This chapter came out of G.A. Riplinger's book, New Age Bible Versions. If you are truly interested in where the new "bibles" are taking us, you need to read that book.

ELEVEN

King James for Kids

TREND TEN

In the last says...men shall be HEADY, HIGHMINDED II Timothy 3:4

At the intersection of Bible Boulevard, Madi$on Avenue and Wall $treet, there are many crooked turns of the truth. Advertising campaigns create a cloud of confusion, calling the KJV "obscure, confusing and sometimes incomprehensible." While they crown the NIV's "clarity and ease of reading" and the NASB's "contemporary English." Christians are coerced by full color ads written to color the plain facts by advertising, not English majors. The Flesch-Kincaid research company's Grade Level Indicator betrays the strictly black and white nature of the issue showing the new version's true colors. The KJV ranks easier in 23 out of 26 comparisons. (Their formula is: (.39 x average number of words per sentence) + (11.8 x average number of syllables per word) -(15.59) = grade level. The first chapter of the first and last books of both the Old and New Testaments were compared. (All complete sentences, whether terminating in a period, colon, or semi-colon, and all incomplete phrases ending in a period, were calculated as 'sentences'.)
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KJV Grade LevelNIV Grade LevelNASB Grade LevelTEV Grade LevelNKJV Grade Level
Gen. 14.45.14.75.15.2
Mal. 14.64.85.15.44.6
Matt. 16.716.46.811.810.3
Rev. 17.57.17.76.47.7
Grade Level Average5.88.46.17.26.9

To extend the inquiry, one each of the three book-types (Gospel, Pauline epistle, General epistle) were surveyed. The resulting data confirms the readability of the KJV.
KJVNIVNASBGood News (TEV)NKJV
John 1:1-213.63.64.25.93.9
Gal 1:1-218.69.810.46.78.9
James 1:1-215.76.57.06.06.4

Why is the KJV easier to read? The KJV uses one or two syllable words while new versions substitute complex multi-syllable words and phrases. Their "heady, high-minded" vocabulary hides the hope of salvation from simple saints and sinners.
Seeing then that ye have such hope, we use great plainness of speech. (KJV) II Cor. 3:12
The NASB substitutes "lividness of speech" here and carries this confusing and condescending vocabulary from cover to cover. Children and church members need to change to the KJV for "clarity". An extensive list is given because Christians have been so extensively brainwashed to 'believe a lie'.

NASB vs. KJVHARD WORD (NASB)EASY WORD (KJV)
Matt. l:ll, 1:17
deportation
carried away
Matt. l:20
considered
thought
Matt. 2:1, 2:7
magi
wise men
Mark. 2:21
unshrunk
new
Matt. 2:16
environs
coasts
Luke 3:17, Matt.3:12
winnowing fork
fan
Luke 11:33, Matt. 5:15, Mark 4.21
peck-measure
bushel
Matt. 5:19
annuls
break
Matt. 5:21
murder
kill
Luke 5:29, Matt. 8:11
recline at the table
sat
Matt. 8:32
begone
go
Matt. 9:13, 12:7
compassion
mercy
Matt. 9:17
wineskins
bottles
Matt. 9:18
official
certain ruler
Mark 5:25, Matt. 9:20
hemorrhage
issue of blood
Matt. 9:20, 14:36
fringe
hem
Matt. 9:38
beseech
pray
Matt. 10:1
summoned
called
Matt. 10:10
tunics
coats
Matt. 10:16
shrewd
wise
Matt. 11:26
well pleasing
good
Matt. 13:46
value
price
Matt. 14:24
but the boat was already many stadia away
was now in the midst of the sea
[But in Mark 6:47, NASB uses "midst of the sea" and in John 7:14 they use "midst of the feast"]
Matt. 12:24
battered
tossed

HARD WORD (NASB)EASY WORD (KJV)
Matt. 15:6
invalidated
made
Matt. 15:17
eliminated
cast out
Matt. 16:27
recompense
reward
Matt. 17:24
two-drachma tax
tribute
Matt. 17:27
stater
piece of money
Matt. 18:32
entreated
desiredst
Matt. 20:15
generous
good
Matt. 20:2
denarious
penny
Matt. 21:15
indigant
displeased
Matt. 22:38
foremost
first
Matt. 23:37
were unwilling
would not
Matt. 24:2
torn down
thrown down
(implies violence)
Matt. 25:2
prudent
wise
Matt. 25:10
make the purchase
buy
Matt. 26:4
stealth
subtility
Matt. 26:7. Luke 7:37
vial
box
Matt. 26:46
arise
rise
Matt. 26:50
seized
took
Matt. 26:58
entered
went
Matt. 26:59
in order that they might
to
Matt. 27:27
Praetorium
common hall
Matt. 27:27
whole Roman cohort
band of soldiers
Mark 15:16
whole Roman cohort
band
Matt. 27:65
know how
can
Mark 1:12
impelled
driveth
Mark 1:14
custody
prison
Mark 4:37
gale
storm
Mark 4:38
stern
hinder part of the ship
Mark 5:4
subdue
tame
Mark 5:5
gashing
cutting
Mark 6:8
mere
only
Mark 6:53
moored
drew
Mark 8:36
forfeit
lose
Mark 12:28
foremost
first
Mark 13:9
flogged
beaten
Mark 14:1
stealth
craft
Mark 14:3
vial
box
Mark 14:3, 14:18
reclining
sat

HARD WORD (NASB)EASY WORD (KJV)
Luke 1:22
mute
speechless
Mark 15:16
palace
hall
Mark 15:18
acclaim
salute
Luke 3:5
ravine
valley
Luke 6:17
descended
came down
Luke 5:5
bidding
word
Luke 6:22
ostracize
separate you from
their company
Luke 6:48
torrent burst
stream beat
Luke 6:49
collapsed
fell
Luke 7:2
highly regarded
dear
Luke 7:32
sang a dirge
have mourned
Luke 8:15
perservance
patience
Luke 8:31
the abyss
the deep
Luke 8:33
rushed
ran
Luke 9:39
seizes
taketh
Luke 9:42
dashed him to the ground
threw him
Luke 9:45
concealed
hid
Luke 10:2
plentiful
great
Luke 10:2
beseech
pray
Luke 10:20
recorded
written
Luke 10:21
well-pleasing
good
Luke 11:21
undisturbed
in peace
Luke 11:28
observe it
keep it
Luke 23:45
being obscured
darkened
(This has other implications. It states that
the sun was darkened being obscured,
implying the natural phenomenon of an eclipse
rather than a supernatural move of God.)
Luke 18:40
questioned
asked
John 6:60
difficult
hard
John 7:6
opportune
ready
John 10:23
portico
porch
John 10:24
suspense
doubt
John ll:17
tomb
grave
John 11:57
seize
take
John 11:39
stench
stinketh
John 12:45
beholds
seeth
John 12:40
perceive
understand
John 13:12
reclined
set down

HARD WORD (NASB)EASY WORD (KJV)
John 13:23recliningleaning
John 14:27fearfulafraid
John 16:8concerningof
John 16:19deliberating inquire
John 16:25figurative languageproverbs
John 16:26on your behalffor you
John 17:4accomplished finished
John 17:8understoodknown
John 17:9I ask on their behalfI pray for them
John 18:1ravinebrook
John 18:3, 18:12Roman cohorta band
John 18:28, 18:33, 19:9Praetoriumhall of judgement
John 19:2arrayed put on
John 19:20inscription title
John 19:23tuniccoat
John 21:7stripped for worknaked
John 16:16, 16:19beholdsee
John 16:19are you deliberatingdo you inquire
John 18:12arrestedtook
John 18:14on behalf offor
Acts 1:7epochsseasons
Acts 1:7fixedput
Acts 1:16arrestedtook
Acts 2:22attestedapproved
Acts 2:26exultedwas glad
Acts 2:26abiderest
Acts 3:11, 5:12porticoporch
Acts 3:12pietyholiness
Acts 5:40floggedbeaten
Acts 7:13disclosed made known
Acts 8:20silvermoney
Acts 10:1cohortband
Acts 10:5dispatchsend

Scriptures to Memorize, But What Size?

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. Psalm 119:11

The memorization of scripture, which is the "sword of the Spirit," is a necessary self-defense against sin. Simple sentence structure and single syllable words certainly simplify this task. Satan strives to stop this safeguard against sin, so new versions keep the "sword" wrapped in a sheath of words. They consistently use twice the number of words and syllables as the KJV, to say the same thing.

For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this hook: Revelation 22:18

The sentence structure of the new versions can only be called a labyrinth.

World Class Bible

God wrote a world-class book, not a nineteen-nineties novelty. The language of the KJV was carried from continent to continent for 400 years as the British Empire colonized the globe. The British presence, power, and cultural pull on the New, Far and Middle East, Africa, India, Australia, Europe, Canada, Russia, etc. has carried Anglistics to centuries of students. (All international students I have encountered speak English-English. with a bit of a cockney accent, not American-English.) The one in 8,000 words in the KJV, which are unfamiliar, at first glance, to dictionary shy Americans are actually simpler and more accurate than their new substitutes. A 'stomacher' for example (Is. 3:24) is not a belt, as new versions indicate, but a chest ornament. (It seems the only 'simpler' words in new versions are incorrect or from a corrupt Greek text.) New versions not only do not improve the KJV's 'sackbut' (Daniel 7:3), calling it a 'trigon', but in the same sentence change the KIV's simple 'harp' to a 'zither'.
The KJV's unfamiliar words can be handled easily in one of four ways.

1. Use a dictionary. For very specific and correct definitions use the Oxford Unabridged, The Glossary of the Cambridge Interleavened Bible or The American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster.

2. Use the bible's self-contained dictionary--the context of one or more of the word's occurances.

3. See I Samuel 9:1-11 which shows God's method of dealing with outmoded words. He defines them while still retaining them.

4. Realize that the 'Thee's and thou's' are not 1611 English, but bible language. At the time of the translation, these singular forms had already been replaced in conversation by 'you'. The glaring difference between the style of the KIV's preface and text reveals that, "Its style is that of the Hebrew and New Testament Greek."(1) Replacing thee, thou, thy and ye with you and your does not convery the significant spiritual distinction between the singular (thee, thou, thy) and the plural, ye. (eg. Matthew 16:13-20)

The KJV for Kids

The young children ask bread and no man breaketh unto them. Lamentations 4:4

A news flash reported, "Middle-class youth vandalize suburban Cleveland home, spray-painting obscenities and the word 'LUCIFER' across its entire exterior." This generation of scripture starved students are easily seized by Satan. Slick substitutes, like Living Bible or Good News for Modern Man, sweep Satan from Isaiah 14 and slip in enough salty language to send chills down a mother's spine.

Grade: C in English

T.S. Eliot, famous American writer, described one new version as an example of the decadence of the English language in the middle of the twentieth century." One new version editor parades his problem with proper English, saying:

It is much more clear that the KIV.(2)

Anyone who would say "more clear" instead of "clearer" can be counted on to continue this 'C-' English in countless new version verses. Countering this is the KJV, selected recently by the ivy league scholars in their Norton Anthology of Literature, as one of the finest writing style in existence. If your little one brings home a 'C' in English, perhaps he just picked up one of the redundant pronouns, dangling prepositions of poorly edited sentences in his 'easy-to-read' version.

For New Version Kids, the "maker" of the world (Hebrews 11:1O) becomes its "architect." David didn't kill Goliath. "Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregin, a Bethelhemite killed Goliath" (II Samuel 21:19). (KJV clarifies that Elhanan slew Goliath's brother in I Chron 20:5-8).
The dramatic parting of the Red Sea becomes a story about some sox that became 'soakers' wading through the 'sea of reeds'. New versions obscure simple geography, as Ethiopia becomes Cush, Syria becomes Aram and the valley of the sons of Hinnon is transliterated as the Valley of Ben Hennon.
NIV editor Larry Walker admits further that. "[S]ome Bible characters appear to have disappeared from the text."(3) Is it any wonder since Westcott said, "David is not a chronological... person."(4) These omissions have an advantage- less bible to memorize.

And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down and when thou risest up. Deut. 6:6,7

"Talk of them" implies that parents are to impart scripture, which they have memorized, to their children- an impossible task if a new version is needed each year (100 versions since 1881) or even for each generation. The bible speaks of Lois who learned the scriptures and taught them to her daughter Eunice who was thereby able to teach them to Timothy, of whom Paul wrote:

[F]rom a child thou hast known the holy scripture. II Timothy 3:15

The generation gap created by new versions is just what the devil ordered. New Ager's agree saying, "[I]t takes a generation or more. . .to escape the old ways." Mystic Robert Muller wmte: Give me your children and I will give you the world.

Sounds familiar. Satan and the King of Sodom said the same (Exodus 10:11). The generation which will "worship the Dragon" (Revelation 13:4) will have fallen through the gap which in eternity becomes "a great gulf fixed" (Luke 16:26). This lost generation is not irreligious-- merely worshipping the wrong 'Christ', in the wrong church, with the wrong beliefs- all learned from the wrong book.

TREND ELEVEN

In the last days. .men shall be...WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION. II Timothy 3:3

Before Satan can break into a child's soul, he must first break through the fortress of the family structure. In these last days he finds father's hearts a frail target. As Paul said, "Men shall be lovers of their own selves." The lost mortar of "natural affection" leaves the family fortress leaning like the hovels housing cultures worldwide, where children are valued only as chattels and wives as workers.
The culture which produced Plato's 'women are slaves' philosophy also altered the then radical New Testament documents in verses which show that Christ came to "preach deliverance to the captives" (Luke 4). New versions dig up these corrupted Greek manuscripts from centuries past and try to shackle a society freed from such Satanic sentiments. The whip cracks over women in the words of new versions, as their editors have fallen prey to the Egyptian taskmasters.
Hindoos burned their widows (suttee) and bartered their daughters until the British brought their KJV's and broke the tradition.

The New Age Society of KRISHNA Consciousness has resuscitated those ancient Hindu widows for work saying women are "worthy of only serving men."(5) The handful of Greek texts used by new versions agree, substituting ergo, to work, for ouros, to guard or keep in Titus 2:5. New version Marthas will polish while Majority Text Marys will 'pray'.

Hiding under the bedcovers embroidered by the scribe of manuscript 'B', are the "last days men"--"lovers of pleasure."

Liberals crying for a bible which liberates' women would do well to look back to the KJV.

"While they promise them liberty they themselves are the servants of corruption." II Peter 2:19

New Age Bible Versions
G.A. Riplinger