ESV DEGRADES JESUS CHRIST

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Creator
John 1: 3,10 (ESV)
³ All things were made THROUGH him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. ¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world was made THROUGH him, yet the world did not know him.

John 1:3, 10 (KJB)
³ All things were made BY him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world was made BY him, and the world knew him not.

Colossians 1:14 (ESV)
¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, OMIT the forgiveness of sins.

Colossians 1:14 (KJB)
¹⁴ In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

Offering
Gen 22:8 (ESV)
⁸ Abraham said, “God will PROVIDE FOR HIMSELF the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together.

Genesis 22:8 (KJB)
⁸ And Abraham said, My son, God will PROVIDE HIMSELF a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

Worship

Matt 20:20 (ESV)
²⁰ Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and KNEELING before him she asked him for something.

Matthew 20:20 (KJB)
²⁰ Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, WORSHIPPING him, and desiring a certain thing of him.

Equality
Phil 2:6 (ESV)
⁶ who, though he was in the form of God, DID NOT COUNT EQUALITY WITH GOD A THING TO BE GRASPED,

Philippians 2:6 (KJB)
⁶ Who, being in the form of God, THOUGHT IT NOT ROBBERY TO BE EQUAL WITH GOD:

John 8:35 (ESV)

The slave does not remain in the house for ever; the son remains for ever

John 8:35 (KJB)
³⁵ And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.

ESV PROMOTE RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE

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Acts 24:14 (ESV)
¹⁴ But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,

Acts 24:14 (KJB)
¹⁴ But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

Acts 17:22 (ESV)
²² So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.

Acts 17:22 (KJB)
²² Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

Leviticus 25:44 (ESV)
⁴⁴ As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.

Leviticus 25:44 (KJB)
⁴⁴ Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

Acts 8:9 (ESV)
⁹ But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great.

Acts 8:9 (KJB)
⁹ But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:

Acts 25:19 (ESV)
¹⁹ Rather they had certain points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul asserted to be alive.

Acts 25:19 (KJB)
¹⁹ But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

2 Corinthians 10:5 (ESV)
⁵ We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

2 Corinthians 10:5 (KJB)
⁵ Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Titus 3:10 (ESV)
¹⁰ As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him,

Titus 3:10 (KJB)
¹⁰ A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;

ESV DEGRADES GOD AND THE GODHEAD

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Godhead   Acts 17:29 (ESV)

Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man

Acts 17:29 (KJB)
²⁹ Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

ESV PROMOTES SELF-ESTEEM

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Philippians 3:21 (ESV)
²¹ who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Philippians 3:21 (KJB)
²¹ Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

2 Corinthians 1:12 (ESV)
¹² For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

2 Corinthians 1:12 (KJB)
¹² For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

1 John 5:19 (ESV)
¹⁹ We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

1 John 5:19 (KJB)
¹⁹ And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

Luke 11:4 (ESV)
⁴ and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.”

Luke 11:4 (KJB)
⁴ And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

ESV PROMOTES WORKS SALVATION

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Matthew 7:14 (ESV)
¹⁴ For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

Matthew 7:14 (KJB)
¹⁴ Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Galatians 5:22 (ESV)
²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Galatians 5:22 (KJB)
²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

1 John 5:13 (ESV)
¹³ I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.

1 John 5:13 (KJB)
¹³ These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:20 (ESV)
²⁰ For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart … that is …

God keeps him busy

Ecclesiastes 5:20 (KJB)
²⁰ For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

ESV DEGRADES THE HOLY GHOST

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The Holy Ghost
Acts 14:16 (ESV)

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you for ever

John 14:16 (KJB)
¹⁶ And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

ESV MISTRANSLATES

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Deuteronomy 32:22 (ESV)
²² For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Deuteronomy 32:22 (KJB)
²² For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Leviticus 17:7 (ESV)
⁷ So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they whore. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.

Leviticus 17:7 (KJB)
⁷ And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.

Romans 6:17-20, 22 (ESV)
¹⁷ But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
¹⁸ and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
¹⁹ I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
²⁰ For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
²² But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.

Romans 6:17-20, 22 (KJB)
¹⁷ But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
¹⁸ Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
¹⁹ I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
²⁰ For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
²² But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

ESV PROMOTES WORLDLY PERMISSIVE STANDARDS

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Matthew 5:32 (ESV)
³² But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Matthew 5:32 (KJB)
³² But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

1 Corinthians 6:9 (ESV)
⁹ Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

1 Corinthians 6:9 (KJB)
⁹ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

1 Kings 14:24 (ESV)
²⁴ and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.

1 Kings 14:24 (KJB)
²⁴ And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

ESV COPIES JEHOVAH WITNESS VERSION

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Heresy           Titus 3:10 (ESV) (JW)
¹⁰ As for a person who stirs up DIVISION, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him,

Titus 3:10 (KJB)
¹⁰ A man that is an HERETICK after the first and second admonition reject;

Easter            Acts 12:4 (ESV) (JW)
⁴ And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the PASSOVER to bring him out to the people.

Acts 12:4 (KJB)
⁴ And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after EASTER to bring him forth to the people.

Women          Gen 2:18 (ESV) (JW)
¹⁸ Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a HELPER FIT for him.”

Genesis 2:18 (KJB)
¹⁸ And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help MEET for him.

Money            1Tim 6:10 (ESV)
¹⁰ For the love of money is A root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

1 Timothy 6:10 (KJB)
¹⁰ For the love of money is THE root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Appearance   1Thess 5:22 (ESV)
²² Abstain from every FORM of evil.

1 Thessalonians 5:22 (KJB)
²² Abstain from all APPEARANCE of evil.

Gate               Matt 7:13 (ESV)
¹³ “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
¹⁴ For the gate is narrow and THE WAY IS HARD that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

Matthew 7:13-14 (KJB)
¹³ Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
¹⁴ Because strait is the gate, and NARROW IS THE WAY, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Study             2 Tim 2:15 (ESV)
¹⁵ Do your best to PRESENT yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

2 Timothy 2:15 (KJB)
¹⁵ STUDY to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

ESV AND THE MARK OF THE BEAST

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Revelation 13:16 (ESV)
¹⁶ Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,

Revelation 13:16 (KJB)
¹⁶ And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

ESV PROMOTES PANTHEISM, ANDROGYNY, GENDER EQUITY

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2 Corinthians 2:10 (ESV)
¹⁰ Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ,

2 Corinthians 2:10 (KJB)
¹⁰ To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;

John 4:24 (ESV)
²⁴ God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

John 4:24 (KJB)
²⁴ God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Matthew 11:3 (ESV)
³ and said to him, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?”

Matthew 11:3 (KJB)
³ And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?

Luke 7:19-20 (ESV)
¹⁹ calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?”
²⁰ And when the men had come to him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?’”

Luke 7:19-20 (KJB)
¹⁹ And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?
²⁰ When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?

John 7:18 (ESV)
¹⁸ The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

John 7:18 (KJB)
¹⁸ He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

ESV PROMOTES EVOLUTION

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Matthew 12:32 (ESV)
³² And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

Matthew 12:32 (KJB)
³² And whosoever Spaeth a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

Matthew 13:39 (ESV)
³⁹ and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

Matthew 13:39 (KJB)
³⁹ The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

Acts 15:18 (ESV)
¹⁸ known from of old.’

Acts 15:18 (KJB)
¹⁸ Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

ESV HIDES AND RENAMES SATAN

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Isaiah 14:12 (ESV)
¹² “How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!

Isaiah 14:12 (KJB)
¹² How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

Lucifer is called the morning star (Isaiah 14:12-15)