As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“I really believe that there’s important common ground between King James defenders and people like me we all in our hearts as Christians trying to follow the Lord want people to read and understand their Bibles and as long as we can agree on that we can have really beautiful and innovative editions and great conversations about them.” - Ward on Words
Mark Ward discusses KJV “false friend” #95 (Lev 12:7, Matt 9:20, etc.) - YouTube
”’… ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.’ How do you pronounce that word? Or is this an entirely different word than our regular ‘show,’ s-h-o-w?” - Mark Ward
Mark Ward debates Dan Haifley on the topic of KJV readabilitiy. - YouTube
“A one-of-a-kind Bible used by the King James translators offers a rare glimpse of their textual decisions.” - Text & Canon
“I recently read a promoter of exclusive use of the King James Version who argued that if anyone has trouble understanding KJV English, they can just go to Matthew Henry’s commentary for all the explanations they need. I was skeptical. I still am.” - Mark Ward
“We lose quite a bit of meaning if we reduce the idea of a spouse to ‘my little helper’ as ‘helpmeet’ seems to imply. It might be better, if we use the word ‘help,’ to capitalize it and at least add a comma: ‘I will make him an Help, meet for him’ ” - P&D
On the degree to which KJV uses “the same English word each time [a] Greek or Hebrew word is used.” - Mark Ward
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