Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 5:1 | Call nowe, if any will answere thee, and to which of the Saintes wilt thou turne? |
| 5:2 | Doubtlesse anger killeth the foolish, and enuie slayeth the idiote. |
| 5:3 | I haue seene the foolish well rooted, and suddenly I cursed his habitation, saying, |
| 5:4 | His children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, and none shall deliuer them. |
| 5:5 | The hungrie shall eate vp his haruest: yea, they shall take it from among the thornes, and the thirstie shall drinke vp their substance. |
| 5:6 | For miserie commeth not foorth of the dust, neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth. |
| 5:7 | But man is borne vnto trauaile, as the sparkes flie vpwarde. |
| 5:8 | But I would inquire at God, and turne my talke vnto God: |
| 5:9 | Which doeth great things and vnsearchable, and marueilous things without nomber. |
| 5:10 | He giueth raine vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes, |
| 5:11 | And setteth vp on hie them that be lowe, that the sorowfull may be exalted to saluation. |
| 5:12 | He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise. |
| 5:13 | He taketh the wise in their craftinesse, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish. |
| 5:14 | They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, as in the night. |
| 5:15 | But he saueth the poore from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hande of the violent man, |
| 5:16 | So that the poore hath his hope, but iniquitie shall stop her mouth. |
| 5:17 | Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie. |
| 5:18 | For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it vp: he smiteth, and his handes make whole. |
| 5:19 | He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, and in the seuenth the euill shall not touch thee. |
| 5:20 | In famine he shall deliuer thee from death: and in battel from the power of the sworde. |
| 5:21 | Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it commeth. |
| 5:22 | But thou shalt laugh at destruction and dearth, and shalt not be afraide of the beast of the earth. |
| 5:23 | For the stones of the fielde shall be in league with thee, and the beastes of the field shall be at peace with thee. |
| 5:24 | And thou shalt knowe, that peace shall be in thy tabernacle, and thou shalt visite thine habitation, and shalt not sinne. |
| 5:25 | Thou shalt perceiue also, that thy seede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth. |
| 5:26 | Thou shalt goe to thy graue in a ful age, as a ricke of corne commeth in due season into the barne. |
| 5:27 | Lo, thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe. |
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
The Geneva Bible is one of the most influential and historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James translation by 51 years. It was the primary Bible of 16th century Protestantism and was the Bible used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan. The language of the Geneva Bible was more forceful and vigorous and because of this, most readers strongly preferred this version at the time.
The Geneva Bible was produced by a group of English scholars who, fleeing from the reign of Queen Mary, had found refuge in Switzerland. During the reign of Queen Mary, no Bibles were printed in England, the English Bible was no longer used in churches and English Bibles already in churches were removed and burned. Mary was determined to return Britain to Roman Catholicism.
The first English Protestant to die during Mary's turbulent reign was John Rogers in 1555, who had been the editor of the Matthews Bible. At this time, hundreds of Protestants left England and headed for Geneva, a city which under the leadership of Calvin, had become the intellectual and spiritual capital of European Protestants.
One of these exiles was William Whittingham, a fellow of Christ Church at Oxford University, who had been a diplomat, a courtier, was much traveled and skilled in many languages including Greek and Hebrew. He eventually succeeded John Knox as the minister of the English congregation in Geneva. Whittingham went on to publish the 1560 Geneva Bible.
This version is significant because, it came with a variety of scriptural study guides and aids, which included verse citations that allow the reader to cross-reference one verse with numerous relevant verses in the rest of the Bible, introductions to each book of the Bible that acted to summarize all of the material that each book would cover, maps, tables, woodcut illustrations, indices, as well as other included features, all of which would eventually lead to the reputation of the Geneva Bible as history's very first study Bible.