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Revised Fenton

The Holy Bible in Modern English. Revised Edition.
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   Work on the 'The Holy Bible in Modern English' began in 1853 by a London businessman named Ferrar Fenton (1832–1920). The complete Bible was first published in 1903, though some individual bible 'books' were published as separate volumes during the preceding 11 years.
   Fenton is well known for a rearranging of the books of the Bible into what the author believed was the correct chronological order. In the Old Testament, this order follows that of the Hebrew Bible. The name of God was translated throughout the Old Testament as "The Ever-Living".
   Fenton is an exciting translation that shows respect and gives clarity in many areas where other translations fall short. This Bible is described as being "translated into English direct from the original Hebrew, Chaldee, and Greek languages."

Blog entry: September 17, 2016


   Welcome to the new blog section. Join us in this exciting effort to display the works of Ferrar Fenton! The Holy Bible in Modern English is now fully digitized and can be seen for it's creative and artistic beauty as well as for the spiritual edification that we all need through the daily study of the scriptures.


   This project actually began in 2012 when the conversion of scanned images, using OCR software, revived a very beautiful but tangled digital version of Ferrar Fenton's work. The major part of the editing, including verse alignment, OCR errors and chapter breaks took over one year. Still, as we go there are minor fixes to punctuation and a few odd necessary edits.

   In its very raw form, 'The Holy Bible in Modern English' went online with a free but very undependable web hosting service in 2014, where it has been ever since.
   With thanks to the generosity of others, just recently, the site has been moved to its current home. This hosting service is by far superior to the previous but costs are high so we are maintaining an ad service to help offset the costs.

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RF CO1 5:1

On Social Morality.
It is commonly reported there is depravity among you, and such depravity as never is among the heathen: that is, some one has married a wife of his father.
   
RF CO1 5:2 And you are self elated! But should you not rather be sorrowfully indignant; so that the person who has done this deed might be expelled from among you?
   
RF CO1 5:3 For I, although absent in body yet present in spirit, have decided already, as if I were present,
   
RF CO1 5:4 that the person who has done this shall be delivered in the name of our Lord Jesus—my spirit and yours agreeing together, in the authority of our Lord Jesus,
   
RF CO1 5:5 to deliver that fellow to Satan—for destruction of the flesh; so that his spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord.
   
RF CO1 5:6 Your pride is not noble. Do you not know that a little ferment ferments the whole mass?
   
RF CO1 5:7 Clean out the old ferment, so that you may be a fresh mass, and thus you will be unfermented. For Christ our passover is sacrificed for us,
   
RF CO1 5:8 that we may keep a festival: not with an old ferment, neither in a ferment of filth and wickedness; but, Of the contrary, with unfermented purity and truth.
   
RF CO1 5:9 I wrote you in my letter to have no association with fornicators;
   
RF CO1 5:10 not altogether with the fornicators of this period, or with the debauched and rapacious, or idolaters, since you would then certainly need to go out of the world.
   
RF CO1 5:11 But now I will write to you not to be associating with any one called a brother who may be a fornicator, or debauchee, or idolater, or a blackguard, or a drunkard, or rapacious—not even to eat with such a fellow;
   
RF CO1 5:12 for how does it belong to me is to judge these without? Should you not judge those within?
   
RF CO1 5:13 But God will judge those without. Throw out the profligate from among your own selves.
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