Jesus-Is-Lord.com


There; that title aught to get your attention. This is an open letter to the publisher of Jesus-Is-Lord.com. I happened upon your site through a Google search of "Authorized Version," so you've managed to gain a leading position on their search engine; congratulations. So, now that I have your attention I have a question for you that is in no way critical of your web site's content, but simply reflects a minor incongruity I noticed there.     You state that the Bible you recommend(recommend is the understatement of the century) is the Authorized, 1611 edition of God's Word, but what I found on your site is a slightly edited version of the original. For reference, here are the verses I was studying, first from your web site:

008:013 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: 008:014 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:

    Now, from the King James Bible 1611 copied from the e-Sword application, Version 9.5.1 by Rick Meyers:

2 Corinthians 8:13-14 For I meane not that other men bee eased, and you burthened: (14) But by an equalitie: that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want, that there may be equalitie,

    Based on the Elizabethan spelling in the passage from e-Sword, I must infer that it is the more authentic rendering of the KJB 1611.     From your own content I take it you believe that any editing of the original 1611 edition brings a curse on the editor. If I misread your intention, please correct me. Thanks in advance for your attention to this issue.