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ANOTHER KING JAMES BIBLE BELIEVER

When the NEW King James Bible departs from the underlying Greek text of the King James Bible. Matthew 5:37 But let your COMMUNICATION be, Yea, Yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh OF EVIL. The Greek texts read: , . Tyndale and the Geneva Bibles agree word for word with the KJB. The NASB agrees with the KJB. However there are several problems with the NKJV. First of all, the NKJV omits the word communication, then it adds and your, and finally changes the meaning of of evil to from THE EVIL ONE. "Of evil" is the reading of Tyndale, Geneva, NASB, RSV, and the ESV. The NKJV reads: But let your Yes be Yes,(omits communication), AND YOUR (added to text) No, No. For whatsoever is more than these is from THE EVIL ONE. Christ is speaking about the evil that comes from our own hearts, not about Satan. Matt 18:26 (KJV) The servant therefore fell down, AND WORSHIPPED HIM, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Matt 18:26 (NKJV) "The servant therefore fell down before him, saying, 'Master, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.' (NASV, NIV, NRSV) The word worshipped him is in all Greek texts the Geneva Bible and even in the Revised Version and the American Standard Version. The NKJV just chose to omit it as did the RSV, NASB, and NIV. Matthew 18:35, if ye from your hearts forgive not everyone his brother THEIR trespasses. Majority and C have their trespasses, but the Sinaticus and Vaticanus omit, so their is not in the RSV, NASB or NIV. However the NKJV says, HIS trespasses, and his is not found in any manuscript. Their trespasses is found in other Bibles which are based on the Textus Receptus of the KJB, as are Tyndale, Bishops Bible, the Geneva, and Youngs translation. Matthew 22:10, THE WEDDING was furnished with guests. The wedding is o gamos, and is found in the majority, D, B(2), Tyndale, and Geneva; but Sinaticus says o numphon, the wedding hall. The NKJV follows the RSV, NASB, NIV with wedding hall. Matthew 24:13, But he that endureth unto the end, THE SAME shall be saved. The word for THE SAME here is houtos and is rendered as the same in Tyndale, the

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R.V., ASV, and others. This word adds emphasis, and the NASB reads, It is he who shall be saved. The NKJV joins the NIV in omitting this word, and says merely, But he who endures to the end shall be saved. Matthew 24:40 THE one shall be taken, and the other left, there is a definite article before the one which is in the majority and TR (Tyndale, Bishops, Geneva Bible) but is omitted in Sinaticus and Vaticanus and the NKJV along with the RSV, NASB, NIV also omits it. Matthew 25:17, And likewise he that had received two, HE ALSO, gained other two. Here these two little words, kai autos, are found in the majority, TR and A, but W/H omits them and doesnt even show them as an alternative reading. The NKJV also omits them like the NASB and NIV. It says, And likewise he who had received two gained two more also. The Geneva, Young, Darby, Websters, World English Bible, Hebrew Names Version, 21st Century KJB, and the Third Millenium Bible agree with the KJB. Matthew 26:45, Sleep on now and take our rest, is a statement in the majority, in the original Wescott/Hort text, the ASV, Revised Version, Tyndale, Geneva, and Douay. But the UBS (United Bible Society) has later changed this to a question, and now the NKJV follows the RSV, NASB, NIV in making it a question. The NKJV has, Are you still sleeping and resting?. In Mark 9:25, All the texts describe the spirt that attacked a fathers son from his youth as Thou DUMB and DEAF spirit, I charge thee come out of him. The RV, ASV, RSV, NRSV, Tyndale, and Geneva read as the KJB does, dumb and deaf spirit. But the NKJV, NIV and NAS have reversed these two words and say: you DEAF and DUMB spirit. This is not even following their own UBS texts. Mark 12:25 ...nor are given in marriage; but are as THE (hoi) angels which are in heaven. Here the word the (hoi) is found in the Majority of all texts as well as Vaticanus and A, and is even in the NIV. However Sinaiticus and C omit the definite article and so do the NKJV, NASB, RSV. Luke 1:35, that holy thing which shall be born OF THEE (ek sou) shall be called the Son of God. It is the reading in the following mss. and fathers: C, Theta, f1 33 1230 1253 1365 1646 ita itc ite itr Diatessaron Marcion Valentinians Irenaeuslat Tertullian Novatian Gregory Thaumaturgus Adamantius Hilary Athanasius Ephraem Elvira Diodore Amphilochius Ambrose Didymus Chromatius Jerome Marcus Eremita Augustine Proclus and the Speculum. It is also the reading of the Wycliffe Bible of 1395, the Geneva Bible, Whiston's Primitive New Testament 1745 and the Douay-Rheims of 1899. Later Catholic versions such as the 1950 Douay, St. Joseph New American Bible and the Jerusalem

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Bible 1985 omitted the phrase "of thee" but the latest 2009 Catholic Public Domain Version has put the words back in the text once again! "of thee" is also the reading of the KJV 21st Century version 1994, the Amplified Bible, Green's 2000 'literal', the Message 2002, and the Third Millenium Bible 1998. It is the

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