Welcome to the new, unfinished modern language King James Bible. Note the "alpha" and "beta". Alpha is an in-house test, beta is a public test. We can use your help: not money, but information. If you see a passage that seems wrong, or a typo or other error, please email help@mkjv.org.
You will occasionally see a ✝ in the new testament and ✡ in the old testament at the end of a passage. ✝ marks a prophesy in the old testament that links to the passage where that prophesy is fulfilled. It will have a ✡ that links back. This is still under construction, as is “smart” punctuation.
Every chapter and verse is linked! The link anchor is the book's HTML name, which is its name with .html at the end; Genesis is Genesis.html. To go to its chapter 5, the link is Genesis.html#5. Note the number symbol. To go to 5:7, its link is Genesis.html#5:7. All chapters and verses are linked like this.
This version is only edited for modern grammar and spelling making it easier to read.
The work is written in plain text HTML. Most modern browsers allow you to enlarge the text if you wish, in FireFox [CTRL]+[F11] on a computer enlarges the typeface.
The “Read Aloud” Link (still under construction) is an MP3 file you can download or listen to online.
Illustrations are from the past artistic masters of antiquity, such as Rembrandt and Van Gogh.
From 1611 until the early 1970s, the King James Bible (KJV) was the only Christian Bible (although there were earlier English language Bibles), and several groups of people decided separately that the old KJV is too hard to read for modern readers. Even though I've read hundreds of old books, some passages are hard for me.
But all of the new versions have two huge problems: None of them match what the KJV says; One of them says, in the ten commandments, “do not lie.“ That’s not what KJV says, it says “thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor”, meaning “do not slander”, not lie. One version says Jesus was a slave; Jesus was never a slave, no man ever owned Jesus. Slaves have no freedom and serve from fear. The King James says he was a servent. As if because a horse is a four legged animal, a dog is a horse because it has four legs.
The second is worst: all the other Bibles are under copyright; their words are owned by men who worship money. They will sue if you publish their Bibles.
This Bible is under copyright, but you are free to share it any way you wish, even selling copies, but you must share the entire Bible with no changes whatever. Unlike the other Bibles, its copyright will expire 95 years after I die. The others continually change theirs periodically, claiming they made mistakes, but they’re really in it for the money. You can’t serve both God and money.
If you wish to pay for this copy of your Bible, please leave any desired payment with your own church’s pastor or simply give to the poor. Please do not attempt to remunerate me, this work is for our Lord and Savior and is a labor of love.