Welcome to the new, unfinished modern language King James Bible. Note the "alpha" and "beta". Alpha is an in-house test, beta is a public test.
What's wrong with the traditional KJV? What's wrong with modern Bibles?
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Welcome to the new, unfinished modern language King James Bible. Note the "alpha" and "beta". Alpha is an in-house test, beta is a public test.
What's wrong with the traditional KJV? What's wrong with modern Bibles?
From 1611 until the early 1970s, the King James Bible (KJV) was the only Christian Bible (although there were earlier English language Bibles), and several groups of people decided separately that the old KJV is too hard to read for modern readers. Even though I’ve read hundreds of old books, some passages are hard for me.
But all of the new versions have two huge problems: None of them match what the KJV says; One of them says, in the ten commandments, “do not lie.” That’s not what KJV says, it says “thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor”, meaning “do not slander”, not lie. One version says Jesus was a slave; Jesus was never a slave. Slaves have no freedom and serve from fear. The King James says he was a servent. As if because a horse is a four legged animal, a dog is a horse because it has four legs.
The second is worst: all the other Bibles are under copyright; their words are owned by men who worship money. They will sue if you publish their Bibles.
This Bible is under copyright, but you are free to share it any way you wish, even selling copies, but you must share the entire Bible with no changes whatever. Unlike the other Bibles, its copyright will expire 95 years after I die. The others continually change theirs periodically, claiming they made mistakes, but they’re really in it for the money. You can’t serve both God and money.
This is obviously a work in progress. Where progress ends, there will be a link to the traditional KJV where you left off here.
This version is only edited for modern grammar and spelling making it easier to read.
This work is written in plain text HTML. Most modern browsers allow you to enlarge the text if you wish, in FireFox [CTRL]+[F11] on a computer enlarges the typeface.
The "Read Aloud" Link is an MP3 file you can download or listen to online.
To go directly to any chapter and verse, go to the wanted book and add # plus the chapter and verse. For example, to read John 3:16 go to the book of John and add #3:16 to the address bar. To go to the start of a chapter, simply add # and the chapter number.
Illustrations are from the past artistic masters of antiquity, such as Rembrandt and Van Gogh.
Future versions will have links to and from prophesy spoken to prophesy fulfilled.
If you find any innacuracies or have any suggestions or criticisms, please email publish@mcgrewbooks.com. If you wish to pay for this copy of your Bible, please leave any desired payment with your own church's pastor or simply give to the poor. Please do not attempt to renumerate me, this work is for our Lord and Savior and is a labor of love.