Holy Bible. New Revised Standard Version

WOMEN→ WOMAN Lk 1: 42 “Blessed are you among w,23: 55 wwho had come with him from 1Pe 3: 5 that the holy wwho hoped in God

WONDERFUL→ WONDERS Ge 18: 14 Is anything too wfor the LORD? Isa 9: 6 named WCounselor, Mighty God,

WONDERS→ WONDERFUL Ex 3: 20 and strike Egypt with all my wthat Ps 136: 4 who alone does great w,Jn 4: 48 signs and wyou will not believe.” 2Th 2: 9 who uses all power, signs, lying w,

WORD→ BYWORD, WORDS Dt 30: 14 No, the wis very near to you; Ps 119: 105 Your wis a lamp to my feet and Pr 30: 5 Every wof God proves true; Isa 40: 8 the wof our God will stand forever. Jn 1: 1 In the beginning was the W,and the Wwas with God, and the Wwas God. 1: 14 the Wbecame flesh and lived among 2Ti 2: 15 rightly explaining the wof truth. Jas 1: 22 But be doers of the w,Rev 19: 13 his name is called The Wof God.

WORDS→ WORD Ex 20: 1 Then God spoke all these w:Dt 11: 18 put these wof mine in your heart Mt 24: 35 but my wwill not pass away.

WORK→ WORKS Ge 2: 2 the seventh day God finished the wEx 20: 10 you shall not do any w—Php 2: 12 wout your own salvation with fear 2Ti 3: 17 equipped for every good w.

WORKS→ WORK Gal 2: 16 and not by doing the wof the law, 5: 19 the wof the flesh are obvious: Eph 2: 9 not the result of w,so that no one may 1Ti 6: 18 to do good, to be rich in good w,

WORLDMt 5: 14 “You are the light of the w.16: 26 gain the whole wbut forfeit their life? Jn 1: 10 yet the wdid not know him. 3: 16 loved the wthat he gave his only Son, 8: 12 saying, “I am the light of the w.1Jn 2: 15 not love the wor the things in the w.Rev 11: 15 kingdom of the whas become the

WORRYMt 6: 25 do not wabout your life, 10: 19 not wabout how you are to speak

WORSHIPEx 20: 5 not bow down to them or wthem; Ps 100: 2 Wthe LORD with gladness; Mt 4: 9 if you will fall down and wme.” Jn 4: 24 who whim must win spirit and truth.” Ro 12: 1 which is your spiritual w.

WORTHY2Sa 22: 4 LORD, who is wto be praised, Eph 4: 1 to lead a life wof the calling Rev 4: 11 “You are w,our Lord and God, 5: 12 Wis the Lamb that was slaughtered

WOUNDS1Pe 2: 24 by his wyou have been healed.

WRAPPEDMk 15: 46 the body, wit in the linen cloth, Lk 2: 7 whim in bands of cloth,

WRATHNu 16: 46 For whas gone out from the LORD; Ps 2: 5 Then he will speak to them in his w,Pr 15: 1 A soft answer turns away w,Zep 1: 15 That day will be a day of w,Mt 3: 7 you to flee from the wto come? Ro 1: 18 wof God is revealed from heaven 1Th 1: 10 rescues us from the wthat is coming Rev 6: 17 the great day of their whas come, Sir 16: 11 For mercy and ware with the Lord;

WRITE→ WRITING, WRITTEN, WROTE Ex 34: 27 LORD said to Moses: Wthese words; Dt 6: 9 wthem on the doorposts of your house Pr 7: 3 wthem on the tablet of your heart. Jer 31: 33 and I will wit on their hearts; Heb 8: 10 and wthem on their hearts,

WRITING→ WRITE Ex 32: 16 and the wwas the wof God, 2Es 14: 24 prepare for yourself many wtablets,

WRITTEN→ WRITE Lk 24: 44 everything wabout me in the law Jn 21: 25 if every one of them were wdown, Rev 21: 27 are win the Lamb’s book of life. 2Es 14: 44 forty days, ninety-four books were w.

WRONG→ WRONGED Lk 23: 41 but this man has done nothing w.”Ac 23: 9 “We find nothing wwith this man.

WRONGED→ WRONG 1Co 6: 7 Why not rather be w?

WROTE→ WRITE Ex 24: 4 And Moses wdown all the words

YEAR→ YEARS Ex 23: 14 Three times in the yyou shall hold a Heb 10: 1 continually offered yafter y,

YEARS→ YEAR Ps 90: 4 For a thousand yin your sight are like Jer 25: 12 Then after seventy yare completed, Da 9: 2 of Jerusalem, namely, seventy y.2Pe 3: 8 the Lord one day is like a thousand y,Rev 20: 2 and bound him for a thousand y,

YEASTMt 16: 6 beware of the yof the Pharisees and Gal 5: 9 A little yleavens the whole batch of

YESTERDAYHeb 13: 8 Jesus Christ is the same yand today

YOKEMt 11: 30 my yis easy, and my burden is light.”

YOUTH→ YOUNG Ecc 12: 1 Remember your creator in the days of your y,

ZEALPs 69: 9 zfor your house that has consumed me Jn 2: 17 “Zfor your house will consume me. Ro 10: 2 testify that they have a zfor God, 1Mc 2: 26 Thus he burned with zfor the law,

ZION2Sa 5: 7 David took the stronghold of Z,Ps 2: 6 I have set my king on Z,my holy hill. Isa 28: 16 I am laying in Za foundation stone, Mic 4: 2 For out of Zshall go forth instruction, Zec 9: 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter Z!Mt 21: 5 “Tell the daughter of Z,Ro 11: 26 “Out of Zwill come the Deliverer; 1Pe 2: 6 “See, I am laying in Za stone, Rev 14: 1 the Lamb, standing on Mount Z!

Ant: Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews

Aram: Aramaic

Ch(s): Chapter(s)

Cn: Correction; made where the text has suffered in transmission and the versions provide no satisfactory restoration, but where the Standard Bible Committee agrees with the judgment of competent scholars as to the most probable reconstruction of the original text.

Gk: Septuagint, Greek version of the OT

Heb: Hebrew of the consonantal Masoretic Text of the OT

Macc.: The book(s) of the Maccabees

Ms(s): Manuscript(s)

MT: The Hebrew of the pointed Masoretic Text of the OT

OL: Old Latin

Q Ms(s): Manuscript(s) found at Qumran by the Dead Sea

Sam: Samaritan Hebrew text of the OT

Syr: Syriac Version of the OT

Syr H: Syriac Version of Origen’s Hexapla

Tg: Targum

Vg: Vulgate, Latin Version of the OT

THIS PREFACE IS ADDRESSED TO YOU by the Committee of translators, who wish to explain, as briefly as possible, the origin and character of our work. The publication of our revision is yet another step in the long, continual process of making the Bible available in the form of the English language that is most widely current in our day. To summarize in a single sentence: the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible is an authorized revision of the Revised Standard Version, published in 1952, which was a revision of the American Standard Version, published in 1901, which, in turn, embodied earlier revisions of the King James Version, published in 1611.