2 Corinthians 1:10 in 8 translations
7 distinct wordings, grouped by what each translation is trying to do. Differences from the King James text are marked below.
Early modern English
Seventeenth-century wording and sentence shape. Familiar, rhythmic, and the version most quotations you have heard are taken from.
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver
1611 / 1769 · Public domain · The Authorised Version, revised to the 1769 Blayney text. Includes the Apocrypha as printed in 1611.
Literal, word-for-word
Follows Hebrew and Greek word order and grammar closely, even where the English becomes stiff. Useful for seeing what the underlying sentence is doing.
who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
1901 · Public domain · The American revision of the English Revised Version. Deliberately literal, and the base text behind several later translations.
who has delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we confide that he will also yet deliver;
1890 · Public domain · John Nelson Darby's translation, made for close study rather than public reading. Often exposes grammatical detail other versions smooth over.
who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;
1898 · Public domain · The most extreme word-for-word rendering here, keeping Hebrew and Greek tense and word order at the cost of natural English.
Modern English
Contemporary vocabulary and punctuation, aiming for the sentence a present-day reader would write while staying close to the source.
who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
2000s · Public domain · A modern-English update of the ASV. Reads close to contemporary speech while staying in the literal tradition. Includes the Apocrypha.
These 2 editions word this verse identically.
And from so imminent a death God delivered us, and will deliver us again; for in him we have placed our hopes of future deliverance, while you, also, help us by your prayers.
in progress · Public domain (CC0) · A modern open-licensed translation, still being completed. Some Old Testament books are not yet available.
Simplified English
Built from a deliberately small vocabulary so the sense stays reachable for new readers and non-native speakers. Trades nuance for clarity.
Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;
1949 · Public domain · Written with roughly a thousand basic English words plus a small Bible vocabulary. The plainest reading available here.
What changes between the King James and modern wording
The modern rendering is printed below with every word that differs from the King James text marked, so the actual divergence is visible rather than left for you to spot.
Who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
Word-for-word swaps
- from→out
- doth→does
- in→on
- trust→have
- yet→also
The verses either side
King James text. A comparison is easier to judge when you can see the sentence the verse sits inside.