Bible Passages

Bill Mounce: The ESV represents the standard translation of this verse. “For those who love God all things work together for good” (see also the NET, KJV, HCSB). The reason these are poor translations is because they make it appear that “all things” mystically make everything that happens good.

Bill Mounce: I have no trouble avoiding “man” when the meaning is clearly inclusive of women and men,” but I do struggle when a translation loses so much of the meaning of the passage.

Bill Mounce: I am disturbed by the NLT’s translation of Acts 27.

Reformation21: The meaning of Genesis 3:16c-d has been one of the most highly disagreed upon by biblical scholars throughout all of church history.

After Tweaking 29 Verses, Bible Translation Becomes Unchanging Word of God

ESV Permanent Text Edition (2016) - Word Changes (52 Total)

Babylon Bee (satire): Want to know what I’m incredibly tired of? Christians speaking out against felony home invasion. I’ll never understand why self-described “followers of Christ” feel so comfortable rallying around a topic that Jesus never even mentioned.

Master’s Seminary: On October 6, 2014, Robert Gundry delivered an address at Westmont College in which he made the shocking claim that the apostle Peter was actually “Peter the apostate and false disciple according to St. Matthew.”

Bill Mounce: While all translations are interpretive, dynamic are more interpretive than formal equivalent translations, and that increased danger can miss the point being made by the text, especially poetry.

Piper on “Baptism … now saves you” (1 Peter 3:21-22)

Bill Mounce: The KJV’s use of “desert places” is unfortunate. I suspect that for most of us “desert” evokes images of the Mohave or Sahara desert. As desolate as rural Palestine was in the first century, it certainly was not filled with sand dunes. The NKJV’s adjustment to “country” is better, but as I say above it is not best.