Does anyone still have their NWT ?

WildHorses

I was speaking with a man the other night on yahoo and he gave me a few verses to compare.

A while back I gave my copy of the NWT to a friend who came in contact with jw's quit often and wanted to used it to compare scriptures.

Anyway, could someone please look up these scriptures and compare them to the NWT and post the differences? I was told that the NWT omits parts of these verses.

Matthew 18:11 Luke 4:8 John 8:9 Acts 8:37/23.9 Romans 13:9

Thanks in advance.

"I don't want someone in my life I can live with, I want someone in my life I can't live without."

joelbear

Does anyone else remember using the scripture that in the King James version says shambles and in the New World Translation says meat market to sell NWTs?

RunningMan

Yep. There was also the scripture where Jacob had "sod pottage".
The NWT says "soup" or "stew" or something like that.

Now, if that isn't enough reason to buy a book, what is?

expatbrit

Does anyone else remember using the scripture that in the King James version says shambles and in the New World Translation says meat market to sell NWTs?

I remember that! All those meeting parts denigrating the King James Version used to piss me off!

"Oh how understandable and clear the NWT is, compared to that nasty unclear King James!"

I used to feel like shouting: "why don't you make a frickin' effort and look some of the words up in a d-i-c-t-i-o-n-a-r-y!!!!"

Or I used to spend fruitless hours trying to point out that the King James version was written in the English of the time, and was therefore just as clear to it's 17th century readers as any modern bible is to us. Therefore using understandability as a comparison was an unfairly sloped playing field.

To me, the King James version with it's graceful and majestic language captures the sense of religious joy in a way that the bland drone of the NWT never will.

Expatbrit

Yerusalyim

MaTT 18:11 and John 8:9 are not included in all the old manuscripts so some (not I) consider the verses suspect. Without having my NWT handy, I can't do a comparison right now though.

YERUSALYIM
"Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
[Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]

Yerusalyim

Brit,
Like the NWT is clear and concise! Some of the hardest reading I've ever attempted and I'm a fairly accomplished reader (though my spelling suchks).

YERUSALYIM
"Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
[Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]

Julie

Hi Lilacs--

Matthew 18:11 -------- (really, that is what is there)

Luke 4:8 In reply Jesus said to him: "It is written, 'It is Jehovah* your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.'"

John 8:9 In the NWT John Chapter 8 begins with verse 12

Acts 8:37/23.9 37:------- 23:9 So there broke out a loud screaming, and some of the scribes of the party of the Pharisees rose and began contending fiercely, saying: "We find nothing wrong in this man; but if a spirit or an angel spoke to him, ---."

Romans 13:9 For the [law code], "You must not commit adultery, You must not murder, You must not steal, You must not covet, and whatever other commandment there is, is summed up in this word, namely, "You must love your neighbor as yourself."

There you go Lilacs.

Julie

wallaby jack

G'day liilacs,

I'm in a bible free zone so am glad julie steped into the breech. Just wanted to say it isn't hard to obtain a copy of a nwt .. just ask the next witness you see walking the streets. (mm ..perhaps checking out secondhand bookshops might be a smoother, less traumatic option ;)

cheers, unclebruce.

Dan B

".. just ask the next witness you see walking the streets."

I haven't seen a JW in my neighborhood in almost 4 years. Nice worldwide preaching work they've got going on. I suppose if I go to the local Tim Hortons (fellow Canadians will know what I'm talking about)at 11am on a Saturday morning, I'll see dozens.

Dan

drahcir yarrum

My 15 year old son asked me not long ago if the JW's believed in the Bible. I said, "they have their own Bible." His response was, "what's it called, The Bible For Dummies?"

I thought that was very perceptive of him.

Does anyone still have their NWT ?

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