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English Bible Translations

Top Ten Errors in The Passion Translation

By Filings on Fri, 07/24/26
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“As you’ll see, it’s kind of impossible to choose. We did our best. I should say my guest did his best. He came up with this list. He’s put hours and hours into this. He has the requisite training to make the evaluations that we’re about to make.” - Mark Ward

Review: The “Passion Translation” of the Bible

By Filings on Fri, 06/26/26
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“In short, the Passion Translation is a charismatic, Pentecostal rendition of the Bible. And charismatics and Pentecostals are the primary users of this translation.” - Gene Veith

Giving Credit to the NRSVue for Their Recent Change

By Filings on Mon, 06/08/26
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“I’m a little late to give this credit to the NRSVue, but I still feel compelled to do it. They listened to people like me who made good faith detailed criticisms of their rendering of 1 Corinthians 6:9 and10.” - Ward on Words

D. B. Hart Does Not Walk on Air

By Filings on Tue, 04/28/26
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“Hart makes some bold claims about the Greek New Testament that I want to subject to careful critique. In the long discussion that [David Bentley] Hart had with Wener, Hart says a number of things doctrinally speaking that I can’t in good conscience agree with. And he says some things that are hard to interpret with charity.” - Ward on Words

The Best Septuagint (LXX) Translations in Logos: A Comparison Guide

By Filings on Wed, 09/03/25
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“In this blog post, I’ll introduce you to the SAAS, and I’ll also compare it to some of the other translations of the LXX we have available.” - Word by Word

Celebrating England's first Evangelical movement, William Tyndale, and the first printed English New Testament

By Filings on Tue, 08/12/25
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“It was John Wycliffe and his followers who translated the Bible into English from Latin in the late 1300s. This led to the Lollards, who comprised England’s first Evangelical movement. From that movement came a man called William Tyndale, who had the drive to translate the New Testament into English from Greek, using Erasmus’ printed Greek New Testament.” - CPost

Mark Ward Answers Questions About the New Living Translation

By Filings on Mon, 07/21/25
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“As a follow up to my recent video called the New Living Translation is the best Bible translation. I want to answer a few questions that I got about the NLT.” - Ward on Words

John 3:16—God Loved "So Much" or "Like This"?

By Filings on Fri, 06/13/25
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“Welcome to a special conversation about John 3:16 and a Greek particle. A Greek word that gets some debate among users of different English Bible versions. And I’ve got with me as a guest Gary Manning of Biola.” - Mark Ward

The Best Introduction to Bible Translation?

By Filings on Fri, 04/04/25
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Mark Ward on the book 40 Questions About Bible Translation

Is the ESV a Calvinist Bible?

By Filings on Tue, 02/25/25
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“It is the character of this channel to attempt to answer patiently charges that are clearly wrong, even ridiculous. Let us begin our discussion of Revelation 13:8.” - Mark Ward

Editor’s note: If you’re in a hurry, 3:40 is a good place to jump in.

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