Translations
Inspired word of
Complete God (II Pet. 1:3) (II Tim. 3:16-17)
Pure (Ps. 12:6-7)
Man’s Standard (II Tim. 3:16-17)
Eternal (Lk. 21:33; I Pet. 1:23ff)
Septuagint (LXX) – Koine Greek [3 BC]

Vetus Latina (Old Latin Bible) [LXX to 382]

Latin Vulgate (382 AD)

The Synod of Hippo (393 AD)
Wycliffe’s English Bible (1384 AD)
Luther Bible of (1522-1534 AD)
Tyndale’s Bible (1526 AD)
Sola Scritura
The Great Bible (1539) – Myles Coverdale
Council of Trent (1546)
Geneva Bible (1560)
The Bishop’s Bible (1568)
Sistine Vulgate (1592)
Sixto-Clementine Vulgate (1592)
King James Version Bible (1611)
Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican II 1962 Level of Teacher: Degree of certitude: Assent required: Magisterium:

Religious submission 1. Bishops Ordinary Non-infallible of intellect and will

Religious submission 2. Pope Ordinary Non-infallible of intellect and will

3. Bishops proposing definitively, dispersed, Ordinary and universal Full Assent of Faith but in unison, in union teaching of the Church Infallible with Pope

4. Bishops, in union Extraordinary (and with Pope, defining universal teaching of Full Assent of Faith doctrine at General Infallible the Church) Council

Extraordinary (and 5. Pope ex cathedra Full Assent of Faith universal) Infallible
Source to Target Language
Dynamic Equivalence
Formal Equivalence
Young’s Literal Translation (YLT) (1862)
The Revised Version (1885)
1901 American Standard Version (ASV)
New American Standard Version (1971)
New King James Version Bible (NKJV) (1982)
1997 ASV (World English Bible)
The English Standard Version (2001)
The Living Bible (1971)
Good News Bible (1976)
New International Version Bible (NIV) (1978)
New Living Translation (2004)
The Message Bible (2002)
Change agents are and always have been at work (Gal. 1:6; II Thess. 2:1-2; Rev. 22:18-19)
Let the serious Bible student choose a word for word (Formal Equivalence) translation.