King James AND Weymouth's New Testament in Modern Speech COMPARED

WEYMOUTH'S MODERN SPEECH COMPANION TRANSLATION
Now Side-by-Side with the 1611 Authorised Version

Four centuries ago, the King James translators declared that their work was a revision, blessed future scholars, and asked the question: "Is the kingdom of God words or syllables? Why should we be in bondage to them if we may be free?" In 1903, Richard Francis Weymouth's New Testament in Modern Speech answered that call.

Weymouth was not a revision committee. One English scholar built the translation as a study companion to the Authorised Version and the 1881 Revised Version. The Greek under the English is the Resultant Greek Testament of 1886, the reading on which the majority of the editors Weymouth collated were agreed. James Clarke published the book in 1903, the year after Weymouth's death. Ernest Hampden-Cook edited and partly revised the manuscript. The result is modern English from that Greek-not a King James patch, and not a paraphrase.

The dual-column layout sets the 1912 third-edition wording directly beside the classic 1769 Oxford King James text. A reader can test both lines on the same verse.

• The Traditionalist Reader: Built for the King James reader who already knows the cadences by heart, and still wants to see how a strict modern-speech New Testament handles the same verse.
• The Classroom Teacher: Tailored for the instructor or pastor who needs to open Romans or the Sermon on the Mount and show both lines of wording without making a class wait while flipping between two separate Bibles.
• The Discriminating Student: Ideal for anyone asking, "Does a modern rendering actually bring me closer to the original Greek?" The two columns put the answer on the page, not in a preface.
• The Dedicated Heritage Collector: A volume for owners of The KJV Heritage Companion Series. The Twentieth Century New Testament is the work of a company. Goodspeed and Moffatt are single scholars. Weymouth is the other single-scholar companion, built on the Resultant Greek Testament.

• Clear Typography Options: Newly typeset, with 12pt type in the softcover edition and 11pt type in the hardcover edition.
• Interweave Parallel Format: A side-by-side presentation where the King James line and the 1912 line begin on the same baseline.
• Familiar Verse Map: Book, chapter, and verse follow King James order. Looking up Romans 8 matches Romans 8 in both columns. Where the Greek line differs, the difference is on the page: Revelation 22:14 reads "do his commandments" on the left and "wash their robes" on the right.
• 1912 Third Edition: The right column is the 1912 third-edition text, not the 1903 first edition.
• Combined Verses: When Weymouth merged two King James verses into a single sentence, the page places the complete thought beside the first verse number. The later right-hand number is left empty. The alignment does not break.

Read a chapter in the King James column first. Next, read the same chapter in the 1912 column. Then read across, verse by verse. When the modern wording turns a verse known by heart, weigh both lines. The parallel columns let a reader judge which English stays with the familiar cadence, and which English gives the sense of the Greek.

The evidence sits on the page. See the differences, weigh the cadences, and decide on the line.