Hugo McCord was a preacher and biblical scholar within the Churches of Christ in America. He produced his own translation of the New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

 (and Genesis, Psalms

Psalms

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, and Proverbs

Book of Proverbs

The Book of Proverbs , commonly referred to simply as Proverbs, is a book of the Hebrew Bible.The original Hebrew title of the book of Proverbs is "Míshlê Shlomoh" . When translated into Greek and Latin, the title took on different forms. In the Greek Septuagint the title became "paroimai paroimiae"...

), titled The Everlasting Gospel, which he affectionately called the Freed-Hardeman Version (FHV).

McCord attended a number of schools: Freed-Hardeman College (now Freed-Hardeman University

Freed-Hardeman University

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), the University of Illinois

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, the University of Tulsa

University of Tulsa

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, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

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, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

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. In addition to serving as a preacher in a number of congregations, he taught at Oklahoma Christian College (now Oklahoma Christian University

Oklahoma Christian University

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).

Among his many converts he baptized American church historian Earl Irvin West in 1935.