Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 6:1 | Wee then, as workers together with him, beseech you also, that ye receiue not the grace of God in vaine. |
| 6:2 | (For he saith, I haue heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of saluation haue I succoured thee: beholde, now is the accepted time, behold, now is the day of saluation) |
| 6:3 | Giuing no offence in any thing, that the ministery be not blamed: |
| 6:4 | But in all things approuing our selues, as the Ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, |
| 6:5 | In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings, |
| 6:6 | By purenesse, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindnesse, by the holy Ghost, by loue vnfained, |
| 6:7 | By the worde of trueth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousnesse, on the right hand, and on the left, |
| 6:8 | By honour and dishonour, by euil report and good report, as deceiuers and yet true: |
| 6:9 | As vnknowen, & yet wel knowen: as dying, and behold, we liue: as chastened, and not killed: |
| 6:10 | As sorrowfull, yet alway reioycing: as poore, yet making many rich: as hauing nothing, and yet possessing all things. |
| 6:11 | O yee Corinthians, our mouth is open vnto you, our heart is enlarged. |
| 6:12 | Yee are not straitened in vs, but yee are straitned in your owne bowels. |
| 6:13 | Nowe for a recompense in the same, (I speake as vnto my children) be ye also inlarged. |
| 6:14 | Be ye not vnequally yoked together with vnbeleeuers: for what fellowship hath righteousnesse with vnrighteousnesse? and what communion hath light with darknesse? |
| 6:15 | And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that beleeueth, with an infidel? |
| 6:16 | And what agreement hath the Temple of God with idoles? for ye are the Temple of the liuing God, as God hath saide, I will dwell in them, and walke in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. |
| 6:17 | Wherefore come out from among them, and bee yee separate, saieth the Lord, and touch not the vncleane thing, and I will receiue you, |
| 6:18 | And will bee a Father vnto you, and ye shall bee my sonnes and daughters, saith the Lord Almightie. |
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.