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GENESIS, THE PSALMS, AND PROVERBS "The words of Yahweh are pure, as silver melted in a furnace, refined seven times" (Psalm 12:6). And NEW TESTAMENT "THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL" "I saw another angel, flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to proclaim to the earth's inhabitants, to every nation, tribe, language, and people" (Revelation 14:6). All text was used with permission from Freed-Hardeman University. This may not be further reproduced or forwarded to others without written permission from Freed-Hardeman University. HUGO McCORD Carl Hugo McCord was born in New Albany, Mississippi, June 24, 1911. He was immersed into Christ by one of Freed-Hardeman's professors, L. L. Brigance, in 1923. In preparation for a lifetime of preaching and teaching, he attended Freed-Hardeman College, the University of Illinois, the University of Tulsa, Virginia Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary at New Orleans. Brother McCord holds the following academic degrees: A.A., B.A., M.A., B.D., and Th.D. He has made three trips abroad to study at the British Museum and in Palestine. Dr. McCord worked as a local preacher in Urbana, Illinois; Indianapolis, Indiana; Washington, D.C.; Dallas, Texas; Alexandria, Virginia; Louisville, Kentucky; Bartlesville, Oklahoma; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Midwest City, Oklahoma. His evangelistic work has carried him into forty-two states, and into the following foreign countries: Sierra Leone, Great Britain, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Kenya, Malta, Trinidad, Canada, Egypt, Italy, Sweden, and Thailand. In addition to his preaching activities, Dr. McCord has spoken on at least fourteen of our college lectureships, and at eight Bible camp programs. Dr. McCord is a retired professor of Bible and Biblical Languages, Oklahoma Christian College, and a retired adjunct professor, Alabama Christian School of Religion. Dr. McCord has been a prolific and dedicated writer. He has written the following books: Disciples' Prayer, Happiness Guaranteed, From Heaven or From Men?; Getting Acquainted with God, Messianic Prophecy; The Christian Family; Credibility of Creation; Bible Lands and Sacred History; The Royal Route of Revelation; These Things Speak, The H. Leo Boles' Lectures on Preaching; Fifty Years of Lectures, Volume 2: Fifty Years of Lectures. Dr. McCord has also written extensively for brotherhood papers and journals. iii A grateful brotherhood has honored brother McCord for his many contributions to the called-out people and to Christian education. He has received awards and honors from: Oklahoma Christian College, 1977; York College, 1977; Alumni Association of Freed-Hardeman College, 1979; Fort Worth Lectures, 1981; Freed-Hardeman College Elder's Appreciation Dinner, 1982; Gus Nichols' Lectureship, 1983; Harding University, 1984; Freed-Hardeman College, 1986. Dr. McCord and his wife, Lois, met while they were students at Freed-Hardeman College. They have two children: Charles, the father of two, and Carolyn, the mother of four. Hugo McCord died May 14, 2004 in Portland, Oregon at the age of 92. Freed-Hardeman University gratefully acknowledges brother McCord's gift of his translation which he affectionately called "the Freed-Hardeman version." iv FOREWORD Are you married to one translation of the Bible "until death doth us part"? Monogamy is right in marriage; but, in the area of Bible translations, a wise person will be a polygamist. Similarly, though an elder must be a "one woman man" (mias gunaikos andra, 1 Timothy 3:2), a wise person will not be a "one translation student." G. C. Brewer often said that one of the best commentaries on the Bible is the use of a number of translations. The scholars who translated the King James Version gave the same advice in the preface of their 1611 edition: A variety of translations is profitable for finding out the sense of scripture … The very meanest translation of the Bible … containeth the word of God, nay, is the word of God. The Holy Spirit chose the words that were easily understood. Habakkuk was commanded, "Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, so that a runner may read it" (2:2; cf. Ephesians 3:4; 5:17). However, the KJV uses the word "let" to mean "prevent" (Romans 1:13), and uses the word "prevent" to mean "precede" (1 Thessalonians 4:15), while advising readers to "hold fast the form of sound words" (2 Timothy 1:13). The NKJV has corrected both of these mistakes. Also, the KJV uses such words as "grisled," "holpen," "sith," "unicorns," "strawed," "bewrayeth," "wist," "wit," "wot," and "trow" (Genesis 31:10; Psalm 83:8; Ezekiel 35:6; Deuteronomy 33:17; Matthew 25:24; 26:73; Luke 2:49; 17:9; Acts 3:17; 2 Corinthians 8:1), while advising readers to use "sound speech that cannot be condemned" (Titus 2:8). The NKJV has replaced all such words. Many popular versions of the "God-breathed" (2 Timothy 3:16) Bible have contradictions. A variety of errors, made by those copying Hebrew and Greek manuscripts, or by those translating them into English, are cited in the Appendix. v "The words of Yahweh are pure, as silver melted in a furnace, refined seven times" (Psalm 12:6). Hugo McCord, 2000 vi TABLE OF CONTENTS Genesis ..................................................................................................... 1 The Psalms ............................................................................................. 96 Proverbs ............................................................................................... 222 Matthew ................................................................................................ 261 Mark ..................................................................................................... 323 Luke ...................................................................................................... 362 John ...................................................................................................... 429 Acts ....................................................................................................... 480 Romans ................................................................................................ 545 1 Corinthians ....................................................................................... 570 2 Corinthians ....................................................................................... 593 Galatians .............................................................................................. 608 Ephesians ............................................................................................. 617 Philippians ........................................................................................... 625 Colossians ............................................................................................ 631 1 Thessalonians ................................................................................... 637 2 Thessalonians ................................................................................... 642 1 Timothy ............................................................................................. 645 2 Timothy ............................................................................................. 652 Titus ...................................................................................................... 657 Philemon .............................................................................................. 660 Hebrews ................................................................................................ 662 James .................................................................................................... 681 1 Peter .................................................................................................. 687 2 Peter .................................................................................................. 694 1 John ................................................................................................... 699 2 John ................................................................................................... 706 3 John ................................................................................................... 707 Jude ...................................................................................................... 708 The Revelation of Jesus Christ ........................................................... 710 APPENDIX .......................................................................................... 742 vii Genesis 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2The earth was shapeless and empty. Darkness covered the roaring oceans, and God's Spirit was hovering above the waters. 3Then God said, "Let there be light." And light was. 4God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness, 5calling the light "day" and the darkness "night." The evening and the morning were day one. 6And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters, separating waters from waters." 7Then God made the expanse, dividing the waters below the expanse from the waters above the expanse. 8And the expanse God called the "heavens." The evening and the morning were the second day. 9And God said, "Let the waters below the sky be gathered in one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so. 10God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering of the waters he called "seas"; and he saw that