TLDW: - Sam personally uses the KJV. - NKJV, NIV (93% as accurate, does not change the message of the bible or it's books) - NKJV, *NIV are suggested by Sam for beginners and when you're comfortable try the KJV. - Sam trusts the majority texts for various reasons. (Listen to find out) Excellent video, this answered everything! Revisited: I wouldn't use the NIV. Use the NKJV until you feel brave enough to learn early modern english by reading the KJV. Why go KJV? Best translation and the language offers up the most subtle nuance and poetic delivery. Get a study Bible and you won't regret it.
True, NIV and NIVUK alter some crucial verses of the Bible giving completely different conclusions and being close to what Jehovah witnesses preach. I currently read and listen to Geneva Bible as I have not found any of these errors, and in some instances it has fuller verses than KJV. The only downside to it were originally the notes on margins. The text itself is very well translated.
I would use the KJV or Nkjv based on a wide range in terms of breath of witnesses number and also recent early papyrus readings also literal translation poetically easier to remember while modern translation follow early manuscripts primarily codex vaticanus while older but fewer in number was a localised Egyptian text
When I joined the Methodist church I used the NIV. I got interested in the Catholic Bible and picked up a NRSV-CE in 2008. I eventually got a KJV but I didnt like it. The first Bible I read cover to cover was the New American Bible. Im currently reading The Orthodox Study Bible and will read through the Douay-Rheims next.
i stared using NIV and got into the bible through it, but when got further into reading scripture and studying i picked up the kjv and thats where i gunna stay, i would reccomend the nkjv for starters
Thank you, my sister, but blessed be the Lord God for providing sound teachers for us, teachers like Sam Shamoun. God bless you and your family, and may the Lord bless Sam and his family as well.
thank you. Ive been a christian for 25 years now and have really tried to read KJV for many years but it always leaves me frustrated. I became a believer through using the NIV 84. have several translations as well but only the NIV resonates and makes me worship Him. I will still try with the KJV i mean, whats there to lose? thank you for saying this as everyone around me keeps pushing the ESV
It seems this video has been uploaded 11 months ago, but how long ago does this actually date from? Because the Sam Shamoun from 2022-23 wouldn't say that the KJV was the only translation used for for 300 years by *all* English speaking Christians. Now way he would have left out the Douay-Rheims translation.
The only problem I have with KJV is that the manuscript it was translated from had a hole in it where ahzaihs age was and put it at 42 but if we read NIV it'd corrected at 22
@@jmielke4341 that just doesn't make sense According to 2 Kings 8:26, Ahaziah was 22 years old when he began to reign, and reigned for one year in Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 22:2 gives his age as 42 years when his reign began in Jerusalem. Most scholars regard the 42 years in 2 Chronicles 22:2 as a copyist's error for an original 22 years.
KJB has been authenticated supernaturally Father + Son = 7*7*7 mentions in the Gospels Father + Son = 7*7 mentions in the first 7 Epistles Father + Son = 77 mentions in the remaining 14 Epistles Father + Son = 7 mentions in Revelation Father + Son = 70*7 mentions in the Entire Bible The Father + The Word + Holy Ghost = 777 mentions in the Bible God + Jesus + Holy Spirit = 777 x 3 mentions in NT God + Jesus + his Spirit = 777 x 7 mentions in NT Jesus - word #7 from start of NT Jesus - word #7 from end of NT Jesus - 77th generation from God (Luke 3) Jesus - 77% word of entire Bible (Matthew 1) word 610,288 / 790,849 Jesus Christ + Christ Jesus = 77 mentions in first 7 books of NT Jesus speaks signature phrase “verily I say unto you/thee” 77 times All mentions of Jesus(‘) 70 x 7 + 70 x 7 = 490 + 490 = 980 Odd books of NT - 70 x 7 mentions of Jesus(‘) Even books of NT - 70 x 7 mentions of Jesus(‘) First and last chapters of the OT - 980 words (‘) includes possessives 77,777 mentions of first/last Jesus is the Word. Jesus is also the beginning and ending, the Alpha and Omega and the FIRST and the LAST. Take the FIRST verse of the Bible Genesis 1:1 and the LAST verse of the Bible, Revelation 22:21 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.” Both verses have precisely 44 letters, 17 vowels and 27 consonants. The first time 17 appears in Genesis 7:11 it is related to the BEGINNING of the flood. The first time 27 appears in Genesis 8:14 it is related to the END of the flood. Count the 1st and last word of both the 1st verse and last verse: “in”, “earth”, “the” and “amen” and using the King James Pure Bible Search program (free download online) you will see 77,777 occurrences of these 4 words!!! This is only one of MANY astonishing word patterns found ONLY in the King James and no other Bible. To me this is proof positive that God has preserved his perfect and pure word in the KJB. pfov.com/f/firstlast-77777-kjb For more details check out the website “sealedbytheking” dot com.
@@tohhhype2043 Everything after kjv is using corrupted source texts, they want to get rid of the old reliable kjv. Try to make an effort to read it, it definitely will pay off.
@@ourdailybread1099 Regarding baptism, “37 Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” He answered, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.” (MEV) This verse is used to show you must accept Jesus before you can be baptized, thus refuting infant baptism. Most modern bibles exclude this verse completely.
NIV also removes verses like Matthew 17:21 "However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” NKJV Jesus when talking to Peter on why he couldn't cast out a demon from a boy. I believe removing it may give people the wrong impression that you don't need to fast AND pray.
Does not a little leaven ruin the whole lump? There are three words that have changed everything. Jew, Gentile and the word church That’s all the devil needed
Have you even read the bible? If the Father calls the Son 'God' and 'Lord', which he does, then it makes the Son equal to the Father, then that is 2. And if there is also a Spirit, that is 3.
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I'm Orthodox and at some point I started being skeptical about Majority Text but Sam cleared it up for me very good !!!
TLDW:
- Sam personally uses the KJV.
- NKJV, NIV (93% as accurate, does not change the message of the bible or it's books)
- NKJV, *NIV are suggested by Sam for beginners and when you're comfortable try the KJV.
- Sam trusts the majority texts for various reasons. (Listen to find out)
Excellent video, this answered everything!
Revisited: I wouldn't use the NIV. Use the NKJV until you feel brave enough to learn early modern english by reading the KJV. Why go KJV? Best translation and the language offers up the most subtle nuance and poetic delivery. Get a study Bible and you won't regret it.
NIC?
@@goblinondrums Thanks, fixed. I meant NIV.
@@SubwayJack919 ah ok, I was like what? Lol
True, NIV and NIVUK alter some crucial verses of the Bible giving completely different conclusions and being close to what Jehovah witnesses preach. I currently read and listen to Geneva Bible as I have not found any of these errors, and in some instances it has fuller verses than KJV. The only downside to it were originally the notes on margins. The text itself is very well translated.
I would use the KJV or Nkjv based on a wide range in terms of breath of witnesses number and also recent early papyrus readings also literal translation poetically easier to remember while modern translation follow early manuscripts primarily codex vaticanus while older but fewer in number was a localised Egyptian text
When I joined the Methodist church I used the NIV. I got interested in the Catholic Bible and picked up a NRSV-CE in 2008. I eventually got a KJV but I didnt like it. The first Bible I read cover to cover was the New American Bible. Im currently reading The Orthodox Study Bible and will read through the Douay-Rheims next.
i stared using NIV and got into the bible through it, but when got further into reading scripture and studying i picked up the kjv and thats where i gunna stay, i would reccomend the nkjv for starters
Can u please answer i question i have about the kjv
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Nice, kiterakly looked uo which one this guy recommends cause your so knowledgeable shamoun guy! Thank you for this info and what you do
I am not Sam Shamoun, I just shared some videos here and there. And thank God, not man, because it is the Holy Spirit who reveals things to man.
So wise, good explanation of different version,God bless you brother.
Thank you, my sister, but blessed be the Lord God for providing sound teachers for us, teachers like Sam Shamoun. God bless you and your family, and may the Lord bless Sam and his family as well.
thank you. Ive been a christian for 25 years now and have really tried to read KJV for many years but it always leaves me frustrated. I became a believer through using the NIV 84. have several translations as well but only the NIV resonates and makes me worship Him. I will still try with the KJV i mean, whats there to lose? thank you for saying this as everyone around me keeps pushing the ESV
Sam Shamoun calls the NIV the "Not Inspired Version"
@@eye1dry138 yup I know. Yet God used it still. I do read several others now.
Maybe God protected His church inspite of all the things that may have happened? (Sincere thought, not trying to argue)
It seems this video has been uploaded 11 months ago, but how long ago does this actually date from? Because the Sam Shamoun from 2022-23 wouldn't say that the KJV was the only translation used for for 300 years by *all* English speaking Christians. Now way he would have left out the Douay-Rheims translation.
Has he since changed his mind? I'm not aware of it. If so, please send me a link so I can see and update this content. Thanks.
@@ourdailybread1099he hasn’t changed his mind, although now he also recommends the RSV and ESV Catholic Editions.
What about the message
What about NLT
It's not that great. Too many liberties taken with paraphrasing the translation.
The only problem I have with KJV is that the manuscript it was translated from had a hole in it where ahzaihs age was and put it at 42 but if we read NIV it'd corrected at 22
It’s a little difficult but if you study it out you find the answer
@@fatalwey8340 but I did and that's why I favour niv
This is a very common argument. But it’s not one to focus on. Some believe he was 42 years old in his 22 year of reign.
@@jmielke4341 that just doesn't make sense According to 2 Kings 8:26, Ahaziah was 22 years old when he began to reign, and reigned for one year in Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 22:2 gives his age as 42 years when his reign began in Jerusalem. Most scholars regard the 42 years in 2 Chronicles 22:2 as a copyist's error for an original 22 years.
If this is the King I am thinking of he reigned twice. When he was 22 for 1 year. Then he reigned again when he was 42.
KJB has been authenticated supernaturally
Father + Son = 7*7*7 mentions in the Gospels
Father + Son = 7*7 mentions in the first 7 Epistles
Father + Son = 77 mentions in the remaining 14 Epistles
Father + Son = 7 mentions in Revelation
Father + Son = 70*7 mentions in the Entire Bible
The Father + The Word + Holy Ghost = 777 mentions in the Bible
God + Jesus + Holy Spirit = 777 x 3 mentions in NT
God + Jesus + his Spirit = 777 x 7 mentions in NT
Jesus - word #7 from start of NT
Jesus - word #7 from end of NT
Jesus - 77th generation from God (Luke 3)
Jesus - 77% word of entire Bible (Matthew 1) word 610,288 / 790,849
Jesus Christ + Christ Jesus = 77 mentions in first 7 books of NT
Jesus speaks signature phrase “verily I say unto you/thee” 77 times
All mentions of Jesus(‘) 70 x 7 + 70 x 7 = 490 + 490 = 980
Odd books of NT - 70 x 7 mentions of Jesus(‘)
Even books of NT - 70 x 7 mentions of Jesus(‘)
First and last chapters of the OT - 980 words
(‘) includes possessives
77,777 mentions of first/last
Jesus is the Word. Jesus is also the beginning and ending, the Alpha and Omega and the FIRST and the LAST.
Take the FIRST verse of the Bible Genesis 1:1 and the LAST verse of the Bible, Revelation 22:21
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.”
Both verses have precisely 44 letters, 17 vowels and 27 consonants. The first time 17 appears in Genesis 7:11 it is related to the BEGINNING of the flood. The first time 27 appears in Genesis 8:14 it is related to the END of the flood.
Count the 1st and last word of both the 1st verse and last verse: “in”, “earth”, “the” and “amen” and using the King James Pure Bible Search program (free download online) you will see 77,777 occurrences of these 4 words!!! This is only one of MANY astonishing word patterns found ONLY in the King James and no other Bible.
To me this is proof positive that God has preserved his perfect and pure word in the KJB.
pfov.com/f/firstlast-77777-kjb
For more details check out the website “sealedbytheking” dot com.
I'd take the Douay-Rheims over the KJV.
So you are kjv and nkjv only?
Sam uses several bibles including King James, New King James, Douay-Rheims, Legacy Standard Bible and World English Bible
KJV all day! I could go for a BLT made with TLC, but it’ll pass..
I'm kjv and geneva only, therefore dismiss westcott-hort translations (based on codex sinaiticus, alexandrinus, vaticanus)
do you know any good esv bible thats similar to kjv?
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Everything after kjv is using corrupted source texts, they want to get rid of the old reliable kjv.
Try to make an effort to read it, it definitely will pay off.
@@tohhhype2043 the MEV Bible is excellent. It reads like the ESV but it’s based on the TR/Majority text
You should check out the Douay-Rheims Bible as well. It predates the KJV with the New Testament finished in 1582 and Old Testament published in 1609.
Why does the new translations remove important verses like Act 8:37
Share the verse please.
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Regarding baptism,
“37 Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” He answered, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.” (MEV)
This verse is used to show you must accept Jesus before you can be baptized, thus refuting infant baptism. Most modern bibles exclude this verse completely.
@@NJLev That verse is in the KJV, and it in no way refutes infant baptism. Show me where in that verse it says you can't baptize a child. I'll wait.
@@NJLevinfant baptism is a parents way of dedicating their children to the Lord, if I’m not mistaken. But that’s how it was always explained to me
NIV also removes verses like Matthew 17:21 "However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” NKJV
Jesus when talking to Peter on why he couldn't cast out a demon from a boy.
I believe removing it may give people the wrong impression that you don't need to fast AND pray.
Does not a little leaven ruin the whole lump?
There are three words that have changed everything.
Jew, Gentile and the word church
That’s all the devil needed
This is a ridiculous response. Using the text to prove the text? Critical mistake in logic.Claiming that the Trinity is true? PROVE it!
Have you even read the bible? If the Father calls the Son 'God' and 'Lord', which he does, then it makes the Son equal to the Father, then that is 2. And if there is also a Spirit, that is 3.
Using text to prove text is a critical mistake? That might be the dumbest thing a “Christian” would say