Table of Contents

Preface: Is Your Bible Defective?
List of Bible Versions and their Abbreviations
What about the KJV Look-alikes?

PART ONE: Look What's Missing - Why It Matters

Chapter 1: One Missing Word that Made Jesus a Liar

Chapter 2: The Unanswered Question

• The Trip of a Lifetime

Chapter 3: "They Took out Jesus' Words." How Dare They Do That!

Chapter 4: The Dirty Secret about Italics, Brackets and Footnotes

• "But it's in the Footnotes"
• "But it's in Italics"
• "But it's in Brackets"

Chapter 5: Did God Inspire the Original Manuscripts but Not Preserve Them?

• Are Copies Inspired, or only the Originals?
• What About All Those Other Bibles?

Chapter 6: Look What's Missing in Matthew - and Why

Chapter 7: What Do They Really Teach Your Kids in Bible College?

• Three Things to Watch out for
• Want Proof?
• One Teaching You Must Know About
• What Does God Say about This?

PART TWO: What You Should Know about the 15 Best-Known Bible Versions

Chapter 8: The Root of "Modern" Bibles: ERV and ASV

• A Movement of Doubters
• It All Started with Westcott and Hort
• The English Revised Version
• Why Was a Unitarian on the Revision Committee?
• What was Different about the English Revised Version?
• The American Standard Version
• What Happened after Westcott and Hort?

Chapter 9: The Bible Becomes Ecumenical: RSV, NRS, ESV

• Can't We All Just Get Along?
• The Revised Standard Version
• How "Ecumenical" Was the RSV?
• The New Revised Standard Version
• The English Standard Version
• How Different is the ESV?
• See for Yourself

Chapter 10: If It Looks Like a Duck… NAS and NAU

• My Story
• The NASB: Another Bible Built upon a Faulty Foundation
• What’s Missing from the New American Standard?
• Brackets in the New American Standard
• The New American Standard 1995 Update

Chapter 11: The "International" Bibles: NIV, TNIV and NIrV

• Something for Nothing?
• Something for Everyone?
• Something is Missing
• The Only... What?
• Today’s NIV: a Sneaky Way to Keep a Promise
• What’s Missing from the TNIV?
• New International Reader’s Version (NIrV)
• What’s Missing from the NIrV?

Chapter 12: Error Paraphrased: LB and NLT

• More Good Intentions… with the Same Faulty Foundation
• What’s Missing from the Living Bible?
• The New Living Translation
• What’s Missing from the New Living Translation?

Chapter 13: The "Pick and Choose Bible:" AMP (The Amplified Bible)

• The Verse That Would Not End
• The Reader That Becomes the Bible Translator
• Those Irritating Italics
• What’s Missing from the Amplified Bible?
• Do We Need a "Multiple-Choice" Bible?

Chapter 14: A Counterfeit Message: (MSG)

• The Problem with Paraphrases
• Getting Creative with the Truth
• Is The Message a Bible?
• What’s Missing from The Message?

Chapter 15: The Bible that Almost Was: CSB

• A Third Foundation
• The So-Called "Majority Text"
• The Faulty Foundation for the CSB
• What’s Missing from the Holman Christian Standard?

Chapter 16: How Much Scripture Are We Allowed to Doubt?

PART THREE: What’s Missing from Your Bible?

Chapter 17: Look What’s Missing… in 40 Versions

• The Short List: 45 Missing Verses in Modern Bibles
• The Big List: 257 Verses Missing Text in Modern Bibles

Missing Titles of the Lord Jesus Christ

• What’s Missing? "Lord"
• What’s Missing? "Jesus"
• What’s Missing? "Christ"
• What’s Missing? "Jesus Christ" or "Christ Jesus"
• What’s Missing? "Lord Jesus Christ"

Missing Words Concerning the Godhead

• What’s Missing? The Godhead (Father, Son and Holy Ghost)
• What’s Missing "God"
• What’s Missing? "The Father" (of the Lord Jesus Christ)
• What’s Missing? Only "Begotten" Son
• What’s Missing? Mary’s "Firstborn" Son
• What’s Missing? "The Son of God"
• What’s Missing? The Eternal Son
• What’s Missing? Only "God" is "good"
• The Holy Spirit and man’s spirit

Missing Words Concerning the Gospel Message

• What’s Missing? Belief in Christ for Salvation
• What’s Missing? Christ Died "for us"
• What’s Missing? Christ Alone Shed His "blood" to Pay for our Sins
• What’s Missing? Christ’s Blood of the "New" Testament
• What’s Missing? We are Not Saved by Works or Riches
• What’s Missing? Repentance
• What’s Missing? Details of Christ’s Mission
• What’s Missing? Other Gospel Doctrines

Missing Words Concerning Salvation and Damnation

• What’s Missing? Words Regarding Hell
• What’s Missing? Words Regarding the Second Coming
• What’s Missing? Words Regarding the Resurrection of the Dead
• What’s Missing? Words Regarding the Judgment and Eternal Punishment

Missing Words Concerning Heaven and Angels

• What’s Missing? Words Concerning Heaven
• What’s Missing? Words about the Doctrine of Angels
• Angels of God
• Satan

Missing Words Concerning Prayer and Fasting

• Other Missing Words of Christ

Missing Historical Details Concerning the Life of Christ and the Early Church

• What’s Missing? Details from the Life of Christ
• What’s Missing? Details of the Early Church

Missing Doctrines of the Apostles

• What’s Missing? Adultery
• What’s Missing? Fornication
• What’s Missing? Other Words God Wrote Through the Apostles and Early Church Leaders

Chapter 18: What’s Missing—at a Glance

• Chart A: Alphabetical Order by Version
• Chart B: In Order of the Number of Verses Affected
• Chart C: In Order of Date of Publication

Afterword
Index of Scriptures
Index by Bible Version