The Bible is the most translated text in history and the consensus of meaning among Christians of all the nations is very good. Interestingly enough, in translating the Bible, Tyndale introduced new words and phrases which had a dramatic effect on the evolution of the English language:
- lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil
- knock and it shall be opened unto you
- twinkling of an eye
- a moment in time
- fashion not yourselves to the world
- seek and you shall find
- eat, drink and be merry
- ask and it shall be given you
- judge not that you not be judged
- the word of God which liveth and lasteth forever
- let there be light
- the powers that be
- my brother's keeper
- the salt of the earth
- a law unto themselves
- filthy lucre
- it came to pass
- gave up the ghost
- the signs of the times
- the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak
- live and move and have our being
- fight the good fight
In a real sense you could say that God, the Creator of all languange, wrote English in the Bible.