What is as good or better than the 1611 King James Bible for todays english?
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Bible translations vary according to readability and tightness of translation.  The more tight the translation the harder it is to read.  This is because there is not a perfect correspondence between languages.  If you are looking for a very readable Bible I'd recommend the GOOD NEWS.  This is available in both Catholic and non-Catholic editions.  The GOOD NEWS was intended to be read easily by those with a 6th grade vocabulary.  The translators did a very good job with it.  I use it often.  On the other end of the spectrum is the NEW OXFORD.  This is not available in a Catholic edition.  For Catholics the tightest translation is probably the NEW JERUSALEM.  The KING JAMES holds an interesting place in history and among Bible translations.  It was not translated with either readability or tightness in mind.  Rather it was translated as an orator's Bible.  It is meant to have a poetic quality, easy to hear and remember.  This is because at the time of it's translation many people were illiterate and few people could afford to own their own Bible.  Another interesting note on the KING JAMES.  It was commissioned by King James of England in part because other then available English translations were biased toward Catholics.  Ironically it is now the Bible of choice for evangelical Christians.
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The Good News with  deuterocanonical/Apocrypha has 962 pages in the Old Testament and 350 in the New Testament.The Authorized King James Version  has 987 in the Old Testament and a total of 1291 in the entire Bible. As you can see, the pages depend on factors that vary from version to version.
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What you are looking for is called a "loose leaf Bible".  I used to have one and they are really nice.  It comes in different translations but the KJV is probably the easiest to find.  The loose leaf Bible is a Bible in a three (or more) ring binder form.  So not only can you remove just the books you need and put them in another binder, but you can insert your own note pages anywhere you want since it's like a notebook.  Another answerer mentoned a J. Vernon McGee Bible study series.  That is also another good option.  You can get each individual book really cheap at used book stores.  J.Vernon McGee is a very good commentator and offers some very easy to understand insights into the scriptures.  There are other commentaries like his that come in individual books as well.  So, you have a lot of good options out there.  You can also download for free individual books of the Bible in the King James Version and print them out and make your own loose leaf Bible that way.  (The King James Version is free because there is no copyright on this version.)  Just Google search "free Bible downloads" and you'll come across it.  Good luck and I hope I've been of some help to you.
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Read the book of Acts in the New Testament, King James Version.
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http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/\n\nI like how you said "Now that there are different versions of the book." Welcome to the 16th century.
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The Autographa, or the words God breathed into the men who were to write them down, is the best.\n\nUnfortunately, it does not exist, and we only have copies of copies which now comprise our bibles.  That's why pastors are trained in Greek/Hebrew, and why many churches say they accept God's Word, as inspired in the original languages, as their sole source of authority.  Even so, there is no other earthly book that has been so scrutinized.\n\nIn English, The King James Version (KJV), though it has some mistakes, has stood the test of time, and the New KJV may be easier to read.  As the saying goes: if it was good enough for the apostle Paul, it's good enough for me!  \n\nSome versions seem to sacrifice meaning for simplicity.  However, JB Philips compiled a helpful paraphrase of the New Testament, and there is a paraphrase of the ASV called The Living Bible.\n\nIf memory serves, the (N)RSV/ASV were made to incorporate Common Greek instead of Classical Greek.  The New American Standard Bible (NASB) gives perhaps the best word-for-word translation, while the New International Version (NIV) is easier to read and uses an idea-for-idea translation.  \n\nOne of the latest translations is the English Standard Version (ESV), which is a blend of the RSV and the NASB having better accuracy & improved idioms.  It seems popular in conservative circles.
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I have used a Scofiled study bible for years, this is also what our pastor uses as well as a lot of pastorial schools, another good thing to have is a Strongs Concordance.
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The Old Testament was agreed upon by several Hebrew scholars collecting and translating the existing documents they had in their posession 2-3000 years ago...\n\nThe King James Version was the English translation of both the Old & New Testaments agreed upon by a panel for King James in 1611...
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BibleGateway.com - Version information: King James Version  \nEnglish (EN) Español (ES) King James Version. Version " King James Version. Testaments. OT/NT. Version Information. In 1604, King James I of England authorized that a new translation of the Bible into English be started. ... prose rhythm has had a profound influence on the literature of the past 300 years. The King James Version present on the Bible ... Bible-Book List ...biblegateway.com/
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Note: The word "Bible" comes from the Koine Greek word "biblios" and it simply means the same as the word "book" in English. Nowhere in the Bible do we find the word "Bible." However, it is interesting to note the word "kitab" (Bible in Arabic) appears many times in the Quran, referring to the Bible and the People of the Book (Jews and Christians). \n\nLet me begin by saying that the King James "version" of the Bible is in English. There was no English language until the year 1066 AD when the Normans invaded the Saxxons. Therefore the English Bible cannot be anything like what any of the prophets spoke or understood, as it did not exist in their times.\n\nNext, my grandfather, who was a devout and wonderful Christian man gave a gift of the Holy Bible to my sisters and I almost fifty years ago. It was an authorized version of the Bible, being The Revised Standard Version of the Bible which was a revised version of the American Standard Version, published in 1901, which was a version of the King James Version, published in 1611, which was revised and corrected for the first time in 1612, etc. I was very much impressed with the easier to read text and clarification of some of the wording which was presented in this version and began to read the Bible on a daily basis for hours at a time. The removal of the Elizabethton English terms, phrases and expressions made the Bible a more accessible and understandable and intimate Book for me. But that is not all the RSV did for me and many others, as well.\n\nMy love and respect  for the Word of God increased the more that I spent time reading and understanding the message. The Bible became my most prized and respected book in my life. I often turned to it throughout the rest of my life in times of joy, happiness, sadness, troubles and pain. It was my compass, my road map, my weather vane and my friend. However, there were still some problems with this IMPROVED VERSION of the Holy Bible. It began to disturb and concern me to the extent that I made consultation with my father, who was also an ordained minister and student of the Bible since childhood. Based on his research and background in the origin and sources for modern day Christianity, I began to go deeper into the problems which had plagued my thinking and faith since childhood.\n\nI prayed to Almighty God and then found the answers to some of the problems were spelled out very clearly in the very beginning of the exact same book.  I have that book lying in front of me on my desk as I write this article and would like to quote to you from some of the PREFACE page iii and iv: \n\n"The King James Version has with good reason been termed 'the noblest monument of English prose.' Its revisers in 1881 expressed admiration of 'its simplicity, its dignity, its power, its happy turns of express... the music of its cadences, and the felicities of its rhythm.' It entered, as no other book has, into the making of the personal character and the public institutions of the English-speaking peoples. We owe to it an incalculable debt."\n\n"Yet the King James Version has grave defects. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the development of Biblical studies and the discovery of many manuscripts more ancient than those upon which the King James Version was based, made it manifest that these defects are so many and so serious as to call for a revision of the English translation. The task was undertaken, by authority of the Church of England, in 1870. The English Revised Version of the Bibles was published in 1881-1885; and the American Standard Version, its variant embodying the preferences of the American scholars associated in the work, was published in 1901."\n\n"Because of the unhappy experience with unauthorized publications in the two decades between 1881 and 1901, which tampered with the text of the English Revised Version in the supposed int
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My favorite quote ever, "if good old fashioned American English was good enough for Jesus and the apostles it's good enough for me" \n\nMy history prof was traveling to Russia and his buddy asked him to pick up a KJV in Russian for him-- there are so many problems with that request, I don't know where to start- HA!
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The KJV Bible was modernised as it was written in old English and too hard for most people to understand.  I personally love this version, so there's no need to stop using it.\n\nThe term Jesus saves is true, but He saves through the repenting of sins.
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1 Corinthians 13:11 (King James Version)
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I dont believe there are any versions outside of the original texts that are more accurate than the next. There are flaws in the 1611 KJV as well as the NIV and every other version... I dont like the NWT though because it deliberately changes text to fit the Jehovah's Witness doctrines. (if you dont believe the KJV has flaws, contact me and I'll be happy to share them with you)
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The KJV was meticulously translated.  By man.  And, no surprise, it isn't perfect.\nThere IS no perfect translation because, even if you have a Hebrew, Greek or Chaldean lexicon, you don't have the meaning of the words from 2,000 years ago.  Meanings change.  Take the word "gay" for example - means something VERY different today than it did 20 years ago.\nWithout taking the time to learn the original languages, then do have the lexicons as well as a Strongs (or other) Concordance.  Read the same passages in different versions for richer comprehension.  A passage read from the KJV, the NIV and The Message takes on new dimension.\nRead it - and read it sloooowly and patiently!  Read it reguarly.  And read it again and again.  What had no relevance (seemingly) last month can suddenly leap out at you today.
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In 1611 the King James bible was published as the first official English translation. There were other English translations in circulation before this date but they were never authorised and some were even banned by the King and were published in Holland and other locations abroad...