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A Few Introductory Thoughts |
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Written by Jonathan Gallagher
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So many different English translations are available that it might seem redundant to add another. A few comments are clearly appropriate. Some while ago a couple of visitors came to our regular Bible study. They were working on a project that required use of the whole Bible. When they went to the different Bible publishers, they quickly discovered that all modern English versions are subject to copyright. In many cases this is not a problem because permission is readily granted for the use of a few verses without charge. However to use the whole Bible requires a license fee of tens of thousands of dollars. Added to that is the fact that by reason of the copyright issues, free versions of the Bible on the Internet etc are limited to older versions that are now out of copyright, such as the King James Version. The most recent of these is the ASV of 1901, however this was mainly based on the RV of 1881 so its vocabulary is far from modern, still using thee and thous, shouldest and wouldests, and damsels… |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 14 June 2008 17:48 )
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John
1 1In the beginning the Word already was. The Word was together with God, and the Word was God. 2From the very beginning he was with God. 3 Everything came into existence through him; nothing was made without him. 4In him was life, the life that is the light of humanity. 5The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not snuffed it out. *
6A man named John, sent by God, 7came as a witness to tell people of this light so that all might believe through him. 8He himself was not the light, but came to witness to the light. 9This light—the true light—was coming into the world to enlighten everyone. 10Though he was in the world, and even though the world was made through him, the world didn’t know him. 11He came to his own native land, but his own people didn’t receive him. 12But to those who actually did receive him—those who really put their trust in him—he gave the right to become God’s children 13These are the children born not by natural means or human desires, but born of God. 14The Word took on humanity as a man living among us, and we saw his brilliant goodness—that of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth. |
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