KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

of idolatry," adds another author.4 So Hermes sent Westcott and other prophets of pride, like Robert Schuller, author of Self-Esteem: The New Reformation , to sustain this idol called 'self. Schuller tells his congregation: Believe in the God who believes in you. This god must be Zeus, not the God of the bible. Yet Schuller Do not fear pride. . .God's almost impossible task is to keep us believing every hour of the day how great we are.5 The new versions, with help from Westcott's Hermes Club, put pride on a pedestal. They play pride's praises to the 1966 hit parade tune They'll Know We Are Christians: ; we "save each man's pride." advises:

God resisteth the proud James 4:6 [B]e not proud Jeremiah 13:15 Pride goeth before destruction Proverbs 16:18 NIV, NASV, et al.

KJV

be proud be proud

2 Cor.1:14 your rejoicing 2 Cor. 5:12 glory on our behalf 2 Cor. 1:12 rejoicing 2 Cor. 7:4 boldness of speech toward you

our proud confidence Great is my confidence in you .... _

take pride in James 1:10 — (no Greek) proud confidence (NASB) Phil 1:26 your rejoicing oupht to take pride James 1:9 rejoice he can take pride Gal. 6:4

shall he have rejoicing

take great pride

2 Cor. 7:4 great is my glorying

The word pride or proud, huperephanos , occurs no where in any of these verses. The word in all Greek MS is kauchaomai. Bultman says it, "can have the. . .sense of verbs like "to rejoice."