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)
Thirty-Second Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday February 2 NS January 20 OS
The Feast of St Euphemia
Sunday February 2 NS January 20 OS
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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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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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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Stories and wise teachings from the time between the events of the Old Testament and those of the New.
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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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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 confessions of faith from the Book of Common Prayer and other sources, in both East and West.
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And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.