Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible (Oxford) 1769
| 12:1 | Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. |
| 12:2 | They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. |
| 12:3 | The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: |
| 12:4 | Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? |
| 12:5 | For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. |
| 12:6 | The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. |
| 12:7 | Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. |
| 12:8 | The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted. |
King James Bible (Oxford) 1769
By the mid-18th century the wide variation in the various modernized printed texts of the Authorized Version, combined with the notorious accumulation of misprints, had reached the proportion of a scandal, and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge both sought to produce an updated standard text. First of the two was the Cambridge edition of 1760, the culmination of twenty-years work by Francis Sawyer Parris, who died in May of that year. This 1760 edition was reprinted without change in 1762 and in John Baskerville's fine folio edition of 1763. This was effectively superseded by the 1769 Oxford edition, edited by Benjamin Blayney.