2 Peter 3:15-16: Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of

these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

1 Timothy 5:17-18: The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching. For the Scripture says, "Do not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain," and "The worker deserves his wages."

Luke 10:7: Stay in that house, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.

New Testament Matthew A.D. 50-60 Mark Luke A.D. 60-61 John A.D. 80-90 Acts A.D. 62 Romans Paul A.D. 56 1 Corinthians A.D. 55 2 Corinthians A.D. 55-56 Galatians A.D. 49-50

New Testament Ephesians Paul A.D. 60-62 Philippians Colossians 1 Thessalonians A.D. 51 2 Thessalonians A.D. 51-52 1 Timothy A.D. 62-64 2 Timothy A.D. 66-67 Titus Philemon

New Testament Hebrews ? A.D. 67-69 James A.D. 44-49 1 Peter Peter 1 John John A.D. 90-95 2 John 3 John Jude A.D. 68-70 Revelation A.D. 94-96

New Testament Validity Author When Written Earliest Copy Interim Time Span No. of Copies Plato – Greek (Tetralogies) 427-347 BC 900 AD 1,200 yrs 7 Herodotus – Greek (History) 480-425 BC 1,300 yrs 8 Ceasar – Roman (The Gallic Wars) 100-44 BC 1,000 yrs  10 Aristotle – Greek 384-322 BC 1,100 AD 1,400 yrs 49 Homer - Greek (Iliad) 900 BC 400 BC 500 yrs     643 New Testament – Greek 49-96 AD 130 AD 35 yrs 24,000

New Testament Critical Events Form Writers Date Original Manuscripts Written on Papyrus, Parchment, etc. 10 Greek 44-96 A.D. Justin Martyr Recognized the 'Memoirs of the Apostles‘ with the Old Testament prophets  150 A.D. Emperor Constantine Constantine takes control of the Roman Empire and because of victory at Rome makes Christianity the State religion 312-324 A.D.

New Testament Critical Events Form Writers Date Bishop Athenasius Identified 27 books of the New Testament - today recognized as the canon of scripture 315 A.D. Council of Nicea Convened by Constantine Declared the equality of the Father and Son 324 A.D. Vulgate Based on Septuagint and Greek New Testament letters Jerome Latin 382 A.D. The official translation for the Roman Catholic Church Council of Hippo (AD 393) and the Council of Carthage (AD 397) affirmed the same 27 books as authoritative 393-397 A.D.

New Testament Critical Events Date John Wycliffe First English Bible Died 1384-declared a heretic-body exhumed and burned 1382-84 A.D. Johannes Guttenberg Invented the Printing Press Gutenberg Bible - Latin publication 1440 A.D. Desiderius Erasmus Greek New Testament - Parallel to Latin 1516 A.D. Synchronized the Greek and the Latin traditions of the New Testament 

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Protestant Reformation Martin Luther 1517 A.D. - 95 Theses against Catholic abuses: indulgences 1522-1534 A.D. Translated the Bible to common German from Erasmus' Greek NT William Tyndale "Unlicensed" translation from Hebrew and Greek to English mass produced 1526-1536 A.D. Strangled and burned at the stake Council of Trent Roman Catholic Church - decrees on self-reform and doctrine   1545 to 1563 A.D. Declared the Vulgate reliable Affirmed the Apocrypha as canonical

Protestant Reformation The Geneva Bible 1st English Bible with numbered verses 1560 A.D. Relied on much of the work of Tyndale The King James Bible Originally with the Apocrypha - officially removed in 1885 1611 A.D. Relied on the work of William Tyndale: 84% of the NT and 75% of the OT Robert Aitken's Bible The First English Language Bible (KJV) Printed in America 1782 A.D. Noah Webster's Bible Famous for his Dictionary; printed his own revision of the KJV 1833 A.D.

Protestant Reformation American Standard Version (ASV) First Major American Revision of the KJV 1901 A.D. Revised Standard Version (RSV) Revision of the 1901 ASV -- more highly criticized 1952 A.D. New American Standard Bible (NASB) Modern and accurate Word for Word English translation 1971 A.D.

Protestant Reformation New International Version (NIV) Modern Phrase for Phrase English translation 1973 A.D. New King James Version (NKJV) Modern English with the original style of the KJV 1982 A.D. English Standard Version (ESV) Bridged the gap between the NASB accuracy and the NIV readability 2002 A.D.

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