The verb 'to be' omitted in the NT

There seemed to be some doubt about this in a thread which has now been closed.

I opened my Bible towards the NT and I arrived at Luke 6:20-22. In those three verses, the word 'are' is added three times.. I then turned back to the beatitudes in Matthew 5, and the same thing applies from verse 2 to verse 9.
If you have a KJV, NKJV or NASB, just spend half an hour reading and you will find plenty of instances. These translations put added words in italics. I would be very surprised if there were not more than a hundred of them. Look at Romans 2:29; there are two instances in the one verse.

 

Will one of the mods kindly change 'berb' to 'verb' in the title of the thread?
It seems I can't do it myself. Sorry!

 

Yes, I would like you to step through the rest, please. You asked for examples of places where the verb 'to be' is added; I showed you several, and, whether you like it or not, Luke 6:20 is one of them. ESV. Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of heaven.' Here the translators have added three words, but one of them is 'are.'
The fact that 'ye' or 'you' is also added is a separate issue, as is the fact that the verb to be shows up later.
The fact also is that the translators have added the word 'are' because they think, rightly or wrongly, that it helps the sense, but the Greek makes perfect sense without it, otherwise the Holy Spirit would not have written it that way.

 

I know.

This is all quite right, but you asked for examples of English versions adding the verb 'to be,' and I gave some to you. The reasons for the additions are as you have said, but it doesn't alter the fact that the KJV and just about every other version supplies the verb to be where the Greek omits it, and this it does time after time.
Here are a few more (I use the NKJV but I expect that the KJV is the same): Romans 12:9-10; 14:14; Ephesians 4:4. As I said, I shall be very surprised if a hundred such examples cannot be found in the N.T..

You may remember that the origin of all this was a suggestion that the addition of 'to be' in James 2:5 was some sort of nefarious plot to alter the meaning of the verse. However the NKJV also adds the verb 'to be' in James 1:8, 26, James 3:8 and James 3:16 (twice). They do this to help the sense. To write 'For where envy and self-seeking, confusion and every evil thing there' is simply not good English.

 

I disagree. To write, '..... hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom......' may perhaps have been good English in 1611, but it isn't so today. It suggests that God chooses the heirs to His kingdom which is a tautology.
That is why the NKJV is better: 'has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom......' If one is determined to deny election, I suppose one could exchange to be with who are, but although it would read better, it does not avoid the tautology. How could God choose anyone who was not a heir to the kingdom. That's a non sequitur.
But the NKJV rendering, which is followed by virtually all modern versions, accords with 1 Corinthians 1:26-27, and indeed with Mark 10:25-27.
I might add that Thomas Manton, who did not have the NKJV in front of him, writes in his commentary on James:
"Hath not God chosen? that is, by the special designment of grace he hath singled out the poor to be heirs of life."

 

Fair enough, but you have replaced one addition with another; in fact, if you want to make it intelligible, you need two additions and one subtraction ('and'):
". . . Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world [who are] rich in faith, [to be] heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? . . ." Not all poor people are rich in faith.
I will stick with the NKJV reading, thanks; IMO, it is the simplest and clearest translation, though I don't expect you to agree.

And with regard to the O.P., it just shows that it is impossible to translate Greek adequately without making additions, especially of the verb 'to be.'