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King James Bible 1611
| 3:1 | My brethren, bee not many masters, knowing that we shall receiue the greater condemnation. |
| 3:2 | For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. |
| 3:3 | Behold, we put bittes in the horses mouthes, that they may obey vs, and we turne about their whole body. |
| 3:4 | Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driuen of fierce windes, yet are they turned about with a very small helme, whithersoeuer the gouernour listeth. |
| 3:5 | Euen so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things: behold, how great a matter a litle fire kindleth. |
| 3:6 | And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquitie: so is the tongue amongst our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell. |
| 3:7 | For euery kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind. |
| 3:8 | But the tongue can no man tame, it is an vnruly euill, ful of deadly poyson. |
| 3:9 | Therewith blesse wee God, euen the Father: and therewith curse wee men, which are made after the similitude of God. |
| 3:10 | Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing: my brethren, these things ought not so to be. |
| 3:11 | Doeth a fountaine send foorth at the same place sweet water and bitter? |
| 3:12 | Can ye figtree, my brethren, beare oliue berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountaine both yeeld salt water & fresh. |
| 3:13 | Who is a wise man and indued with knowledge amongst you? let him shew out of a good conuersation his workes with meekenes of wisedome. |
| 3:14 | But if ye haue bitter enuying and strife in your hearts glory not, and lie not against the trueth. |
| 3:15 | This wisedome descendeth not from aboue, but is earthly, sensuall, deuilish. |
| 3:16 | For where enuying and strife is, there is confusion, and euery euill worke. |
| 3:17 | But the wisedome that is from aboue, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easie to be intreated, full of mercy, and good fruits, without partialitie, and without hypocrisie. |
| 3:18 | And the fruit of righteousnesse is sowen in peace, of them that make peace. |
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.