The King James Bible
1611
In 1604, King James I commissioned the greatest translation project in the English language. Sixty-seven scholars worked for seven years, drawing on earlier translations and original Hebrew and Greek texts, to produce a Bible that would reshape a civilization. The result was more than scripture. It was language itself, reforged into something that would echo in courtrooms, bedrooms, and battlefields for four centuries. From the thundering waters of Genesis to the quiet resurrection in the Gospels, from the wisdom of Psalms to the vision of Revelation, the King James Version gave English its most quotable phrases and its most profound silences. It told the story of a world made by divine hand, of covenant broken and remade, of a people wandering toward redemption. And it did so in a prose rhythm so perfect that readers forget they are reading a translation at all. Four hundred years later, this remains the book that built the Western literary imagination, the source of phrases we speak without knowing their origin, the text that taught English how to sound like eternity.
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“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.””
— Unknown
“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34””
— Unknown
“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.””
— Unknown
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you[Matthew 7:1-2]””
— Unknown
“Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.””
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“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.””
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“Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labour or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?So do not worry, saying, ``What shall we eat?'' or ``What shall we drink?'' or ``What shall we wear?'' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.- Matthew 6:25-34””
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“Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.””
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“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrew 11:1 KJV)””
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