Bad Bible Translations
These mislead innocent Bible readers, heterodox or possibly heretical:
את Cepher -
The Cepher is a non-scholarly work as described by the publisher. In adding “missing” books, phrases, and chapters to the Orthodox Bible. It transliterates words from Hebrew into Latin characters alternating between English, and Hebrew which makes it unreadable and incomprehensible, example from the Cepher: Chizayon (Book of Revelation) 1:8: "I am the א (Aleph) and the ת (Tav), the beginning and the ending, says Yahuah Elohiym, which is, and which was, and which is to come, Yahuah Tseva’oth." The fact is את it has no “esoteric” meaning, and is just used as a marker of the object in a sentence since word order in Hebrew can be difficult and often is necessary to know who/what the subject is acting on.
The Pure Word Bible (TPW) -
TPW claims to be a monadic translation: what is meant by every word has a specific and unchanging meaning is untrue. Biblical Greek just like English words have multiple meanings through the context you get a specific gloss. The translator can’t follow his own (monadic) principle, words are translated and used with different English words. The over specificity results in unfathomable and cryptic prose also adding where there was nothing in the Greek. E.g. John 3:16, “Because, God has Loved in such a manner the satan’s world, so that He Gave His Son, the Only Begotten Risen Christ, so that whoever is Continuously by his choice Committing for the Result and Purpose of Him, should not perish, but definitely should, by his choice, be Continuously Having Eternal Life.”
The New World Translation (NWT) –
Is N.W.T. a fairly literal translation, for the most part, but it does have some peculiar non-literal renderings with the efforts to conform the version to the doctrines of the Jehovah's Witnesses. Strangely “Jehovah” appears in the New Testament for kurios (Lord) and whenever the Father is in the Greek text (E.g. Acts 13:48). Anti-trinitarian bias (E.g. Gen. 1:1-2, Zech. 12:10, John 1:1, Col. 1:15-17, Heb. 1:8), because this sect teaches that Jesus Christ mere is an angel (Saint Michael), not God but this isn’t true Christ is God. J.W. believe the cross is an idolatrous symbol of the Roman Catholic Church; so they use “Torture stake” instead of "cross" in N.W.T. The translators frequently breaks their own translation rules to skew the text with Jehovah witness doctrine despite it own rule (Specifically, no sectarian view/the text [W&H GNT] must override any theological point of view. See preface of 1950/61 edition). However, the N.W.T., 2013 revision does the same and other than removing Square bracketss upplied words(E.g. Col. 1:16-20 around, "other"); deleting passages(E.g. John 7:53–8:11, Short & Longer ending of Mark) isn't really a different revision.
The Passion Translation (TPT) -
TPT was not translated by credible scholars using the 5th Century Aramaic translation rather than the original language. The translator stated on the TV show called: Sid Roth's It's Supernatural! that He has received “downloads," and "secrets of the Hebrew language” from Jesus Christ with no proof including a brand-new chapter of the Gospel of John Ch. 22. It that adds a least 50% more material compared to the Greek text. E.g. ESV: "I love you, O Lord, my strength.” compared to TPT: "Lord, I passionately love you! I want to embrace you, For now, you’ve become my Power!" Cumulative effect of the deletions and additions gives a different portrait of God; when somebody is talking about God in the text is usually changed to speech about God. And concrete thoughts into more abstract ones also remove historical references deleting about half of them. You can see this effect also going on in the NWT.
Good As New: A Radical Retelling of the Scriptures –
Instead of letting the Scriptures speak for themselves some kind of politically correct censorship is going on in this imaginative paraphrase; eliminates the biblical strictures against sexuality. It remove several epistles (1 and 2 Tim, Tit, 2 Pet, 2 and 3 John, Jude) and Revelation replacing them with the Gospel of Thomas which it can even translate right. Inclusive language is used throughout the father is eliminating for being “sexist” and Son of Man becomes “The Complete Person”. The so-called “cultural translation” where demon possession as mental illness is an anachronism.
The Amplified Bible (AMP) -
AMP is more like an in-line commentary in the translation, if the reader is not careful “amplifications” can mislead them and they tend to be paraphrastic expansions, unreliable, and somewhat arbitrarily inserted. Read with the abundance of caution and needs is an excellent word-for-word translation nearby to compare to.