Pilgrim, I think you have committed a logical fallacy or two (esp the Ad hominem fallacy). Whether it is like the RSV or not is not the issue. The fact is that the ESV is an evangelical revision of the RSV - I don't know of any major theological (liberal) problem with the ESV as such.

On the whole it is more readable than the NASB. That is beyond dispute.

I tend to agree with you on the NKJV vs ESV. I hold to the Byzantine priority text so like the NKJV here (though its TR base is problematic), however the ESV is more accurate than the NKJV. The NKJV tends to follow some of the translation errors of the KJV, unfortunately.

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Stephen Smith
Reformed Baptist
New Zealand