The Bibles

The Bibles

If you are in the market of purchasing a Bible, it's like buying a car. You have all kinds of options. What kind of cover? Hardback, leather or paperback. What version? King James or NIV? Do you want a study Bible? What color? Large or small print? Red lettered? Silver leaf? Book tabs? Dictionary? Maps? Glossary? Do you want it suited to your lifestyle? There are many options available to you.

They are not all created equally.

Small things that man has added can change the meaning of a verse. Such as a comma, period, question mark, etc. The scribes of the different versions of the Bible are threading on dangerous ground with their own interruptions.

The version I consider more reliable than all others is the Authorized King James Version. The Authorized version does not need to be confused with the regular King James Version. Since the 20th century, there has been an on going attack on the KJV. The KJV before the 20th century included more books than we have in it today. The Authorized KJV included the books of the Apocrypha. They were the books of third and fourth Esdras, Tobit, Judith, The rest of Esther from Chapter 10:4-16:24, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus (aka Sirach), Baruch and the Epistle of Jeremy, Song of the Three Children, Daniels chapter 13 and 14 (aka the story of Susanna and the Idol Bel and the Dragon), Prayer of Manasses and first and second Maccabees.

As the KJV as our cornerstone, let's compare some of the different versions. I will compare the New International Version, New American Standard Version, Revised Standard Version and The Living Bible. These seem to be the most popular ones.

Matthew 5:22	Removed the word “without a cause”
Matthew 5:44	Removed the words, “bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you”
Matthew 6:13	Removed the words, “but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.”
Matthew 9:13	Removed the words, “to repentance”
Matthew 17:21	Removed entire verse
Matthew 18:11	Removed entire verse, “For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.”
Matthew 19:9	Removed “and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.”
Matthew 19:17	Changed "Why callest thou me good" to "Why do you ask me about what is good"
Matthew 19:17	Removed the word God
Matthew 20:7	Removed "and whatsoever is right that shall ye receive"
Matthew 20:16	Removed "for many be called but few chosen"
Matthew 20:22	Removed “and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”
Matthew 23:14	Removed entire verse “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.”
Matthew 24:36	Added “nor the Son”
Matthew 25:13	Removed "wherein the Son of man cometh"
Matthew 27:35	Removed “that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.”
Mark 2:17	Removed “to repentance”
Mark 3:29	Changed "eternal damnation" to "eternal sin"
Mark 6:11	Removed “Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city”
Mark 7:16	Removed entire verse
Mark 9:44	Removed entire verse
Mark 9:46	Removed entire verse
Mark 9:49	Removed "and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt"
Mark 10:21	Removed “take up the cross”
Mark 10:24	Removed “for them that trust riches”
Mark 11:10	Removed “that cometh in the name of the Lord”
Mark 11:26	Removed entire verse
Mark 12:23	Removed “when they shall rise”
Mark 12:40	Changed greater damnation TO punished most severely
Mark 13:33	Removed “and pray”
Mark 14:68	Removed “and the cock crew”
Mark 15:28	Removed entire verse “And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.”
Mark 16:9-20	Removed last 12 verses
Luke 1:28	Removed “blessed art thou among women”
Luke 2:14	Changed “good will toward men TO to men on whom his favor rests”
Luke 2:22	Makes Jesus a Sinner
Luke 2:33	Changed Joseph to his father (attacking the virgin birth)
Luke 2:43	Changed “Joseph and his mother” to “parents”
Luke 4:4	Removed “but by every word of God”
Luke 4:8	Removed “get thee behind me, Satan”
Luke 4:18	Removed “he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted”
Luke 6:48	Changed "founded upon a rock" to "well built"
Luke 9:54	Removed “even as Elijah did”
Luke 9:55	Removed last 9 words “and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.”
Luke 9:56	Removed first 16 words “For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.”
Luke 11:2	Removed 15 words from the Lord's Prayer
Luke 11:4	Removed “but deliver us from evil”
Luke 17:36	Removed entire verse
Luke 23:38	Removed "letters of Greek,Latin, Hebrew"
John3:13	Removed “which is in heaven”
John 3:15	Removed “should not perish'
John 4:42	Removed “the Christ”
John 5:3	Removed “waiting for the moving of the water”
John 5:4	Removed entire verse “For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.”
John 5:16	Removed “and sought to slay him”
John 5:29	Changed damnation to condemned
John 6:47	Removed “on me”
John 7:43-8:11	Removed verses
John 8:9	Removed “being convicted by their own conscience”
John 8:59	Removed last 10 words “going through the midst of them, and so passed by”
John 9:4	Changed "I must work the works" to "We must work the works"
John 9:35	Changed "Son of God" to “Son of Man”
John 11:41	Removed "For the place where the dead was laid"
John 14:2	Changed "mansions" to "rooms"
John 14:16	Changed “Comforter” to “advocate”
John 16:16	Removed “because I go to the Father”
John 17:12	Removed “in the world”
James 5:16	Changed faults to sins
1 Peter 1:22	Removed "through the Spirit"
1 Peter 2:2	Removed "of the word"
1 Peter 3:15	Changed the Lord God TO Christ as Lord
1 Peter 4:1	Removed “for us”
1 Peter 4:14	Removed last 15 words
1 Peter 5:10	Removed Jesus
1 Peter 5:11	Removed glory
1 Peter 5:14	Removed Jesus
1 John 1:7	Removed Christ
1 John 4:3	Removed “Christ is come in the flesh” (makes the NIV part of the antichrist)
1 John 4:9	Removed begotten
1 John 4:19	Removed Him
1 John 5:7	Removed last 15 words “in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”
1 John 5:8	Removed first nine words “And there are three that bear witness in earth”
1 John 5:13	Removed last 13 words “and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God”
2 John 1:3	Removed the Lord
Jude 1:25	Removed wise
Rev 1:8	Removed the beginning and the end
Rev 1:9	Removed Christ (twice)
Rev 1:11	Removed “I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last”
Rev 1:18	Removed Hell
Rev 2:15	Removed “which thing I hate”
Rev 5:14	Removed “Him that liveth for ever and ever”
Rev 6:8	Removed Hell
Rev 6:17	Changed his wrath to their wrath
Rev 8:13	Changed angel to eagle
Rev 11:15	Changed kingdoms to kingdom
Rev 11:17	Removed “and art to come”
Rev 12:12	Removed “inhabiters of”
Rev 12:17	Removed Christ
Rev 14:5	Removed “before the throne of God”
Rev 15:3	Changed King of saints to King of the ages
Rev 16:5	Removed “and shalt be”
Rev 16:7	Changed “and I heard another out of the altar say” to “and I heard the alter respond”
Rev 16:17	Removed “of Heaven”
Rev 20:9	Removed “from God out of”
Rev 20:12	Changed “God” to “Throne”
Rev 20:13&14	Removed “hell”
Rev 21:24	Removed “of them which are saved”
Rev 22:14	Changed “do his commandments” to “wash their robes”
Rev 22:21	Removed Christ

That's just the tip of the iceberg. If you mess with the words, you mess with the true meaning of what God intended us to have. If you noticed I did not include any of Paul's writings. Paul's writings will be covered in the next few chapters.