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Here is the first verse in multiple translations and you can click at the top on the "Greek" tab to see the original in various texts:

BibleHub on 2 Peter 1:20

The Young's Literal Translation is interesting.

My reading is that the prophets weren't speaking their own words but only whatever God told them to say.

"Here is the first verse in multiple translations and you can click at the top on the "Greek" tab to see the original in various texts: BibleHub on 2 Peter 1:20 The Young's Literal Translation is interesting. My reading is that the prophets weren't speaking their own words but only whatever God told them to say."

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Well, Alamo-Girl, people will have different opinions as to what any Bible text means, but they really can't have a different opinion about what is actually there in the Greek (and they can't add Greek words that are not there already), and that was my point way back in that earlier post.

As I said in post #587, the Greek for 2 Peter 1:20 (found here - also at "BibleHub", literally says the following:

"This first knowing that any prophecy of scripture of its own interpretation not is"

Various Bible translation teams have come up with many different interpretations for that text, and in that same post #587 on this thread, I included some of the more common Protestant Bible translations of that particular text, as shown again here:

Some Common Protestant Bible Versions Of "2 Peter 1:20"

"Knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation." - 2 Peter 1:20 - American Standard Version (ASV)

"Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation." - 2 Peter 1:20 - King James Version (KJV)

"But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation." - 2 Peter 1:20 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

"First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation." - 2 Peter 1:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV) - Protestant Edition)