I do not think that any of these seven changes are controversial. The wording of each is paralleled in other recent translations (ESV, NET, HCSB).74 Most of what I have read in the NIV11 is similarly noncontroversial,75 but some passages have drawn particular criticism. Before we tackle the controversial passages it is worth pointing out that all translations have warts. Every translation of the Bible ever produced in any language is a human production, and not
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