Why Modern “bible” Versions Are Wrong – For Your Visitation Bible

The King James Bible is right and the modern versions are wrong.  This post will give you an outline to demonstrate the problems with the modern versions.  For information about why the King James is right, please see our post: Why The King James Bible? Outline For Your Visitation Bible

 

Key: Look up the modern version that you are wondering about, then look at the list to see what they change.

NIV:  all except 7, 24

NASV: all except 10, 24, 26, 35

NJKV: all except 7, 16, 21, 24, 25, 26, 31, 32, 33, 37

NRSV: all except 24

RSV: all except 9, 24, 31

Living “bible”: all except 1,4,7,9,11,16,18,23,24,26,28,29,34

Amplified “bible”: all except 8-10,12,17,19,24,31,33,34

1. Matt 18:11 – verse removed
2. Mark 1:2 – changes “prophets” to “Isaiah”
3. Mark 9:44 – removed
4. Luke 2:33 – “Joseph” to “child’s father”
5. Luke 4:4 – omits “But by every word of God”
6. Luke 4:8 – omits “Get thee behind me Satan”
7. Luke 16:23 – “Hell” to “Hades”
8. Luke 23:42 – “Lord” to “Jesus”
9. John 1:18 – “Son” to “God” – This is the JW reading
10. John 3:16 – removes “begotten”
11. John 5:4 – removed
12. John 6:69 – omits “Christ the Son of the Living God”
13. John 9:35 – “Son of God” to “Son of Man”
14. John 14:2 – “Mansions” to “rooms”
15. Acts 1:3 – “infallible proofs” to “convincing proofs”
16. Acts 2:31 – “Hell” to “grave” or “Hades”
17. Acts 4:27 – “Holy child Jesus” to “Holy servant Jesus”
18. Acts 8:17 – removed
19. Acts 16:31 – removes “Christ”
20. Acts 28:29 – removed
21. Rom 1:25 – “changed the truth” to “exchanged the truth”
22. Rom 8:1 – last half removed
23. Rom 16:24 – removed
24. I Cor 15:55 – “grave” to “Hades”
25. II Cor 2:17 – “corrupt” to “peddle”
26. II Cor 5:17 – “new creature” to “new creation”
27. Eph 3:14 – removes “of our Lord Jesus Christ”
28. Phil 2:6 – changed to deny Deity of Christ
29. Col 1:14 – removes “through his blood”
30. I Tim 3:16 – “God” to “he”
31. I Tim 6:10 – “root of all evil” to “root of all kinds of evil”
32. I Tim 6:20 – “science” to “knowledge”
33. II Tim 2:15 – changes “study”
34. Heb 1:3 – removes “by himself”
35. I Pet 2:2 – removes “of the word”
36. I Pet 2:2 – “grow thereby” to “grow up in your salvation”
37. I John 3:16 – removes “Love of God”
38. I John 5:7 – last half removed
39. Rev 8:13 – “angel” to “eagle”
40. Rev 22:14 – “do his commandments” to “wash their robes”

There are a plethora of other changes.  This is just a sampling as whole books have been written on the subject.  The changes in the modern versions are made for a couple of reasons.  One is that they are based off of bad manuscripts that have been defined by the corrupt scholarly community as “older” which they most certainly are not.  The second major reason for the differences between the King James Bible and the modern versions is that the translators themselves have taken liberties in translation.  That is, when they can prove a point by translating literally, they translate literally.  When they can prove a point by translating by ideas instead of literally, they translate by ideas.  The whole process is corrupt.

If you have any questions about why these changes are bad, please ask in the comments below.