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2026-07-21 21:03 UTC
1 Corinthians 14:20 (MLV) Brethren, do not become children in your mindsets (but be infants in malice), but become mature in your mindsets.(Note: If this translation works the same way KJV does, the italics are words that are added to make the sentence make sense in English.)
This is just appallingly bad. The KJV is also bad but leaps and bounds better.Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be children: and in sense be perfect.By bad in this specific moment, I mean it's horrendous prose. No one would ever get either as a tattoo but the KJV is certainly less clunky.
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@JallBarret@hol.ogra.ph 2026-07-21 21:19
In contrast, here's the NRSVUE:Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults. While I like the NRSVUE for general accuracy, I've never thought of it as especially elegant prose but it's definitely nicer than the reasonably safely quotable versions I've got. The Douay-Rheims version I have in the public domain is essentially the same as the KJV but with different punctuation. Maybe just because it's what I grew up with, but I think the NIV has the nicest reading of the ones I checked today:Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults.