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How Compare Translations works

Read the same verses in three public-domain English Bibles side by side: the King James Version of 1611, the American Standard Version of 1901 and the modern Berean Standard Bible. Where the wording differs, there is usually a Hebrew or Greek word worth a closer look. No AI is involved, only the texts themselves.

Example verses

Translators handled these well-loved verses in noticeably different ways. Compare them:

• What love is · 1 Corinthians 13:4-5

  ⁴Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, ⁵Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

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• The Lord my shepherd · Psalms 23:1

  The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

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• Light in the darkness · John 1:5

  And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

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• What faith is · Hebrews 11:1

  Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

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Scripture: King James Version (public domain).