Other Scriptures that are seldom used to promote a Trinitarian Rendering....
And their counterparts.

A "YES" means there is a trinitarian bias (or at least one that can be misconstrued that way)...a "NO" means there isn't.


Bible Zech 12:10 Jn 8:58 Eph 5:5 Phil 2:6 Col 1:15 Heb 1:6 Jude 4 Rev 3:14
King James YES YES YES YES NO YES NO NO
A.S.V. YES YES YES NO NO YES NO NO
Darby YES YES YES N/A NO YES NO NO
Young YES YES YES YES NO NO YES YES
Translator's N.T. N/A YES YES YES YES YES NO YES
21st Century NT N/A NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
Good News NO YES NO YES YES YES NO YES
N.I.V. YES YES NO NO* NO YES NO YES
New English N/A YES NO NO YES NO NO YES
Fenton NO YES NO N/A YES NO NO YES
New American NO YES NO NO NO YES NO YES
N.A.S.B. YES YES YES NO NO YES NO NO
New Living YES NO NO YES YES YES NO YES
Diaglott N/A NO NO NO NO YES NO NO
New World NO NO NO NO NO some editions NO NO
Weymouth N/A YES NO YES NO YES NO NO
N.R.S.V. NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES
Unvarnished N/A NO NO YES NO NO NO YES
R.S.V. NO YES NO NO NO YES NO NO
N.K.J.V. YES YES YES YES NO YES NO NO
Moffatt NO NO YES N/A NO YES NO YES
Rev. Version YES YES YES NO NO YES NO NO
Byington NO YES YES NO NO NO NO NO
Lamsa YES NO NO YES NO YES NO NO
Living Bible NO NO NO YES YES YES NO YES
Jerusalem NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES
New Jerusalem NO YES NO NO NO NO NO YES
Goodspeed NO NO NO NO NO NO NO YES
Tanakh NO N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Beck YES NO YES YES NO YES NO YES
Revised Eng. N/A YES NO NO YES NO NO YES
Phillips N/A YES NO YES NO YES NO NO
Berkeley NO YES NO YES NO YES NO NO
Simple English N/A NO YES YES YES YES NO YES
20th Century  N/A NO YES YES YES NO NO NO
Schonfield N/A NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
Jewish NT N/A YES NO NO YES YES NO YES
Lattimore N/A N/A YES NO NO YES NO NO
Montgomery N/A YES NO YES NO YES NO NO
Amplified YES YES NO YES NO YES NO YES
Newcome N/A NO NO NO NO NO NO YES
Webster YES YES NO YES NO YES NO NO
Message N/A YES YES YES YES YES NO NO
C.E.V. NO N/A NO YES YES YES NO YES
Williams N/A NO YES YES YES YES NO YES
N.E.T. YES YES YES NO NO YES NO YES
Hebrew N.V. YES YES YES YES NO YES YES YES
New Life N/A NO NO YES YES YES NO YES
Green YES YES NO YES NO YES YES YES
Worrell N/A YES YES NO YES YES NO NO
God's Word N/A YES NO YES NO YES NO YES
New Evangel. N/A YES YES YES NO YES NO YES
Knox N/A YES N/A NO NO YES NO YES
Wuest N/A YES NO YES YES YES NO YES
Deaf N/A YES NO YES YES YES NO YES
Confraternity N/A YES YES YES NO NO NO NO
Basic English NO YES YES NO NO YES NO YES
Douay YES YES NO YES NO NO NO NO
K.&Lilly N/A NO NO YES NO NO NO NO
Recovery N/A YES NO NO NO YES NO NO
Tyndale N/A YES NO YES NO YES NO NO
Aitken 1782 YES YES NO YES NO YES NO NO

Examples:
Zechariah 12:10,"And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look unto me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born. ASV (YES)
"when they look on the one whom they have pierced." NRSV (NO)
(Compare John 19:37)
John 8:58,"Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am."
KJV (YES)
"I existed before Abraham was even born." New Living Translation (NO)
Jesus was here referring to his pre-existence, as in Micah 5:2. He was making no claim to Exodus 3:14 as many say. The LXX renders Ex. 3:14 as eigo eimi ho ohn or "I am the Being" which is quite different, as is the hebrew which is Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh which can better be rendered "I will be what I will be"(Moffatt, NWT). Almost all Bible translate the word Ehyeh as "I will be" at Exodus 3:12. To change it 2 scriptures later is unfortunate.
For more on John 8:58 click here.

Ephesians 5:5,"  For this ye are [well] informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. Darby (YES)
"in the Kingdom of Christ and of God." New American Bible (NO)
This is not a strong one to use as the sentence structure supports two as individuals, just like saying "the Kingdom of the King and Queen."

Philippians 2:6,"Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God" KJV (YES)
"though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped." RSV (NO)
Ralph Martin, says in The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians: "It is questionable, however, whether the sense of the verb can glide from its real meaning of 'to seize', 'to snatch violently' to that of 'to hold fast.'" The Expositor's Greek Testament also says: "We cannot find any passage where harpazo or any of its derivatives has the sense of 'holding in possession,' 'retaining'. It seems invariably to mean 'seize,' 'snatch violently'. Thus it is not permissible to glide from the true sense 'grasp at' into one which is totally different, 'hold fast.'"
The Greek says literally, "deemed not being-on-a-par-with-God a-thing-to-be-plucked (hARPAGMON)." An added problem is that the word hARPAGMON  is not found anywhere
else in extant Greek; clearly it derives from hARPAZW, "pluck," "grasp in the hand," "seize." But if equality-with-God is something Jesus doesn't deign to grasp, is it reasonable to suppose that it is something he actually already has?
"A vigorous debate still continues around the hymnic passage. However, the suggestion that the hymn has been constructed with a strong allusion to Adam, or even modeled after the template of Adam christology is still persuasive." p. 282, The Theology of Paul the Apostle, by James D.G. Dunn
If we read the preceeding verse it tells us to "have the same attitude that was in Christ." Does that mean that we should try to be equal with God? Of course not.

Colossians 1:15,"who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation" Darby (NO)
"he is the primacy over all created things" New English Bible (YES)
It seems to me that everytime the phrase, "the firstborn of" is used, it is used as part of a group. If it is "the firstborn of" Israel(Ex. 6:14), it is one of the sons of Israel, if it is "the firstborn of" Pharoah(Ex. 11:5) it is a member of the house of Pharoah, if it is "the firstborn of" beasts(Ex. 13:15) then it is an animal also. Why then should this rule be changed as it applies to "the firstborn of" creation. Obviously Jesus is a created being, as he was historically always thought to be Wisdom in Proverbs 8:22, "The LORD formed me as the first of his works, the beginning of his deeds of old." Smith&Goodspeed
For more on PRWTOTOKOS/Firstborn click here.

Hebrews 1:6,"And let all the angels of God worship him." KJV (YES)
"Let all the angels of God pay him homage." New English Bible (NO)
The greek word used here, proskuneo, is not the highest form of worship, that is reserved for latreuo(Phil 3:3, Acts 7:42, 24:14). Vine's Expository Reference explains proskuneo as "to make obeisance, do reverence to." It is used of a man(Matt 18:26) and to God and a King at the same time(1 Chronicles 29:20 LXX), to the Dragon in revelations(Rev.13:4), to the Beast(Rev.13:4, 8, 12; 14:9,11), the image of the Beast(Rev 13:15, 14:11), to Demons(Rev. 9:20), and idols(Acts 7:43).

Jude 4," our only Master, God, and Lord--Jesus Christ" Young's (YES)
" our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ." ASV (NO)
The word "God" is omitted in the texts most Bibles use today(Nestle/Aland, UBS, Westcott and Hort), and even where they are included, it can be translated such as it is in the KJV: "denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ."

Revelation 3:14,"These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God" KJV (NO)
"These things saith the Amen, the witness--the faithful and true--the chief of the creation of God" Young's (YES)
Arche can have other meaning besides "beginning", but when it is followed by the same kind of expression (genitive) as it does in Rev 3:14, it has the meaning of a beginning or the first part of something. Below are some examples from the KJV:
Matt 24:8 All these [are] the beginning of sorrows.
Mark 13:19  from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time
John 2:11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galile
Phil 4:15 in the beginning of the gospel
Heb 3:14 if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end
Heb 7:3 having neither beginning of days
2 Peter 3:4 having neither beginning of days




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