Weymouth New Testament (WEY) text for use with PocketBible for Windows Mobile^™-based Smartphone.

The Weymouth New Testament (WEY), also known as The Modern Speech New Testament, is an idiomatic translation into everyday English from the text of "The Resultant Greek Testament" by Richard Francis Weymouth M.A., D. Lit. edited and partly revised by Ernest Hampden-Cook, M.A. The goal of the translation was now "to supplant the Versions already in general use, to which their intrinsic merit or long familiarity or both have caused all Christian minds so lovingly to cling." But rather "to furnish a succinct and compressed running commentary (not doctrinal) to be used side by side with its elder compeers." From the Preface of the First Edition:

"The Translation of the New Testament here offered to English-speaking Christians is a bona fide translation made directly from the Greek, and is in no sense a revision. The plan adopted has been the following.

An earnest endeavour has been made (based upon more than sixty years' study of both the Greek and English languages, besides much further familiarity gained by continual teaching) to ascertain the exact meaning of every passage not only by the light that Classical Greek throws on the language used, but also by that which the Septuagint and the Hebrew Scriptures afford; aid being sought too from Versions and Commentators ancient and modern, and from the ample et cetera of apparatus grammaticus and theological and Classical reviews and magazines - or rather, by means of occasional excursions into this vast prairie.

The sense thus seeming to have been ascertained, the next step has been to consider how it could be most accurately and naturally exhibited in the English of the present day; in other words, how we can with some approach to probability suppose that the inspired writer himself would have expressed his thoughts, had he been writing in our age and country.

Lastly it has been evidently desirable to compare the results thus attained with the renderings of other scholars, especially of course with the Authorized and Revised Versions. But alas, the great majority of even "new translations," so called, are, in reality, only Tyndale's immortal work a little - often very little - modernized!"

John 3:16

For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

2 Timothy 3:16-17

Every Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for convincing, for correction of error, and for instruction in right doing; so that the man of God may himself be complete and may be perfectly equipped for every good work.

Revelation 10:10

So I took the roll out of the angel's hand and ate the whole of it; and in my mouth it was as sweet as honey, but when I had eaten it I found it very bitter.

PocketBible Smartphone WEY requires approximately 800KB of storage either in main memory, storage or on a storage card. Download size is approximately 500KB.

Requires the PocketBible Program for Windows-based Mobile Smartphone (sold separately).