee no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekenesse vnto all men. |
| 3:3 | For we our selues also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceiued, seruing diuers lusts and pleasures, liuing in malice and enuy, hatefull, and hating one another. |
| 3:4 | But after that the kindnesse and loue of God our Sauiour toward man appeared, |
| 3:5 | Not by workes of righteousnesse which wee haue done, but according to his mercy he saued vs, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the holy Ghost, |
| 3:6 | Which hee shed on vs abundantly, through Iesus Christ our Sauiour: |
| 3:7 | That being iustified by his grace, we should bee made heires according to the hope of eternall life. |
| 3:8 | This is a faithfull saying, and these things I will that thou affirme constantly, that they which haue beleeued in God, might be carefull to maintaine good works: these things are good and profitable vnto men. |
| 3:9 | But auoyd foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and striuings about the lawe; for they are vnprofitable and vaine. |
| 3:10 | A man that is an heretike, after the first and second admonition, reiect: |
| 3:11 | Knowing that hee that is such, is subuerted, and sinneth, being condemned of himselfe. |
| 3:12 | When I shall send Artemas vnto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come vnto mee to Nicopolis: for I haue determined there to winter. |
| 3:13 | Bring Zenas the Lawyer, and Apollos, on their iourney diligently, that nothing be wanting vnto them. |
| 3:14 | And let ours also learne to maintaine good workes for necessarie vses, that they be not vnfruitfull. |
| 3:15 | All that are with mee salute thee. Greete them that loue vs in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.It was written to Titus ordeined the first Bishop of the Church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia. |
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.