In English, God Keeps His Word In the King James Bible,, NOT In the Confusion of Hundreds of English Language Versions

Do we believe in God, AND that He keeps His Word, or not? Our true beliefs govern our actions, and our actions prove our beliefs. Our spiritual interest got us this far. Are we willing to seek out what God says about Himself and about His Word, within the whole Bible, comparing Scripture with Scripture? 

William Chamberlin’s “Catalogue of English Bible Translations”, 1991, lists hundreds of bible versions in the English language! …but God says that He keeps His Word pure! Purity and confusion do not fit together. Do we want to find, know, and use God’s one true Bible in English, instead being confused by hundreds of versions, transliterations, and paraphrases?

 I first believed on God and His salvation plan at about 36 years old. I was confused by the many English versions of the Bible. I read through several, side by side, comparing what they said and how they said it. As I learned sound doctrine from biblically sound preachers and teachers, I compared sound doctrines with how the versions expressed themselves in relation to those sound doctrines. From cover to cover, only the King James Bible consistently matched doctrine with the biblical statements of God (including comparisons with the Received or Syrian text that was the foundation of 1^st and 2^nd Century Christianity). David Fuller’s “Which Bible?” is a sound historical reference.

 Both lost and saved people argue about what Bible to use. Some want what feels good. Some don’t want to use a dictionary. Some desire modernistic language, or someone else’s scholarship. Too many people want to be spoonfed, neglecting to study through the Bible, in detail, for themselves, often missing that God insists that He can keep His own Word pure. The Bible repeats (in many ways) that God’s prime attributes are omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence. IF God is God and exists according to what the Bible says, then He can do anything He says, any way that He says, and any time that He says. THAT includes that He can say anything AND ALSO preserve that for all people in all languages for all time. God says it, so, it’s true.

 “God is not the author of confusion.” (1 Corinthians 14:33) But, from almost the beginning of human experience (Genesis 3:1), Satan has tried to tear down human relations with God. Satan persistently attacks human thought with the doubt-inducing question, “Yea, hath God said?”. People, themselves, use doubt to dismiss all sorts of good, godly, established things in life. The devil loves human doubt or equivocation about God’s Bible. Doubt leads to weakness and contention. Let’s trust God’s Word, not bow to doubt-inducing versions.

 What does God say? God says His Word is always good, pure, and faithful (Psalm 33:11 & 100:5). He holds His Word higher than His own Name (Psalm 138:2), for without His Word being eternally pure, true, and faithfully available to us, we, then, could never trust what He says. Our faith would be vain.

 Let us walk with God in His Word, not in doubt. Here are some phrases to search and study with a King James Bible computer app, or Strong’s Concordance. Read each of these God-used expressions to see what God says and means in their proper contexts. Said by God many times and in many ways, we need to trust His Word, the Bible. Given how many times God says these things in varying contexts, we should be shocked at how much human debate and confusion is associated with this overall topic, undermining human faith and confidence in God's Word, all that strife and doubt which Satan loves to see. Jas 2:19 "Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble." (James 2:19)

1. Thus saith the LORD (116 times)
2. The LORD said (216 times)
3. God said (46 times)
4. Know ye not (17 times)
5. Ye know not (16 times)
6. Without understanding (4 times)
7. Will of man (2 times)
8. Mouth of God (2 times)
9. Within me (20 times)
10. God hath said (3 times)
11. LORD hath said (17 times)
12. Than sacrifice (2 times)
13. No understanding (3 times)
14. Without understanding (4 times)
15. My word/s: especially Luke 9:26, 21:33! John 5:47, 8:31, 14:23, 15:7! (15 times)
16. Word of the LORD (258 times)
17. Word of God (49 times)
18. Mind of the LORD/Lord (3 times)
19. Mind of Christ (1 time)
20. Every word (7 times)
21. Is pure (5 times)
22. The LORD hath a controversy (3 times)

In English, after 400 years, God still keeps His pure Word in one Bible, the King James, not in the confusion of the hundreds of English versions.

If you are not sure about your relationship with God and His Word, who He is, or His plan of salvation, please seek His answers via these links. 

God bless you to not forget God's warnings in Isaiah 66:1-2 and Revelation 22:18-19.