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THE "NEW" KJV IS NOT A KJV AT ALL!
The New King James Bible was first published in 1979. It is a
dangerous version because its editors have succeeded in deceiving on two
main points:
(1) That it's a King James Bible (which is a lie), and
(2) That it's based on the Textus Receptus
(which is only a partial truth).
It is essential to know that many of the word changes between the original
KJV and the NKJV are not changes which result from removing archaisms, etc.
Instead, many are changes which clearly reveal that, contrary to their agreed
basis, the NKJV translators departed from the original KJV and its underlying
Greek text, the Textus Receptus,
in favor of the very same wording found in versions translated from corrupted
Greek texts.
Claiming to be true true to the Textus
Receptus, the NKJV IGNORES the TR over 1,200
times.
THE "NEW KJV" HAS
22 omissions of "hell",
23 omissions of "blood",
44 omissions of "repent",
50 omissions of "heaven",
51 omissions of "God",
66 omissions of "Lord".
The term "JEHOVAH" is completely omitted.
The NKJV makes a very serious doctrinal error when dealing with the word
"JEHOVAH" in Exodus 6:3. They change the word "JEHOVAH" to
"LORD" thus making the Bible to contradict itself. Even the corrupt
"New World Translation" (Jehovah's Witnesses Bible) has a better
rendering of this passage.
So what does Exodus 6:3 say? Please read carefully - "And I appeared
unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by
my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them." (KJV)
Now please note what the NKJV says - "I appeared to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name,
LORD, I was not known to them." (NKJV)
If you will take a concordance and go back to Genesis 1 and go through to
Exodus 6:3 you will notice that the word "LORD" is mentioned 242
times.
Did anyone before Exodus know God by the name of "LORD" before
Exodus 6:3. The answer is a resounding, YES! Don't
just sit there, look it up for yourself.
Adam & Eve knew - Genesis 4:1
Enos knew - Genesis 4: 26
Noah knew - Genesis 8: 20
Shem knew - Genesis 9:26
Nimrod knew - Genesis 10:9
Abraham knew - Genesis 12:7-8
King of Sodom knew - Genesis 14:22
Sarah knew - Genesis 16:2; 18:14
Hagar knew - Genesis 16:11
Lot knew - Genesis 19:14
Abimelech knew - Genesis 20:4
Eliezor knew - Genesis 24:3-12
Rebekah knew - Genesis 24:18
Laban and Bethuel knew -
Genesis 24:50
Isaac knew - Genesis 25:21
Abimelech, Ahuzzath, & Phichol knew - Genesis 26:28
Jacob knew - Genesis 27:20
Leah knew - Genesis 29:32
Rachel knew - Genesis 30:24
Laban knew - Genesis 30:27
Joseph knew - Genesis 39:2-3
Pharaoh knew - Exodus 3:18
Moses & Aaron knew - Exodus 5:1
So to eliminate the word "JEHOVAH" is not only poor scholarship
but also perverts and damages the text making it contradictory. It is a key
passage that shows God as He reveals Himself BY ANOTHER NAME to mankind.
Someone on the translation committee evidently does not like the name,
"JEHOVAH."
The term "NEW TESTAMENT", is completely omitted.
It is interesting to note that Hebrews 9:15-20 in the NKJV lines up with the
New World Translation (Jehovah's Witnesses Bible).
DOCTRINAL PROBLEMS
DEALING WITH SALVATION
The NKJV confuses people about salvation. In Hebrews 10:14 it replaces
"are sanctified" with "ARE BEING SANCTIFIED", and it
replaces "are saved" with "ARE BEING SAVED."
In I Corinthians 1:18 and II Corinthians 2:15. The
words "may believe" have been replaced with "MAY CONTINUE TO
BELIEVE" in I John 5:13.
The old straight and "narrow" way of Matthew 7:14 has become the
"DIFFICULT" way in the NKJV.
In II Corinthians 10:5 the KJV reads "casting down imaginations",
but the NKJV reads "CASTING DOWN ARGUMENTS". The word
"thought", which occurs later in the verse, matches
"imaginations", not "arguments". This change weakens the
verse.
The KJV tells us to reject a "heretick"
after the second admonition in Titus 3:10. The NKJV tells us to reject a " DIVISIVE MAN". How nice! Now
the Alexandrians and Ecumenicals have justification
for rejecting anyone they wish to label as "divisive men".
According to the NKJV, no one would stoop so low as to "corrupt"
God's word. No, they just "PEDDLE" it (II Cor.
2:17). The reading matches the Alexandrian versions.
The KJV correctly says, "For we are not as many, which corrupt the Word
of God .... "But the NKJV, NASV, NIV and RSV,
change "corrupt" to "peddling." Is there any great
difference between peddling (selling, or making a gain of) the Word of God and
corrupting (adulterating) it? Of course there is, and one does not have to be a
Greek scholar to decide which word is correct. When this warning was given in
the 1st Century, was there any way for people to peddle (make a gain of) God's
Word? Of course not -- they were suffering for it. The warning clearly refers
to corrupting God's Word, something that was common then as it is now. Only in
our day has it ever been possible to peddle (make a gain of) the Bible. With
its huge profits from the sale of many different Bible versions, the Thomas
Nelson Publishers is both corrupting and peddling God's Word.
The NKJV gives us no command to "study" God's word in II Timothy
2:15.
2 TIMOTHY 2:15
KJV reads, "Study to shew thyself approved
unto God." NKJV and NASV change "study" to "be
diligent." NIV and RSV change "study" to "DO YOUR BEST."
MATTHEW 7:14
KJV - "Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life..."
NKJV - "Because narrow is the gate and DIFFICULT is the way
which leads to life,"
Is the way unto eternal life difficult? No, that is false teaching. The way
unto eternal life is "strait," as the KJV says, meaning
"constricted, restricted, distressed, narrow, restrained."
MATTHEW 20:20
KJV - "Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's
children with her sons, worshipping him..."
NKJV - "Then the mother of Zebedee's sons
came to Him with her sons, KNEELING DOWN..."
This is a wicked change. To kneel is obviously not the same as worship.
"Worship" was in Tyndale's translation of
1526. It was in the Matthew's Bible of 1537. It was the
1 CORINTHIANS 1:18
KJV - "... but unto us which are saved it is the power of God."
NKJV - "... but to us who are BEING SAVED it is the power of
God..."
This unnecessary change corrupts the doctrine of salvation and conforms to
the heretics who teach that salvation is a process.
ACTS 8:9
KJV reads, "bewitched the people." NKJV
and NASV change "bewitched" to "ASTONISHED." NIV and
RSV change "bewitched" to "amazed."
COLOSSIANS 3:2
KJV reads, "Set your affection on things above." NKJV, NASV, NIV
and RSV change "affection" to "MIND."
HEBREWS 3:16
KJV - "For some, when they had heard did provoke: howbeit not all that
came out of
NKJV - "For who having heard rebelled? Indeed,
WAS IT NOT ALL who came out of
The NKJV make this verse to say something directly contrary to the KJV and
to the Old Testament. The Bible plainly says that not all of the Israelites
rebelled against God, but the NKJV creates a contradiction.
The NKJV also lines up with the (NWT) Jehovah's Witness Perversion in
dealing with the above.
HEBREWS 10:14
KJV - "For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are
sanctified."
NKJV - "For by one offering He has perfected forever, those WHO ARE
BEING sanctified."
This unnecessary change in the NKJV conforms to heretical gospels, such as
that taught by
And we know that God is not the Author of confusion. (1 Cor.
14:33)
ISAIAH 11:3
The entire phrase, "And shall make Him of quick understanding" in
the KJV is eliminated in the NKJV, NWT, NASV, NIV and RSV.
ISAIAH 66:5
The wonderful phrase, "But He shall appear to your joy" in the KJV
disappears without explanation from NKJV, NASV, NIV and RSV.
DANIEL 3:25
The fourth person who was in the fiery furnace with
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
was identified as "the Son of God." The same identification is given
in the text of the NKJV but a footnote reads "or, a son of the gods,"
and both NIV and NASV actually have the latter reading in their texts.
In four different places in 1 and 2 Kings, "sodomites" is changed
to "perverted persons." The NKJV does not deserve its respected name.
It is a perverted version.
Duplicity is revealed in the preface of the NKJV and in a 16-page history of
the KJV printed at the end. On page vi of the preface, NKJV readers are given
the following erroneous information: "There is only one basic New
Testament used by Protestants, Roman Catholics, and Orthodox, by conservatives
and liberals." This is simply not true! There are two basic New Testament
texts -- the Divinely preserved Textus
Receptus from which the original KJV was translated
and the satanically corrupted Westcott-Hort Text (and
its revisions) which form the basis of all other modern Bible versions.
Dr. Arthur Farstad, chairman of the NKJV Executive
Review Committee which had the responsibility of final text approval, stated
that this committee was about equally divided as to which was the better
Greek New Testament text -- the Textus Receptus or the Westcott-Hort.
Apparently none of them believed that either text was the Divinely preserved
Word of God. Yet, all of them participated in a project to "protect and
preserve the purity and accuracy" of the original KJV based on the TR. Is
not this duplicity of the worst kind, coming from supposedly evangelical
scholars?
Some will argue that the changes noted do not affect any fundamental Bible
doctrine. We strongly disagree. Is not the verbal inspiration of the Scriptures
a fundamental doctrine? Is not every word of the Bible important? Jesus Christ
said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God" (Matt. 4:4). He
also said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass
away" (Matt. 24:35). Since Christ is concerned about every word, we should
also be concerned about every word and raise a voice of protest whenever
scholarly sleight of hand is discovered in any modern version, including the NKJV.
Many today are purchasing NKJV Bibles
for three reasons:
The New King James Bible is NOT in any way a King James Bible!
