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NASB | 1 John 5:8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 5:8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three are in agreement [their testimony is perfectly consistent]. |
Subject: Can we agree? A case of agreement? |
Bible Note: Hi Rowdy, It is appropriate that you mention THE Spirit. The word "the" in the Greek is often understood in our translations. For instance there is no "THE" in Ephesians 5:18, "...but be filled with [the] Spirit." Does that mean that we should be filled with spirit? Consider that before you answer. 1 John 5:8 has the Spirit [Or, spirit], the water, and the blood. Those occurances of "the" are in the Greek; but that doesn't mean that the next word should be the Water [note the capitalization], and the Blood, or even the Truth in verse 7. So I would not capitalize Water and Blood so that the cases agree with Spirit. That would not be appropriate. 1) As an aside, the word "Godly" is another word to consider for determining lower or upper case translation/interpretation. 2 Corinthians 7:10, "For behold what earnestness this very thing, this godly sorrow, has produced in you:..." [Or Lit. sorrow according to God], margin note in the NASB. 2) However, I would understand from your post that you do not see the need for the words "spirit, water, and blood" to be in the same case in order to be in agreement. From the heart, Ray |