Textus Receptus Bibles
English Majority Text Version 2009
New Testament
| 4:1 | From where [come] wars and disputes among you? Is it not from here, from your lusts, which war in your members? |
| 4:2 | You lust and you do not have. You murder and are jealous and you cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have because you do not ask. |
| 4:3 | You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend [it] in [gratifying] your lusts. |
| 4:4 | Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is constituted an enemy of God. |
| 4:5 | Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously"? |
| 4:6 | But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." |
| 4:7 | Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. |
| 4:8 | Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [you] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [you] double-minded. |
| 4:9 | Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter change into mourning and your joy into dejection. |
| 4:10 | Be humbled before the Lord, and He will exalt you. |
| 4:11 | Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. He who speaks evil against a brother and judges his brother speaks against the law and judges the law. And if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. |
| 4:12 | There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you who judges the other? |
| 4:13 | Come now, you who say, "Today and tomorrow let us travel to this city, and let us spend a year there, and let us trade and make a profit"- |
| 4:14 | [you] who do not know [what will] happen tomorrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little [time], but then also disappears. |
| 4:15 | Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that." |
| 4:16 | But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. |
| 4:17 | Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do [it], to him it is sin. |
English Majority Text Version
PREFACE
Welcome to the third edition of The English Majority Text Version (EMTV) of the Holy Bible. This latest edition has Greek explanatory notes throughout the Bible, to aid the reader in understanding the meanings in some select places of the original Koine Greek. Also, the third edition finds itself closer to the Robinson/Pierpoint printed edition of the Byzantine majority text, rather than the Hodges/Farstad text, which the EMTV was translated from. You will notice these differences in John 7:53-8:11, as well as the entire book of Revelation.
The English Majority Text Version draws from the work of both Dr.’s Hodges and Farstad, and their text, “The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text,” as well as from Dr. Wilbur Pickering, ThM. PhD., and the EMTV has incorporated his hard work in the field of producing evidence of just what does constitute a majority reading, and, as a result of his work, and the work of others, John 7:53-8:11, and the book of Revelation reflect these variant readings. This is one of the great things about having a Bible that is translated from the majority of the trustworthy Byzantine manuscripts that are in existence—the much greater probability of accuracy.
On the other side of the fence, most modern Bibles are translated from a few scant manuscripts (literally), and more often than not they do not even agree with each other. Not so with a Bible that is translated out of the majority! The experts in linguistics who have put these readings together, and diligently compared the manuscripts, had hundreds and hundreds of manuscripts to compare. It is my prayer that this work will bring honor to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and to our God and Father; because all of this, all that we do, we do to know Him better, and to better understand His word, which He has given to mankind. “Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar. (Prove 30:5,6). Peace of Christ to you all. In His service, Paul W Esposito Stauros Ministries