Dif­fer­ences Between Mod­ern Bible Translations

We will take the most pop­u­lar Bibles such as the King James Ver­sion (KJV), the Revised Stan­dard Ver­sion (RSV), the New Inter­na­tion­al Ver­sion (NIV), the Good News Bible (GNB), the Liv­ing Bible Ver­sion (LBV) as well as the Chris­t­ian Com­mu­ni­ty Bible (CCB) and con­trast the same vers­es with­in these Bibles.

Verse Matthew 17:21

K.J.V. How­beit this kind goes not out but by prayer and fasting
R.S.V. (not included)
N.I.V. (not included)
G.N.B. (not included)
L.B.V. (not included)
C.C.B. Only prayer and fast­ing can dri­ve out this kind of spir­it” [in parenthesis]

Verse Mark 9:44

K.J.V. Where their warm dies not, and the fire is not quenched”
R.S.V. (not included)
G.N.B. (not included)
N.I.V. (not included)
L.B.V. (not included)
C.C.B. (not included)

Verse Mark 16:9 – 20

K.J.V. (not omitted)
R.S.V. (omit­ted in edi­tion 1952 and recent­ly restored with the foot­note not include in the most reli­able manuscripts”)
C.C.B (not omitted)

Verse Luke 9:56

K.J.V. For the son of man is not come to destroy men’s live but to save.
R.S.V. (not included)
N.I.V. (not included)
G.N.B. (not included)
L.B.V. (not included)
C.C.B. (not included)

Verse Luke 17:36

K.J.V. Two men shall be in the field, the one shall be tak­en and the oth­er left”
R.S.V. (not included)
N.I.V. (not included)
G.N.B. (not included)
C.C.B. (not included)

Verse John 5:4

K.J.V. For an Angel went down at a cer­tain sea­son into the pool and trou­bled water. Whoso­ev­er then after the trou­bling of the water stepped in was made of what­so­ev­er dis­ease he had”
R.S.V. (not included)
N.I.V. (not included)
G.N.V. (not included)
C.C.B. (includ­ed, but in parenthesis)

Verse 1 John 5:7 – 8

K.J.V. For there are three that bear wit­ness in Heav­en, the Father, and the word and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one”
R.S.V. (not included)
N.I.V. For there are three that tes­ti­fy ; the Spir­it, the Water, and the Blood and these three are in agreement.”
G.N.B. There are three wit­ness­es ; the Spir­it, the Water, and the Blood.
L.B.V. (not included)
C.C.B. There are then three tes­ti­monies : the Spir­it, the water and the blood, and these three wit­ness­es agree.”

The word begot­ten” is not includ­ed in verse ; John 3:16

K.J.V. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begot­ten son”
R.S.V. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son”
N.I.V. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son”
G.N.B. For God so loved the world so much that he gave his only son”
L.B.V. For God loved the world so much that he gave his only son”
C.C.B. Yes, God so loved the world that he gave his only Son

Verse Matthew 7:21

K.J.V : Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the king­dom of heav­en ; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.”
The N.A.B. (1970): None of those who cry out, Lord, Lord,’ will enter the king­dom of God but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.”

Verse Romans 7:17

R.S.V. I do not under­stand my own actions”
K.J.V. (not included)

Verse Hebrew 12:8

K.J.V. Then you are bas­tards, and not sons.”
R.S.V. Then you are ille­git­i­mate chil­dren and not sons.”
G.N.B. It means you are not real sons, but bastards.”
L.B.V. It means that you are not God’s son at all”

Verse Job 13:15

K.J.V. Though he slay me yet I trust him”
R.S.V. he will slay me, I have no hope”
G.N.B. I’ve lost all hope so what if God kills me.”
L.B.V. God may kill me for say­ing this, in fact I expect him to.”

Verse Ezekiel 16:25

K.J.V. And had opened your feet to every one that passed by.”
R.S.V. Offer­ing your­self to any pass­er by”
N.I.V. Offer­ing your body with increas­ing promis­cu­ity to who passed by”
L.B.I. You offered your beau­ty to every man who came by”
D.R.V. And had pros­ti­tut­ed thy­self to every one that pass­es by”Endmark

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