(The NKJV follows the other English versions)
"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils:"
I Timothy 4:1
"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 book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."
Revelation 22: 18, 19, KJV
Isaiah 14:12
KJV: How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which dids't weaken the nations!
NIV: How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
Daniel 3:25
KJV: He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
NIV: He said, "Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the god.
Matthew 6:13
KJV: And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
NIV: And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. ___ _____ __ ___ _______< ___ ___ _____, ___ ___ _____, ___ ____. ____.
Matthew 17:21
KJV: "Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting."
NIV: Totally removed
Matthew 23:14
"KJV: "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation."
NIV: Totally removed
Mark 7:16
KJV: "If any man have ears to hear, let him hear:"
NIV: Totally removed
Mark 9:44
KJV: "Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."
NIV: Totally removed
Mark 9:46
KJV: "Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."
NIV: Totally removed
RS: Totally removed
Mark 10:21
KJV: "Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come,take up the cross, and follow me."
NIV: " Jesus looked at him and loved him. 'One thing you lack,' he said. 'Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, ____ __ ____ _____ ___follow me.'"
RS "And Jesus looking upon him loved him, and said to him, 'You lack one thing; go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, , ____ __ ____ _____ ___follow me."
Mark 10:24
KJV: And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
NIV: The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, "Children, how hard it is ___ ____ ____ _____ __ ______ to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
RS "And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, 'Children, how hard it is to ___ ____ ____ _____ __ ______ enter the kingdom of God!"
Mark 11:26
KJV: "But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses."
NIV: Totally removed
RS: Totally removed
Mark 13:5,6
KJV: And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
NIV: "Jesus said to them: "Watch out that no one deceived you. Many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am he', and will deceive many."
RS "And Jesus began to say to them, 'Take heed that no one leads you astray. Many will come in my name, saying, I am he!' and they will lead many astray."
Mark 15:28
KJV: "And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, 'And he was numbered with the transgressors."
NIV: Totally removed
RS: Totally removed
Luke 4:4
KJV: And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
NIV: Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone ___ __ _____ ____ __ ___.'
RS "And Jesus answered him, 'It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone___ __ _____ ________ __ ___.'"
Luke 17:36
KJV: "Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left."
NIV: Totally removed
RS: Totally removed
Luke 23:17
KJV: "(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)"
NIV: Totally removed
RS: Totally removed
John 5:4
KJV: "For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had."
NIV: Totally removed
RS: Totally removed
Acts 8:37
KJV: And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
NIV: Totally removed.
RS: Totally removed
Acts 24:7
KJV: "But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,"
NIV: Totally removed
RS: Totally removed
Acts 28:29
KJV: "And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves."
NIV: Totally removed
RS: Totally removed
Romans 16:24
KJV: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen."
NIV: Totally removed
RS: Totally removed
I Corinthians 16:22
KJV: "If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha."
NIV: "If anyone does not love the Lord _____ _____ a curse be on him. Come, O Lord!"
RS "If any one has no love for the Lord_____ _____, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!"
II Corinthians 5:18
KJV: "And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;"
NIV: "All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through _____ Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation."
RS "All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself _____ _____ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation."
Galatians 4:7
KJV: "Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ."
NIV: " So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir _______ ______."
RS "So through God you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son then an heir_______ ______."
Galatians 6:15
KJV: "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature."
NIV: " ___ __ ______ _____ Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation."
RS " ___ __ ______ _____ For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation."
Ephesians 3:9
KJV: "And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:"
NIV: "…and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things __ _____ _____."
RS "…and to make all men see what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages, in God who created all things__ _____ _____;"
Philippians 4:13
KJV: "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."
NIV: "I can do everything through him who gives me strength."
RS "I can do all things in him that strengthens me."
I John 4:3
KJV: "And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world."
NIV: "but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus _____ is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world."
RS "…and every spirit which does not confess Jesus _____ is not of God. This is the spirit of antichrist, of which you heard that it was coming and now it is in the world already."
I John 5:7
KJV: "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."
NIV: "For there are three that testify__ ______, ___ ______, ___ ____,___ ___ ____ _____:"
RS: "And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is the truth."
Revelation 1:11
KJV: "Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea."
NIV: " _____ _ __ _____ ___ _____ ___ _____ ___ ___ ____: ___which said: "Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.
RS: "_____ _ __ _____ ___ _____ ___ _____ ___ ___ ____: ___saying, 'Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea."
The very cleverly translated, deceitful NKJV
The claim of the writers of the NKJV is that "A special feature of the New King James Version is its CONFORMITY to the thought flow of the 1611 Bible".
The removal of "thee," "thou," and "thine" which are used in the SINGULAR, and "ye", which is PLURAL, are far more ACCURATE than "you" which is the replacement pronoun in the NKJV.
The scholars of the 1611 Bible wanted an ACCURATE, word-for-word translation of the Hebrew Text. The writers of the NKJV claim that their translation was made because "thee" "thou" "ye", etc. are no longer part of our language. Well, then, change the wording in our hymns, also—"How Great Thou Art" to "How Great You Are", "Come Thou Fount" to "Come You Fount", etc. Sounds rather silly, doesn't it? It certainly doesn't read correctly. And neither does the New Versions of the Bible.
The translaters of the NKJV wanted to do away with obsolete words such as HELL (23 times). It is replaced with "Hades" and "Sheol" which are NOT accurate replacements.
VINES Expository
HELL—
1. For the rendering "hell" as a translation of Hades, corresponding to Sheol, wrongly rendered "the grave" and "hell," see HADES.
2. The verb tartaroo, translated "cast down to hell" in 2 Peter 2:4, signifies to consign to Tartarus, which is neither Sheol nor Hades nor Hell, but the place where those angels whose special sin is referred to in that passage are confined "to be reserved unto judgment:" the region is described as "pits of darkness," RV.
HADES—
1. the region of departed spirits of the lost (but including the blessed dead in periods preceding the Ascension of Christ). It has been thought by some that the word etymologically meant the unseen (from a, negative, and eido, to see), but this derivation is questionable; a more probable derivation is from hado, signifying all-receiving. It corresponds to "Sheol" in the OT. In the A.V. of the OT and the NT, it has been unhappily rendered "Hell", e.g., Psa 16:10; or "the grave," eg., Gen. 37:35; or "the pit," Num 16:30, 33; in the NT the Revisers have always used the rendering "Hades;" in the OT they have not been uniform in the translation, e.g., in Isa. 14:15, "hell" (marg., "Sheol"); usually they have "Sheol" in the text and "the grave" in the margin. It never denotes the grave, nor is it the permanent region of the lost; in point of time it is, for such, intermediate between decease and the doom of Gehenna. Note: In I Cor. 15:55 the most authentic mss. Have thanatos, death, in the second part of the verse, instead of HADES, which the A.V. wrongly renders "grave" ("hell," in the marg.).
According to Webster's New World Dictionary, 1950s College Edition:
HELL—
1. In the Bible, the place where the spirits of the dead are: identified with Sheol and Hades.
2a in Christianity, the place where fallen angels, devils, etc. live and to which sinners and unbelievers go after death for torment and eternal punishment; hence, b) the people in hell. C) the powers of evil or darkness.
3. any place or condition of evil, pain, misery, cruelty, etc.
HADES—
1. In Greek mythology, a) the home of the dead, beneath the earth. [author's note: these translators of the NKJV turns the Bible into MYTHOLOGY!] b) the ruler of the underworld: also called Pluto, DIS.
2. In the Bible, the state or resting place of the dead: used especially in the Revised Version of the New Testament.
3. [often h-], [Colloq.], hell: a euphemism.
SHEOL—
1. in the Old Testament, a place in the depths of the earth where the dead are supposed to go: underworld.
2. [s-], [Colloq.], hell.
Ref: Matthew 16: 18
KJV—" And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
NKJV—"And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it."
Ref: Luke 16:23
KJV—"And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom."
NKJV—"And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom."
Hell is removed in:
2 Sam. 22:6, Job 11:8, 26:6, Psalm 16:10, 18:5, 36:13, 116:3, Isaiah 5:14, 14:15, 28:15, 18, 57:9, Jonah 2:2, Matt. 11:23, 16:18, Luke 10:15, 16:23, Acts 2:27, 31, Rev. 1:18, 6:8, 20:13, 14.
Other changes:
NKJV thinks "Hades" should be "grave"—I Corinthians 15:55
NKJV thinks "repent" (Webster's: Turn away from sin or do penitence) should be "relent" (Webster's: Give in, as to influence or pressure )(44 times)—Matthew 21:32
NKJV thinks "repent" should be "remorseful"(Webster's: Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses)—Matthew 27:3
NKJV thinks "repentance" should be "irrevocable (Webster's: Impossible to retract or revoke )—Romans 11:29
NKJV thinks "new testament" (Webster's: A profession of belief )should be "new covenant" (Webster's: (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return )—Matt 26:28, Mark 14:24, Luke 22:20, I Cor 11:25, 2 Cor 3:6, Heb 9:15
NKJV thinks "damned" "damnation" (Webster's: (Christianity) in danger of the eternal punishment of hell) (Webster's: The state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell) should be "condemn(ed)"(Webster's: to declare to be wrong)—Romans 14:22
NKJV thinks "devils" (Webster's: the personal supreme spirit of EVIL) should be "demons" (Webster's: divinity, spirit, and attendant power or spirit)
NKJV thinks "servant" (Webster's: A person working in the service of another ) should be "slave" (Webster's: A person who is owned by someone)—Romans 6:22, I Cor 7:22.
NKJV thinks "end of the world" should be "end of the age", which fits in perfectly with their satanic New Age Movement, which teaches a series of ages—Matt 12:32, 13:39, 13:40, 24:3, 28:20, Mark 10:30, Luke 13:30, 20:34,35, I Cor 1:21
The New Age Movement and the occult are waiting for their christ, Maitreya, called the Anti-Christ in the Bible. He is referred to as the Coming One by New Agers and the NKJV—Luke 7:19, 20 (see also Matt 11:3). John told his disciples to ask Jesus: "Are you the Coming One…"
In the highly reverenced prayer of the New Agers and which is chanted by them to invoke Maitreya, it says: "Let Light and Love and Power and Death, Fulfil the purpose of the Coming One." And finally…..
NKJV thinks that "Godhead" should be "Divine Nature".
This is a mere pittance of all the errors in the NKJV. Today, the purest translation is still the
AUTHORIZED KING JAMES VERSION!
Nothing has been changed from the 1611 edition of the Authorized King James Bible.
ALMOST 400 YEARS, AND IT IS STILL THE SAME UNCHANGED, INSPIRED, WORD OF GOD!
Do you know Jesus? He's coming soon for His Church. Are you ready? If not, and you would like to be, just make this commitment:
Dear Jesus! Please forgive me for my sins. I know that you are the Son of God, and that you died on the cross for my sins. I also know that you raised up on the third day to sit at the right hand of the Father. Be my Lord and Savior, Jesus.
Romans 10: 9,10 tells you to "confess with your mouth, and believe in your heart that JESUS IS LORD, and you will be saved." Faith and repentance are the only qualifications you need.
Isaiah 14:12
KJV: How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which dids't weaken the nations!
NIV: How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
Matthew 6:13
KJV: And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
NIV: And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. ___ _____ __ ___ _______< ___ ___ _____, ___ ___ _____, ___ ____. ____.
Daniel 3:25
KJV: He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
NIV: He said, "Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the god.
Matthew 17:21
KJV: "Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting."
NIV: Totally removed
Mark 11:26
KJV: "But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses."
NIV: Totally removed
Acts 8:37
KJV: And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
NIV: Totally removed.
RS: Totally removed
Acts 24:7
KJV: "But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,"
NIV: Totally removed
Acts 28:29
KJV: "And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves."
NIV: Totally removed
Romans 16:24
KJV: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen."
NIV: Totally removed
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