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Romans 16:7 Romans 16:7 Bible translations NKJV

Translation survey: inclusive vs. exclusive renderings of Romans 16:7

Mike surveys how various English translations handle the phrase.

Romans 16:7 Romans 16:7 translation methodology

When translations disagree, it signals genuine difficulty

Mike offers a hermeneutical principle for Bible readers.

Burer-Wallace paper (2001) lexical evidence syntactical evidence

Burer-Wallace: 'snowballing dogma with little substance at its core'

Mike quotes from the paper's critique of the consensus.

Romans 16:7 NET Bible Romans 16:7 ESV

Burer-Wallace conclusion: 'almost certainly' means well known to the apostles

Mike quotes the paper's strong conclusion.

Mike Winger idea 2022-05-30

Romans 12:6-8 — teaching and leading are listed as spiritual gifts alongside gifts women clearly have

Mike examines the gifts list in Romans 12 to determine whether women can have teaching and leadership gifts.

Romans 12:6-8 spiritual gifts teaching gift leadership gift

Mike Winger idea 2022-07-18

26+ Bible translations translate kephale as 'head' or 'authority' — only The Passion Translation (2017) used 'source,' later corrected

Mike surveys Bible translations for how they render kephale.

1 Corinthians 11:3 kephale The Passion Translation 1 Corinthians 11:3

Mike Winger idea 2022-08-15

Teaching through 1 Peter 3:1-7 - wives told to be subject to husbands

Mike reads and begins teaching through the first main passage.

1 Peter 3:1-7 1 Peter 3:1-7 hypotasso ESV translation

Mike Winger idea 2022-03-28

Textual issue in Isaiah 3:12: the Hebrew word for 'women' may actually be 'creditors' — the consonants are identical, only vowels differ.

Textual criticism of Isaiah 3:12

Isaiah 3:12 NET Bible Septuagint Isaiah 3:12

1 Corinthians 11:9 Craig Keener translation comparison 1 Corinthians 11:9

Keener translates verse 9 as 'through' instead of 'for the sake of,' absorbing it into verse 8

Mike identifies Keener's handling of the problematic verse 9.

1 Corinthians 11:9 Craig Keener translation comparison 1 Corinthians 11:9

Keener on verse 9: translates 'for' as 'through,' making it reiterate verse 8

Mike examines and refutes Keener's translation choice.

Mark Goodacre translation comparison Troy Martin peribolaion

Euripides source: all published translations use clothing metaphor, not testicle

Mike examines the second and stronger piece of evidence.

Troy Martin peribolaion anti

Six reasons Martin gives for testicle in 1 Corinthians 11 -- all fail

Mike systematically refutes Martin's case from the text of 1 Corinthians.

Mike Winger idea 2022-12-04

The RSV does not actually support the quotation-refutation view

Mike argues that the RSV translators were not trying to communicate what Barr claims.

1 Corinthians 14:33b Beth Allison Barr RSV translation 1 Corinthians 14:33b

Mike Winger idea 2024-03-01

Pillar 2: Elder positions AND functions are for men only

Mike establishes the second pillar as more than just the title Elder.

1 Timothy 2:12 eldership 1 Timothy 2:12 teaching with authority

1 Timothy 2:12 1 Timothy 2:12 authenteo hapax legomenon

Introduction to the authenteo debate: the most contested word in the passage

Mike begins the massive section on authenteo, the word translated 'have authority' or 'exercise authority' in 1 Tim 2:12.

authenteo Coptic translation Gothic translation

Ancient translations of 1 Tim 2:12: how authenteo was rendered

Mike examines how the earliest Bible translations rendered authenteo, providing important evidence for its meaning.

authenteo Douglas Moo translation history

English translation history of authenteo and the NIV 'assume authority' rendering

Mike traces how English translations have rendered authenteo from Wycliffe to the present.

1 Timothy 2:12 authentein 1 Timothy 2:12 Andreas Kostenberger

Kostenberger's syntactic study: two infinitives joined by oude

Mike presents Andreas Kostenberger's influential syntactic analysis of 1 Tim 2:12.

1 Timothy 2:12 1 Timothy 2:12 authenteo have authority translation

Application of authenteo conclusion: 'have authority' is the correct translation

Mike summarizes the full case for translating authenteo as 'have authority.'

1 Timothy 2:12 1 Timothy 2:12 authenteo have authority translation

Conclusion 8: 'Have authority' is the correct translation of authenteo

Mike restates the translation conclusion.

Mike Winger idea 2018-04-18

Translation comparison of Isaiah 24:1: KJV 'upside down' vs. NKJV/ESV/NASB/NIV renderings expose Mead's selective use of an English idiom

Mike uses Logos Bible Software to compare translations live, demonstrating that the KJV's 'turn it upside down' is an English idiom not supported by a literal Hebrew rendering.

Isaiah 24:1 NIV hermeneutics David Mead

Mike Winger idea 2018-03-14

Greek article 'that' (hē) in James 2:14 — 13 of 16 translations include it, pointing to 'that particular faith' as the referent

Textual note on James 2:14 — 'can that faith save him'

James 2:14 textual criticism translation practice James 2:14

Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

Q&A — Why didn't God send each country a Bible in their own language to prevent mistranslation?

Follow-up question on biblical reliability and translation

hermeneutics biblical inerrancy Bible translation

Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

Q&A — King James Version: not the best available today due to language change and manuscript discoveries

Question on Bible translation quality

ESV Bible translation King James Version

Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

1 Chronicles 20 or 23 — translation differences between NKJV, ESV, and NASB: Mike defers to post-livestream comment response

Q&A — Joseph May's question about translation discrepancies in 1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 20 translation differences 1 Chronicles 20 NKJV

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Winger identifies the translation's agenda as tied to the NAR/signs-and-wonders theological ecosystem.

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Specific comparative data point used to demonstrate PT's divergence from other translations.

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Bible translations apologetics

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Winger notes the inconsistency of this addition as evidence of agenda-driven translation.

Acts 11 Acts 11:26 Acts 11 Acts 11:26

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Acts 11:26 is the key example: PT says followers were 'first revealed as anointed ones'; all other translations say they were 'first called Christians.'

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Winger's overarching critique: Simmons preaches from his own translation, using the text he altered as proof.

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Winger notes anyone can confirm this without knowing Greek by checking multiple English translations.

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Consistency in translating the same word the same way is presented as a basic, non-negotiable translation standard.

Bible translations hermeneutics

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Winger questions whether the title 'Dr.' is meaningful in the context of Simmons's translation claims.

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Winger draws a rough parallel to frame the PT's departure from faithful translation.

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Winger distinguishes the NLT as a legitimate paraphrase-style translation in contrast to the PT.