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The Authorized Version

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Comfortable Words

The Authorized ‘King James Bible’ of 1611, with hymns and prayers

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Comfortable Words lays out the complete text of the Authorized or King James Version of the Bible, published in 1611. You will also find a varied collection of prayers and hymns in a similar kind of ‘Church English’.

“On your bookshelves at home you will have something to supplement any anthology. Open your Bible at The Acts of the Apostles. if you want straightforward accounts.”

NL Clay, Straightforward English (1949)

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Synaxis of All Who have Suffered for Christ

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About the Authorized Version

In 1611, a team of scholars delivered to King James I of England the new translation of the Bible that he had commissioned from them.

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The Comfortable Words

Four short passages from the New Testament appointed to be read aloud in the English Book of Common Prayer of 1549.

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Sunday Readings

Short passages from the King James Version, for the Sundays and Feasts of the Christian year.

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The Old Testament

Books 39

The story of Israel and her covenants with God, from the making of mankind in the Garden of Eden to Abraham, Moses and David, and the Babylonian Exile in the sixth century BC.

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The Apocrypha

Books 14

Stories and wise teachings from the time between the events of the Old Testament and those of the New.

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The New Testament

Books 27

The story of Jesus Christ, his birth, his ministry, his death, and how the Apostles preached the good news of his resurrection and the promise of his return.

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Bible Readings

Posts 18

A selection of passages from the King James Bible, for reading practice.

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Hymns

Posts 46

A selection of Christian verse by modern masters such as Charles Wesley and Isaac Watts, and from the ancient liturgies of East and West.

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Prayers and Creeds

Posts 20

Prayers and confessions of faith from the Book of Common Prayer and other sources, in both East and West.

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Psalms and Canticles

Posts 10

Translations of the Psalms and other Biblical hymns, from sources other than the King James Bible.

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February 10 NS

Isaiah 40:9-11

O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

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