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Our reverence for the great Author of Scripture should forbid all mauling of his words. No alteration of Scripture can...be an improvement. The gentlemen who see errors in Scripture may think themselves competent to amend the language of the Lord of hosts; but we who believe God, and accept the very words he uses, may not make so presumptuous an attempt.... Do we know the sacred volume half so well as we should know it...? Is it not possible that we still meet with passages of Scripture that are new to us? Should it be so? Is there any part of what the Lord has written that you have never read?

The Greatest Fight in the World, C.H. Spurgeon's Final Manifesto, pp. 22-23

"Who was I to write another version of the Bible?"

Eugene Peterson [author of The Message Bible], recalling his first thought when NavPress approached him to write a contemporary rendering of the Bible