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Bible Versions — three reasons to read and study the KJV

While not the most modern English translation, the KJV is still a popular and accurate version of the Bible. It is acclaimed for its beautiful language, long history, and positive influence in the English-speaking world and beyond.

1.Archaic Accuracy

The thee’s and thou’s serve a bigger purpose than making the KJV translation sound stodgy and archaic. These old-fashioned pronouns preserve a small but important detail from the original text:

“Y” pronouns (ye, you, your, yours) are PLURAL, addressing more than one person. For example: “Ye [collectively] are the salt of the earth.” “TH” pronouns (thee, thou, thy, thine) are SINGULAR, addressing a single individual or each individual in a group. For example: “Thou [one individual] art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.” “Thou [each individual] shalt love the Lord thy God.”

Modern versions of the Bible that only use “Y” pronouns lose this distinction in their English translations. Even the strictest word-for-word translation using modern pronouns is slightly less accurate than the KJV.

2.Brain Food

The KJV does stretch our modern vocabularies. But it’s good for our brains as well as our souls to reach after God and His Word. The archaic language of the KJV reminds us that the depth and breadth of God’s Word and His ways will always be beyond our immediate human comprehension. This is why we need the Savior to redeem us and the Holy Spirit to teach us.

If a Bible translation is true to the original text, we can study it for the rest of our lives and still wonder at its meaning. It’s natural and healthy for us to wonder and ask questions when we read the Bible.

3.Beautiful Obscurity

Isolated words and phrases from the KJV may sound obscure and difficult. But taken as a whole, the form and language of the KJV is generally easier to read, remember, and recite.

KJV English is crafted with a graceful, poetic form and well-chosen words. It has a natural rhythm that reads like poetry, and the translators frequently used alliteration and other subtle literary devices that aid memory. Even secular English scholars agree the KJV contains some of the most beautiful English prose ever written.

A Bible translation that stays true to the original, ancient, foreign text will never sound completely modern. However, the Bible is continually relevant, because it is God’s Word, and God never changes. He will preserve His Word through all generations.

Source: sunlightbibles.com/bible-versions

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The NWT & all non-A.V. translations: “Spirit of Error”

Some counts show over 32,000 perversions in the (NWT & ALL other translations outside of THE Authorized Version) whether it be by word, sentence structure change, punctuation or tense. One can set a study in the Fundamental doctrine and begin to see the formulated pattern that identifies with 1st Century Heresy and Stoics (early Greek Philosophers). HERE ARE ONLY 15!!!

Proverbs 8:22 (KJV) “possessed” — (NWT et al. non-A.V.) “produced” THIS DENIES THE DEITY OF CHRIST JESUS!

Daniel 3:25 (KJV) “Son of God” — (NWT et al. non-A.V.) “son of gods” THIS DENIES THE DEITY OF CHRIST JESUS!

Comparison charts from the source page — “KJV vs. Translations” images 1 and 2 (carrying the remaining examples of the fifteen) — to be exported and added.

The greatest book on “Dispensational Truth” in the world — by Clarence Larkin

Dispensational Truth — Clarence Larkin (complete)PDF

Larkin chart images from the source page — The Vine Post & Trellis, Mysteries 1 & 2, The 3 Tabernacles, 3-Fold Nature of Man, 7 Thousand Years of Human History, and the cover — to be exported and added.

The Resulting Changes — 98 readings, 17 charts

Every reading in The Person of Christ — A Verse-by-Verse Presentation, set against the King James Bible. The study tallies on the order of one hundred places where the recent versions weaken the witness to His deity; those changes are reduced here to how they impact the literary revelation of our own literal God.

•His Lordship — the title “Lord” lifted from His name; a generic “Lord” substituted; “Master” demoted to “Teacher.”
•His Sonship — the Son joined to the Father, then severed; “Son of God” exchanged and questioned; Son, not servant.
•His Eternal Begetting — from everlasting, not a creature; begotten, the express image, foreordained; no mere rank among many; “begotten Son” or “begotten God” — and monogenes.
•His Incarnation — the confession the recent versions will not make.
•His Impeccability — “of Nazareth,” not “the Nazarene”; a charge of sin the Scriptures refuse.
•His Bodily Resurrection — Luke 24 under the knife; the risen body, flesh and bones.
•His Ascension — the absent ascension.
•His Deity — the Godhead withdrawn.

1 Timothy 3:16 (KJV) “God was manifest in the flesh” — (non-A.V.) “He who was revealed in the flesh” · “He appeared in the flesh” THE GODHEAD WITHDRAWN.

The Resulting Changes — 98 readings, 17 charts — **The Resulting Changes** Scripture Dynamics · Coterminous Renewed discussion resource. Ninety-eight readings across seventeen charts, grouped under His Lordship, Sonship, Eternal Begetting, Incarnation, Impeccability, Bodily Resurrection, Ascension and Deity. Tap to open at full size.

Verify every reference against your own King James Bible before any public use. — “Again, be encouraged.”