Worrell New Testament

The Worrell New Testament is a distinct conservative American translation of the New Testament, produced in the early twentieth century and rendered directly from the Greek, with the Greek New Testament serving as its base text. Its scope is limited to the New Testament rather than the whole Bible, and it stands as a fresh translation rather than a revision of an existing English version — a distinction that set it apart from the many revisions of the King James Version circulating in the same era. Its translation philosophy is formal and conservative in approach, and among its characteristic features is a tendency to retain traditional English cadence while correcting readings found in the King James Version. It belongs to a period of considerable activity in independent English Bible translation, when individual scholars and ministers issued their own renderings alongside larger committee projects.