THE THOMAS NELSON 1611 KJV REPRINT

From the time when there were no word processors, typesetting was done letter by letter and corrections were commonly done after printing, the KJV 1611 original reprint has been made available for your purchase however there are some important facts about this text that you may not know.

First it should be understood that God’s English speaking people did not use the (uncorrected) original copy of the 1611 KJV in any significant numbers. In 1611 and for some years afterward, God’s English speaking people commonly heard and were taught from the Geneva Bible of 1599 and so it was not until some years later after the needed corrections were made and the uninspired Apocrypha was removed before God’s people started using the KJV in significant numbers. The widely used English Bible was the 1611 text conforming KJV, not the text of the Thomas Nelson 1611 original reprint. The 1611 KJV conforming text Bible (corrected) has been commonly used in English speaking Churches over the last 300 plus years. The text and spelling updated 1611 version is still available today in various Bible bookstores sometimes for as little as $1. Today’s KJV, with the exception of some punctuations, spelling changes and a few word changes, reads nearly identical to the text conforming 1611 KJV.

Here below is a copy of the title page from a text conforming (corrected) 1611 KJV that was printed in the early 1900’s. Notice that it has a line reading, “THE TEXT CONFORMABLE TO THAT OF THE EDITION OF 1611”.

THE HOLY BIBLE

OLD AND NEW TEASTAMENTS

TRANSLATED OUT OF

THE ORIGINAL TONGUES

AND WITH

THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED

THE TEXT CONFORMABLE TO THAT OF THE EDITION OF 1611,

COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE AUTHORIZED OR KING JAMES VERSION.

WHITMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY

RACINE, WISCONSIN NO. 551

The following comparison verses were presented by those critical of the KJV however they included only the Thomas Nelson 1611 original reprint and today’s KJV, apparently attempting to show that today’s KJV is changed and thereby unreliable. However using these same verses selected the following comparison included the Geneva 1599 and the widely used 1611 KJV Conformable text. This more inclusive comparison helps to demonstrate that the popular KJV 1611 Conformable text as well as today’s KJV remain to be highly accurate and completely trustworthy in meaning, not so with the many modern copyrighted text versions.

The Geneva 1599 Bible is currently viewable at : http://www.genevabible.org/Geneva.html

The 1611 Conformable Text can be found at discount stores for as little as $1.

Verse	GENEVA 1599 (Widely used nearly 100 years)	A.V.  KJV 1611 FIRST PRINT (Uncorrected , Little used)	A.V.  KJV 1611 CONFORMABLE TEXT (Corrected Text, Wide use)	Today’s current  KJV (1850 and later) (Wide use worldwide)
Genesis 19:21	concerning this thing	concerning this thing	concerning this thing also	concerning this thing also
Genesis 23:18	gates	gates	Gate	Gate
Genesis 39:1	hands	hand	hands	Hands
Genesis 39:16	her lord	Her lord	his lord	his lord
Genesis 47:6	any men	Any man	any men	any men
Exodus 15:25	he made for them a statute	he made a statute	he made for them a statute	he made for them a statute
Exodus 21:32	thirty shekels of silver	thirty shekels	thirty shekels of silver	thirty shekels of silver
Exodus 23:13	name	names	name	name
Exodus 35:29	hand	hands	hand	hand
Leviticus 2:4	it shall be an unleavened cake	it shall be an unleavened cake	it shall be unleavened cakes	it shall be unleavened cakes
Leviticus 10:14	sacrifices	sacrifice	sacrifices	sacrifices
Leviticus 19:34	shall be as one of yourselves	shall be as one born	shall be unto you as one born	shall be unto you as one born
Leviticus 20:11	shall both die	shall be put to death	shall surely be put to death	shall surely be put to death
Leviticus 25:23	are strangers	were strangers	are strangers	are strangers
Leviticus 26:23	if by these ye will not be reformed by me	be reformed by these things	be reformed by me by these things	be reformed by me by these things
Leviticus 26:40	their iniquity, and the wickedness of their fathers	The iniquity of their fathers	their iniquity,  and the iniquity of their fathers	their iniquity,  and the iniquity of their fathers
Numbers 4:40	houses	houses	house	house
Numbers 7:55	charger of an hundred and thirty shekels weight	charger of an hundred  and thirty shekels	charger of the weight of an hundred  and thirty shekels	charger of the weight of an hundred  and thirty shekels
Deuteronomy 5:29	keep all my commandments	keep my commandments	keep all my commandments	keep all my commandments
Joshua 3:11	covenant of the Lord	covenant, even the Lord	covenant of the Lord	covenant of the Lord
Joshua 7:14	households	households	household	household
Ruth 3:15	and she went into the city	and he went into the citie.	and she went into the city	and she went into the city.
1 Samuel 18:27	David arose and went,	David arose, he and his men	David arose and went,  he and his men	David arose and went,  he and his men
1 Samuel 28:7	servants	servant	servants	servants
2 Samuel 16:8	in thy mischief	to thy mischief	in thy mischief	in thy mischief
2 Kings 11:10	in the temple of the LORD.	in the temple.	in the temple of the LORD.	in the temple of the LORD.
2 Kings 23:21	the book of this covenant	this book of the Covenant	the book of this covenant	the book of this covenant
1 Chron 7:5	were valiant men of war	were men of might	were valiant men of might	were valiant men of might
1 Chron 11:15	to David	of David	to David	to David
2 Chron 28:22	this	this	his	his
Job 33:22	Yea, his soul draweth near	His soul draweth near	Yea, his soul draweth near	Yea, his soul draweth near
Psalm 141:9	snare	snare	snares	snares
Proverbs 7:21	with her flattering lips	With much fair speech	With her much fair speech	With her much fair speech
Eccles 2:16	shall all be forgotten	shall be forgotten	shall all be forgotten	shall all be forgotten
Sg of Solm 4:6	mountain	mountains	mountain	mountain
Sg of Solm 5:12	waters	water	waters	waters
Isaiah 34:11	But the cormorant and the bittern	The cormorant and the bittern	But the cormorant and the bittern	But the cormorant and the bittern
Isaiah 49:13	heavens	heaven	heavens	heavens
Isaiah 49:13	the LORD	God	the LORD	the LORD
Isaiah 57:8	and made thee a covenant	and made a covenant	and made thee a covenant	and made thee a covenant
Jeremiah 4:6	standard	standards	standard	standard
Jeremiah 31:14	be satisfied with my goodness	be satisfied with goodness	be satisfied with my goodness	be satisfied with my goodness
Jeremiah 31:18	for thou art the LORD my God	thou art the Lord my God	for thou art the Lord my God	for thou art the Lord my God
Jeremiah 51:12	watchmen	watchman	watchmen	watchmen
Jeremiah 51:30	her	their	her	her
Ezekiel 6:8	that ye may	that he may	that ye may	that ye may
Ezekiel 12:19	cruelty of them	violence of them	violence of all them	violence of all them
Ezekiel 24:5	them	him	them	them
Ezekiel 24:7	poured it not upon the ground	poured it upon the ground	poured it not upon the ground	poured it not upon the ground
Ezekiel 48:8	ye	they	ye	ye
Daniel 3:15	midst of an hot fiery furnace	the midst of a fiery furnace	the midst of a burning fiery furnace	the midst of a burning fiery furnace
Daniel 12:13	thy lot	the lot	thy lot	thy lot
Joel 3:13	their wickedness	the wickedness	their wickedness	their wickedness
Amos 8:3	temple	Temples	temple	temple
Zechariah 7:7	and the plain	of the plain	and the plain	and the plain
Malachi 3:4	offerings	offerings	offering	offering
Matthew 12:23	Is not this that son of David?	Is this the son of David?	Is not this the son of David?	Is not this the son of David?
Matthew 14:9	oath	othes	oath's	oath's
Matthew 16:16	Thou art that Christ	Thou art Christ	Thou art the Christ	Thou art the Christ
Mark 6:26	oath's	othes	oath's	oath's
John 11:3	sisters	sister	sisters	sisters
John 12:22	told	told	tell	tell
John 15:20	his master	the Lord	his Lord	his Lord
Acts 5:34	a doctor of the law	a doctor of law	his Lord	his Lord
Romans 14:10	for we shall all stand	we shall all stand	for we shall all stand	for we shall all stand
1 Corinth 10:28	for the earth is the Lord's	The earth is the Lords	for the earth is the Lord's	for the earth is the Lord's
1 Corinth 12:28	helps, governments	helps in governments	helps, governments	helps, governments
1 Corinth 15:6	After	And	After	After
Philippians 4:6	requests	request	requests	requests
2 Thessa 2:14	our Lord Jesus Christ	the Lord Jesus Christ	our Lord Jesus Christ	our Lord Jesus Christ
1 Timothy 1:4	rather than godly edifying	rather than edifying	rather than godly edifying	rather than godly edifying
2 Timothy 4:8	unto all them also	unto them also	unto all them also	unto all them also
Hebrews 3:10	hearts	hearts	heart	heart
Hebrews 12:1	run with patience the race	run with patience unto the race	run with patience the race	run with patience the race
1 John 5:12	he that hath not that Son of God, hath not that life	he that hath not the Son,  hath not life.	he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.	he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
Revelation 13:6	dwell	dwelt	dwell	dwell

2 Chron 33:19	GENEVA 1599 sin	[Cambridge  KJV  Edition] sin	A.V.  KJV (1611 CORRECTED TEXT) sins	[Oxford  KJV  Editions] sins
Jeremiah 34:16	whom ye	whom ye	whom he	whom he

Do you have faith that God has faithfully and accurately handed down The Word of God to you?

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” (Hebrews 11:6)

“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” (Matthew 24:35)

Read more about manuscripts and Biblical corruption at:

www.wtlministry.org/articles (See section on Biblical Corruption)

Source: www.wtlministry.org Updated 1-5-2005