The Online Library of Liberty A Project Of Liberty Fund, Inc. The Parallel Bible. New Testament (KJV) [1885] The Online Library Of Liberty This E-Book (PDF format) is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., a private, non-profit, educational foundation established in 1960 to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. 2010 was the 50th anniversary year of the founding of Liberty Fund. It is part of the Online Library of Liberty web site http://oll.libertyfund.org, which was established in 2004 in order to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. To find out more about the author or title, to use the site's powerful search engine, to see other titles in other formats (HTML, facsimile PDF), or to make use of the hundreds of essays, educational aids, and study guides, please visit the OLL web site. This title is also part of the Portable Library of Liberty DVD which contains over 1,000 books and quotes about liberty and power, and is available free of charge upon request. The cuneiform inscription that appears in the logo and serves as a design element in all Liberty Fund books and web sites is the earliest-known written appearance of the word “freedom” (amagi), or “liberty.” It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash, in present day Iraq. To find out more about Liberty Fund, Inc., or the Online Library of Liberty Project, please contact the Director at [email protected]. LIBERTY FUND, INC. 8335 Allison Pointe Trail, Suite 300 Indianapolis, Indiana 46250-1684 Online Library of Liberty: The Parallel Bible. New Testament (KJV) Edition Used: The Parallel Bible. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments translated out of the Original Tongues: being the Authorised Version arranged in parallel columns with the Revised Version (Oxford University Press, 1885). About This Title: A parallel version of the New Testament with the King James Version in one column and the revised Version in another column. This title is also available in HTML in just the King James Version. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 2 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2364 Online Library of Liberty: The Parallel Bible. New Testament (KJV) About Liberty Fund: Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. Copyright Information: The text is in the public domain. Fair Use Statement: This material is put online to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. Unless otherwise stated in the Copyright Information section above, this material may be used freely for educational and academic purposes. It may not be used in any way for profit. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 3 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2364 Online Library of Liberty: The Parallel Bible. New Testament (KJV) Table Of Contents Advertisement. Revisers’ Preface. New Testament Revisers’ Preface. The Gospel According to S. Matthew. The Gospel According to S. Mark. The Gospel According to S. Luke. The Gospel According to S. John. The Acts of the Apostles. The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans. The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians. The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians. The Epistle of Paul to the Galatians. The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians. The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians. The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians. The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians. The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians. The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy. The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy. The Epistle of Paul to Titus. The Epistle of Paul to Philemon. The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews. The General Epistle of James. The First Epistle General of Peter. The Second Epistle General of Peter. The First Epistle General of John. The Second Epistle of John. The Third Epistle of John. The General Epistle of Jude. The Revelation of S. John the Divine. List of Readings and Renderings Preferred By the American Committee, Recorded At Their Desire. See Preface to New Testament. Classes of Passages. PUBLISHED BY henry frowde, Oxford Warehouse: amen corner, london. c. j. clay and son, PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 4 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2364 Online Library of Liberty: The Parallel Bible. New Testament (KJV) Cambridge Warehouse: ave maria lane, london. thomas nelson and sons, Oxford Bible Warehouse: 42, bleecker street, new york. This Edition is authorised by the American Committee of Revision. PHILIP SCHAFF, President. GEORGE E. DAY, Secretary. New York,May 8, 1885. OXFORD: printed by horace hart, printer to the university, at the university press. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 5 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2364 Online Library of Liberty: The Parallel Bible. New Testament (KJV) [Back to Table of Contents] ADVERTISEMENT. In this Volume are printed, in parallel columns, the Authorised Version of 1611 and the Revised Version, of which last the Old Testament appeared in 1885 and the New Testament in 1881. The left hand column contains the text of the Authorised Version as usually printed, with the marginal notes and references of the edition of 1611, the spelling of these being conformed to modern usage. In the left hand margin are also placed, in square brackets, the more important differences between the edition of 1611 and the text now in use, whether these differences are due to corrections of the edition of 1611 or to errors which have subsequently crept in. The right hand column contains the Revised Version, with its marginal notes and references. The Prefaces of the Revisers, and the lists of renderings preferred by the American Committee, are also included in this Volume. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 6 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2364 Online Library of Liberty: The Parallel Bible. New Testament (KJV) [Back to Table of Contents] REVISERS’ PREFACE. The Revision of the Authorised Version was undertaken in consequence of a Resolution passed by both houses of the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury, as has been fully explained in the Preface to the Revised Version of the New Testament, which was first published in May 1881. When the two Companies were appointed for carrying out this work, the following General Principles, among others, were laid down by the Revision Committee of Convocation for their guidance:— ‘1. To introduce as few alterations as possible into the Text of the Authorised Version consistently with faithfulness.’ ‘2. To limit, as far as possible, the expression of such alterations to the language of the Authorised and earlier English Versions.’ ‘4. That the Text to be adopted be that for which the evidence is decidedly preponderating; and that when the Text so adopted differs from that from which the Authorised Version was made, the alteration be indicated in the margin.’ ‘7. To revise the headings of chapters and pages, paragraphs, italics, and punctuation.’ In order to shew the manner in which the Old Testament Company have endeavoured to carry out their instructions, it will be convenient to treat the subjects mentioned in the foregoing rules in a somewhat different order. It will be observed that in Rule 4 the word ‘Text’ is used in a different sense from that in Rule 1, and in the case of the Old Testament denotes the Hebrew or Aramaic original of the several books. In this respect the task of the Revisers has been much simpler than that which the New Testament Company had before them. The Received, or, as it is commonly called, the Massoretic Text of the Old Testament Scriptures has come down to us in manuscripts which are of no very great antiquity, and which all belong to the same family or recension1 . That other recensions were at one time in existence is probable from the variations in the Ancient Versions, the oldest of which, namely the Greek or Septuagint, was made, at least in part, some two centuries before the Christian era. But as the state of knowledge on the subject is not at present such as to justify any attempt at an entire reconstruction of the text on the authority of the Versions, the Revisers have thought it most prudent to adopt the Massoretic Text as the basis of their work, and to depart from it, as the Authorised Translators had done2 , only in exceptional cases. With regard to the variations in the Massoretic Text itself, the Revisers have endeavoured to translate what appeared to them to be the best reading in the text, and where the alternative reading seemed sufficiently probable or important they have placed it in the margin. In some few instances of extreme difficulty a reading has been adopted on the authority of the Ancient Versions, and the departure from the Massoretic Text recorded in the margin. In other cases, where the versions appeared to supply a very probable though not so necessary a correction of the text, the text has been left and the variation indicated in the margin only. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 7 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2364 Online Library of Liberty: The Parallel Bible. New Testament (KJV) In endeavouring to carry out as fully as possible the spirit of Rules 1 and 2, the Revisers have borne in mind that it was their duty not to make a new translation but to revise one already existing, which for more than two centuries and a half had held the position of an English classic.