Every Word

Proverbs 30:5 KJV

Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

Gill writes of this verse...

"The whole word of God. "All Scripture", given by inspiration of God, to which Agur directs, as giving the best account of God, of his name, nature, and perfections; of his Son, person, offices, and grace; being pure, very pure, "purified" (z) like silver, purified in a furnace of earth. The whole of Scripture is pure, free from all falsehood and error; coming from the God of truth, who cannot lie, and therefore called "the Scriptures of truth": every promise is pure as well as precious, made without dissimulation, faithfully performed, and all yea and amen in Christ; every doctrine is pure, free from the mixtures and inventions of men; the sincere milk of the word; consistent and all of a piece, not yea and nay; and tending to promote purity of heart and life; wholesome words, and doctrines according to godliness"

The question is begged then, what does every, and what does pure mean?

If every word of God is pure, then how can that account for the so called errors that the higher critics and purveyors of modern translations like to insist upon. If every word is pure then how does this jive with the modern preacher's attestation that the Bible is more than ninety nine percent incorrupt? Certainly, they say, it is good enough we can trust it, but in practice they demonstrate it is off enough they feel a liberty to tweak it. Every means every; without exception.

Pure means "as having come through the refiner's fire." It means that it has been tried and tested. It grants that a process has been accomplished. But today the modern Biblical scholar throws the dross back into the mix. Not satisfied that the work is finished, ever anxious to keep his craft alive, he must find excuse to light the furnace and he does it with the dross. He has discovered the slag the old refiners discarded and he creates from it an ever newer but always corrupt version with which to justify his work and sell his wares.

The reason I know when the refiner's work was done is because I know when the scholars began adding the dross back in. The King James Version was the last translation that worked without the corrupted manuscripts. From there on out, even with modern attempts to refine the KJV, those corrupted texts were in some measure put back in the mix.

• I believe God
• I believe that He has superintended over the history of mankind to deliver us a Bible that is in every word, pure
• believe that exists in the King James Bible