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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A revised version of the King James Bible published in the United States in 1901, incorporating renderings preferred by American scholars who had worked on the Revised Version.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a revised version of the King James Version
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Examples
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Two verses later, the passage continues: "But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love" (American Standard Version).
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Two verses later, the passage continues: “But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love” (American Standard Version).
Childish Things 2009
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In my estimation, the last good thing Thomas Nelson did was back in 1901 or thereabouts when they became the publishers of the American Standard Version, the American Revision Committee's response to the Revised Version of 1881 which relied more heavily on the British Committee's preferences.
Michael Hyatt, CEO at Nelson, responds Miss Snark 2006
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Scriptures marked ASV are taken from the American Standard Version, public domain.
The Busy Mom’s Guide to Prayer A GUIDED PRAYER JOURNAL 2003
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Scriptures marked ASV are taken from the American Standard Version, public domain.
The Busy Mom’s Guide to Prayer A GUIDED PRAYER JOURNAL 2003
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Scripture quotations have been made from the American Standard Version of the Bible rather than from the King James Version since the former is more accurate.
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:::: My recommendation is that if one wants a conservative translation, check it against the rock of literalism, the American Standard Version of 1901, made by British scholars back in the days where the learning of Greek begun by children in grade school, issued as the Revised Version in England aroud 1881 and refined by Americans in
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ASV - 1Ti 1: 10 - for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine; â© Info: - American Standard Version 1901 Info
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I went and loaded this page in Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer and all 3 showed popup boxes when the mouse hovered over Luke 1: 3 and right next to that text, still within the box are the letters ASV which stands for American Standard Version which you can see for yourself if you click "more" at the bottom of the box which takes you to Biblelogos.
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I went and loaded this page in Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer and all 3 showed popup boxes when the mouse hovered over Luke 1: 3 and right next to that text, still within the box are the letters ASV which stands for American Standard Version which you can see for yourself if you click "more" at the bottom of the box which takes you to Biblelogos.
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