Jean Ann Williams | Author

“Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: quite you like men, and be strong.Let all your things be done in loue” (1 Corinthians 16: 13, 14 1587 Geneva Bible). Father, we thank You for another day to be as You say in these words. We love You. We honor You. We want to obey You […]

“For I will not see you nowe in my passage, but I trust to abide a while with you, if the Lord permit” (1 Corinthians 16:7 1587 Geneva Bible).  Father, we understand the key words Paul says here is “if the Lord permit”. As Your followers we must keep in mind that in everyday life […]

“O death where is thy sting? O graue where is thy victorie? The sting of death is sinne: and ye strength of sinne is the Lawe. But thankes be vnto God, which hath giuen vs victorie through our Lord Iesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:55-57 1587 Geneva Bible). Father, You are perfect. You are merciful. You […]

“As it is also written, The first man Adam was made a liuing soule: and the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spirituall: but that which is naturall, and afterward that which is spirituall. The first man is of the earth, earthly: the second man is the […]

“But some man will say, Howe are the dead raised vp? And with what body come they foorth? O foole, that which thou sowest, is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shalbe, but bare corne as it falleth, of wheat, or of some other” (1 […]

“And when all things shalbe subdued vnto him, then shall the Sonne also himselfe be subiect vnto him, that did subdue all things vnder him, that God may be all in all. Els what shall they doe which are baptized for dead? If the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for […]

I’ll be posting from the 1587 Geneva Bible and from time to time give another translation in comparison. Enjoy!“For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, euen so in Christ shall all be made aliue, But euery man in his owne order: […]

I’ve used Geneva Bible so you will notice the Old English spelling. “And so they which are a sleepe in Christ, are perished [if Christ did not rise from the dead]. If in this life onely wee haue hope in Christ, we are of all men the most miserable. But nowe is Christ risen from […]

“Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain” […]

“But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so […]