This side-by-side comparison has been requested by a few visitors to this website. The General Epistle of James has been chosen for its clearness of speech and concept. Not too lofty, it is very practical and so would have been readily understood by all when read in an early church.
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(Berk.) 1/1James,
a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the
Dispersion, Greeting. (Berk.) 1/2Consider it maximum joy, my brothers, when you get involved in all sorts of trials, well aware that the testing of your faith brings steadfastness. But let steadfastness have full play, so that you may be completed and rounded out with no defects whatever. (Berk.) 1/5If any one of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to everyone without reserve and without faultfinding, and it will be granted him. But he should ask in faith with never a doubt; for one who doubts resembles a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. Let not that man imagine he will receive anything from the Lord; double-minded man he is, unsteady in all his ways. (Berk.) 1/9Let the lowly brother, however, be proud of his high position, and the wealthy of his humble place, because he shall fade out like a grass-blossom. The sun rises with its glowing heat and withers the herb; its flower drops off and its lovely appearance is ruined. So shall the wealthy waste away in his pursuits. (Berk.) 1/12Blessed is the man who stands up under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that is promised to those who love Him. Let no one who is tempted say, “I am tempted of God,” for God cannot be tempted by evil, while He tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own lusts. Then, when the passion has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and the sin, when it reaches maturity, produces death. (Berk.) 1/16Be not mislead, my dear brothers. Every beneficent gift and every perfect present is from above; it descends from the Father of lights, with whom no variation occurs nor shadow cast by turning. Voluntarily He gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we might be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. (Berk.) 1/19Get this, my dear brothers: Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to talk, slow to get angry; for man’s anger does not promote God’s righteousness. So, get rid of everything vile and the outgrowth of evil, and in a gentle heart have the word implanted that contains the power to save your souls. But become doers of the word, and not deluders of yourselves by merely listening; for whoever hears the message without acting upon it, is similar to the man who observes his own face in a mirror; he takes a look at himself and goes off, then promptly forgets how he looks. But whoever looks seriously into the perfect law of liberty and is faithful to it, who is not a forgetful listener but an active worker, that person will be blest in his practice. (Berk.) 1/26Whoever supposes he is religious without bridling his own tongue, but instead deluding his own heart, that person’s religion is useless. Pure and unsoiled religion in agreement with God the Father is this: To look after orphans and widows in their trouble and to keep personally free from the smut of the world. (Berk.) 2/1My brothers, do not combine faith in Jesus Christ our glorious Lord with partiality. For should there enter into your meeting a gold-ringed man in splendid clothes, and there enters also a poor man shabbily clad, and you pay attention to the one well dressed and say, “Have a good seat here!” and to the poor one you say, “You stand there” or, “Sit down on the floor by my feet,” are you not discriminating among your own and become judges with evil deliberations? (Berk.) 2/5Listen, my dear brothers! Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be wealthy in faith, and to be heirs of the kingdom He has promised to those who love Him? But you have dishonored the poor. Do not the rich domineer you and personally drag you into the courts? Do they not slander the noble name by which you are distinguished? If you really observe the royal law according to the Scripture, “You must love your neighbor as yourself,” you behave beautifully. But if you show partiality, then you are practicing sin;’ you stand convicted by the Law as culprits. (Berk.) 2/10For whoever observes the whole Law, but slips in one point, becomes guilty in every respect. For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not kill.” So, in case you commit no adultery, but you kill, you have become a breaker of the Law. Speak and act in such a way as befits people who are to be judged by the law of liberty. For the judgment is merciless to those who have practiced no mercy, whereas mercy triumphs over judgment. (Berk.) 2/14What is the use, my brothers, for anyone to say he has faith, if he fails to act on it? His faith cannot save him, can it? If a brother or sister is poorly clad and lacks the day’s nourishment, but one of you says to them, “Go away in peace; get warmed and get fed,” without supplying them with their bodily needs, what is the use? Exactly so the faith that issues in no works is in itself dead. (Berk.) 2/18Someone, however, may say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith without its practices and I will show you my faith through the practices. Do you believe there is one God? Very well; the demons believe, too, and they shudder. But do you want to know, O unproductive man, how faith without works is delinquent? Was not our father Abraham made righteous due to his works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see how his faith cooperated with his works and how faith reached its supreme expression through his works. So the Scripture came true that says, “Abraham believed in God and it was accounted to him for righteousness and he was called God’s friend.” (Berk.) 2/24You see that a person is pronounced righteous due to his works and not on account of faith alone. Similarly, too, was not Rahab, the inn-keeper, accounted righteous due to her works, when she entertained the messengers and sent them off by a different road? For just as the body is dead without the spirit, so faith also is dead without works. (Berk.) 3/1Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know we are assuming the more accountability; because we all make many a slip. Whoever makes no skip of the tongue is certainly a perfect man, able as well to control his entire body. When we put the bits into horses’ mouths to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies. Notice the ships, too, big as they are and driven by violent winds, how they are steered by a small rudder wherever the helmsman’s whim determines. Just so the tongue is a small organ and can talk big. (Berk.) 3/5(b)Think how great a forest an ever so small spark sets on fire. The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness. Among the members of our body the tongue is situated where she taints the whole body and sets on fire the whole machinery of existence, while it is kindled by Gehenna. (Berk.) 3/7Every kind of animals, of birds, of reptiles and of sea-creatures is tamed and has been tamed by human genius, but no human being is able to tame the tongue—this undisciplined mischief so full of deadly poison. We praise the Lord and Father with it; we also curse men with it who were made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth blessing and cursing proceed. (Berk.) 3/10(b)This is not right, my brothers; it must not be that way. The spring does not well up sweet and bitter water from the same cleft, does it? Nor is it possible, is it, my brothers, for a fig tree to bear olives, or for a vine to bear figs? Neither can salt produce fresh water. (Berk.) 3/13Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior that his actions are carried on with unobtrusive wisdom. But if you cherish bitter jealousy and rivalry in your heart, do not pride yourselves in it and play false to the truth. Such wisdom does not come down from above; instead it is earthly, animalistic, demonic; for where jealousy and rivalry exist, there will be confusion and everything base. (Berk.) 3/17But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, courteous, congenial, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and unpretentious. And the harvest, which righteousness yields to the peace-makers, comes from a sowing in peace. (Berk.) 4/1Where do conflicts and fightings among you originate? Do they not spring from your passions that are at war in your organs? You covet and you do not acquire; you murder and you quarrel and you cannot get hold; you fight and you battle and you do not possess. Because you do not pray. You ask and you do not receive, because you ask wrongly; you want to spend it on your indulgences. (Berk.) 4/4Do you not realize, you apostates, that the friendship of this world means enmity toward God? So, whoever determines to be a friend of the world takes his stand as God’s enemy. Or do you suppose the Scripture speaks to no purpose? The Spirit, which took up His abode in us, yearns jealously over us. But He affords the more grace, for it says, “God opposes the haughty, but He grants grace to the humble-minded.” (Berk.) 4/7So, then, submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near you. Clean your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you of divided interests. Feel your misery and grieve and cry. Let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your enjoyment to dejection. Take a low position before the Lord and He will set you high. (Berk.) 4/11Do not malign one another, brothers. One who maligns or criticizes his brother, criticizes the Law but if you criticize the Law you are not its practicer but its critic. There is one Lawgiver and Judge—He who has power to save and to destroy. But who are you to be judging your neighbor? (Berk.) 4/13Come on, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that city and spend a year there to transact business and to make money,” when you have no idea about tomorrow. What is your life? A vapor you are, that appears for a little while and disappears. Instead of your saying, “If the Lord wills and we live we shall do this or that.” But as it is, you boast in your presumptions; all of which boasting is wicked. So, then, to the person who knows enough to do right and fails to do it, to him it is sin. (Berk.) 5/1Come on, you wealthy, weep with loud wailings about the miseries that are coming upon you. Your hoarded wealth is ruined and your clothes have become moth-eaten; your gold and silver are covered with rust and their rust will be evidence against you. As fire that you have stored up against the last Days, it will consume your flesh. (Berk.) 5/4See, the pay of the workmen that mowed your fields, which you have held out on them, is crying mightily, and the outcries of the reapers have entered the ears of the Lord of Hosts. You have been living a soft life in the land; you have given yourselves up to pleasures; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter. You have condemned, you have murdered the upright without his resisting you. (Berk.) 5/7So, endure patiently, brothers, until the Coming of the Lord. Note how the farmer awaits the precious produce of the soil, keeping patient about it until it gets the early and the late rains. So you keep waiting patiently; fortify your hearts, for the Coming of the Lord is near. (Berk.) 5/9Do not complain against one another, brothers, so you may not come under judgment. See, the Judge has stationed Himself at the doors. Take, brothers, for your example of ill treatment that was patiently endured, the prophets who spoke in the Lord’s name, whom we call blessed for their way of enduring. You have learned of Job’s patience and have noticed what conclusion the Lord effected; because the Lord is deeply sympathetic and merciful. (Berk.) 5/12Above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by the earth or any other oath; but let your yes be yes, and your no, no; so you may incur no judgment. (Berk.) 5/13Is any of you suffering trouble? Let him pray. Is anyone feeling cheerful? Let him sing psalms. Is anyone of you ill? Let him call in the elders of the church and let them pray over him and in the name of the Lord anoint him with olive-oil. The prayer of faith will restore the sick one and the Lord will raise him up. And in case he has committed sin, it will be removed from him. (Berk.) 5/16So, confess your sins to each other and pray for one another, that you may be cured. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great force. Elijah was a man of similar weakness with us and he prayed an earnest prayer that it should not rain; then there fell no rain on the ground for three years and six months. Again he prayed earnestly and heaven gave rain, and the soil yielded its produce. (Berk.) 5/19My brothers, in case one of you strays from the truth and someone brings him back, let him be assured that he who turns a sinner back from the wandering of his way does save his soul from death and covers up a great number of sins. |
1/1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. 1/2My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 1/5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that waivereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 1/9Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: but the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. 1/12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 1/16Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. 1/19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 1/26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. 2/1My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in godly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; and ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? 2/5Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called? If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: but if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. 2/10For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill thou are become a transgressor of the law. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath sheweth no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment. 2/14What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 2/18Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. 2/24Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. 3/1My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. 3/5(b)Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. 3/7For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. 3/10(b)My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. 3/13Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthy, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 3/17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. 4/1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4/4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 4/7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw night to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. 4/11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? 4/13Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? it is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanish away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. 5/1Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as if were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 5/4Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. 5/7Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. 5/9Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door. Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. 5/12But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. 5/13Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 5/16Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. 5/19Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. |
Gerrit Verkuyl’s preface to the
At least two valid reasons for fresh translations are clear to the thoughtful reader: First, the discovery of earlier and more reliable Greek manuscripts than those from which our Authorized Version was translated more than three centuries ago. Second, the need of employing current words and phrases rather than those that have become obsolete. As thought and action belong together so do religion and life. The language, therefore, that must serve to bring us God’s thoughts and ways toward us needs to be the language in which we think and live rather than that of our ancestors who expressed themselves differently.
Each new translation by a qualified and honest student is a contribution to the treasures of our Christian wealth, for it offers an added glimpse at the many riches of divine revelation. But in consulting the Versions that have come out during the last half century we grew aware of certain lacks which we hope in a measure to supply.
It is never easy and at times it proves impossible to translate a word or phrase adequately; at best the translator may then attempt approximate interpretation. We have therefore undertaken to clarify expressions without making such interpretations part of the Sacred Writings. Besides, we explain situations and conditions that may otherwise puzzle the reader. Which means that a brief commentary accompanies this translation.
To the best of our ability we have tried to determine the dates of events, of sayings, and of writings. For sake of reverence and of clarity we employ for such pronouns of Deity as He and Him, the initial capital; but where His disciples are still unaware of His deity, and certainly where His enemies accost Him, the use of initial capitals and of Thee and Thou would not reflect their attitude. This is a phase of the humiliation He voluntarily entered. And as Christ is Himself the Word His sayings are not in quotation marks.
Our basic Greek is Tischendorf’s, but we have at
all points consulted Nestle’s edition. Leusden’s edition of the Greek and Latin New Testaments has
also been consulted, as well as Luther’s and Weizaeker’s
German Versions and another in the Dutch language. Among the British we
have observed the translations of Fenton and of
May the perusal of these Scriptures prove as helpful to the reader of our day as once the Holy Spirit enlightened and strengthened the authors and as more recently their study gave joy and comfort to the translator. And so it will be if with humble invocation of the Spirit’s gracious presence we receive and follow these divine suggestions.
—G.V.,
Further Information on Dr. Verkuyl and Translation Team
The Gospel of John narrated on these CDs was translated by Gerrit Verkuyl
and named The Berkeley Version in Modern Language. He gained his Ph. D. and
Doctor of Divinity degrees within the Presbyterian denomination, specializing
in children's Christian curriculum. When asked by Zondervan
Publishing House to produce an entire Bible having also the Old Testament, he
assembled a fine multi-denominational team of scholars (representative
institutions are shown below). The team did the Old Testament translation
and Dr. Verkuyl used his own biblical study notes to appear at the bottom of
these pages; they are intuitive and handy in giving further comprehension
beyond Scripture text paragraphs themselves. The overall text has been
described as "elegant"; it reads aloud admirably and provides much
enjoyment in letting God hear your voice reading his Word aloud to Him as
fellowship and faith, in relationship.
Representative Institutions that participated in this
"Verkuyl-team" 1959 translation were: Fuller Theological
Seminary, Berkeley Baptist Divinity School, Western Theological Seminary,
Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, Bethel Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids; Asbury College,
Wilmore, Kentucky; Dallas Theological Seminary, James Keefer, Ph.D.,
Missionary, United Presbyterian, Ethiopia, Lutheran Theological Seminary,
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Trinity Theological Seminary (Evangelical Free),
Chicago, IL, McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago; Wheaton College;
Chaplain U.S. Navy; Gerard Van Groningen, Th.M.,
Missionary, Christian Reformed Church, Australia; Grand Rapids Baptist
Theological Seminary and Bible Institute, Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand
Rapids, MI The original publisher of the complete Bible was Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, MI.