Scripture doesn't come from any human source.

It is a miraculous book, authored by God,

through the Holy Spirit, moving human writers to write exactly what God wanted said.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

You've seen the self-help books, you've heard the self-help talk shows, different people offering different solutions to all

the same problems.

Well if you're looking for the one source you should trust, stay here as John MacArthur continues his look at how to get the most from God's

word on grace to you. But John, before you begin today's lesson on the inspiration of scripture, I'd like you to respond to a

question that came in on our Q and a line from a listener named Deborah. It's a

short question but it's an important one. My name is Deborah.

My question is, what versions of the Bible are better than others and why?

Thank you, John. Well, thank you, Deborah, and that's a big question.

The short answer is that I have preached for decades from the new American standard translation of the Bible.

There's a reason I have done that because I have felt through the years that it is the best translation.

You may be more familiar with the King James Version

or the New King James Version or the E. S. V. And there are many others. But what

you look for in a Bible translation just to be clear, foundationally clear, is that it is based upon an accurate

translation of the original texts of Greek and Hebrew.

Greek in the New Testament, Hebrew in the Old Testament.

So let me explain that a bit.

The job of a translator is to find exactly what the author said.

Let me say that again.

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