The English Standard Version (ESV) has become a popular and favourite modern version thanks to reformed Calvinism and John MacArthurs mark of approval, using this version as the basis for his study Bible. This version however, like all other modern English versions of the Bible, can trace its origins not to the reformation or to the first century, but to 1881, and it (and all 150+) is a false way; they all derive from the corrupt gnostic-laced Critical Text (CT) that was publ