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1 | Bible Study | 2 Tim 2:15 | flinkywood | 94540 | ||
This carelessness with auxiliaries (shall, will) in English OT future tenses made me nuts for a brief spell last winter. I resolved to memorize in the KJV (it happens, if you notice, automatically with the KJV)--tenses schmenses, I say. You and I have talked about the version thing a bunch of times. Like you, I turn a lot to the NASB, but lately that old KJV magic's got me in its spell. I just can't hack some of the "modern" renderings. "And let steadfastness have it's full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing." (ESV). More "accurate"? Certainly less memorable. Or 2 Cor 9.7: "Each one must give as he has made up his mind..." (ESV). Well, Makarios, I'm very decisive (read "I make up my mind a lot"), but if it weren't for my heart, I'd probably never tithe. Yet I read Romans in the NASB because I can understand it better than the KJV. (Romans is just as cool in the ESV). So what's a believer to do? I'd like to pick and stick to one, but like you I turn to the ESV, NASB, NKJV to help me with the KJV, know what I mean? How are you liking the ESV after all this time? Is it doing it for you like the NASB? Colin |
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2 | Bible Study | 2 Tim 2:15 | Makarios | 94553 | ||
Colin, Yes, I have greatly enjoyed our posts about different versions and the different ways that they render verses.. I hope that the NASB didn't drive you too crazy! :) I agree, none, not a single one of these new versions has anywhere near the grasp or ability of linguistic quality of the KJV, although numerous attempts have been made, and I'm beginning to believe that there never will be an 'equal' to the KJV as far as pure, memorizable, and quotable Scripture is concerned. This is quite baffling (for me at least) since we live in a time where constant 'improvement' is unceasingly being sought to the point of duplication over and over again.. But we still have yet to climb that mountain and produce a version that rivals the KJV in authentic linguistic quality! I believe that such a task is ungraspable now, since we would have no doubt found a way to do it by now if such a task could be achieved. Even so, I love the rich accuracy of the NASB and ESV, and there have been peroids where I have used the ESV more frequently than the NASB on occasion. But my usage of the ESV has not overtaken me completely, even though I realize that I would be in excellent hands should anything ever happen to my copies of the NASB.. :-) If anything, I have grown to enjoy the ESV even more and more as I use it, and it is a very solid #2 Bible that I can use for everything: memorization, scripture, and study, even though it is so much easier to memorize out of the KJV than anything else, as you have said.. Without the original autographs in front of us, and without being brought up and raised using the Greek language, I believe that we are best served by using two or three of these translations, with the KJV also within reach.. So you will see me quote from the KJV from time to time.. :-) Blessings to you, Nolan |
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3 | Bible Study | 2 Tim 2:15 | flinkywood | 94617 | ||
I like the way you say it, Nolan. Colin. |
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