1 John 5:7 Genuine or Counterfeit? Is This Trinity Proof Text Missing From Your Bible? Does This Trinity Proof Text Belong In Your Bible? Is Not Proof of The Trinity a Doctrinal Issue? 1Jn 5:7 (KJB) For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Modern Version Changes, Deletions, Deviations, and Omissions 1881 Westcott & Hort Greek ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1890 Darby ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1894 Tischendorf Greek Text ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1901 American Stnd Ver ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1924 Montgomery NT ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1961 New English Bible, The ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1964 Basic Bible, The ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1965 Basic English BBE ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1966 CATHOLIC EDITION RSV ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1970 JEHHOVAHS WITNESS NWT ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1973 Revised Standard Ver. ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1977 New American Stnd ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1982 New King James Ver ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING footnote 1984 New International Version ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1984 NIV Anglicised Version ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1987 Amplified Bible, The ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING w/italics 1989 New Revised Stnd ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1989 Revised English Bible ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1992 Good News Trans TEV ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1995 Contempory Eng Ver ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1995 Gods Word Todays Trans ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1995 New American Stnd ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1995 NRSV Anglicized ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1998 Complete Jewish Bible ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 1998 NIRV Readers ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 2001English Standard Version ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 2002 The Message ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 2004 New Living Trans ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 2004 Vulgate ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 2005 New Century Ver ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 2005 Phillips NT ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 2005 Todays NIV ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 2007 ESV Anglicised ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 2007 Gods Word ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 2007 New Living Trans ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 2007 Weymouth ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 2007 Youngs Lit Trans ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING w/italics 2008 Holman CSB ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 2009 Holman CSB ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 2010 NABRV CATHOLIC EDITION ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 2010 New International Version ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 2011 Common English Bible ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING 2011 New International Version ENTIRE PHRASE MISSING Once again the modern versions follow the Jehovahs Witness and Catholic versions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Historic Biblical Evidentiary Support for the Genuineness of the above Passage 1395 Wycliffe Bible, John Wycliffe 1Jo 5:7 For thre ben, that yyuen witnessing in heuene, the Fadir, the Sone, and the Hooli Goost; and these thre ben oon. 1534 Tyndale Bible, William Tyndale 1Jo 5:7 (For ther are thre which beare recorde in heuen the father the worde and the wholy goost. And these thre are one) 1535 Coverdale Bible, Miles Coverdale 1Jo 5:7 (For there are thre which beare recorde in heauen: the father, the worde, and the holy goost, & these thre are one.) 1549 Matthews Bible, John Rogers 1Jo 5:7 (For there are thre which beare recorde in heauen, the father, the worde, and the holye Ghoste. And these thre are one.) 1550 Stephanus Greek Text ὅτι τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες εν τῷ οὐρανῷ, ὁ πατήρ, ὁ λόγος, καὶ τὸ Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα· καὶ οὗτοι οἱ τρεῖς ἕν εἰσιν 1568 The Bishops Bible, Matthew Parker 1Jo 5:7 For there are three which beare recorde in heauen, the father, the worde, and the holy ghost, and these three are one. 1587 The Geneva Bible, William Whittingham 1Jo 5:7 For there are three, which beare recorde in heauen, the Father, the Worde, and the holy Ghost: and these three are one. 1611 King James Bible Authorized Version, Miles Smith 1Jo 5:7 For there are three that beare record in heauen, the Father, the Word, and the holy Ghost: and these three are one. 1729 English Trans. of the Bible, Mace N.T., Daniel Mace 1Jo 5:7 There are three witnesses in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three testify the same thing. 1769 King James Bible Authorized Version, Benjamin Blayney 1Jo 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 1790 Wesley Version, John Wesley 1Jo 5:8 (5:7) And there are three that testify in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. 1795 A Translation of the N.T. from the Original Greek, Thomas Haweis 1Jo 5:7 For they are three who bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these, even the three, are one. 1833 Webster Version, Noah Webster 1Jo 5:7 For there are three that bear testimony in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. 1856 A Trans. of Calvins Version, Calvin Translation Soc. 1Jo 5:7 He who testifies, inasmuch as the Spirit is truth. For there are three who testify in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. 1873 The Cambridge Paragraph (Bible KJB), Frederick Scrivener 1Jo 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 1894 Scriveners Greek Text ὅτι τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες εν τῷ οὐρανῷ, ὁ πατήρ, ὁ λόγος, καὶ τὸ Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα· καὶ οὗτοι οἱ τρεῖς ἕν εἰσι. 1898 Youngs Literal Translation, Robert Young 1Jo 5:7 because three are who are testifying `in the heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these -- the three -- are one; Greek Orthodox Church 1904 ὅτι τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, ὁ Πατὴρ, ὁ Λόγος καὶ τὸ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα, καὶ οὗτοι οἱ τρεῖς ἕν εἰσι. All the words are found in the NKJV 1982, the New Life Bible 1969, Greens literal translation of 2000, the Amplified Bible of 1987, the 2009 Sacred Bible - Catholic Public Domain Version, the Easter/Greek Orthodox Bible 2008, the Heritage Bible 2003, the Complete Apostles Bible 2005, the 2010 English Jubilee Bible, the 1994 KJV 21st Century Version, the 1998 Third Millennium Bible, the Thompson N.T. 2002, The Resurrection Life N.T. 2005, the 2008 Sawyer N.T., The Apostolic Bible 2006, the Online Interlinear Bible by André de Mol 2005, The Holy Scriptures 2010, The Work of God Childrens Bible 2011, Biblos Interlinear Bible 2011, and the Knox Bible of 2012 - Thus we have a threefold warrant in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, three who are yet one. Source: Will Kinney article brandplucked.webs/1john57.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Patristic Evidentiary Support for the Genuineness of the above Passage Early Church Fathers 38 Volume Set WordSearch Add-On Version 153-217 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Ante-Nicene Fathers - Volume 2 - Clement of Alexandria - Fragments of Clemens Alexandrinus 3.—Comments on the First Epistle of John. “and these three are one.” For in the Saviour are those saving virtues, and life itself exists in His own Son. 220 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Ante-Nicene Fathers - Volume 3 - Tertullian (I, II, III) - Tertullian - Part Second - Against Praxeas - Chapter 25.The Paraclete, or Holy Ghost. He is Distinct from the Father and the Son as to Their Personal Existence. One and Inseparable from Them as to Their Divine Nature. Other Quotations Out of St. Johns Gospel. He is called “another Comforter,” indeed; but in what way He is another we have already shown, “He shall receive of mine,” says Christ, just as Christ Himself received of the Father’s. Thus the connection of the Father in the Son, and of the Son in the Paraclete, produces three coherent Persons, who are yet distinct One from Another. These Three are, one essence, not one Person, as it is said, “I and my Father are One,” in respect of unity of substance not singularity of number. 220 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Ante-Nicene Fathers - Volume 3 - Tertullian (I, II, III) - Tertullian - Part Second - Against Praxeas - Elucidations - III - These three are one, cap. xxv. p. 621. Also p. 606. I submit, however, that, something remains to be said for it, on the ground of the old African Version used and quoted by Tertullian and Cyprian; and I dare to say, that, while there would be no ground whatever for inserting it in our English Version, the question of striking it out is a widely different one. It would be sacrilege, in my humble opinion, for reasons which will appear, in the following remarks, upon our author. It appears to me very clear that Tertullian is quoting 1 John 5:7. in the passage now under consideration: “Qui tres unum sunt, non unus, quomodo dictum est, Ego et Pater unum sumus, etc.” Let me refer to a work containing a sufficient answer to Porson, on this point of Tertullian’s quotation, which it is easier to pass sub-silentio, than to refute. I mean Forster’s New Plea, of which the full title is placed in the margin. The whole work is worth thoughtful study, but, I name it with reference to this important passage of our author, exclusively. In connection with other considerations on which I have no right to enlarge in this place, it satisfies me as to the primitive origin of the text in the Vulgate, and hence of its right to stand in our English Vulgate ... Stated as a mere question as to the early African Church, the various versions known as the Itala, and the right of the Latin and English Vulgates to remain as they are, the whole question is a fresh one. ... Tertullian, himself says that he cites “only a few out of many texts—not pretending to bring up all the passages of Scripture … having produced an accumulation of witnesses in the fulness of their dignity and authority.” To those interested in the question let me commend the learned dissertation of Grabe on the textual case, as it stood in his day. I value it chiefly because it proves that the Greek Testament, elsewhere says, disjointedly, what is collected into 1 John 5:7. It is, therefore, Holy Scripture in substance, if not in the letter. What seems to me important, however, is the balance it gives to the whole context, and the defective character of the grammar and logic, if it be stricken out. ... I employ Grabe’s argument only to prove my point, which is this, viz., that 1 John 5:7 being Scripture, ought to be left untouched in the Versions where it stands,... 258 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Ante-Nicene Fathers - Volume 5 - Cyprian - The Epistles of Cyprian - Epistle 72. To Jubaianus, Concerning the Baptism of Heretics. If of Christ; he could not become His temple, since he denies that Christ is God. If of the Holy Spirit; since the three are one, how can the Holy Spirit be at peace with him who is the enemy either of the Son or of the Father? 258 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Ante-Nicene Fathers - Volume 5 - Appendix - Cyprian - The Epistles of Cyprian - Elucidations. - 17 In the name of, etc. Since Three are One, pp. 380, 382. Having elsewhere touched upon the quotation attributed to Tertullian, I need not repeat what has been said of this once very painfully agitated matter. But, as to the quotations of the African Fathers generally, it ought to be understood that there was a vetus Itala before Jerome,—more than one, no doubt,—to which that Father was largely indebted for the text now called the Vulgate. Vercellone assured Dean Burgon that there was indeed one established Latin text, an old Itala. Scrivener says candidly, “It is hard to believe that 1 John 5:7 was not cited by Cyprian; ”and again, “The African writers Vigilius of Thapsus (at the end of the fifth century) and Fulgentius (circa 520) in two places expressly appeal to the three heavenly Witnesses.” So, too, Victor Vitensis, in the notable case of the African king of the Vandals. The admission of Tischendorf is also cited by Scrivener. Tischendorf says, “Gravissimus est Cyprianus (in Tract. de Eccles. Unitate), Dicit Dominus, Ego et Pater unum sumus (Joann. x. 30); et, iterum, de Patre, Filio, et Spiritu Sancto, scripture est, Et tres unum sunt.” Tischendorf adds the testimony of this epistle to Jubaianus. ... But primarily, to meet questions as to versions used by Cyprian, let him consult the same invaluable work (p. 269) on the Old Latin before Jerome. ... 258 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Ante-Nicene Fathers - Volume 5 - Appendix - Cyprian - The Treatises of Cyprian - Treatise 1. On the Unity of the Church. The Lord says, “I and the Father are one; ” and again it is written of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, “And these three are one.” And does any one believe that this unity which thus comes from the divine strength 354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 2 - St. Augustin: - City of God - Book V - Chapter 11 Therefore God supreme and true, with His Word and Holy Spirit (which three are one), one God omnipotent, creator and maker of every soul and of every body; 354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 3 - St. Augustin - On the Holy Trinity. - Book I - The unity and equality of the Trinity are demonstrated out of the Scriptures; and the true interpretation is given of those texts which are wrongly alleged against the equality of the Son. - Chapter 5 - Of Difficulties Concerning the Trinity: in What Manner Three are One God, and How, Working Indivisibly, They Yet Perform Some Things Severally. 8. Some persons, however, find a difficulty in this faith; when they hear that the Father is God, and the Son God, and the Holy Spirit God, and yet that this Trinity 354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 3 - St. Augustin - On the Holy Trinity. - Book II - The equality of the Trinity maintained against objections drawn from those texts which speak of the sending of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. - Chapter 13- when he had said above, “Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God?” and these three are one God, 354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 3 - St. Augustin: - On the Holy Trinity. - Book IV - Augustin explains for what the Son of God was sent; but, however, that the Son of God, although made less by being sent, is not therefore less because the Father sent Him; nor yet the Holy Spirit less because both the Father sent Him and the Son. - Chapter 20 - The Sender and the Sent Equal. Why the Son is Said to Be Sent by the Father. Of the Mission of the Holy Spirit. How and by Whom He Was Sent. The Father the Beginning of the Whole Godhead. 29. As, therefore, the Father begat, the Son is begotten; so the Father sent, the Son was sent. But in like manner as He who begat and He who was begotten, so both He who sent and He who was sent, are one, since the Father and the Son are one. So also the Holy Spirit is one with them, since these three are one. 354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 3 - St. Augustin: - On the Holy Trinity. - Book IV - Augustin explains for what the Son of God was sent; but, however, that the Son of God, although made less by being sent, is not therefore less because the Father sent Him; nor yet the Holy Spirit less because both the Father sent Him and the Son. - Chapter 21 - Of the Sensible Showing of the Holy Spirit, and of the Coeternity of the Trinity. What Has Been Said, and What Remains to Be Said. “Cressa the hound ran keenly in the stag’s track.” Since in their proper substance wherein they are, the three are one, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, 354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 3 - St. Augustin: - On the Holy Trinity. - Book IX - ... these three being mutually equal and of one essence. - Chapter 12 - ... the Image of the Trinity. And so there is a kind of image of the Trinity... and these three are one, and one substance. 354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 5 - St. Augustin: Anti-Pelagian Writings - A Treatise on the Soul and its Origin. - Book II - Chapter 5 - That which is begotten is His only Son, that which proceedeth is the Holy Ghost, and this Trinity is of one and the self-same nature. For these three are one, and each one is God, and all three together are one God, unchangeable, eternal, without any beginning or ending of time. That nature, on the other hand, which is made is called “creature;” God is its Creator, even the blessed Trinity. 354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 7 - St. Augustin: - Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John. - Extract 1 - 1 John 5:7, 8; Contra Maximinum, lib. ii. c. 22 .3. But if we will inquire into the things signified by these, there not unreasonably comes into our thoughts the Trinity itself, which is the One, Only, True, Supreme God, Father and Son and Holy Ghost, of whom it could most truly be said, “There are Three Witnesses, and the Three are One:” 390 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - Second Series - Volume 7 - Gregory Nazianzen - Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen. - Oration XXXII - The Fifth Theological Oration. On the Holy Spirit. Proceeding has given the name of Father to the First, of the Son to the Second, and of the Third, Him of Whom we are speaking, of the Holy Ghost that the distinction of the Three Persons may be preserved in the one nature and dignity of the Godhead. For neither is the Son Father, for the Father is One, but He is what the Father is; nor is the Spirit Son because He is of God, for the Only-begotten is One, but He is what the Son is. The Three are One in Godhead, and the One Three in properties; 390 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - Second Series - Volume 7 - Gregory Nazianzen - Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen. - Oration XXXIX - Oration on the Holy Lights. but One in respect of the Substance—that is, the Godhead. For they are divided without division, if I may so say; and they are united in division. For the Godhead is one in three, and the three are one, in whom the Godhead is, or to speak more accurately, Who are the Godhead. 390 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - Second Series - Volume 7 - Gregory Nazianzen - Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen. - Oration XXXIX - Oration on the Holy Lights. There is then One God in Three, and These Three are One, as we have said. 390 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - Second Series - Volume 7 - Gregory Nazianzen - Select Letters of Saint Gregory Nazianzen. - Division I - Letters on the Apollinarian Controversy. - Letter CI - To Cledonius the Priest Against Apollinarius. yet He is not two Persons. God forbid! For both natures are one by the combination, the Deity being made Man, and the Manhood deified or however one should express it. And I say different Elements, because it is the reverse of what is the case in the Trinity; for There we acknowledge different Persons so as not to confound the persons; but not different Elements, for the Three are One and the same in Godhead. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Patristic Evidentiary Support for the Genuineness of the above Passage Early Church Fathers 38 Volume Set PDF Digital Version 230-258 A.D. THE TREATISES OF CYPRIAN TREATISE I. ON THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH. (1) p 2,496 The Lord says, I and the Father are one;and again it is written of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, And these three are one. 354-430 A.D. THE FIFTEEN BOOKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINUS, BISHOP OF HIPPO, ON THE TRINITY: BOOK II CHAP. 13 p 5,771 ...the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God? and these three are one God, 354-430 A.D. THE FIFTEEN BOOKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINUS, BISHOP OF HIPPO, ON THE TRINITY: BOOK IV CHAP. 20. p 5,800 - 29. As, therefore, the Father begat, the Son is begotten; so the Father sent, the Son was sent. But in like manner as He who begat and He who was begotten, so both He who sent and He who was sent, are one, since the Father and the Son are one.(12) So also the Holy Spirit is one with them, since these three are one. 419 A.D. AURELIUS AUGUSTIN, BISHOP OF HIPPO, IN FOUR BOOKS CHAP. 5 [III.] A TREATISE ON THE SOUL AND ITS ORIGIN, BY BOOK II. IN T HE SHAPE OF A LETTER ADDRESSED T O THE PRESBYTER PETER. p 6,870 That which is begotten is His only Son, that which proceedeth is the Holy Ghost, and this Trinity is of one and the self-same nature. For these three are one, and each one is God, and all three together are one God, 407-409 A.D. circa ST. AUGUSTIN: TEN HOMILIES ON THE FIRST EPISTLE OF JOHN. HOMILY X. 1 JOHN V. 1-3. Contra Maximinum, lib. ii. c. 22 §. 3 p 7,955 baptize the nations in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.(2) In the name: not, In the names: for these Three are One, and One God is these Three. 381 A.D. GREGORY NAZIANZEN ORATION XXXIX. ORATION ON T HE HOLY LIGHTS The Oration on the Holy Lights was preached on the Festival of the Epiphany 381 p 13,577 There is then One God in Three, and These Three are One ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1646 A.D. The Westminster Confession of Faith 1646 in Chapter II, Of God, and the Holy Trinity gives 1 John 5:7 as their first reference. freepres.org/westminster.htm#chapter2 1689 A.D. The London Baptist Confession of 1689 also specifically mentions 1 John 5:7 as being the first verse used to teach and support the doctrine of the Trinity. They certainly believed it was inspired Scripture. reformedreader.org/ccc/1689lbc/english/Chapter02.htm Here is just a partial list of those who contended for the authenticity of this verse. Cyprian - 250 AD, Athanasius 350 A.D., Priscillian -385 AD, Jerome 420 AD, Fulgentius (late 5th century), Cassiodorus, Isidore of Seville, Jaqub of Edessa, Thomas Aquinas, John Wycliffe, Desiderus Erasmus, Stephanus, Lopez de Zuniga, John Calvin, Theodore Beza, Cipriano de Valera, John Owen, Francis Turretin, John Wesley, John Gill, Matthew Henry, Andrew Fuller, Thomas F. Middleton, Luis Gaussen, Frederick Nolan, Robert L. Dabney, Thomas Strouse, Floyd Jones, Peter Ruckman, George Ricker Berry, Edward F. Hills, David Otis Fuller, Thomas Holland, Michael Maynard and Donald A. Waite. Source: Will Kinney article brandplucked.webs/1john57.htm It is quoted by several church fathers as Cyprian 250 AD, Athanasius 350 A.D., Priscillian -380 AD, Varimadum 380 A.D., Jerome 420 AD, Victor Vitensis 430 A.D., Fulgentius (late 5th century), Cassiodorus 580 A.D, Source: Will Kinney article brandplucked.webs/1john57.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Internal Evidentiary Support for the Genuineness of the above Passage Dt 6:4 (KJB) Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: Mt 28:19 (KJB) Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Jn 10:30 (KJB) I and my Father are one. 1Jn 5:7 (KJB) For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Greek Texts Evidentiary Support for the Genuineness of the above Passage Greek Orthodox Church 1904 ὅτι τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, ὁ Πατὴρ, ὁ Λόγος καὶ τὸ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα, καὶ οὗτοι οἱ τρεῖς ἕν εἰσι. Scriveners Textus Receptus 1894 ὅτι τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες εν τῷ οὐρανῷ, ὁ πατήρ, ὁ λόγος, καὶ τὸ Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα· καὶ οὗτοι οἱ τρεῖς ἕν εἰσι. Stephanus Textus Receptus 1550 ὅτι τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες εν τῷ οὐρανῷ, ὁ πατήρ, ὁ λόγος, καὶ τὸ Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα· καὶ οὗτοι οἱ τρεῖς ἕν εἰσιν It is found in several Greek texts - Erasmus, Stephanus, Beza, Elziever, Scrivener and Modern Greek Bible; Source: Will Kinney article brandplucked.webs/1john57.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Manuscript Evidentiary Support for the Genuineness of the above Passage 1John 5:7 (Münster) μαρτυροῦντες ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, ὁ πατὴρ ὁ λόγος καὶ τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα, καὶ οὗτοι οἱ τρεῖς ἕν εἰσιν. 8 καὶ τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες ἐν τῇ γῇ, τὸ πνεῦμα καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ τὸ αἷμα] vgcl {Date=IV; Text type=A in Acts,James-Rev and W in Gospels and Paul} armmss{Date=V; Text type=C in the Gospels, A in Rom-Rev} 221v.r. {Date=X; Text type=B} 177v.r. {Date=XI; Text type=B} 88v.r. {Date=XII; Text type=Like f2127 in Paul} 429v.r. {Date=XIV; Text type=f1739 in Acts; f2138 in the Catholics} 629 {Date=XIV; Text type=W} 636v.r.{Date=XV; Text type=B} 61 {Date=XVI; Text type=A in Rev} 918 {Date=XVI; Text type=B} ς {Date=1550; Text type=B} Dio {Date=1641; Text type=B} 2318 {Date=XVIII; Text type=B} lAD {Date=1904; Text type=B} ND {Date=1991; Text type=B} ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Manuscript Evidentiary Support for the Genuineness of the above Passage Uncial = Majuscule = Written in All Capitol Letters. Cursives; pc; 9 cited in J. Moormans digest; Old Latin; c; dem; div; l; m; p; q; r; Vulgate; Note: If the disputed words are removed in the Greek, the loose ends will not join up grammatically. For a full defense of this most important Trinitarian passage, see KJVMT p 115. Source; A Closer Look; Early Manuscripts & The A.V. by Jack Moorman It is found in many ancient versions of the Bible including the Old Latin, and is found in some copies of the Syriac, Armenian, Georgian and Slavonic ancient versions. Source: Will Kinney article brandplucked.webs/1john57.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The King James Bible and many other versions throughout history have it right. The modern versions seem to follow the Jehovahs Witness and Catholic versions. With such overwhelming evidence in support of the genuineness of the passage above, why would anyone want to remove it? What was and is the motivation behind this deletion from the modern versions? How Many Changes, Missing Words, Deleted Verses and Omitted Phrases Will You Tolerate? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your Brother in Christ Mark Lamb
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