Sunday, October 31, 2004

True religion and undefiled is this:

that ye [that's plural(or formal) - and by the way, it doesn't say to delegate the task to the government, particularly when it's run by a bunch of rent-seeking, soulless, courtier bureaucrats] help the fatherless and the widow in their affliction, and keep yourself unstained by the world. --James 1:27.

KJV:
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.


NIV:
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

I guess my memory is faulty. Sort of. Maybe I was reading the Revised Standard Version, which Bible Gateway doesn't have. Nope. I was wrong there too, though it does say "unstained" rather than "unspotted". The RSV pretty much just takes the KJV and changes the thees, thous and yes (ye plural) to yous and occasional adjusts the word order to more modern usage.

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