Accurate Translation reflects truth and coherence

by GAT 06-03-2025, updated 06-08-2025

Several Scripture verses from various translations, mainly the KJV and the NASB, are translated incorrectly. This article lists a few verses with more accurate translations. We do not believe these mistranslations were either spurious or intentional. For a list of verses we discern as spurious click [here].

Romans 1:17 should be translated as "For in it God's righteousness is revealed out from a faith into a faith; just as it is written, 'but the righteous man will himself live out from a faith.' " This interpretation is based on Rom 1:1-2, Rom 3:21-26, Rom 5:1 to convey that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is a realization of the Gospel of God, that faith in Jesus Christ follows faith in God. The Law and the Prophets point to this. Just as Jesus said, "You believe in God, believe also in Me" (John 14:1).

Romans 8:29 should be translated as "For that reason whom He-knew-before also He-marked-out-before conformed ones of the image of His Son, for Him to be firstborn among many brothers;" Paul is directly referring to Abraham, Moses, David and Isaiah whom the Lord called by name, justified by faith, and recognized that they found grace in His sight. In general, Paul is referring to all of the Old Testament saints.

The interpretation above correctly disqualifies Calvinism and its fabricated 'Golden Chain of Redemption.'

Romans 10:9 should be translated as "that if you confess with your mouth LORD Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;" The confession is not that Jesus is Lord as in Jesus is our Master. But instead, the confession is LORD Jesus, God's Only Begotten and Beloved Son sent into the world, who is Immanuel, YHWH God in the flesh. This interpretation is based on Rom 10:13 "whoever might call-upon the Name YHWH will be saved." Believers "call on Him" by name (Rom 10:14), not by the title Master. There is no other Name by which we must be saved (see Acts 4:12; also 1John 4:15).

Jesus is our Master, our Lord. However, to interpret the text to say that confessing 'Jesus as Lord' results in salvation promotes a false teaching and a strange gospel.

Ephesians 1:18 should be translated as "the eyes of your mind having been enlightened ..." Paul was not asking for their spiritual eyes to be opened. He notes that their spiritual understanding and mode of intellectual thought is no longer in darkness but that the Holy Spirit has already opened their eyes to understand spiritually the things that follow; namely, the hope of our future resurrection because of our current position in Christ.