77 Changed Doctrines in Modern Bibles

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No doctrine is based on a single verse.

Well, that's your opinion and not the Bible. You are welcome to try and find another verse that says it in that way.
I was not aware of any verse that says it differently, and I even asked Ai several times to try and find one that does.
The AIs bring up other verses that are a little close, but do not express that truth in any way (even with other words).
Only Hebrews 1:3 says that specific truth.

Even 1 John 5:7 is the only verse that directly teaches the Trinity. No other verse teaches the Trinity directly, but only indirectly. No verse says these three are one (Which is clearly teaching the Trinity).




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[HealthAndHappiness]

My thinking was more that churches like the Catholic Church say Mary is a co-redeemer with Christ.

As for ”Works Salvationism”:

As you know, Catholics believe in "Works Alone Salvationism," and do not believe grace can save by faith ever.
As you know, they believe one is first saved by the work of water baptism (Which is false).
Anyway, Catholics (like Carol Maria Martini under the authority of the Vatican) had later helped to refine the Nestle and Aland Greek / UBS text that underlies the Modern Bibles. Did he make changes that favor the Catholic Church? Not that I have discovered yet, but I would like to do a study on that someday, when I have more time after finishing a few future projects. In short, that may be 2-5 years from now or longer. There are a lot of current projects I have for the Lord.



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Catholics do teach a works based salvation. I forget if it's like 7 or 8? The priests will tell you that you must trust Christ, BUT there's no salvation outside the Holy Catholic Church. They redefine grace and teach that their sacraments "convey grace for salvation."
When witnessing to them, I find it's helpful to distinguish the difference between faith alone in Jesus and faith in Christ PLUS faith in works after defining that sacraments indeed are works.

If you ask them if they trusted Christ as their Savior, most will say" Yes, of course."
I love Catholics as they are my ancestors and like Paul want them to be saved. It is a fruitful ministry as most are nominal and the power of the gospel still works. Romans 1:16

 

[shittim]

I have heard that as well, not that it is valid, we know when God gives a believers a verse is isn't a list of verses.
One should be enough as we take it to Him and not lean on our own understanding.

 

[Dino246]

Well, that's your opinion and not the Bible. You are welcome to try and find another verse that says it in that way.
I was not aware of any verse that says it differently, and I even asked Ai several times to try and find one that does.
The AIs bring up other verses that are a little close, but do not express that truth in any way (even with other words).
Only Hebrews 1:3 says that specific truth.

Even 1 John 5:7 is the only verse that directly teaches the Trinity. No other verse teaches the Trinity directly, but only indirectly. No verse says these three are one (Which is clearly teaching the Trinity).

Obviously, the trinity is clearly taught through a multitude of other verses. That it is not taught in only one verse should be instructive to you.

 

[TheLearner]

@HealthAndHappiness

Thanks for video. If you are interested. I added a new PDF to my site. It is a side by side comparison of the KJV vs. Modern Bibles. I point out how some are translation differences and others are textual differences. You can check out the new free PDF at www.affectionsabove.com.

May God bless you.


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I don't believe 77 doctrines were changed.

 

[TheLearner]

I would like to do an update on that new side-by-side KJV vs. Modern Bible comparison PDF to include Hebrews 1:3, which is a textual difference. It removes the words "by himself" δι’ ἑαυτοῦ (di’ heautou) (δι’ = by) (ἑαυτοῦ = himself). This is the only place in the Bible that says that Jesus "by himself" purged us of our sins.

Hebrews 1:3 KJV:
"“Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high”

Modern Bibles do not have this.

Hebrews 1:3 ESV:
"He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After [omitted] making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,"

The complaint of a scribe, written in the margin of Codex Vaticanus at Hebrews 1:3 says:

αμαθεστατε και κακε, αφες τον παλαιον, μη μεταποιει (Fool and knave, can't you leave the old reading alone and not alter it!)

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(Note: Nick Sayer's website does have issues because it is super large and he runs it on a private server. So, you will run into site not protected button (which you can by-pass), and you will also run into on occasion a page that says, "Resource Limit Reached" which you can by-pass by refreshing the page a few times. If you do not want to go through this hassle, you can paste the link at WayBackMachine.

Again, I want to stress this is the only place in the Bible that teaches this truth or doctrine, making it unique or exclusive teaching to the TR (Textus Receptus) and the KJV.


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Hebrews 10
Darby Translation
10 For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach.

2 Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?

3 But in these [there is] a calling to mind of sins yearly.

4 For blood of bulls and goats [is] incapable of taking away sins.

5 Wherefore coming into the world he says, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not; but thou hast prepared me a body.

6 Thou tookest no pleasure in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin.

7 Then I said, Lo, I come (in [the] roll of the book it is written of me) to do, O God, thy will.

8 Above, saying Sacrifices and offerings and burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not, neither tookest pleasure in (which are offered according to the law);

9 then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first that he may establish the second;

10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11 And every priest stands daily ministering, and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

12 But *he*, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down in perpetuity at [the] right hand of God,

13 waiting from henceforth until his enemies be set [for the] footstool of his feet.

14 For by one offering he has perfected in perpetuity the sanctified.

15 And the Holy Spirit also bears us witness [of it]; for after what was said:

16 This [is] the covenant which I will establish towards them after those days, saith [the] Lord: Giving my laws into their hearts, I will write them also in their understandings;

17 and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.

18 But where there [is] remission of these, [there is] no longer a sacrifice for sin.

19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the [holy of] holies by the blood of Jesus,

20 the new and living way which he has dedicated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,

21 and [having] a great priest over the house of God,

22 let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, sprinkled as to our hearts from a wicked conscience, and washed as to our body with pure water.

23 Let us hold fast the confession of the hope unwavering, (for he [is] faithful who has promised

24 and let us consider one another for provoking to love and good works;

25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom [is] with some; but encouraging [one another], and by so much the more as ye see the day drawing near.

26 For where we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any sacrifice for sins,

27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and heat of fire about to devour the adversaries.

28 Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses:

29 of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified, common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

30 For we know him that said, To me [belongs] vengeance; *I* will recompense, saith the Lord: and again, The Lord shall judge his people.

31 [It is] a fearful thing falling into [the] hands of [the] living God.

32 But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;

33 on the one hand, when ye were made a spectacle both in reproaches and afflictions; and on the other, when ye became partakers with those who were passing through them.

34 For ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better substance, and an abiding one.

35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense.

36 For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

37 For yet a very little while he that comes will come, and will not delay.

38 But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him.

39 But *we* are not drawers back to perdition, but of faith to saving [the] soul.

2 Peter 1:9
But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

 

[TheLearner]

It is a very important doctrine since most every denomination and most pseudo-christian cults would agree with the ESV from the CV.
They would all teach that "After [omitted] making purification for sins, ...."
THEN they ADD whatever good works they hold to. Faith in Christ is not enough. They always must combine Jesus sacrifice with their own list of requirements of personal deeds . Ie. Matthew 7:21 KJV

Our Traditional King James translation makes this distinction with power and clarity. His atonement is the only propitiation for all sins.
Christ alone deserves ALL the glory!

Hebrews 1:3 KJV:
"“Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high”

From JW NWT,

3  He is the reflection of God’s glory+ and the exact representation of his very being,+ and he sustains all things by the word of his power. And after he had made a purification for our sins,+ he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

21  “Not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of the heavens, but only the one doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will

Would these make good witnessing verses with Jws?

 

[TheLearner]

My thinking was more that churches like the Catholic Church say Mary is a co-redeemer with Christ.

As for ”Works Salvationism”:

As you know, Catholics believe in "Works Alone Salvationism," and do not believe grace can save by faith ever.
As you know, they believe one is first saved by the work of water baptism (Which is false).
Anyway, Catholics (like Carol Maria Martini under the authority of the Vatican) had later helped to refine the Nestle and Aland Greek / UBS text that underlies the Modern Bibles. Did he make changes that favor the Catholic Church? Not that I have discovered yet, but I would like to do a study on that someday, when I have more time after finishing a few future projects. In short, that may be 2-5 years from now or longer. There are a lot of current projects I have for the Lord.



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Just poking around:

The Catholic Church has never taught such a doctrine and, in fact, has constantly condemned the notion that man can earn his salvation. Apart from God, man cannot be saved. Catholic soteriology (salvation theology) is rooted in apostolic Tradition and Scripture and thus teaches that salvation is a free gift from God, and yet God empowers us to freely accept or reject that gift through the choices (works) we make in our lives here on earth.
In addition, any merit man gains through his good works cannot be attained apart from Jesus Christ. As Paul explains in Philippians 2:13, “God is the one, who, for his good purpose, works in you both to desire and to work.”
Notice that Paul’s words presuppose that the faithful Christian is not just desiring to be righteous, but is actively working toward it. This is the second half of the justification equation, and Protestants either miss or ignore it.
James 2:17 reminds us that “faith of itself, if it does not have work, is dead.” In verse 24 James says, “See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.” And later: “For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead” (2:26).
The Council of Trent harmonizes the necessity of grace and works: “If anyone says that man can be justified before God by his own works, whether done by his own natural powers or by the teaching of the Law, without divine grace through Jesus Christ, let him be anathema” (Session 6; can. 1).
https://www.catholic.com/qa/why-does-the-church-teach-that-works-can-obtain-salvation

 

[TheLearner]

https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/bible-says-faith-and-works-needed-for-salvation-1015

 

[TheLearner]

Well, that's your opinion and not the Bible. You are welcome to try and find another verse that says it in that way.
I was not aware of any verse that says it differently, and I even asked Ai several times to try and find one that does.
The AIs bring up other verses that are a little close, but do not express that truth in any way (even with other words).
Only Hebrews 1:3 says that specific truth.

Even 1 John 5:7 is the only verse that directly teaches the Trinity. No other verse teaches the Trinity directly, but only indirectly. No verse says these three are one (Which is clearly teaching the Trinity).




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Jesus Cleansing Us

1 John 1:9 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Titus 3:5 ESV / 24 helpful votes
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

1 John 1:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

https://www.openbible.info/topics/jesus_cleansing_us

 

[HealthAndHappiness]

From JW NWT,

3  He is the reflection of God’s glory+ and the exact representation of his very being,+ and he sustains all things by the word of his power. And after he had made a purification for our sins,+ he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

21  “Not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of the heavens, but only the one doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will

Would these make good witnessing verses with Jws?

I used to use other's bIbles to witness to them. From just a practical POV, I learned that it doesn't work as well as my KJV NT.
A. The choices for editing layout ie, numbering to find the verses is difficult to navigate compared to ours.
B. If I ask a JW or RC to take their Bible off the shelf and turn to such and such references, it takes too long and simply embarrassed them because they can't find it sometimes because they don't know where outside the gospels.
C. An evangelical church I went to used a good tract as far as explaining the gospel. The problem was that for some strange reasons they weren't effective at getting people saved like me opening my NT and explaining from it.
D. To further answer about JWs and their New World "translation," I don't have success showing their discrepancies. I only led two that I can think of to Christ. Both of them trusted Christ when I used my NT. I did however point to the facts of the true Jesus and His BODILY resurrection.

 

[Bible_Highlighter]

Obviously, the trinity is clearly taught through a multitude of other verses. That it is not taught in only one verse should be instructive to you.

Indirectly through assumptions Modern Versions teach the Trinity but not directly like 1 John 5:7 in the KJB. No other verse says that the three are one like the Comma. Also, let’s also not forget Westcott and Hort English Revised Version employs deception by moving the last sentence in verse 6 to fill in the Comma in verse 7. This deception is continued with later translations with the rewording of the beginning of verse 8 and putting it in verse 7 for the missing Johannine Comma. In short, the Modern Bible Movement employ different deceptions in its very origins when it comes to its translations, which is not honorable.


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[Bible_Highlighter]

I don't believe 77 doctrines were changed.

Right, its probably more than that. I simply chose what I found were the biggest changes from my own personal study over the years.

Feel free to look at the changed doctrines in my PDFs at www.affectionsabove.com.

I list 17 textual differences doctrinally in the second PDF on the page that says, "KJV vs. Modern Bibles: A Side-by-Side Doctrinal and Textual Comparison." This PDF is on the page that has the animated fall leaves in the background. At some point, I do want to include Hebrews 1:3 to this PDF, and so that would bring the textual differences to a count of 18.

Side Note:

I define a textual difference in my PDF as a difference between the Beza 1598 Greek (Which the KJV translators primarily used except for 20 or so translatable differences) vs. the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus Greek manuscripts, which is given priority or primacy in the Nestle and Aland Critical Text editions (Which underlies the Modern Bibles). This second PDF (showing the KJV side-by-side with the Modern Bibles) is not an exhaustive study. I am sure it would be a lot more textual differences if I included other verses.

Side Note 2:

I see some doctrines are changed in the sense that they are watered down, like the deity of Christ being water-downed in Modern Bibles. I list 21 places in Modern Versions that waters down Christ's deity. But ones that really get me is verses like John 1:18. It says God is begotten in the NASB. This is heretical. Jesus is eternally God and He was begotten as God. There was never a point He was not God. Jesus is the second person of the Holy Trinity (who always existed from eternity's past).


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[Bible_Highlighter]

Jesus Cleansing Us

1 John 1:9 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Titus 3:5 ESV / 24 helpful votes
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

1 John 1:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

https://www.openbible.info/topics/jesus_cleansing_us

None of these verses say that Christ by himself purged us of our sins.
Only Hebrews 1:3 in the KJV says that.



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[Bible_Highlighter]

Just poking around:

The Catholic Church has never taught such a doctrine and, in fact, has constantly condemned the notion that man can earn his salvation. Apart from God, man cannot be saved. Catholic soteriology (salvation theology) is rooted in apostolic Tradition and Scripture and thus teaches that salvation is a free gift from God, and yet God empowers us to freely accept or reject that gift through the choices (works) we make in our lives here on earth.
In addition, any merit man gains through his good works cannot be attained apart from Jesus Christ. As Paul explains in Philippians 2:13, “God is the one, who, for his good purpose, works in you both to desire and to work.”
Notice that Paul’s words presuppose that the faithful Christian is not just desiring to be righteous, but is actively working toward it. This is the second half of the justification equation, and Protestants either miss or ignore it.
James 2:17 reminds us that “faith of itself, if it does not have work, is dead.” In verse 24 James says, “See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.” And later: “For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead” (2:26).
The Council of Trent harmonizes the necessity of grace and works: “If anyone says that man can be justified before God by his own works, whether done by his own natural powers or by the teaching of the Law, without divine grace through Jesus Christ, let him be anathema” (Session 6; can. 1).
https://www.catholic.com/qa/why-does-the-church-teach-that-works-can-obtain-salvation

The idea here is that one is receiving the gift of salvation by believing the gospel message alone in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, rather than having to include a person being water baptized in order to get initially saved.

In Catholicism: Baptism is described as the sacrament of “regeneration” or new birth, by which original sin and all personal sins are forgiven and a person is incorporated into Christ and his Church.

The Catholic Church does not say water baptism is a work, but the Bible says it is a work indirectly.

The King James Bible shows that circumcision is placed in the category of works because Paul teaches that Abraham was not justified by works and then explains that Abraham was counted righteous before he was circumcised. This means circumcision could not be the basis of justification but was a work that followed faith.

Romans 4:2
“For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God.”

Romans 4:9–11
“Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised.”

These verses show that circumcision belonged to the very works mentioned in verse 2 and could only function as a sign that followed the righteousness Abraham already possessed by faith. Scripture also shows that circumcision pointed to an inward spiritual reality, such as the circumcision of the heart and the putting off of the sins of the flesh (Romans 2:29). Paul then connects this spiritual meaning directly to baptism in Colossians, where he first describes the circumcision made without hands and then immediately speaks of believers being buried with Christ in baptism.

Colossians 2:11–12
“In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ. Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.”

This passage shows that baptism in the New Covenant functions in a similar way that circumcision did in the Old Covenant. Baptism represents death because it pictures being buried with Christ (Romans 6:4), and Paul contrasts this with the believer walking in newness of life in the likeness of Christ’s resurrection (Romans 6:4), which refers to holy living rather than literal regeneration. Baptism therefore symbolizes death and burial and does not create spiritual life. It is an outward act just as circumcision was an outward act. Since Romans 4 clearly places circumcision in the category of works that follow faith rather than produce it, baptism, which parallels circumcision, must also be understood as a work that comes after faith and not the means by which salvation is obtained. This is why it does not matter if the Catholic Church insists that water baptism is not a work. Logic itself shows that it is an act performed by a person, and the Scriptures imply the same truth as well.






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[ResidentAlien]

None of these verses say that Christ by himself purged us of our sins.
Only Hebrews 1:3 in the KJV says that.

Hebrews 1:3 NKJV says it; Wilbur Pickering's New Testament says it; and there are a ton of them here that say it: https://biblehub.com/hebrews/1-3.htm.

 

[Bible_Highlighter]

Hebrews 10
Darby Translation
10 For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach.

2 Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?

3 But in these [there is] a calling to mind of sins yearly.

4 For blood of bulls and goats [is] incapable of taking away sins.

5 Wherefore coming into the world he says, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not; but thou hast prepared me a body.

6 Thou tookest no pleasure in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin.

7 Then I said, Lo, I come (in [the] roll of the book it is written of me) to do, O God, thy will.

8 Above, saying Sacrifices and offerings and burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not, neither tookest pleasure in (which are offered according to the law);

9 then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first that he may establish the second;

10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11 And every priest stands daily ministering, and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

12 But *he*, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down in perpetuity at [the] right hand of God,

13 waiting from henceforth until his enemies be set [for the] footstool of his feet.

14 For by one offering he has perfected in perpetuity the sanctified.

15 And the Holy Spirit also bears us witness [of it]; for after what was said:

16 This [is] the covenant which I will establish towards them after those days, saith [the] Lord: Giving my laws into their hearts, I will write them also in their understandings;

17 and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.

18 But where there [is] remission of these, [there is] no longer a sacrifice for sin.

19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the [holy of] holies by the blood of Jesus,

20 the new and living way which he has dedicated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,

21 and [having] a great priest over the house of God,

22 let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, sprinkled as to our hearts from a wicked conscience, and washed as to our body with pure water.

23 Let us hold fast the confession of the hope unwavering, (for he [is] faithful who has promised

24 and let us consider one another for provoking to love and good works;

25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom [is] with some; but encouraging [one another], and by so much the more as ye see the day drawing near.

26 For where we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any sacrifice for sins,

27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and heat of fire about to devour the adversaries.

28 Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses:

29 of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified, common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

30 For we know him that said, To me [belongs] vengeance; *I* will recompense, saith the Lord: and again, The Lord shall judge his people.

31 [It is] a fearful thing falling into [the] hands of [the] living God.

32 But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;

33 on the one hand, when ye were made a spectacle both in reproaches and afflictions; and on the other, when ye became partakers with those who were passing through them.

34 For ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better substance, and an abiding one.

35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense.

36 For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

37 For yet a very little while he that comes will come, and will not delay.

38 But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him.

39 But *we* are not drawers back to perdition, but of faith to saving [the] soul.

2 Peter 1:9
But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

Your citations do not address the actual point at all. Hebrews chapter 10 and 2 Peter 1 verse 9 certainly teach that Christ offered Himself once for sins and that believers are purged from their old sins. I agree with that completely. However, none of the verses you quoted state how that purging was accomplished in the precise wording found in Hebrews 1 verse 3. The issue is not whether Jesus purged sins. The issue is whether the Bible teaches that Jesus by himself purged our sins.

Only the Textus Receptus and the King James Bible contain the phrase by himself (δι’ ἑαυτοῦ). Modern Bibles remove it. Hebrews chapter 10 says Christ offered one sacrifice for sins. That is absolutely true, but it does not say that He did it by himself. 2 Peter 1:9 says a believer has been purged from his old sins. That is true, but the verse does not say Christ purged us of our sins by himself in that verse. It does not say, "by himself" in reference to Jesus Christ purging us of our sin like Hebrews 1:3.




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[Bible_Highlighter]

Hebrews 1:3 NKJV says it; Wilbur Pickering's New Testament says it; and there are a ton of them here that say it: https://biblehub.com/hebrews/1-3.htm.

Wilbur Pickering’s New Testament is neither a modern critical text nor a traditional TR based text. It is a Majority or Byzantine text edition, more specifically his own reconstruction of the Greek New Testament according to Byzantine Family 35, which he argues preserves the original text. In contrast, the Critical Text that underlies most Modern English Bibles is based on the Nestle and Aland Greek in its twenty eighth edition. The Critical Text gives priority to Vaticanus and Sinaiticus. In practical terms, modern editors favor readings that primarily come from these two manuscripts. Most of Modern Scholarship follows this Critical Text tradition.

There is no faithful Majority Text translation because none of them have ever based their work on the full body of the approximately five thousand eight hundred extant Greek manuscripts. Instead, Majority Text editions generally draw from a pool of roughly three hundred to six hundred manuscripts. A few Majority Text Bibles exist, but none have gained major influence or a significant following.

My point in bringing up Hebrews 1:3 is to show a clear comparison between the TR and King James Bible line, which is an influential and established Bible line, and the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus based Nestle and Aland or UBS text found in Modern English Bibles. These Modern Bibles also form a significant Bible line, although it is corrupt. The TR and KJV preserve the reading that Jesus by himself purged our sins. Modern Bibles remove this truth because their underlying Critical Text omits the Greek expression by himself. This contrast illustrates the fundamental difference between a preserved text and a corrupted one.


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I used to use other's bIbles to witness to them. From just a practical POV, I learned that it doesn't work as well as my KJV NT.
A. The choices for editing layout ie, numbering to find the verses is difficult to navigate compared to ours.
B. If I ask a JW or RC to take their Bible off the shelf and turn to such and such references, it takes too long and simply embarrassed them because they can't find it sometimes because they don't know where outside the gospels.
C. An evangelical church I went to used a good tract as far as explaining the gospel. The problem was that for some strange reasons they weren't effective at getting people saved like me opening my NT and explaining from it.
D. To further answer about JWs and their New World "translation," I don't have success showing their discrepancies. I only led two that I can think of to Christ. Both of them trusted Christ when I used my NT. I did however point to the facts of the true Jesus and His BODILY resurrection.

No doubt. The KJV is the true pure spiritual sword in English-speaking countries.

Praise God for His perfect Word.



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