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The Old is Good
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Many of our readers will have been brought up on the Authorised Version, the King James Version, and for some it may be the only version that they use. It is well loved, familiar, and well remembered. Over the last hundred years a great number of new translations have been made into the language people speak today. What follows is a comparison of a few verses in 1 Peter taken from modern versions and from the traditional one. The first column contains ten verses from 1 Peter each in a 'modern' version. You are invited to find the equivalent of each one in the second, AV, column. These are all translations of God's word in the original Greek. What is your opinion of them?
You might like to test yourself to see if you can repeat each verse from
memory (get someone to listen to you and check if you are accurate!) Try
some out of the AV column and some out of the modern. Which are the
easiest to memorise? |
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You had wandered away like so many sheep, but now you have returned to the
shepherd and guardian of your souls.
Above everything, love one another earnestly, because love covers over
many sins.
So, humble yourselves under God's strong hand, and in his own good time he
will lift you up. You can throw the whole weight of your anxieties upon
him, for you are his personal concern.
He who would love life and enjoy good days, let him keep his tongue from
evil and his lips from speaking guile.
Christ himself carried our sins in his body to the cross, so that we might
die to sin and live for righteousness. It is by his wounds that you have
been healed.
Thank God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that in his great
mercy we have been born again into a life full of hope, through Christ's
rising again from the dead!
That's why the prophet said The old life is a grass life its beauty as
short-lived as wild flowers. Grass dries up, flowers droop, God's word
goes on and on for ever.
You are babies, new born in God's family, and you should be crying out for
unadulterated spiritual milk to make you grow up to salvation!
But you are a chosen race, a priesthood of kingly lineage, a holy nation,
a people belonging especially to God, that you may make known the
perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous
light.
Whom God the Father has predestined and chosen, by the consecration of the
Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood. |
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification
of the Spirit unto obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his
abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the
dead. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The
grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. As newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word that ye may grow thereby.
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar
people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his
marvellous light. Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead
to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and
Bishop of your souls. For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from
evil, and his lips that they speak no guile. And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves, for charity shall
cover the multitude of sins. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you
in due time. Casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you. |
