Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 2016
New Testament
| 2:1 | And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. |
| 2:2 | Because, I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. |
| 2:3 | And I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. |
| 2:4 | And my speech and my preaching was not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, |
| 2:5 | that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. |
| 2:6 | However, we speak wisdom among those who are perfect, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who come to nothing. |
| 2:7 | But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, |
| 2:8 | which none of the rulers of this age knew; because, had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. |
| 2:9 | But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him." |
| 2:10 | But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit. Because, the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. |
| 2:11 | Because, what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. |
| 2:12 | Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us from God. |
| 2:13 | These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. |
| 2:14 | But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, because they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. |
| 2:15 | But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no one. |
| 2:16 | Because, "who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ. |
King James Bible 2016
Unlike most other modern versions, this Bible's text is based upon the same Hebrew Masoretic Text, and Greek Textus Receptus, of the King James Version of 1611.
In non Textus Receptus versions, the issue of having the best underlying manuscripts, is often overshadowed by the massive amount of omissions in the text. Because the KJV 2016 is not dealing with issues of omission and addition, the focus has been upon definition, and the KJV translators choices have been used as the benchmark.
One issue not often majored upon in the bible version debate is simply the way Greek words are defined. Many times, the NKJV leans upon the definition choices of modern versions as well as defaulting to Vines and Strong's definitions, which are almost always favorable to the Revised Version. In other words, one may have a correct text to translate from, but use erroneous modern version/modern dictionary definitions which change or distort the meaning of the words. Jay Green was accused of having a good TR bible but with "Alexandrian readings".
The KJV 2016 Edition rejects such erroneous modern definitions and restores the distinctness of historical KJV readings. The NKJV also tended to gravitate toward KJV marginal notes, which are in truth, rejected readings, and also toward Geneva Bible definitions, which the KJV had already cleared up.
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