Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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The Revised Standard Version of the Bible (RSV) is an authorized revision of the American Standard Version, published in 1901, which was a revision of the King James Version, published in 1611.

The King James Version has with good reason been termed "the noblest monument of English prose." Its revisers in 1881 expressed admiration for "its simplicity, its dignity, its power, its happy turns of expression … the music of it cadences, and the felicities of its rhythm." It entered, as no other book has, into the making of the personal character and the public institutions of the English-speaking peoples.

The Revised Standard Version of the Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, was published on September 30, 1952, and has met with wide acceptance.

The Revised Standard Version Bible seeks to preserve all that is best in the English Bible as it has been known and used through the years. It is intended for use in public and private worship, not merely for reading and instruction. We have resisted the temptation to use phrases that are merely current usage, and have sought to put the message of the Bible in simple, enduring words that are worthy to stand in the great Tyndale-King James tradition. We are glad to say, with the King James translators: "Truly (good Christian Reader) we never thought from the beginning, that we should need to make a new Translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one … but to make a good one better."

…Abridged from Preface to the Revised Standard Version (1971, on the occasion of the second edition of the New Testament).

1 John 5

1 Peter 5

1 Thessalonians 5

2 John 1

2 Peter 1

2 Peter 2

2 Peter 3

2 Thessalonians 1

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3 John 1

3 Maccabees 7

Baruch 5

Bel and the Dragon 1

Habakkuk 1

Habakkuk 2

Habakkuk 3

Haggai 1

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James 5

Joel 1

Joel 2

Joel 3

Jude 1

Lamentations 5

Letter of Jeremiah 1

Micah 7

Nahum 1

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Nahum 3

Obadiah 1

Philemon 1

Prayer of Manasseh 1

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Song of the Three Young Men 1

Susanna 1

Titus 1

Titus 2

Titus 3

Zephaniah 1

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Zephaniah 3

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