Not very different. Both are reliable; though, sadly, most modern NT translations are based on the full-of-errors Egyptian or Alexandrian texts that were deceptively made famous by Westcott and Hort in the 19th century called the critical text, and now the USB or Nestle Aland text.
Book mentioned: When The KJV Departs From The “Majority” Text
Most people today read Bibles in which the New Testament has 1,952 omissions, 467 additions and 3,185 changes, which Westcott and Hort initiated 140 years ago.
That’s why I mostly read translations that are based on the unaltered Greek texts, like the WEB and NKJV. The KJV is also based on the more accurate Greek text.
Somehow, Wesctott and Hort convinced many scholars that the Egyptian texts were more reliable; though, it’s clear to many that these texts were altered, often intentionally, which I’ve posted articles about in this category.
This is a summary of the changes made.
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Updated November 24, 2004 (first published August 11, 2004)
David Cloud, Way of Life Literature
There are many myths that are perpetuated today by the defenders of the modern versions, and one of those is that there is very little difference between the Received Text underlying the King James Bible and other ancient Protestant versions and the Westcott-Hort Greek text underlying most of the modern versions. Westcott and Hort themselves made this claim in their day, and it is widely repeated today. …
The fact is that the differences are large and serious and a choice must be made.
I’m very excited about this, and hope the healed Bibles, by replacing the removed verses becomes a trend!
My previous article: Progress! The Gideon Bible is now an ESV plus the removed verses including Romans 8:1b!
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Romans 8:1 in a regular ESV Bible:
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:1 in the Gideon’s ESV Bible:
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh (but according to the Spirit).
ESV Gideons edition explains what happened:
Great news! The Gideons new ESV-based Bible is now one of the most reliable, keeping the ESV’s correct translation of John 3:36, and correcting their removal of Romans 8:1b — two key texts for understanding salvation — to be free!
Bible Gateway Removes The Passion Translation
Bible Gateway, a popular site that contains a wide range of Bible versions, has removed The Passion Translation. The Passion Translation (TPT) has attracted controversy because it is a very loose “paraphrase” rather than a translation of the translation, that contains a theological bias.
KJV-onlyism exposed
The KJV translated this Greek word, ‘pasha’ correctly as ‘passover’ 28 of the 29 times, making this big mistake of translating it as ‘Easter’ in Acts 12:4 only:
Englishman’s Concordance: πάσχα (pascha) — 29 Occurrences
Every translation is ‘Passover’ or ‘passover’ except the KJV’s ‘Easter’ in Acts 12:4, highlighted:
[Nick Page]
Amidst all the literary luvvies gushing over the quality of the prose and the RADA trained voices reading it in Radio 4 speak a few salient facts aren’t getting much attention. So here are ten things you ought to know about the KJV. They are taken from God’s Dangerous Book – a book on the history of the Bible…. But here’s the shorter version:
1. It was widely ignored on publication. Far from being an instant classic, The King James, or Authorised Version, was widely ignored on first publication for one very good reason: hardly anyone wanted it in the first place.
2. It was never intended as a means of giving the Bible to the people: it was intended as a way of stopping them using the Bible they already had. The people already had a great English translation – the Geneva version. James I hated that because he thought its footnotes were seditious. So he specifically commanded that the new version should be done without footnotes.
3. It was a revision not a new translation. James ordered that it be based on the text of the Bishops’ Bible of 1568. James instructed that the new version was to be ‘as little altered as the truth of the original [i.e. the Bishop’s Bible] will permit’.
4. It was a politically motivated translation. James also instructed that ‘the old ecclesiastical words to be kept, viz. the word Church not to be translated Congregation.’ James insisted that ekklesia be translated as church and that the word ‘bishop’ be used instead of ‘elder’. So you get verses like Acts 1.20, where the Geneva Bible has
The Talmudic removal of the New Testament from the Bible is no longer the Bible — promoted by Pat Robertson!
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Israel365’s The Israel Bible was recently featured on the Christian Broadcasting Network’s 700 Club. This version of the Bible quickly rose to number 1 on Amazon and its unique template is designed to appeal to both Christians and Jews. Rabbi Tuly Weisz, the Bible’s editor, said that, “The Israel Bible is the only Bible that is exclusively dedicated to the land of Israel, the people of Israel and the God of Israel.” (source)
Harmony of the gospels — shows consistency in all four texts written by different authors at different times in different locations — led by the Holy Spirit!
PROFOUNDLY IMPORTANT!
Heresies, like once-saved-always-saved, are perpetuated by these truth gutted translations. For example:
Look what the NIV did to Romans 8:1 — They changed the entire meaning of the verse and leave no requirement or prerequisite to being free from condemnation! [Grace changing teachers now make Romans 8:1A their OSAS theme song, while verses 4-17 still say we must walk according to the Spirit, suffering with Christ to be heirs & children of God having ‘no condemnation’]
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The problem:
The new translations of the Bible have “corrected” the older versions and we find many of our beliefs a little harder to defend. What has happened? They say they have found more reliable, and older manuscripts.
From: jesuswordsonly.com
Jesus’ Words On Salvation
Chapter 26 – John 3:16: Obeying Unto Christ Should Save?
Introduction
When the English translations of the Greek New Testament were made in the 1526-1611 period, the “difficult Greek in which the New Testament is written…still held mysteries for” English scholars. (Nicolson: 224.) One of those mysteries was the Greek word pisteuo in John 3:16. In over 200 instances of pisteuo in the New Testament, not once did the King James Bible render it as obey. (See Strong’s Concordance.) However, scholars now realize obey was a common meaning of pisteuo in ancient Greek. Obey certainly was the meaning of pisteuo in John 3:36 (see page 448). Yet, this obedience salvation formula is identically repeated in John 3:16.
I was talking to a dear Catholic friend a few days ago, who is a church history scholar, expressing to him part of how the once-saved-always-saved and “it’s hard to lose one’s salvation” deception is happening in the evangelical church today. It’s largely fueled by greatest hits verses, of which the current favorite seems to be the gutted version of Romans 8:1, in which the second part has been removed: “ who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
K-LOVE is now running an ad, pushing this deception across America, 24/7, saying:
“Now, there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.”
“God has set you free from shame.”
But this is only when we obey, which is why willfully sinning ‘Christians’ still feel shame and condemnation, because according to what Paul really said, we’re only “in Christ Jesus” when we don’t walk after the flesh but according to the Spirit. And verses 2-17 also show this. But most pastors and K-LOVE prefer to preach 8:1a by itself, instead — deceiving the people.
I explain why the NIV and many other modern versions took out 8:1b in the links, below. Basically, most modern versions rely upon the corrupted Egyptian manuscripts (where scribes often intentionally altered the texts), instead of continuing to quote the more reliable Syrian texts, which the King James and some others rely upon.
The Devil knew he couldn’t add verses to the text, which would be too obvious, so he removed hundreds, based upon the manipulative research done by Westcott and Hort.
Really important: the real-life conspiracy of changing the written word of God gradually, so most don’t even notice….
From: hissheep.org
A Comparison Between the King James (KJV) &
The New International (NIV) Bibles
Romans 8:1
KJV “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
NIV “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,”
NIV leaves out “who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” It changes the entire meaning of the verse and leaves no requirement or prerequisite to being free from condemnation. In truth, the verse tells us that if you do walk in the flesh, then there is condemnation. They have taken that out, so that you won’t know the truth. (source).
Related:
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From: Christian Post
Southern Baptists Reject Updated NIV Bible
Southern Baptists recently announced their rejection of the new NIV Bible at their annual convention in Phoenix, Ariz., saying they could not commend the translation and its use of gender-neutral language.
I’ve been warning people about some of these passages for many years, while others I just discovered today while putting together Westcott and Hort Magic Marker Binge! Would you take a magic marker to your Bible and cross out words from passages? Do you read the NIV?
The more I study what the NIV and similar translations really are the more I realize how greatly we’re being deceived!
They’re destroying God’s Word and the pastors continue to teach the people from a book that was translated from a Greek text which was intentionally altered by a horde of those practicing textual science.
And the seminaries still require that future pastors learn Greek which will do them hardly any good because they’re reading these intentionally altered Greek texts (UBS and Nestle Aland) that the NIV was based upon. Learning Greek for seminarians is often just a knowledge-puffs-up exercise. Too many graduate armed and dangerous, proudly carrying their little, altered Greek ‘Bibles’ around. But most weren’t taught that their Greek ‘Bible’ were intentionally altered:
” . . . Origen, an early textual critic . . . said, that ‘the Scriptures are of little use to those who understand them as they are written‘ . . . . given the opportunity, many like Origen will actually alter the manuscripts to make them say what they understand them to mean…. Justin Martyr, Valentinus, Clement of Alexandria, Marcion, Tatian, and a horde of others practiced their ‘textual science’ by operating on manuscripts, or by writing their own ‘versions’ . . . .
I’ve linked to this article for years. It’s time I post it.
Satan knows he can’t get away with adding thousands of words,
so he deleted thousands of very significant ones
through Westcott and Hort.
The NIV, NASB, NRSV and similar are poison!
We’ve been robbed!
Consider how the deletion examples below have profoundly altered
Christian doctrine and therefore the world we live in.
From: biblestudy.org, What are the ERRORS in the King James Version Bible?
The Old Testament has been faithfully preserved by the Jews in what is known as the Masoretic Text. There are few translation problems with the Old Testament.
However, most modern translations, from the Revised Standard Version Bible (RSV) to the New International Version Bible (NIV), use as their source for the New Testament a Greek Text based upon the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus of the fourth century. This text, publicized by Westcott and Hort, is also known as the Alexandrian Text. It originated in Egypt and has been massaged by “higher critics” down through the ages. These manuscripts, used in the RSV, represent less than 5% of known Greek Biblical manuscripts, but are supposedly more authentic because they are “old.”
The bulk of New Testament manuscripts were copied century after century from earlier ones as they wore out. Older copies did not survive because these texts were used until worn out. This text, the so-called “Received Text” [Textus Receptus – editor] or “Byzantine Text” (also termed “Syrian”, “Antioch”, or Koine text) was used in the King James Version. Nearly 4,000 manuscripts of this Byzantine or Official Text agree almost perfectly with each other, and are a far better standard to go by than corrupt copies – no matter how early they were made. Located primarily at Mt. Athos in Greece, copies of the official Greek Text give us a very reliable record of the New Testament scriptures.
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