Does Your Bible Teach Recompence in
the Same?
Not if You're Reading the New Versions!
If you read the King
James Version, you should have no problem finding the doctrine of
Recompence in the Same in your Bible. It is easily located in the following passage:
II Corinthians 6:11-13
11) O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is
enlarged.
12) Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your
own bowels.
13) Now for a recompence in the same,(I speak as unto my
children,) be ye also enlarged.
The meaning here is clear. But what do other versions have to say?
NIV:
11) We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and opened wide our
hearts to you.
12) We are not withholding our affection from you, but you are
withholding yours from us.
13) As a fair exchange--I speak as to my children--open wide your
hearts also.
NASB:
11) Our mouth has spoken freely to you, O Corinthians, our heart is
opened wide.
12) You are not restrained by us, but you are restrained in your
own affections.
13) Now in a like exchange (I speak as to children) open wide to us
also.
These passages eliminate the teaching altogether! "Recompence in the
Same" appears nowhere in verse thirteen of the NIV or NASB. If a young
Christian reads the New Versions, what is he going to do when he is
straitened in his own bowels? Wielding a dull sword, he will have no idea
how to achieve recompence in the same, and in all likelyhood he will never
be enlarged.
All he will have is secular, watered down teaching about how to make
"a fair exchange." You can learn about that in any economics class, but
you can only learn about Recompence in the Same from the Bible -
if you have the real Bible, that is. I strongly urge you to keep using
the KJV, and to mercilessly harass everyone you know until they do the
same.
Salvation depends upon it.
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