by Shawn Brasseaux
Here is undeniable proof—actually in excess of 500 examples—that the New King James Version is NOT the King James Bible!
| KJV | NKJV | |
| Matthew 1:22 | spoken of the Lord by the prophet (“of” meaning “about,” a fulfilled prophecy regarding Christ) | spoken by the Lord through the prophet (watered down) |
| Matthew 2:4 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| Matthew 2:6 | rule (Christ as Israel’s King!) | shepherd (watered down) |
| Matthew 2:12 | warned of God | divinely warned (watered down) (New Age) |
| Matthew 4:24 et. al | devils | demons (watered down and New Age) |
| Matthew 5:9 | spoken of the Lord by the prophet (“of” meaning “about,” a fulfilled prophecy regarding Christ) | spoken by the Lord through the prophet (watered down) |
| Matthew 5:32 | fornication | sexual immorality (watered down) |
| Matthew 5:37 | evil | evil one (watered down) |
| Matthew 5:39 | evil | evil person (watered down) |
| Matthew 5:47 | children | sons (sexist?) |
| Matthew 6:13 | evil | evil one |
| Matthew 6:22 | single | good |
| Matthew 7:14 | narrow is the way | difficult is the way (watered down) (works salvation?) |
| Matthew 8:12 | children | sons (sexist?) |
| Matthew 8:19, et al. | Master | Teacher (watered down) |
| Matthew 11:3 | he that should come | Coming One (New Age) |
| Matthew 11:23 | hell | Hades (watered down) (New Age) |
| Matthew 12:31 | Holy Ghost | Spirit (New Age) (watered down) |
| Matthew 12:40 | whale | great fish (watered down) |
| Matthew 20:20 | worshipping him (Christ is worshipped) | kneeling down (blasphemous!) |
| Matthew 21:32 | repent | relent (reads harder) |
| Matthew 22:33 | doctrine | teaching (watered down) |
| Matthew 22:42 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| Matthew 23:33 | damnation | condemnation (watered down) |
| Matthew 24:5,23 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| Matthew 26:2 | betrayed | delivered up |
| Matthew 26:48 | he | the One (New Age) |
| Matthew 26:64 | power | the Power (New Age) |
| Matthew 27:4 | the innocent blood (Christ’s) | innocent blood (blasphemy!) |
| Matthew 27:34,48 | vinegar | sour wine (watered down) |
| Matthew 28:20 | world | age (New Age) |
| KJV | NKJV | |
| Mark 1:4 | the baptism of repentance | a baptism of repentance (watered down) |
| Mark 1:22 | doctrine | teaching (watered down) |
| Mark 3:29 | damnation | condemnation (watered down) |
| Mark 4:2 | doctrine | teaching (watered down) |
| Mark 5:30 | virtue | power (watered down) |
| Mark 5:40 | laughed him to scorn | ridiculed Him (watered down) |
| Mark 6:15 | a prophet | the Prophet (watered down) |
| Mark 7:4 | tables | couches (?) |
| Mark 7:27,28 | dogs | little dogs
(From where did the NKJV translators get “little?) |
| Mark 11:8 | branches | leafy branches (From where did the NKJV translators get “leafy?) |
| Mark 11:18 | doctrine | teaching (watered down) |
| Mark 12:38 | doctrine | teaching (watered down) |
| Mark 12:40 | condemnation | damnation (watered down) |
| Mark 13:6 | Christ | He (watered down) |
| Mark 13:21 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| Mark 14:41 | Sleep on now, and take your rest: | Are you still sleeping and resting? |
| Mark 14:44 | that same is he | He is the One (New Age) |
| Mark 15:32 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| Mark 15:36 | vinegar | sour wine (watered down) |
| Mark 15:37 | gave up the ghost (only God has the power to “give up His ghost”) | breathed His last |
| Luke 1:1 | those things which are most surely believed among us | those things which have been fulfilled among us (watered down) |
| Luke 2:12 | the babe (Christ) | a Babe (Christ is one of many?) |
| Luke 3:14 | Do violence to no man | Do not intimidate anyone (watered down) |
| Luke 3:17 | fan | winnowing fan (reads harder) |
| Luke 4:32 | doctrine | teaching (watered down) |
| Luke 4:41 | Christ (twice) | the Christ (twice) (New Age) |
| Luke 6:16 | was the traitor | became a traitor (watered down) |
| Luke 6:19 | virtue | power (watered down) |
| Luke 6:40 | perfect | perfectly trained (watered down) |
| Luke 7:19,20 | he that should come (twice) | the Coming One (twice) (New Age) |
| Luke 8:1 | shewing (signs, miracles for Jews to SEE) | bringing (watered down) |
| Luke 8:46 | virtue | power (watered down) |
| Luke 8:53 | laughed him to scorn | ridiculed (watered down) |
| Luke 9:43 | mighty power | majesty (watered down) |
| Luke 10:15 | hell | Hades (watered down) (New Age) |
| Luke 11:4 | evil | evil one (watered down) |
| Luke 16:23 | hell | Hades (watered down) |
| Luke 20:35 | world | Hades (watered down) (New Age) |
| Luke 20:36 | children | sons (sexist?) |
| KJV | NKJV | |
| Luke 20:41 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| Luke 21:8 | Christ (added by KJV translators) | He (added by NKJV translators) |
| Luke 22:27 | he | the One (New Age) |
| Luke 23:35 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| Luke 23:36 | vinegar | sour wine (watered down) |
| Luke 23:39 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| Luke 23:46 | gave up the ghost | breathed His last |
| Luke 24:26 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| Luke 24:46 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| John 1:3 | by | through (watered down) |
| John 1:10 | by | through (watered down) |
| John 1:12 | sons of God | children of God (?) |
| John 1:17 | by (twice) | through (twice) |
| John 4:24 | God is a Spirit | God is Spirit (New Age / Pantheism) |
| John 5:24 | condemnation | judgment (watered down) |
| John 5:29 | damnation | condemnation (watered down) |
| John 5:44 | from God only | the only God (watered down) |
| John 7:27 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| John 7:31 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| John 7:42 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| John 8:35 | the Son (Jesus Christ) | a son (who?) |
| John 8:53 | whom makest thou thyself? | Who do You make Yourself out to be? (watered down and blasphemous!) |
| John 12:34 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| John 14:16 | Comforter | Helper (watered down) |
| John 14:18 | comfortless | orphans (watered down) |
| John 14:28 | Comforter | Helper (watered down) |
| John 15:9 | continue | abide (watered down) |
| John 15:26 | Comforter | Helper (watered down) |
| John 16:7 | Comforter | Helper (watered down) |
| John 17:15 | evil | evil one (watered down) |
| John 19:29 | vinegar | sour wine (watered down) |
| John 19:30 | vinegar | sour wine (watered down) |
| John 21:16 | Feed my sheep | Tend my sheep (watered down) |
| Acts 2:23 | wicked | lawless (watered down) |
| Acts 2:27 | hell | Hades (watered down) (New Age) |
| Acts 2:31 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| Acts 2:31 | hell | Hades (watered down) (New Age) |
| Acts 3:13 | his Son Jesus | His Servant Jesus (watered down and blasphemous!) |
| Acts 3:19 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| Acts 3:19 | so that when the times of refreshing | so that times of refreshing (watered down) |
| Acts 3:25 | children of the prophets | sons of the prophets (sexist?) |
| KJV | NKJV | |
| Acts 3:26 | his Son Jesus | His Servant Jesus (watered down and blasphemous!) |
| Acts 4:27 | thy holy child Jesus | Your holy Servant Jesus (watered down and blasphemous!) |
| Acts 4:30 | thy holy child Jesus | Your holy Servant Jesus (watered down and blasphemous!) |
| Acts 5:42 | preach Jesus Christ | preaching Jesus as the Christ (New Age) |
| Acts 6:3 | honest report | good reputation (watered down) |
| Acts 7:20 | exceeding fair | well pleasing to God |
| Acts 7:45 | Jesus | Joshua |
| Acts 7:55 | looked up stedfastly | gazed (watered down) |
| Acts 8:9 | bewitched (witchcraft) | astonished (watered down) |
| Acts 8:11 | bewitched (witchcraft) | astonished (watered down) |
| Acts 9:2 | of this way | of the Way (New Age) |
| Acts 9:20 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| Acts 9:22 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| Acts 9:23 | by the wall in a basket | through the wall in a large basket (How can some be let ‘through’ a wall, and where did the NKJV translators get the adjective ‘large?’) |
| Acts 9:34 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| Acts 10:4 | Lord | lord (watered down and blasphemous) |
| Acts 10:15 | the voice (God) | a voice |
| Acts 12:4 | Easter | Passover (wrong! Herod is pagan!) |
| Acts 12:7 | the angel | an angel |
| Acts 12:23 | the angel | an angel |
| Acts 13:10 | child | son |
| Acts 13:12 | doctrine | teaching (watered down) |
| Acts 13:25 | one | One (New Age) |
| Acts 13:26 | children | sons |
| Acts 14:12 | Jupiter | Zeus |
| Acts 14:12 | Mercurius | Hermes |
| Acts 14:12 | Jupiter | Zeus |
| Acts 14:15 | time past | bygone generations (reads harder) |
| Acts 17:3 | Christ (twice) | the Christ (twice) (New Age)
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| Acts 17:11 | readiness of mind | readiness (watered down) |
| Acts 17:16 | wholly given to idolatry | given over to idols (watered down) |
| Acts 17:22 | Mars’ hill | Areopagus (reads harder) |
| Acts 17:22 | too superstitious
(pagan/satanic practices and beliefs) |
very religious
(denies the satanic nature of their pagan religion) |
| Acts 17:23 | Whom | the One (New Age) |
| Acts 17:29 | Godhead (Trinity) | Divine Nature (New Age) |
| Acts 18:5 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| Acts 18:8 | chief ruler | ruler (watered down) |
| KJV | NKJV | |
| Acts 18:14 | lewdness | crimes (watered down) |
| Acts 18:17 | chief ruler | ruler (watered down) |
| Acts 18:28 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| Acts 19:4 | the baptism of repentance | a baptism of repentance (watered down) |
| Acts 19:9 | the way | the Way (New Age) |
| Acts 19:13 | vagabond | itinerant (reads harder) |
| Acts 19:18 | shewed | telling (?) |
| Acts 19:20 | word of God | word of the Lord (why this change?) |
| Acts 19:23 | that way | the Way (New Age) |
| Acts 19:27 | set at nought | falling into disrepute (reads harder) |
| Acts 19:35 | Jupiter | Zeus |
| Acts 21:34 | castle | barracks (reads harder) |
| Acts 21:37 | castle | barracks (reads harder) |
| Acts 22:1 | Men, brethren, and fathers | Brethren and fathers |
| Acts 22:4 | this way | this Way (New Age) |
| Acts 22:24 | castle | barracks (reads harder) |
| Acts 23:10 | castle | barracks (reads harder) |
| Acts 23:32 | castle | barracks (reads harder) |
| Acts 23:35 | judgment hall | Praetorium (reads harder) |
| Acts 24:14 | the way | the Way (New Age) |
| Acts 24:14 | heresy | a sect (watered down) |
| Acts 24:22 | that way | the Way (New Age) |
| Acts 25:5 | wickedness | fault (watered down) |
| Acts 25:16 | die | destruction (watered down) |
| Acts 25:19 | superstition | religion (watered down; see note at Acts 17:22) |
| Acts 26:23 | Christ | the Christ (New Age) |
| Acts 27:1 | Augustus’ band | Augustan Regiment (reads harder) |
| Acts 26:16 | we had much work to come by the boat | we secured the skiff with difficulty (reads harder) |
| Acts 27:17 | quicksands | Syrtis Sands (reads harder) |
| Acts 27:23 | the angel of God, whose I am | an angel of the God to whom I belong
(Does this subtle change suggest there are many gods beside the God that Paul serves?) |
| Acts 27:29 | wished for the day | prayed for the day to come |
| Acts 27:32 | boat | skiff (reads harder) |
| Acts 28:27 | and be converted | and turn (watered down) |
| Romans 1:10 | prosperous journey | way (watered down) |
| Romans 1:22 | professing themselves to be wise | professing to be wise (watered down) |
| Romans 1:24 | their own hearts | their hearts (watered down) |
| Romans 1:25 | Who changed the truth of God into a lie | who exchanged the truth of God for the lie |
| Romans 1:26 | change | exchange (watered down) |
| Romans 2:7 | contentious | self-seeking (?)(watered down) |
| KJV | NKJV | |
| Romans 2:16 | In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel | in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel (watered down) |
| Romans 1:18 | more excellent | excellent (watered down) |
| Romans 2:22 | commit sacrilege | rob temples (watered down) |
| Romans 3:8 | damnation | condemnation (watered down) |
| Romans 3:25 | through faith in his blood | by His blood, through faith, (watered down) |
| Romans 4:7 | iniquities | lawless deeds (watered down) |
| Romans 4:25 | who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification | who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification. |
| Romans 5:4 | experience (twice) | character (twice) |
| Romans 5:6 | For when we were yet without strength | For when we were still without strength (watered down) |
| Romans 5:8 | commendeth | demonstrates (watered down) |
| Romans 5:8 | while we were yet sinners | while we were still sinners (watered down) |
| Romans 5:11 | atonement | reconciliation (watered down) |
| Romans 5:17 | by one | through the One (New Age) |
| Romans 6:18 | servants of righteousness | slaves of righteousness
(contradicts Galatians 5:1) |
| Romans 6:19 | infirmity | weakness (watered down) |
| Romans 6:19 | iniquity (twice) | lawlessness (twice)
(watered down) |
| Romans 6:19 | servants to righteousness | slaves of righteousness
(contradicts Galatians 5:1) |
| Romans 6:22 | servants to God | slaves of God (contradicts Galatians 5:1) |
| Romans 8:19 | creature | creation (watered down) |
| Romans 8:20 | creature | creation (watered down) |
| Romans 11:4 | the answer of God | the divine response (New Age) (watered down) |
| Romans 11:13 | the apostle of the Gentiles (Paul is the ONLY apostle to the Gentiles) | an apostle of the Gentiles (watered down) (“An” implies many apostles are sent to the Gentiles…such as the twelve?) |
| Romans 12:8 | simplicity | liberality |
| Romans 13:2 | damnation | judgment (watered down) |
| Romans 13:13 | honestly | properly (watered down) |
| Romans 14:23 | damned | condemned (watered down) |
| Romans 15:1 | infirmities | scruples (reads harder) |
| Romans 15:8 | Jesus Christ was a minister (past tense) | Jesus Christ has become a servant (watered down) |
| Romans 15:12 | trust | hope (watered down) |
| Romans 15:16 | the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles (see note at Romans 11:13) | a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles (watered down) |
| Romans 16:5 | well-beloved | beloved (watered down) |
| KJV | NKJV | |
| 1 Corinthians 1:18 | them that perish | those who are perishing |
| 1 Corinthians 1:18 | us which are saved | us who are being saved (progressive salvation?; see note at 2 Corinthians 2:15) |
| 1 Corinthians 1:21 | the foolishness of preaching
(KJV says the preaching is “foolishness.”) |
the foolishness of the message preached (NKJV suggests the Gospel of Christ is “foolishness?”) |
| 1 Corinthians 1:22 | require | request (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 4:16 | be ye followers of me | imitate me (?) |
| 1 Corinthians 5:9 | fornicators | sexually immoral people (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 5:10 | fornicators | sexually immoral people (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 5:11 | fornicators | sexually immoral people (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 6:13 | fornication | sexual immorality (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 6:18 | fornication (twice) | sexual immorality (twice) (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 7:2 | fornication | sexual immorality (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 7:22 | servant | slave (contradicts Galatians 5:1) |
| 1 Corinthians 8:1 | charity | love (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 8:6 | in him | for Him (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 8:13 | I will eat no flesh while the world standeth | I will never again eat meat (not the same as KJV) |
| 1 Corinthians 9:2 | for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. | For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 9:14 | of the gospel. | from the gospel. (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 9:17 | dispensation | stewardship (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 9:25 | corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible | perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 9:27 | a castaway | disqualified (watered down)
(failure to perform in works-religion?) |
| 1 Corinthians 10:8 | fornication | sexual immorality (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 10:11 | world | ages (New Age?) |
| 1 Corinthians 11:1 | Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. | Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ. (reads harder) |
| 1 Corinthians 11:19 | heresies | factions (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 11:26 | shew | proclaim (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 11:29 | damnation | judgment (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 12:8 | by the Spirit…by the same Spirit | through the Spirit…through the same Spirit |
| 1 Corinthians 13 | charity (nine times) | love (nine times) (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 14:2, 4, 13, 14, 19, 27 | unknown (six times) [added by KJV translators, but implied by Greek] | OMIT (six times) (“unknown” is an important word because it applies to the “tongues” the Corinthians were speaking apart from God’s gift of “tongues”) |
| 1 Corinthians 14:6 | doctrine | teaching (watered down) |
| KJV | NKJV | |
| 1 Corinthians 14:25 | God is in you (see 1 Corinthians 6:19) | God is truly among you |
| 1 Corinthians 14:26 | doctrine | teaching (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 14:29 | other | others (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 15:14 | vain, and your faith is also vain | empty and your faith is also empty (loses cross-reference to 1 Corinthians 15:2) |
| 1 Corinthians 15:19 | miserable | pitiable (reads harder) |
| 1 Corinthians 15:45 | Adam was made a living soul | Adam became a living being |
| 1 Corinthians 15:55 | grave | Hades (watered down) (New Age) |
| 1 Corinthians 16:2 | as God hath prospered him | as he may prosper (watered down) |
| 1 Corinthians 16:14 | charity | love (watered down) |
| 2 Corinthians 1:21 | stablisheth | establishes (not the same as “stablisheth”) |
| 2 Corinthians 2:14 | maketh manifest | diffuses (reads harder) |
| 2 Corinthians 2:15 | us which are saved | us who are being saved (progressive salvation?; see note at 1 Corinthians 1:18) |
| 2 Corinthians 2:15 | them that perish | those who are perishing |
| 2 Corinthians 2:17 | we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God | we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God (watered down) |
| 2 Corinthians 3:11 | is done away (past tense) | is passing away (present tense) |
| 2 Corinthians 3:12 | plainness | boldness (same as “plainness?”) |
| 2 Corinthians 4:3 | them that are lost | those who are perishing |
| 2 Corinthians 4:4 | god of this world | god of this age (this New Age?) |
| 2 Corinthians 5:14 | one | One (New Age) |
| 2 Corinthians 5:17 | creature (alive) | creation (not the same as “creature,” because a creation can be inanimate/non-living) |
| 2 Corinthians 8:19 | the same Lord | the Lord Himself (watered down) |
| 2 Corinthians 8:20 | abundance | lavish gift (reads harder) |
| 2 Corinthians 9:4 | same confident boasting | confident boasting (watered down) |
| 2 Corinthians 9:11 | through us thanksgiving to God | thanksgiving through us to God |
| 2 Corinthians 10:5 | imaginations (like make-believe) | arguments (watered down) |
| 2 Corinthians 11:5 | chiefest | eminent (reads harder) |
| 2 Corinthians 11:27 | painfulness | toil (same as “painfulness!?”) |
| 2 Corinthians 11:30 | infirmities (more than one) | infirmity (only one?) |
| 2 Corinthians 12:11 | chiefest | eminent (reads harder) |
| 2 Corinthians 13:4 | crucified through weakness (reference to Christ) | crucified in weakness (watered down, blasphemous) |
| 2 Corinthians 13:5,6 | reprobate (twice) | disqualified (twice) (see note at 1 Corinthians 9:27) |
| 2 Corinthians 13:7 | honest | honorable (watered down) |
| Galatians 1:4 | world | age (New Age?) |
| Galatians 1:6,7 | another gospel: 7 Which is not another; | a different gospel: 7 Which is not another; (loses correlation) |
| Galatians 1:7 | would pervert the gospel of Christ | want to pervert the gospel of Christ (“Want to?” They WERE perverting it!) |
| Galatians 1:14 | equals | contemporaries (reads harder) |
| Galatians 1:15 | by his grace | through His grace (watered down) |
| Galatians 2:7 | the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter | the gospel for the uncircumcised had been committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter (By removing that little word “of” twice, the NKJV has destroyed the fact that there was more than one Gospel here. There was not just one Gospel of both Jew and Gentile, the KJV says there were two Gospels, one given to the Jews and ANOTHER given to the Gentiles. Also, correlation with Ephesians 2:11-12 now destroyed). |
| KJV | NKJV | |
| Galatians 2:16 | by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law | by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law (Again, by removing those two letters “of,” they have destroyed the verse! We are justified by CHRIST’S faith, not by our faith, as stated in the KJV! We know the KJV is the correct reading; look at the middle of the verse, which discusses OUR faith.) |
| Galatians 2:20 | I live by the faith of the Son of God | I live by faith in the Son of God
(see note at Galatians 2:16) |
| Galatians 3:7 | children | sons (sexist?) |
| Galatians 3:8 | heathen through faith | Gentiles by faith |
| Galatians 3:22 | faith of Jesus Christ | faith in Jesus Christ (see note at Galatians 2:16) |
| Galatians 5:1 | the yoke of bondage | a yoke of bondage (watered down) |
| Galatians 6:15 | creature | creation
(see note at 2 Corinthians 5:17) |
| Ephesians 1:5 | children | sons (sexist?) |
| Ephesians 1:21 | world | age (New Age?) |
| Ephesians 2:2 | children | sons (sexist?) |
| Ephesians 3:9 | world | ages (New Age?) |
| Ephesians 3:9 | by | through (watered down) |
| Ephesians 3:12 | by the faith of him (Christ) | through faith in Him
(see note at Galatians 2:16) |
| Ephesians 3:15 | Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named | from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named (“From whom?” And that means…?) |
| Ephesians 4:10 | the same | the One (New Age) |
| Ephesians 4:22 | the old man, which is corrupt | the old man which grows corrupt (The “old man” does not “grow” corrupt; he IS corrupt, from day 1!) (watered down) |
| Ephesians 4:30 | are sealed | were sealed (watered down) |
| Ephesians 4:32 | God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you | God in Christ forgave you |
| Ephesians 5:1 | be ye followers of God | be imitators of God (How are we to “imitate God?”) |
| Ephesians 5:4 | jesting | coarse jesting (reads harder) |
| Ephesians 5:5 | whoremonger | fornicator (watered down) |
| KJV | NKJV | |
| Ephesians 5:10 | Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. | finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. (I thought that is what the Bible is for?! According to the KJV, we know what is acceptable of God, we just need to “prove”/show it!) |
| Ephesians 5:18 | excess | dissipation (reads harder) |
| Ephesians 5:25 | it (here Paul is referring to the Church the Body of Christ) | her (This is not a reference to the Roman Catholic Church, “Holy Mother Rome,” is it? After all, the NKJV often agrees with Catholic manuscript readings.) |
| Ephesians 5:26 | it (here Paul is referring to the Church the Body of Christ) | her
(see note at Ephesians 5:25) |
| Ephesians 5:27 | it…it (here Paul is referring to the Church the Body of Christ) | her…she
(see note at Ephesians 5:25) |
| Ephesians 6:4 | nurture | training (watered down) |
| Ephesians 6:12 | world | age (New Age?) |
| Ephesians 6:16 | wicked | wicked one |
| Philippians 3:2 | beware of the concision (Jews) | beware of the mutilation! (?) |
| Philippians 3:8 | dung | rubbish (watered down) |
| Philippians 3:9 | faith of Christ | faith in Christ (see note at Galatians 2:16) |
| Philippians 3:20 | conversation (lifestyle) | citizenship (?) (watered down) |
| Philippians 3:21 | vile body (“vile” means “wicked”) | lowly body (watered down) |
| Philippians 4:5 | moderation | gentleness (watered down) |
| Colossians 1:13 | kingdom of his dear Son: | kingdom of the Son of His love (Blasphemy!) |
| Colossians 1:16 | all things were created by him, and for him | All things were created through Him and for Him (contradicts first part of Colossians 1:16, even in NKJV) |
| Colossians 1:17 | by him all things consist. | in Him all things consist. (New Age idea of Pantheism?) |
| Colossians 1:25 | dispensation | stewardship (watered down) (So much for “dispensational Bible study!”) |
| Colossians 3:6 | children | sons (sexist?) |
| 1 Thessalonians 1:10 | Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. (past tense) | Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come. (present tense) |
| 1 Thessalonians 2:3 | not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: | not come from error or uncleanness, nor was it in deceit. (watered down; “error” and “deceit” are NOT synonymous!) |
| 1 Thessalonians 2:10 | holily | devoutly (watered down) |
| 1 Thessalonians 2:14 | followers | imitators (watered down) |
| 1 Thessalonians 2:14 | Jews | Judeans (not the same) |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:3 | fornication | sexual immorality (watered down) |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:7 | to holiness | in holiness (watered down) |
| 1 Thessalonians 5:5 | children of light, and the children of the day | sons of light and sons of the day (sexist?) |
| 1 Thessalonians 5:22 | Abstain from all appearance of evil. | Abstain from every form of evil. (watered down) |
| KJV | NKJV | |
| 2 Thessalonians 2:7 | iniquity | lawlessness (watered down) |
| 2 Thessalonians 2:8 | Wicked | lawless one (watered down) |
| 2 Thessalonians 2:11 | a lie | the lie (watered down) |
| 2 Thessalonians 3:3 | evil | evil one (word added) |
| 2 Thessalonians 3:5 | patient waiting for Christ. | the patience of Christ. (By removing “waiting,” NKJV denies the rapture!) |
| 2 Thessalonians 3:17 | the token | a sign (watered down) |
| 1 Timothy 1:9 | disobedient | insubordinate (reads harder) |
| 1 Timothy 1:13 | injurious | insolent man (reads harder) |
| 1 Timothy 2:2 | honesty | reverence (watered down) |
| 1 Timothy 6:10 | For the love of money is the root of all evil: | For the love of money is a root of all [kinds of] evil, (Notice the NKJV translators corrupted this verse twice, changing “the” to “a” and adding “kinds of.”) |
| 1 Timothy 6:20 | science | knowledge (Although “science” and “knowledge” are synonymous, the NKJV readers are not warned against science, as in the theories involved with scientific study.) |
| 2 Timothy 2:2 | the same commit | commit |
| 2 Timothy 2:7 | and the Lord give thee understanding | and may the Lord give you understanding (watered down) |
| 2 Timothy 2:12 | If we suffer | If we endure (watered down) |
| 2 Timothy 2:15 | Study…rightly dividing the word of truth | Be diligent…rightly dividing (The ONLY verse in the Bible that says “study” the Bible, and the NKJV translators omit the word “study!” Some NKJV omit “rightly dividing” too). |
| 2 Timothy 2:18 | erred | strayed (watered down) |
| 2 Timothy 2:25 | In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves | in humility correcting those who are in opposition (watered down) |
| 2 Timothy 3:3 | despisers of those that are good | despisers of good (watered down) |
| 2 Timothy 3:17 | throughly | thoroughly (watered down) |
| 2 Timothy 4:2 | doctrine | teaching (watered down) |
| 2 Timothy 4:7 | For I am now ready to be offered, | For I am already being poured out as a drink offering (?) |
| 2 Timothy 4:14 | evil | harm (watered down) |
| 2 Timothy 4:16 | I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. | May it not be charged against them. (watered down) |
| Titus 1:4 | the common faith | our common faith (watered down) |
| Titus 1:6 | riot or unruly | dissipation or insubordination (reads harder) |
| Titus 1:10 | unruly | insubordinate (reads harder) |
| That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands,… | that they admonish the young women to love their husbands,… | |
| Titus 2:12 | world | age (New Age?) |
| Titus 2:13 | the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; | our great God and Savior Jesus Christ |
| KJV | NKJV | |
| Titus 2:14 | iniquity | lawless deed (watered down) |
| Titus 3:1 | to obey magistrates, to be ready… | to obey, to be ready… (watered down) |
| Titus 3:10 | heretic | divisive man (watered down) |
| Philemon 1:23 | There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus; | Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you (Is Epaphras with Paul, as the NKJV suggests, or is Epaphras with Philemon, as the KJV suggests?) |
| Hebrews 1:2 | by whom also he made the worlds | through whom also He made the worlds (watered down) |
| Hebrews 1:9 | iniquity | lawlessness (watered down) |
| Hebrews 2:16 | For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. | For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham. (This is nonsense!) |
| Hebrews 3:3 | For this man | For this One (New Age) |
| Hebrews 3:16 | For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. | For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses?
(The NKJV lies! The NKJV says everyone in Israel rebelled in the wilderness, which is a lie. Numbers 14:28-31, 38 tells us that Israel’s children, aged 20 and under, did not rebel. Caleb and Joshua did not rebel. Modern Bibles contradict themselves!) |
| Hebrews 4:6 | unbelief | disobedience (watered down) |
| Hebrews 4:8 | Jesus | Joshua (watered down) |
| Hebrews 4:11 | unbelief | disobedience (watered down) |
| Hebrews 4:15 | infirmities | weaknesses (watered down) |
| Hebrews 5:2 | compassed with infirmity. | subject to weakness. (watered down) |
| Hebrews 6:5 | world to come | age to come (New Age?) |
| Hebrews 7:21 | repent | relent (watered down) |
| Hebrews 7:28 | infirmity | weakness (watered down) |
| Hebrews 8:3 | this man | this One (New Age) |
| Hebrews 8:12 | iniquities | lawless deeds (watered down) |
| Hebrews 9:6 | the service {of God.} (Although the KJV translators added “of God,” notice the NKJV translators did not bother to add it. Why?) |
the services. (The services of whom?) |
| Hebrews 9:7 | for the errors of the people | people’s sins committed in ignorance. |
| Hebrews 9:26 | the end of the world | the end of the ages (New Age) |
| Hebrews 10:14 | them that are sanctified. | those who are being sanctified. |
| Hebrews 10:17 | iniquities | lawless deeds (watered down) |
| Hebrews 11:7 | being warned of God | being divinely warned (watered down) (New Age) |
| Hebrews 12:8 | bastards | illegitimate (watered down) |
| Hebrews 12:23 | written in heaven | registered in heaven (reads harder) |
| Hebrews 13:2 | unawares | unwittingly (reads harder) |
| Hebrews 13:4 | whoremongers | fornicators (watered down) |
| KJV | NKJV | |
| Hebrews 13:18 | honestly. | honorably (watered down) |
| James 2:6 | despised | dishonored (watered down) |
| James 3:14 | glory not, and lie not against the truth. | do not boast and lie against the truth |
| 1 Peter 1:18 | vain conversation | aimless conduct (watered down) |
| 1 Peter 2:12 | honest | honorable (watered down) |
| 1 Peter 2:16 | maliciousness | vice (watered down and reads harder) |
| 1 Peter 3:20 | the longsuffering of God | the Divine longsuffering (watered down and New Age) |
| 1 Peter 3:21 | figure | antitype (reads harder) |
| 1 Peter 4:4 | excess of riot | flood of dissipation (reads harder) |
| 1 Peter 5:2 | Feed the flock of God | Shepherd the flock of God (watered down) |
| 1 Peter 5:10 | But the God of all grace | But may the God of all grace (watered down) |
| 2 Peter 1:1 | the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: | the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: |
| 2 Peter 2:1 | damnable heresies | destructive heresies (watered down) |
| 2 Peter 2:3 | damnation | destruction (watered down) |
| 2 Peter 2:14 | beguiling | enticing (watered down) |
| 2 Peter 2:18 | those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. | the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. (watered down) |
| 1 John 2:8 | darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. (past tense) | darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining. (present tense) |
| 1 John 2:9 | darkness even until now. | darkness until now. (watered down) |
| 1 John 3:4 | Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. | Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. (watered down) |
| 1 John 4:14 | the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. (Christ is the ONLY Saviour!) | the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. (watered down) (Christ is one of many Saviours?) |
| 1 John 5:17 | and there is a sin not unto death. | and there is sin not leading to death. (watered down) |
| 1 John 5:19 | the whole world lieth in wickedness. | the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one. (watered down) |
| 2 John 1:3 | Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father | Grace, mercy, and peace will be with you from God the Father (watered down) |
| 2 John 1:7 | Jesus Christ is come in the flesh (past tense) | Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. (future tense) |
| 2 John 1:10 | neither bid him God speed | nor greet him (watered down) |
| 3 John 1:11 | follow not that which is evil, but that which is good | do not imitate what is evil, but what is good |
| Jude 1:3 | the common salvation | our common salvation (watered down) |
| Jude 1:7 | fornication | sexual immorality (watered down) |
| Jude 1:8 | filthy dreamers (KJV translators added “filthy” because the Greek implies it.) | dreamers (Although the KJV translators added “filthy” because it was implied by the Greek, why didn’t the NKJV add “filthy,” too?) |
| KJV | NKJV | |
| Jude 1:19 | sensual | who cause divisions (Is that the same thing as “sensual?”) |
| Revelation 1:8 | Alpha and Omega | the Alpha and the Omega |
| Revelation 1:11 | Alpha and Omega | the Alpha and the Omega |
| Revelation 1:13 | one | One (New Age) |
| Revelation 1:18 | hell | Hades (watered down) (New Age) |
| Revelation 2:9 | the synagogue of Satan. | a synagogue of Satan. (watered down) |
| Revelation 2:10 | a crown of life. | the crown of life. |
| Revelation 2:14 | fornication | sexual immorality (watered down) |
| Revelation 2:20 | fornication | sexual immorality (watered down) |
| Revelation 2:21 | fornication | sexual immorality (watered down) |
| Revelation 2:22 | bed | sickbed (?) |
| Revelation 2:25 | ye have already | you have (watered down) |
| Revelation 3:10 | thou hast kept the word of my patience | you have kept My command to persevere |
| Revelation 3:15 | I would thou wert cold or hot. | I could wish you were cold or hot. (watered down) |
| Revelation 4:2 | one | One (New Age) |
| Revelation 4:4 | seats (twice) | thrones (twice) |
| Revelation 4:6 | beasts | living creatures |
| Revelation 4:7 | beasts (four times) | living creatures (four times) |
| Revelation 4:8 | beasts | living creatures |
| Revelation 4:9 | beasts | living creatures |
| Revelation 4:11 | and for thy pleasure they are and were created. | And by Your will they exist and were created.” |
| Revelation 5:6 | beasts | living creatures |
| Revelation 5:8 | beasts | living creatures |
| Revelation 6:1 | beast | living creature |
| Revelation 6:3 | beast | living creature |
| Revelation 6:5 | beast | living creature |
| Revelation 6:6 | beasts | living creatures |
| Revelation 6:7 | beast | living creature |
| Revelation 6:8 | Hell | Hades (watered down) (New Age) |
| Revelation 7:3 | God in their foreheads. | God on their foreheads.” (watered down) |
| Revelation 7:11 | beasts | living creatures |
| Revelation 9:4 | God in their foreheads | God on their foreheads (watered down) |
| Revelation 9:21 | fornication | sexual immorality (watered down) |
| Revelation 10:11 | Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings. | “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings.” (watered down) |
| Revelation 11:17 | O LORD God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; | O Lord God Almighty, The One who is and who was and who is to come, (New Age) |
| KJV | NKJV | |
| Revelation 12:1 | wonder | sign (watered down) |
| Revelation 12:1 | crown | garland (reads harder) |
| Revelation 12:3 | wonder | sign (watered down) |
| Revelation 12:3 | crowns | diadems (reads harder) |
| Revelation 13:1 | and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. | and on his heads a blasphemous name. (watered down) |
| Revelation 13:2 | seat | throne (?) |
| Revelation 13:3 | wounded to death | mortally wounded (An odd difference, seeing as to NKJV agrees with KJV in Revelation 13:12—“deadly wound.”) |
| Revelation 13:13 | miracles | signs (watered down) |
| Revelation 13:14 | miracles | signs (watered down) |
| Revelation 13:16 | to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: | to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads (watered down) |
| Revelation 14:1 | in their foreheads | on their foreheads (watered down) |
| Revelation 14:3 | beasts | living creatures |
| Revelation 14:9 | and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, | receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand |
| Revelation 14:14 | one | One (New Age) |
| Revelation 15:7 | beast | living creature |
| Revelation 15:7 | vials | bowls |
| Revelation 16:1 | vials | bowls |
| Revelation 16:2 | vial | bowl |
| Revelation 16:2 | grievous | loathsome (reads harder) |
| Revelation 16:3 | vial | bowl |
| Revelation 16:4 | vial | bowl |
| Revelation 16:5 | Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, | O Lord, The One who is and who was and who is to be, (New Age) |
| Revelation 16:8 | vial | bowl |
| Revelation 16:10 | vial | bowl |
| Revelation 16:12 | vial | bowl |
| Revelation 16:14 | miracles | signs |
| Revelation 16:17 | vial | bowl |
| Revelation 17:1 | vials | bowls |
| Revelation 19:4 | beasts | living creatures |
| Revelation 19:8 | for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. | for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. |
| Revelation 19:20 | miracles | signs |
| Revelation 20:4 | neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; | and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. |
| Revelation 20:14 | hell | Hades (watered down) (New Age) |
| Revelation 21:6 | Alpha and Omega | the Alpha and the Omega |
| Revelation 21:8 | whoremongers | sexually immoral (watered down) |
| Revelation 21:9 | vials | bowls |
| Revelation 22:4 | and his name shall be in their foreheads. | and his name shall be on their foreheads. |
| KJV | NKJV | |
| Revelation 22:13 | Alpha and Omega | the Alpha and the Omega |
| Revelation 22:15 | whoremongers | sexually immoral (watered down) |
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Posted by Christian ambassador (Shawn Brasseaux) 
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