― One Verse at a Time ―

Trinity Files

Every verse trinitarians use to defend their doctrine — examined, dismantled, and returned to its original context. If the case is as strong as they claim, it should be able to survive scrutiny.

Trinitarian theology rests on a small collection of proof texts — verses that, on the surface, appear to call Yahushua "God" or to demonstrate a plurality within the divine nature. These same verses are repeated across centuries of sermons, creeds, and apologetics. Almost none of them survive close examination.

Each file here takes one of those verses and walks through it carefully: the original language, the manuscript evidence, the context the verse sits in, and what the text actually says once the doctrinal lens is removed.

― The Foundations ―

A handful of arguments turn up in study after study. Rather than re-explain them in every file, each is set down once here, in full — the deeper reading the verse studies point back to.

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Every Proof Text, in Order.

Every verse offered in defense of the Trinity, numbered in canonical order. Written files open; the rest are on the way.

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Genesis 1:1-2
In the Beginning, Elohim
The plural name that wears a single hand
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Genesis 1:26
“Let Us Make Man”
A King announces to His court, then creates alone
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Genesis 3:22
“Like One of Us”
One of a company, not one inside the Almighty
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Genesis 11:7
“Let Us Go Down”
Wrapped on both sides by the One who acts alone
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Genesis 18-19
Three Came to the Tent
The visitor who bore the Name was sent by the One who owns it
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Genesis 20:13
The Hand That Led Abraham
A plural verb is the dress of the language, not a count of gods
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Genesis 35:7
Where God Appeared
One Maker met Jacob, however the verb is spelled
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2 Samuel 7:23
The One Who Went to Redeem
David’s plural verb counts letters, never persons
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Psalm 45:6-7
A Throne, and a God Above It
The king hailed as god still bows to a God of his own
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Psalm 58:11
The Bench of One Judge
A plural form is the fullness of His justice, not a second judge
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Psalm 110:1
My Lord, the Other Lord
The second “lord” is a man at the right hand, not Yahuah
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Proverbs 30:4
The Name of the Son
A riddle to humble proud men, answered by a firstborn people
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Ecclesiastes 12:1
“Remember Thy Creator”
Hebrew lays its grandest plural like a crown on the Maker
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Isaiah 6:8
“Who Will Go For Us?”
A King speaks, and His court is already in the room
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Isaiah 9:6
The Names the Child Would Bear
A throne-name that proclaims the Father, laid on the Son
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Isaiah 40:13-14
The Mind No One Taught
The Spirit of Yahuah is His own mind, not a second counselor
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Isaiah 48:16
The Sender and the Sent
One Sender, His own Spirit, and a comma the Hebrew never wrote
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Isaiah 61:1
Anointed, Filled, and Sent
The servant who is anointed has Another who anoints him
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Isaiah 63:8-10
His Presence, His Own Spirit
A single possessive binds the messenger and the Spirit to the One
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Jeremiah 23:5-6
The Name the Branch Would Carry
A title that honors Yahuah, as cities and altars bore His name
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Daniel 7:13-14
“And There Was Given Him”
One led in and handed a kingdom is no equal of the Giver
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Hosea 1:6-7
Saved by Their God
Yahuah delivering by Yahuah’s own hand, fulfilled in history
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Micah 5:2
Whose Goings Forth Are of Old
Foreknown in the Father’s plan, not pre-existing as a second God
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Zechariah 2:8-11
Sent by the One Who Bears the Name
The messenger speaks with Yahuah’s authority, under Yahuah’s command
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Zechariah 14:9
One Name in All the Earth
The day the idols fall and Yahuah alone is known
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Matthew 3:13-17
The Anointing at the Jordan
A Priest, a King, and the Father’s Oil
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Matthew 5:21-44
“But I say unto you” — authority over the Law
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Matthew 9:2
“Thy sins be forgiven thee”
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Matthew 12:6, 8
Greater than the temple, Lord of the Sabbath
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Matthew 12:32
Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost
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Matthew 14:27
“Be of good cheer; it is I”
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Matthew 16:27
“He shall reward every man according to his works”
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Matthew 19:17-21
“Come and follow me”
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Matthew 21:9
“He that cometh in the name of the Lord”
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Matthew 23:9-10
One Father, one Master
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Matthew 23:37-39
“As a hen gathereth her chickens”
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Matthew 25:31-32
The Son of man judging the nations
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Matthew 26:64
“Sitting on the right hand of power”
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Matthew 28:19
“In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost”
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Mark 2:5-7
Authority Lent, Not Owned
The doubters’ premise, undone by a Son who was given the right
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Mark 12:29-30
“The Lord our God is one Lord”
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Mark 13:32
The One Thing the Son Did Not Know
A day kept back from the Son and held by the Father alone
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Luke 1:35
“The power of the Highest shall overshadow thee”
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Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me”
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Luke 7:16
“God hath visited his people”
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John 1:1
“The Word Was God”
A man’s word is not a second man; Yahuah’s Word is Yahuah speaking
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John 1:14
“The Word was made flesh”
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John 1:18
“The only begotten Son” — or “only begotten God”
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John 2:19-21
The Temple He Would Raise
Destroy or raise up — the same two words stand over every believer’s temple.
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John 4:14, 26
Living water, and “I that speak unto thee am he”
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John 5:18
“Making himself equal with God”
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John 6:20
“It is I; be not afraid”
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John 7:37-38
“Rivers of living water”
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John 8:24, 28
“If ye believe not that I am he”
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John 8:58
“Before Abraham Was, I Am”
Plain Greek words for being, not the divine Name of Exodus
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John 10:1-16
“I am the good shepherd”
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John 10:17-18
The Commandment He Received
The right to take life again — given to the Son, offered to every believer.
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John 10:22-39
One With the Father
A oneness of mission claimed by the Son who was sent
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John 11:25
The Resurrection and the Life
A role the Father gave, not a nature the Son owned
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John 12:13
“Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord”
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John 12:38-41
“When he saw his glory, and spake of him”
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John 13:18-19
“Ye may believe that I am he”
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John 14:6
“I am the way, the truth, and the life”
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John 14:9-11
“He that hath seen me hath seen the Father”
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John 14:16-17, 26
“Another Comforter”
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John 15:26
“The Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father”
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John 16:7, 13
“When he, the Spirit of truth, is come”
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John 17:5
The Glory Kept in Waiting
A glory promised in the Father’s plan before the world was made
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John 20:22
“He breathed on them”
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John 20:28
“My Lord and My God”
The same chapter names whose God Thomas meant
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John 21:17
“Lord, thou knowest all things”
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Acts 1:11-12
“This same Jesus … shall so come”
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Acts 2:17-18, 33
“He hath shed forth this”
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Acts 3:14
“The Holy One and the Just”
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Acts 5:3-4, 9
“Lie to the Holy Ghost … not unto men, but unto God”
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Acts 7:52
“The coming of the Just One”
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Acts 7:59
“Lord Jesus, receive my spirit”
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Acts 10:43
“Through his name whosoever believeth”
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Acts 20:28
“The church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood”
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Acts 22:14
“See that Just One”
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Acts 28:25-27
“Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias”
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Romans 1:3-4
Son of David, declared to be the Son of God
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Romans 8:2
“The law of the Spirit of life”
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Romans 8:9-29
The Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ
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Romans 8:35-39
The love of Christ, the love of God
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Romans 9:1
“I say the truth in Christ … in the Holy Ghost”
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Romans 9:5
Blessed Be the God Over All
A doxology that a misplaced comma lifts to a second God
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Romans 9:32-33
“A stumblingstone and rock of offence”
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Romans 10:13
“Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord”
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Romans 10:20
“I was found of them that sought me not”
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Romans 14:6-9
“Lord both of the dead and living”
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Romans 15:30
“For the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit”
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1 Corinthians 2:10-11
As a Man Knows His Own Mind
The Spirit of Yahuah is His own self, as your spirit is yours
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1 Corinthians 2:16
“We have the mind of Christ”
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1 Corinthians 8:4-6
One God, One Lord
Paul splits the confession and keeps “God” for the Father
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1 Corinthians 12:4-11
Same Spirit, same Lord, same God
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2 Corinthians 1:21-22
Stablished, anointed, and sealed
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2 Corinthians 3:17
The Lord Who Is the Spirit
The Spirit of Yahuah and Yahuah are one presence, not two
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2 Corinthians 4:4
“Christ, who is the image of God”
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2 Corinthians 5:10
“The judgment seat of Christ”
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2 Corinthians 10:17
Glory in the Lord
A line lifted from the prophet, where the Name was already spoken
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2 Corinthians 13:14
And the Love of God
The Father, the Son, and the Father’s Breath
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Galatians 4:4-6
“The Spirit of His Son”
One Spirit — the Father’s — that filled the Son and now fills you
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Galatians 6:14
Glory in the Cross
The boast the Messiah Himself named His hour of glory
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Ephesians 1:3-14
Blessed Be the God and Father
The Blessing That Names Its God
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Ephesians 2:18-5:20
One God and Father of All
The Three Named Together, and the One Above All
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Ephesians 4:8
The Spoils Handed Down
How Yahuah’s triumph became gifts in the Messiah’s hands
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Philippians 2:5-8
“Being in the form of God”
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Philippians 2:10-11
“Every knee should bow”
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Philippians 3:3
“Worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus”
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Colossians 1:15
“The image of the invisible God”
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Colossians 1:16
“By him were all things created”
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Colossians 2:2
“The mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ”
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Colossians 2:9
All the Fulness, Bodily
The Father set His dwelling in the Son, as once in the temple
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1 Thessalonians 1:3-6
God the Father, the Lord Jesus, and the Holy Ghost
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2 Thessalonians 1:12
“Our God and the Lord Jesus Christ”
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2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
Chosen by God, sanctified by the Spirit
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2 Thessalonians 3:5
“The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God”
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1 Timothy 2:5-6
One God, One Mediator
A man stands in the middle — and a man is not the God he carries us to
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1 Timothy 3:16
“God was manifest in the flesh”
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2 Timothy 4:18
“To whom be glory for ever and ever”
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Titus 2:13
“The great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ”
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Titus 3:5-6
Renewing of the Holy Ghost, shed through Jesus Christ
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Hebrews 1:2
“By whom also he made the worlds”
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Hebrews 1:3
“The express image of his person”
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Hebrews 1:6
“Let all the angels of God worship him”
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Hebrews 1:8-9
“Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever”
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Hebrews 1:10-12
“Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth”
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Hebrews 3:1-4
“He that built all things is God”
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Hebrews 3:7-11
“As the Holy Ghost saith”
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Hebrews 9:14; 10:29-30
“Through the eternal Spirit”
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Hebrews 9:16-17
A Will Nobody Wrote
A blood covenant, not a lawyer's will — read the dying 'testator' again.
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Hebrews 13:20
“That great shepherd of the sheep”
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Hebrews 13:21
“To whom be glory for ever and ever”
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1 Peter 1:2
Foreknowledge of the Father, sanctification of the Spirit
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1 Peter 2:8
“A stone of stumbling”
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1 Peter 3:14-16
“Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts”
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1 Peter 4:11
“To whom be praise and dominion”
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1 Peter 4:14
“The spirit of glory and of God”
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1 Peter 5:4
“The chief Shepherd”
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2 Peter 1:1
God, and Savior
A single title and a textual seam, read to fuse Father and Son
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2 Peter 1:21
“Moved by the Holy Ghost”
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2 Peter 3:18
“To him be glory both now and for ever”
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1 John 5:7
The Verse That Was Never There
The Comma Johanneum and the Manufactured Witness
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1 John 5:20
“This is the true God, and eternal life”
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2 John 7-9
“He hath both the Father and the Son”
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Jude 4-5
The Master and the Lord
What Jude meant by the two titles — and the name your modern Bible swapped into verse five
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Jude 25
Through, Not To
The doxology that calls the only God the Saviour — and His Son the road the glory travels
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Revelation 1:17-18
Was Dead, and Alive
The First and the Last, defined by a grave
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Revelation 2:8
The First and the Last
Smyrna’s title — who died, and is alive
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Revelation 2:23
“I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts”
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Revelation 3:7
The Key of David
Holy, true, and holding a steward’s key
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Revelation 5:6
A Lamb in the midst of the throne
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Revelation 5:9
“They sung a new song”
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Revelation 5:11-14
“Worthy is the Lamb”
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Revelation 7:17
“The Lamb … shall feed them”
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Revelation 11:15
“He shall reign for ever and ever”
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Revelation 17:14; 19:16
A Name Written On Him
King of kings — crowned, not self-made
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Revelation 20:6
“Priests of God and of Christ”
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Revelation 21:9
“The bride, the Lamb’s wife”
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Revelation 21:22
“The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple”
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Revelation 22:1, 3
“The throne of God and of the Lamb”
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Revelation 22:3-5
“His servants shall serve him”
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Revelation 22:6-7, 16
“The Lord God of the holy prophets”
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Revelation 22:12
“To give every man according as his work shall be”
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Revelation 22:13
Alpha and Omega — Who Speaks?
The disputed voice of Revelation’s last chapter
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