Luke 4:4
Luke 4:4
(KJV) And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not
live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
(NIV) Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone.
(NASB) And Jesus answered him, "It is written, ' MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD
ALONE.'"
(ESV) And Jesus answered him, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread
alone.'"
(HCSB) But Jesus answered him, "It is written: Man must not live on bread alone.
(ASV-1901) And Jesus answered unto him, It is written, Man shall not live by
bread alone.
(CEV) Jesus answered, "The Scriptures say, `No one can live only on food.' "
(RSV) And Jesus answered him, "It is written, `Man shall not live by bread
alone.'"
(TNIV) Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘People do not live on bread alone’
(NAB-Roman Catholic) Jesus answered him, “Scripture has it, “Not on bread alone
shall man live.’”
(NWT-Jehovah’s Witnesses) But Jesus replied to him: “It is written, ‘Man must
not live by bread alone.’’
TNIV-Today’s New International Version (2002)
HCSB - Holman Christian Standard Bible (2004) - This is one of the newest
perversions to hit the market. In their Introduction they plainly state that for
the New Testament they use the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece,
Twenty-seventh edition and the United Bible Societies Greek New Testament Fourth
corrected edition. These two texts are the corrupted Alexandrian texts based
primarily on the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus. The Old Testament is based on the
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, Fifth Edition. The Old Testament text is based
on the Ben Asher Text which is the corrupted Hebrew. So right from the outset we
have another Hort-Westcott based false Bible version. It is as corrupt as all
its predecessors and contemporaries.
Textus Receptus
kai apekriqh ihsouV proV auton legwn gegraptai oti ouk ep
artw monw zhsetai o anqrwpoV all epi panti rhmati qeou
Hort-Westcott
kai apekriqh proV auton o ihsouV gegraptai
oti ouk ep artw monw zhsetai o anqrwpoV
Effect
The affected part of this verse is not found in either (B) Vaticanus or
(a) (Aleph) Sinaiticus. These are just deleted without reason. The removal of
this part of Scripture gives the impression that every word of God is not
important. The Christian is to live by the word of God in contrast to the world
that lives only by its five senses. The editors of the modern versions make it
clear that their concern is not that Christians read the Bible in its entirety,
without any deletions or omissions, but they truncate the word of God according
to the Westcott-Hort belief system. If these editors of the modern versions were
serious about giving the Christians a complete Bible, they would not allow
tampered versions to be placed into the hands of Christians. Their unconcern is
obvious when they impeach the verity of the Scriptures by even removing the
reminder to Christians that we are to live by every word of God and where is the
word of God found? In the Holy Bible!
There is a total of 140,521 in the Greek Text of the New Testament. The
Hort-Westcott text differs from the Textus Receptus in 5,604 places for a total
of 9,970 words. That is 7% of the entire New Testament in Greek. That would be
approximately 15.4 words per page in the New Testament Greek. That is a copious
amount of corruption, yet Christians claim that their modern version is more
accurate than the King James! Dr. Jack Moorman has researched and found that
2,886 words have been eliminated from the Greek Textus Receptus. This is the
equivalent of removing First and Second Peter from the New Testament.
By removing the requirement for Christians to live by the word of God, it opens
the doors for false churches and cults to fill in that gap with their own
teachings and rituals. If we do not live by the word of God, then what do we
live by? Is it the teachings of apostate Protestantism? Is it the superstition
of the Roman Catholic Institution? Is it the phony love gospel as found in many
cults? When the command of Scripture to live by Scripture is removed, it opens
the door for Satan’s people to fill in that gap.
That part of the verse is very important because God had
promised to preserve His words and not the concepts or teachings.
(Psa 12:6-7 KJV) The words of the LORD are pure
words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. {7} Thou
shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
Not only has God promised to preserve His words but this passage is a quotation
from the Old Testament. (Deu 8:3 KJV) And he
humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou
knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man
doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth
of the LORD doth man live. In Deuteronomy, God had told the Israelites that man
does not live by only bread but by the Word of God.
The Israelites were in the wilderness for forty years and throughout their
sojourn, was it only the physical food that kept them going? It was God’s
guidance and His guidance came through the written and spoken word. So when
these modern Gnostics remove any part of Scripture, they are denying true
guidance for the Christian from the words of God Himself. Do the modern
intellects actually believe they have more knowledge and wisdom than God, so
that they can sit in judgment of His holy Word?
The modern versions disregard the very words of God in the Bible and take the
liberty of removing what they do not want. The second century Gnostics attacked
the Scriptures and the intellects of today claim superior knowledge to what they
had back then and yet have chosen to agree with the Gnostics by perpetuating the
evil attacks on the Scriptures. So how then do today’s version pundits hold
superior knowledge when they are doing the same things the unbelieving Gnostics
did and accepting all their corruptions? That would be like a medical doctor who
holds a degree from Johns Hopkins University or Harvard University that still
uses second century medical techniques. Could the seminaries be putting out
religious Gnostics rather than true Bible believing Christians? Guess what? What
ever school uses the Hort-Westcott text, that school is a descendant of the
school of Alexandria AKA Gnosticism. Then we wonder why our churches are overrun
with false gospels. False versions cannot expose or expunge false gospels, not
when they themselves are a false gospel.