Day: March 15, 2024

Friday, March 15, 2024

“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers” (Ephesians 4:29 KJV).

What is this “corrupt communication?”

God knew the potential man had for altering Bible verses, so He thrice forbade it. “Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you” (Deuteronomy 4:2). “Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar” (Proverbs 30:5,6). “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book” (Revelation 22:18,19).

How can people urge us to be quiet when money-hungry publishing houses are releasing and selling multiple Bible versions simultaneously, when private translations are undertaken by the same “scholars” sitting on numerous committees throughout the decades, when the endless textual speculations of fallible men form the foundations of seminary curricula, sermons, counseling sessions, and “Christian” books?

“And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction” (2 Peter 3:15,16). To “wrest” is “twist or distort a text to suit one’s opinions; turn from the proper meaning.” Not only could preachers and teachers be guilty of this, but even Bible translators. If people were “wresting” (perverting) the Scriptures 20 centuries, such individuals are still “in ministry” now with their “corrupt communication….”