A Chart of Lesser Scriptures Used in Defense of the Trinity Doctrine
A "YES" denoted a rendering in favor of the Trinity/Deity of Christ, a "NO" is just the opposite.


Bible Ex 3:14 Ps 45:6 Mic 5:2 Matt 24:36  Acts 7:59 1Tim 3:16 1John 5:7 1John 5:20 Rev 1:11
King James YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO YES
NKJV YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO YES
NAB YES YES NO NO NO NO NO N/A NO
Rotherham NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
NWT NO NO NO NO NO NO NO* NO NO
RSV YES* NO* NO NO* NO NO* NO NO NO
NEB YES* NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
Fenton YES NO NO YES N/A NO NO NO NO
NIV YES* YES NO NO* NO NO* NO* NO NO
Darby YES YES YES YES NO* YES* NO NO NO
ASV YES* YES* YES* NO* NO NO NO NO NO
Lamsa NO YES YES YES N/A NO NO NO NO
Beck YES YES YES NO NO NO NO NO NO
Byington NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
Moffatt NO NO NO YES NO NO NO NO NO
Douay NO YES YES YES N/A NO YES NO NO
Geneva N/A N/A N/A YES YES YES YES YES YES
NASB YES YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
God's Wrd YES N/A NO NO YES NO YES NO
NCV/ICV YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
TEV/GNB YES* NO* NO NO* NO NO NO NO NO
REB YES* NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
MLB/NBV YES YES YES NO NO NO NO NO NO
Goodspeed YES YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
Jerusalem YES YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
NJB YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
TanakhJPS NO NO NO
Young YES YES NO YES NO YES YES NO YES
Barclay NO N/A NO NO NO NO
Spencer NO NO NO YES NO NO
Diaglott NO NO NO NO NO NO
CEV YES* YES* NO NO* NO NO* NO NO NO
Message NO NO NO NO YES NO
Wuest NO NO NO NO NO NO
Lattimore NO NO NO NO NO NO
Living B. YES* YES YES NO* N/A NO NO YES YES
NLT YES YES NO NO N/A NO NO NO NO
* has an opposite variant reading in the margin

Exodus 3:14 [YES]: "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you." KJV (this is usually accompanied by a cross-reference to John 8:58 in many Bibles).
[NO] "At this God said to Moses: 'I SHALL PROVE TO BE WHAT I SHALL PROVE TO BE.' And he added: 'This is what you are to say to the sons of Israel, I SHALL PROVE TO BE has sent me to YOU." NWT
For further comment see my page on Ex.3:14/Jn 8:58

Psalm 45:6 [YES]: "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever." ASV
[NO] "You throne is from God, forever and ever." NJB
For more see Hebrews 1:8

Micah 5:2 [YES]:"out of thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting."
[NO] "someone who's family goes back to ancient times" CEV
Brown Driver Briggs Hebrew Lexicon says of OLAM (5769) "long duration,
antiquity" It is even used of the forefathers (Is 24:2) and the prophets (Jer 28:8).

Some do say that taken together (qedem AND yown owlam) these communicate, as Jamieson,
Fausset and Brown say, "the strongest assertion of infinite duration of which the
Hebrew language is capable" Renowned Old Testament scholar Merrill F. Unger, commenting on Micah 5:2 in Unger's Bible Handbook says, "He [Jesus] is the Bethlehem-born pre-existent, eternal One"
Obviously, many other Bible versions do not agree with this. The fact that the Bible says he is the first being created would obviously he is older than anything else, thus necessitating the stress at Mic 5:2. In Prov 8:23, the 2 words are used again of Jesus/Wisdom, right after the scripture says he was created. The same words used in Micah 5:2 are used for others who are not God. The psalmist could remember qedem AND olam (ps 77:5).
To Jehovah, OLAM and QEDEM are consistent with the time of Rahab and Creation, "  Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the monster? Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over? Is 51:9, 10 ASV
It does not have to mean eternity.

Matthew 24:36 [YES]: "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." KJV
[NO]   But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only. ASV
The removal of "neither the Son" is a textual error. The words appear in the oldest manuscripts of the Alexandrian  and Western text-types, and they do appear at Mark 13:32 in the KJV.
For more see my pages on the Byzantine text and the Textus Receptus.

Acts 7:59 [YES]:  And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. KJV
[NO] So they stoned Stephen, and as they did so, he called out, 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. NEB
The word "God" does not appear in ANY Greek manuscript, neither does the word epikaleomai mean prayer, as it is used elsewhere of others who do not deserve to be prayed to. That is why the KJV uses the same word elsewhere to mean (appeal (unto), call (on, upon), surname.) (Acts 10:5; 11:13)

1Timothy 3:16 [YES]: "God was manifest in the flesh" KJV
[NO] "He who was manifested in the flesh" ASV
"The strength of the internal evidence favoring OS ["WHO" as opposed to QEOS "God"] along with considerations of transcriptional and intrinsic probability, have prompted textual critics virtually unanimously to regard OS as the original text...Accordingly, 1 Timothy 3:16 is not an instance of the christological use of QEOS." Jesus as God-The New Testament Use of Theos in Reference to Jesus, by Murray J, Harris

1 John 5:7 [YES]: "And there are three who give testimony in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one."Catholic Douay-Rheims Version
[NO] "And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth." NASB
For more on the above Comma Johanneum click here and here.

1 John 5:20 [YES]: "This Jesus Christ is the real God and eternal life." God's Word Version
[NO] We know the Son of God has come and given us understanding  to know him who is real; indeed we are in him who is real, since we are in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, this is eternal life." New English Bible
"it should be noted that precisely in St. John's First Epistle [O QEOS] ho theos, "the true God" so often certainly means the Father that it must be understood of the Father throughout the Epistle, unless we are to suppose that some incomprehensible change has taken place in the subject referred to by O QEOS." Theological Investigations, Vol. 1 by Karl Rahner, Third printing: 1965, pages 136, 137. Compare John 17:3
One person tells me: Christ is the immediate antecedent of the pronoun THIS, therefore is applies to him.

Reply: Does this mean that Jesus is the true God? Let's look at some examples:

Acts 7:18, 19: "Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. The same (houtos, just like in 1 John 5:20) dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live." KJV
Does this mean that Joseph was this evil person?
Acts 4:10, 11, " Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This (houtos, just like 1 John 5:20) is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner." KJV
Does this mean that the man that was healed was the stone that the builders rejected? Of course not!
Another parallel written by the same author is 2 John 1:7,
" For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist."
Does this mean that Jesus is this deceiver? No!

Revelation 1:11 [YES]: "Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last" NKJV
[NO] OMITTED-Most Bibles do not have this phrase referring to Jesus. Contrary to what KJV-Only people want to believe, it is not even in the Majority of manuscripts.



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