The NKJV/MEV too be sure the New King James Version and /or the Modern English Version (‘updated’ NKJV) is not a King James. They marketed it like that in order to SELL more bibles.

Here are my problems with this version…First, as is the photo I posted from the back of my KJB /NKJV Parallel Bible it says that the NKJV is the perfect transition bible to the modern bibles. I call it the “Marijuana bible” LOL…although, I think we know more today and Marijuana is not necessarily a transition drug to all. It is true that like the KJB the NKJV uses the Textus Receptus (5309 manuscripts from Antioch)…however, it also uses the Critical Text (44 corrupt texts out of Alexandria). The KJ translators had the CT available to them but they discarded them.

Now here are some real PROBLEMS I have with the NKJV.

The NKJV IGNORES the Receptus over 1,200 times.

 

 

 

 

The NKJV

22 omissions of “hell”,
23 omissions of “blood”,

44 omissions of “repent”,
50 omissions of “heaven”,
51 omissions of “God”,
66 omissions of “Lord”.

NKJV omits the word “new testament” entirely

NKJV omits the word “damnation” entirely

NKJV omits the word “devils” entirely

NKJV omits the word “JEHOVAH” 100% of the time!

The NKJV makes a very serious doctrinal error when dealing with the word “JEHOVAH” in Exodus 6:3. They change the word “JEHOVAH” to “LORD” thus making the Bible contradict itself. Even the corrupt “New World Translation” (Jehovah’s Witnesses Bible) has a better rendering of this passage.  LOL and they use the same manuscripts.

So what does Exodus 6:3 say? Please read carefully – “And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.” (KJV)

Now please note what the NKJV says – “I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, LORD, I was not known to them.” (NKJV)

If you will take a concordance and go back to Genesis 1 and go through to Exodus 6:3 you will notice that the word “LORD” is mentioned 242 times.

Did anyone before Exodus know God by the name of “LORD” before Exodus 6:3. The answer is a resounding, YES! Don’t just sit there, look it up for yourself.

So to eliminate the word “JEHOVAH” is not only poor scholarship but also perverts and damages the text making it contradictory. It is a key passage that shows God as He reveals Himself BY ANOTHER NAME to mankind. Someone on the translation committee evidently does not like the name, “JEHOVAH.”

DOCTRINAL PROBLEMS

DEALING WITH SALVATION

The NKJV confuses people about salvation. In Hebrews 10:14 it replaces “are sanctified” with “ARE BEING SANCTIFIED“, and it replaces “are saved” with “ARE BEING SAVED.”

In I Corinthians 1:18 and II Corinthians 2:15. The words “may believe” have been replaced with “MAY CONTINUE TO BELIEVE” in I John 5:13.

The old straight and “narrow” way of Matthew 7:14 has become the “DIFFICULT” way in the NKJV.

In II Corinthians 10:5 the KJV reads “casting down imaginations”, but the NKJV reads “CASTING DOWN ARGUMENTS“. The word “thought”, which occurs later in the verse, matches “imaginations”, not “arguments”. This change weakens the verse.

The KJV tells us to reject a “heretick” after the second admonition in Titus 3:10. The NKJV tells us to reject a “ DIVISIVE MAN“. How nice! Now the Alexandrians and Ecumenicals have justification for rejecting anyone they wish to label as “divisive men”.

According to the NKJV, no one would stoop so low as to “corrupt” God’s word. No, they just “PEDDLE” it (II Cor. 2:17). The reading matches the Alexandrian versions.

The KJV correctly says, “For we are not as many, which corrupt the Word of God …. “But the NKJV, NASV, NIV and RSV, change “corrupt” to “peddling.” Is there any great difference between peddling (selling, or making a gain of) the Word of God and corrupting (adulterating) it?

The NKJV gives us no command to “study” God’s word in II Timothy 2:15.

2 TIMOTHY 2:15

KJV reads, “Study to shew thyself approved unto God.” NKJV and NASV change “study” to “be diligent.” NIV and RSV change “study” to “DO YOUR BEST.”

 

MATTHEW 7:14

KJV – “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life…”

NKJV – “Because narrow is the gate and DIFFICULT is the way which leads to life,”

Is the way unto eternal life difficult? No, that is false teaching. The way unto eternal life is “strait,” as the KJV says, meaning “constricted, restricted, distressed, narrow, restrained.”

 

MATTHEW 20:20

KJV – “Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping him…”

NKJV – “Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Him with her sons, KNEELING DOWN…”

This is a wicked change. To kneel is obviously not the same as worship. “Worship” was in Tyndale’s translation of 1526. It was in the Matthew’s Bible of 1537. It was the Geneva of 1537. It was in the Authorized Version of 1611. Even the English Revised version of 1881 and the American Standard Version of 1901 retained the word “worship.” It was the modernistic Revised Standard Version of 1952 which changed to “kneeling.” Now the NKJV editors follow this same wicked error.

 

HEBREWS 3:16

KJV – “For some, when they had heard did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.”

NKJV – “For who having heard rebelled? Indeed, WAS IT NOT ALL who came out of Egypt led by Moses?”

Was it ALL or not all of them?  The NKJV make this verse to say something directly contrary to the KJV and to the Old Testament. The Bible plainly says that not all of the Israelites rebelled against God, but the NKJV creates a contradiction.

The NKJV also lines up with the (NWT) Jehovah’s Witness Perversion in dealing with the above.

DANIEL 3:25 The fourth person who was in the fiery furnace with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, was identified as “the Son of God.” The same identification is given in the text of the NKJV but a footnote reads “or, a son of the gods,” and both NIV and NASV actually have the latter reading in their texts.  I hate footnotes…it leaves DOUBT as to what God really said!

The NKJV is supposedly easier to read and understand but its impurities actually make it doubly deceptive and dangerous.  The New King James Version / Modern English Version is a counterfeit my friend.

EASIER?  HARDER!

And by changing thee’s and thou’s they actually change the meaning of the text.  Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (Matt. 4:4). He also said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away” (Matt. 24:35). Since Christ is concerned about every word, we should also be concerned about every word!

Let me help…and you will never be confused by thee and thou again.  ?  If it starts with T it is singular.  If it starts with Y it is plural…see EASY!

Archaic words?  Yes!  But the NKJV has them too as does every bible.   Many of the words are EASIER in the KJB than the NKJV.

Please decide what God is saying to Moses:

“And the LORD said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws?” (Exodus 16:28, NKJV)

It looks like God is saying, “Moses, you are continuing to refuse to keep My commandments and My laws.” But look carefully at the accurate King James:

“And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?”

Now we understand! It was the people, not Moses, that God was upset with. “Ye” and “you” mean more than one person. “Thee,” “thou,” “thy,” “thine,” “doeth,” “hast,” etc., only mean one person. How do we know? The “y” is plural. The “t” is singular. Isn’t that easy? Now you know what Jesus meant when He said to Nicodemus, “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again” (John 3:7).

What Jesus said was, “Nicodemus, marvel not that I said unto thee, all of you need to be born again.” This is very important. Not only Nicodemus needed to be saved. But everybody, including him, needed to be born again. That’s why Jesus used the plural.

 

NKJV Demotes Jesus Christ
	NKJV	KJV
Luke 13:8	Sir	Lord
Matthew 18:26	before him saying, Master	and worshipped him saying, Lord
Matthew 20:20	kneeling down	worshipping him
Matthew 26:64	right hand of the Power	right hand of power
Genesis 22:8	God will provide for himself the lamb	God will provide himself a lamb
John 8:35	a son	the Son
Colossians 2:2	the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ	the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ (Trinity)
Matthew 8:19 et al.	Teacher	Master
Matthew 19:16	Good Teacher	Good Master
Matthew 22:16	Teacher	Master
Matthew 23:8	One is your Teacher, the Christ	one is your Master, even Christ
Matthew 23:10	And do not be called teachers, for One is your Teacher, the Christ	Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ

 

NKJV Copies Jehovah Witness Version
	NKJV	KJV
Demotes Jesus Christ
Acts 3:13	His Servant Jesus	his Son Jesus
Acts 3:26	His Servant Jesus	his Son Jesus
Acts 4:27	holy Servant Jesus	holy child Jesus
Acts 4:30	holy Servant Jesus	holy child Jesus
Colossians 1:15	the firstborn over all creation	the firstborn of every creature
Mark 2:15	OMITTED	Jesus
Hebrews 4:8	Joshua	Jesus
Acts 7:45	Joshua	Jesus
2 Thessalonians 3:5	patience of Christ	patient waiting for Christ
Demotes Trinity
Acts 17:29	Divine Nature	Godhead
Philippians 4:20	our God and Father	God and our Father
Revelation 1:6	his God and Father	God and his Father
Colossians 3:17	God the Father through Him	God and the Father by him
John 14:16	Helper	Comforter
John 14:26	Helper	Comforter
John 15:26	Helper	Comforter
John 16:7	Helper	Comforter
Works/Progressive Salvation
1 Corinthians 11:1	Imitate Christ	followers…of Christ
Romans 3:3	faithfulness	faith
Romans 11:30	disobedient	not believed
Romans 11:32	disobedient	unbelief
1 Corinthians 1:18	are being saved	are saved
2 Corinthians 2:15	are being saved	are saved
Ephesians 2:8	have been saved	are…saved

 

NKJV Supports New Age Ideas
	NKJV	KJV
Works Salvation
Matthew 7:14	difficult is the way	narrow is the way
Galatians 5:22	faithfulness	faith
1 John 5:13	may continue to believe	may believe
Ecclesiastes 5:20	God keeps him busy	God answereth him
Progressive Ages
Matthew 12:32	age to come	world to come
Matthew 13:39 et al.	end of the age	end of the world
Acts 15:18	from eternity	from the beginning of the world
1 Corinthians 15:45	Adam became a living being	Adam was made a living soul
Pantheism, Androgyny, Gender Equity
Luke 7:19, 20	the Coming One	he that should come
Matthew 11:3	the Coming One	he that should come
John 7:18 et al.	the One	he, his
John 4:24	God is spirit	God is a spirit
2 Corinthians 2:10	presence	person
Genesis 2:18	helper comparable to him	help meet for him
Self-Esteem (“The devil made me do it.”)
Philippians 3:21	lowly bodies	vile bodies
1 John 5:19	whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one	whole world lieth in wickedness
Luke 11:4	deliver us from the evil one	deliver us from evil
Matthew 5:37	the evil one	of evil
2 Corinthians 1:12	boast	rejoicing
Religious Tolerance – One World Religion
Acts 24:14	sect	heresy
Acts 17:22	very religious	too superstitious
Psalms 19:1	nations	heathen
Acts 8:9	astonished	bewitched
Acts 25:19	religion	superstition
2 Corinthians 10:5	casting down arguments	casting down imaginations
Titus 3:10	Reject a divisive man	an heretic…reject
Relative/Subjective Standards
Matthew 5:32 et al.	sexual immorality	fornication
1 Corinthians 6:9	homosexual (catamites only)	effeminate
omit all	perverted persons	sodomite
2 Timothy 3:17	complete	perfect
New Age Name Game/Jargon
Matthew 23:10 et al.	the Christ	Christ
Psalms 109:6	omit	Satan
Romans 6:24 et al.	slave	servant
omit 22x	hades	hell
omit 81x	demon(s)	devil(s)
Mark of the Beast
Revelation 13:16 et al.	a mark on their hand	a mark in their hand
1 Samuel 13:21	the charge…was a pim (positive identification microchip)	they had a file…for the coulters

 

NKJV Uses Harder Words than KJV
	NKJV Hard Word	KJV Easy Word
2 Corinthians 3:12	we use great boldness of speech	we use great plainness of speech
Amos 5:21	savor	smell
2 Corinthians 5:2	habitation	house
Ecclesiastes 2:3	gratify	give
Isaiah 28:1, 4	verdant	fat
Isaiah 34:6	overflowing	fat
Isaiah 13:12	mortal	man
Deuteronomy 28:50	elderly	old
Judges 19:29	limb	bones
Job 2:10	adversity	evil
1 Samuel 16:14	distressing	evil
Jeremiah 19:3	catastrophe	evil
2 Kings 22:16	calamity	evil
Ecclesiastes 12:1	difficult	evil
Ecclesiastes 8:5	harmful	evil
Ezekiel 5:16	terrible	evil

HARD WORDS FOUND IN THE NKJV

Abase, abashed, abode, adhere, admonish, adversity, aground, algum, alienate, alighting, allays, allotment, alloy, aloof, alms, amend, amiss, annihilated, anise, antitype, arbitrate, apprehended, archives, armlets, ascertain, asps, attire, austere, backbite, banishment, baths [not to get clean,] bdellium, befalls, beggarly, begetting, behemoth, belial, beseech, betrothal, beveled, birthstools, bittern, bleat, booty, borne, breach, brandished, bray, bristling, buffet, buckler, bulrush, burnished, butress, calamus, caldron, capital, carcasses, carnally, carrion, cassia, caulkers, centurion, chalcedony, chalkstones, chaste, chasten, chrysolite, chrysoprase, circumspect, cistern, citadel, citron, clamor, cleft, cloven, commission, commonwealth [not shared money,] compound, concede, compulsory, conciliation, concubine, congealed, contemptuously, confederacy, contingents, corban, coriander, countenance, couriers  covert, crags, crescents, crest, cropped, cubit, custodian [not the one who cleans the school halls,] curds, dainties, dandled, daubed, dappled, dayspring, denarii, deposed, deride, despoiled, diadem, diffuses, dilapidation, dispensation, disrepute, dissipation, diviner, docile, dragnet,  dregs, drachmas, dropsy, dross, dryshod, eczema, edict, edification, elaborate, embellish, emitted, enigma, enmity, entrails, envoy, eventide, epistle, ephod, exorcise, expiration, faction, fallow, famish, fare, fatlings, feigned festal, fetched, fidelity, figurehead, filly, flanges, foreskin, fostered, fowlers, fuller furlongs, gad, garland, garrison, gaunt, gecko, graven, Hellenists, hew, homers, hoopoe, immutability, indignant, insolence, insubordination, intervene, itinerant, jackdaw, jeopardy, jubilation, kors, laden, lamentations, laud, lusty, mail [not a letter,] mammon, matrix [other than the movie,] mattock, mercenaries, mina [not a type of bird,] mite [not a bed bug,] moorings, nativity, offal, offscouring, omnipotent, oracle, pangs, papyrus [not a fruit,] paramours, parapet, penitents, perdition, phylacteries, pilfering, pillage, pims, pins [not like needles or bowling- has to do with a chariot,] pinions [not a type of nut,] plaited [not dishes,] platitudes, potentate, potsherd, poultice, Praetorium, prattler, principality, prodigal, proconsul, prognosticators, propitiation, pslatery, prow, pulverize, pyre, quadrans, quiver, rampart  ravenous, ravished, raze [not to lift up,] reconciliation, recount, rend, renown, reprisal, retinue, rifled [does not have to do with guns,] rivulets, rogue, salute [ does not have to do with the army,] satiate, satraps, scruples, sepulcher, shamefaced, shards, Sheol, shod, shuttle [not a type of bus or spaceship,] siegeworks, sistrums [not an affectionate term for your sisters,] skiff, soothsayer, spelt straits, superfluous, supplanted, tamarisk, tares, tarries, temperate, terebinth, terrestrial, tetrarch, throng, timbrel, tittle, tresses, usury, vagabond, vassal, vehement, vermilion, verdure, verity, vestments, waifs, wane, wanton, warp, wend, wield, winebibber, woof, wrought.

 

None of the translators of the NKJV  believed that either text was the Divinely preserved Word of God.

 

THE NKJV / MEV IS A DANGEROUS, COUNTERFEIT!