DOCTRINAL TEACHINGS REMOVED, WEAKENED, CHANGED, OR ADDED IN MODERN ENGLISH BIBLE VERSIONS*

*These are just a few examples. Every one of these examples is not necessarily manifest in all modern English Bible Versions. Some are in all, and all are in some. Many more than those listed also exist.

1. The doctrine pertaining to the exact purpose, power, and importance of FASTING is removed.

2. The teaching of the Virgin Birth is effectively removed from the Epistles (cf. Galatians 4:4; Hebrews 2:16).

3. The teaching that Christians are to withdraw from men who “deny the doctrine which is according to godliness,” is removed from I Timothy 6:5. There are other passages which contain the doctrine of separation, but each has different kinds of separation in view. No other passage in the Bible contains the exact doctrine taught in I Timothy 6:3-5.

4. According to many modern translations, eagles fly in heaven and give messages from God as opposed to angels (cf. Revelation 8:13).

5. The teaching that the healing of Peter’s mother-in-law was immediate is entirely removed by the omission of the word” immediately” in Mark 1:31.

6. The doctrine that Jesus came expressly to call sinners to repentance is omitted. The words “to repentance” are omitted in Matthew 9:13 and Mark 2:17. Other passages, such as Matthew 4:17, have Jesus preaching repentance in the modern versions, but only the two referred to say expressly that this was His actual purpose in coming.

7. The doctrine that every sacrifice shall be salted with salt is omitted entirely from the Bible (cf. Mark 9:49).

8. The teaching that the young ruler had to “take up the cross” is omitted entirely by the removal of the words in Mark 10:21. This account is repeated in Matthew 19:21 and Luke 18:22, but the reference to Christ’s command that the young ruler must take up the cross is not contained in these passages.

9. The matter of trusting in riches making it hard for men to enter the kingdom of God is removed (cf. Mark 10:24). Other passages mention the rich man (Matthew 19:23,24 etc.) but no other New Testament passage explains that the wealthy man’s problem was the matter of “trusting in riches.”

10. By omitting the words “of them which are saved” in Revelation 21:24, the teaching regarding these future things is significantly changed.

11. The teaching that Mary was blessed among women is removed (cf. Luke 1:28).

12. The teaching that Jesus commanded the devil to get behind him is omitted (cf. Luke 4:8; Matthew 4:10).

13. The teaching that the apostles James and John were wanting to imitate Elijah in calling fire from heaven is removed (cf. Luke 9:54).

14. The teaching that the apostles did not “know what manner of spirit” they were of and that “the Son of Man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them” is removed from the new translations in Luke 9:55-56.

15. The teaching that Jesus was struck on the face is removed entirely from the New Testament (cf. Luke 22:64).

16. The teaching that Peter “wondered in himself at that which had come to pass” is removed (try to find Luke 24:52).

17. The new translations remove the teaching that the disciples worshipped Jesus as he ascended into heaven (cf. Luke 24:52).

18. The teaching that Jesus was preferred before John is omitted (cf. John 1:27).

19. The new translations remove the doctrine that Jesus was in heaven even while he was on earth (cf. John 3:13).

20. The doctrine about the people waiting for the angel to come down and move the waters at Bethesda is omitted in John 5:3-4.

21. The doctrine regarding the woman taken in adultery in John 8:1-11 is included in double brackets, thereby placing its authority in grave doubt. Much doctrine is contained here, some of which is in no other passage in the Bible.

22. That which Philip the evangelist required of those he baptized is removed from the new Bibles, together with the wonderful confession of the eunuch who was saved while riding in the chariot (try to find Acts 8:37).

23. The teaching that Paul was being deeply convicted by the Lord is removed from the new Bibles by the omission of Acts 9:5.

24. The teaching of what Paul first said to the Lord Jesus Christ is removed with the omission of Acts 9:6.

25. Most of Tertullus’ speech is removed from the Bible, together with any teaching it contains by the omission of Acts 24:7 and parts of verses 6-8.

26. The teaching that the Jews left Paul after his words recorded in Acts 28:25-28 and that they had great reasoning among themselves is removed from the Bible by the omission of Acts 28:29.

27. The teaching that those who turned from the truth were filled with “fornication” is removed from the Bible by the omission of this words in Romans 1:29. Other Bible passages speak of the fact that fallen man commits fornication, but no other Bible passage says specifically, as this one does, that fallen man became “filled with fornication” when he rejected God.

28. The teaching that if something “be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work” is removed by its omission in Romans 11:6. Though the first part of this verse is retained and the teaching of the first and second halves of the verse is similar, the teaching of the two clauses is not exactly the same; and the teaching of the second clause is removed from the Bible in the new versions.

29. Doctrine regarding keeping or not keeping holy days is omitted from Romans 14:6, with the deletion of the words “he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.”

30. The doctrine that we are to glorify God in our spirit as well as body is removed in I Corinthians 6:20 with the deletion of the words “and in your spirit which are God’s.”

31. The doctrine that prayer and fasting is the only thing which is to keep married couples from their physical relationship is removed by its omission in I Corinthians 7:5.

32. By the omission of the words “by the law” in I Corinthians 7:39, the teaching is removed from this passage that it is the law which binds the woman to her husband while he is alive--I Corinthians 7:39.

33. The doctrine that Jesus is the Lord from heaven is removed by the omission of these words in I Corinthians 15:47.

34. The truth that the covenant of God promised to Abraham was in Christ is removed from the Bible by the omission of these words in Galatians 3:17.

35. The doctrine that we are members of Christ’s flesh and of His bones is removed by the omission of these words in Ephesians 5:30.

36. Colossians 2:11 teaches that it is the sins of the flesh which are affected by regeneration and not the body itself. This doctrine is changed in the new Bibles by the omission of the words “of the sins.” This changes the entire doctrine of this important passage on salvation.

37. The teaching that preachers are to be examples “in spirit” is removed by the omission of these words in I Timothy 4:12

38. The doctrine that Jesus “by himself” purged our sins is removed in Hebrews 1:3. Such a truth is nowhere else stated in the Scriptures.

39. The doctrine that we love God because he first loved us is removed from the new Bibles by the omission of the word “Him” in I John 4:19.

40. The teaching that the fire which destroys the armies of Satan at the end of time is from heaven is removed by the omission of the words “from God out of” in Revelation 20:9.

41. The teaching in Revelation 22:19 that those who tamper with God’s Word will have their part taken out of the book of life is changed. The new texts say “tree of life” rather than “book of life.”