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Bible Version Comparison, The NASB New Testament

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by: Timothy
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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 Time: 4:59 PM
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THE NASB New Testament

Photo of The Discovery Bible New Testament (NASB®)

1960

Since the NASB is a version many feel comfortable with I thought I'd look it over also. I didn't have a complete book here at the office but did have a New Testament paper back. Inside the cover I found the note that told me No part of this book may be reproduced in any shape form or fashion without permission from the publishers. Well, being the law abiding Parson, I went to thier website and got permission. Here it is:

Permission to Quote the NASB®

 

 The text of the New American Standard Bible® may be quoted and/or reprinted up to and inclusive of five hundred (500) verses without express written permission of The Lockman Foundation, providing the verses do not amount to a complete book of the Bible nor do the verses quoted account for more than 25% of the total work in which they are quoted.
Notice of copyright as shown below must appear on the title or copyright page of the work:

"Scripture quotations taken from the New American Standard Bible®,

Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973,

1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation

Used by permission." (www.Lockman.org)
When quotations are primarily from the NASB text on an Internet Web page (scripture quotations not from the NASB must be identified), instead of the full copyright notice on the title page, this notice must be placed somewhere on the Web page containing the quotations:

“Scripture quotations taken from the NASB."

(This notice must be a click enabled Web link to www.lockman.org.)
When quotations from the NASB® text are used in not-for-sale media, such as church bulletins, orders of service, posters, transparencies or similar media, the abbreviation (NASB®) may be used after the quotation. On a Web page, the abbreviation must be a click enabled Web link to www.lockman.org.

I placed a tag "Photo of The Discovery Bible New Testament (NASB®)" behind the photo of the book above. I even linked the image to thier site just to be sure.

 

 For artwork, the credit line may be on a tag on the back, on the packaging, or wherever convenient. It does not have to be put on the artwork itself.

One complete copy of the work using the quotations from the NASB®, if published for sale, must be sent to The Lockman Foundation within 30 days following the publication of the work.

This permission to quote is limited to material which is wholly manufactured in compliance with the provisions of the copyright laws of the United States of America and all applicable international conventions and treaties.

First things first! Remember when I mentioned to you that if you wanted to see if you were reading from the Alexandrian text or not the good place to start was 1st Corinthians 1:18? Well, here it is:

  • (NASB®) 1st Corinthians 1:18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
    • Lets go back and look at what the other versions have in this verse for comparison, OK?
      • (NKJV™) 1st Corinthians 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
      • (NIV) 1st Corinthians 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
      • (HCSB) 1st Corinthians 1:18 For to those who are perishing the message of the cross is foolishness, but to us who are being saved it is God’s power.
    • (KJV) 1st Corinthians 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

The NASB®, NKJV™, NIV, & HCSB seem awful simular now don't they? Why, well also inside the cover I found on page xxvi: "Greek text: Consideration was given to the latest available manuscripts with a view to determining the best Greek text. In most instances the 23rd edition of Eberhard Nestle's Novum Testamentum Graece was followed." Hey, isn't that the Alexandrian manuscript I mentioned previously? Whoops, big uh oh!

I have many of the brethren tell me that the NASB® at least doesn't change the meaning of the Word. Does it not?

In Mark 10 we see the lesson of "you can't take it with you" speaking of our earthly wealth.

  • (NASB®) Mark 10:23 And Jesus, looking around, said to His disciples, "How hard it will be for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!" 10:24 The disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus answered again and said to them, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! 10:25 "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
  • (KJV) Mark 10:23 And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! 10:24 And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God! 10:25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
    • Not trying to knit-pick here but any student of grammer would realize that these three verses meanings have been altered. Matter of fact the meaning is changed so much that it makes things seem like it's near impossible for anybody to enter heaven when the Savior was simply speaking to us about trusting more in riches than Him.

There are notes in the margins explaining thier reasons for omitting certain parts of verses but in Luke 4:18 you will find aboslutely no reason for removing "he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted."  Here, the Savior was explaining his reasons for being here.

  • (NASB®) Luke 4:18 THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR. HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM RELEASE TO THE CAPTIVES, AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET FREE THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED, 4:19 TO PROCLAIM THE FAVORABLE YEAR OF THE LORD."
  • (KJV) Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Searching the internet I came across some quotes from a Dr. Frank Logsdon (1907-1987) who was Co-founder New American Standard Bible (NASB®). This article is his personal confession "From the NASV to the KJV" and is some interesting reading. I strongly suggest you surf and search out the complete article for yourself.

 

Selected quotes from Dr. Logsdon's article "From the NASV to the KJV":

 

"At any rate we went out and started on a feasibility report, and I encouraged him to go ahead with it. I'm afraid I'm in trouble with the Lord, because I encouraged him to go ahead with it. We laid the groundwork; I wrote the format; I helped to interview some of the translators; I sat with the translators; I wrote the preface. When you see the preface to the New American Standard, those are my words."

I wrote to my friend Dewey, and I said, "Dewey, I don't want to add to your problems," (he had lost his wife some three years before; I was there for the funeral; also a doctor had made a mistake in operating on a cataract and he had lost the sight of one eye and had to have an operation on the other one; he had a slight heart attack; had sugar diabetes; a man seventy- four years of age) "but I can no longer ignore these criticisms I am hearing and I can't refute them. The only thing I can do--and dear Brother, I haven't a thing against you and I can witness at the judgment of Christ and before men wherever I go that you were 100% sincere," (he wasn't schooled in language or anything; he was just a business man; he did it for money; he did it conscientiously; he wanted it absolutely right and he thought it was right; I guess nobody pointed out some of these things to him) "I must under God renounce every attachment to the New American Standard."

 
There are two copies of those Bibles in existence, A and B, the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Vaticanus. And where are they? They are in the custodial care of Rome. Now almost all of our revisions, of recent years in particular, come through that stream. And that necessitates this comment: There is the false and the true streams of manuscripts. And either our manuscripts come through the false stream, or they come through the approved stream of manuscripts.

 

 
  • Nevertheless, getting back to this, the devil is too wise to try to destroy the Bible. He knows he can't. He can't destroy the Word of God. But he can do a lot of things to try to supplant it, or to corrupt it in the minds and hearts of God's people.
  • Now he can only do it in one of two ways: either by adding to the Scriptures or by subtracting from the Scriptures. And you mark it down in your little red book: He's too wise to add to because those who have been in the Word for a long time would say, "Wait a minute; this is not in the Bible." So he subtracts from it. The deletions are absolutely frightening.
  • I think I mentioned the other night, since there is so much concern about these versions and paraphrases and so on, it is a marvelous opportunity for the devil to get in his strokes, you know. Through computerized procedures they have tried to determine the accuracy right down the line. You have lists of those in various books. The Authorized Version is right at the top. Friends, you can say the Authorized Version is absolutely correct. How correct? 100% correct! Because biblical correctness is predicated upon doctrinal accuracy, and not one enemy of this Book of God has ever proved a wrong doctrine in the Authorized Version. You've never heard of anyone's intellect being thwarted because he believed this Authorized Version, have you? And you never will. You've never heard of anyone anytime going astray who embraced the precepts of the Authorized Version, and you never will.
  • So when they saw that there wasn't much to revise, here they had their committee arranged. One was a Unitarian, a man by the name of Smith. That's why you find on verses concerning the incarnation there's something wrong. Such as 1 Timothy 3:16--"By common consent great is the mystery of godliness." Don't you believe that the mystery of godliness depends upon what man thinks, or his opinion. The verse continues in the 1881 version--"he who was manifest in the flesh." You've been manifest in the flesh; I've been manifest; [that statement alone is meaningless]. It's God who was manifest in the flesh. Do you see the Unitarian flavor there? He got in some blows somewhere, and that must be one of them.
  • But I finally got to the place where I said, "Ann, I'm in trouble; I can't refute these arguments; it's wrong; it's terribly wrong; it's frightfully wrong; and what am I going to do about it?" Well, I went through some real soul searching for about four months, and I sat down and wrote one of the most difficult letters of my life, I think.

Dr. Frank Logsdon

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Tim Davis is an author, pastor, police chaplain, and webmaster. If you have any questions about the above article, please visit either The Baptist 1611 Message Board or the PCIM Christian Community Message Board and start a thread.

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