This is my favorite of the modern translations.

At many important verses I was very pleased. They did a good job!

This brochure is about verses where they made mistakes 
compared to the King James Version.

Also included are references that may be helpful.


Corrections

            Make these corrections a tiny bit every day as you read your Bible.

Matthew:  7:1, add James 5:9. 13:39, world should be age.  Also, 13:40, 49, and 24:3. 17:20, cross out small as.  (There’s life in it!)

Mark: 4:14, add a note: Matt. 13:19 tells why. 4:40, cross out, in me. After 41 add, Luke 8:25. 10:24, circle the * and underline trust in footnote. Add I Tim. 6:17. 

Luke: 4:18, underline appointed, and above it write, anointed = empowered. 11:23, cross out may God, you (2x). Add be after mountain, and n after throw. 11:24, put a * after believe, and after verse 25, write *believe you receive.  12:33, under-line heaven and add Phil. 4:17. 17:37, cross out will this happen, and add (are they taken?) 18:25, add trust, Mark 10:24.

John:  8:51, Cross out die, and add see death, John 5:24.  9:3, cross out entire sentence that begins he was born. Make a note at the bottom: Vs. 3, Message Bible: “Look instead for what God can do.” Also add, (He was undoing the works of Satan, Acts 10:38.) 11:4, cross out is for, and add in margin, will end in. 12:39-40, write why? II Thess. 2:10-12. 21:15-16, cross out love you, and add, am your friend (both times.) 21:17, cross out, Do you love me? And add in margin, Are you my friend? Then cross out I love you, and add, all things. 17:17, make a footnote, Your word is truth.

Acts: 2:20, cross out glorious and add terrible.  Underline footnote for 21, and add Joel 1:15, 2:11.  22:8, add Acts 9:7. 3:26, Cross out servant and add Son Jesus.

Romans: 4:17, cross out brings and add calls. 4:20, cross out and in this, and add as. Underline glory and add praise. 5:17, underline live in triumph and add in margin, reign in life. 4:17, beside heading, write see 6:5-11. And in margin, write Paul before Jesus.  6:16 and 23, underline the word death both times. At the bottom of the page write, 6:16, 23, to understand death, see John 5:24 and Eph. 2:1, 5.  8:2 and 16, Put * by the words death, and 8:13, put * by the word perish. At the bottom, write * see John 5:24 and Eph. 2:1, 5.  9:19, after this verse make a * and another one in bottom margin. Write, * Why? Rom. 11:20-23, II Thess, 2:10-12.  9:21, Underline potter makes jars, and at the top of this column add II Tim. 2:20-21.  11:8, after this verse add see 10:21. 12:2, cross out let God, you. Write be in margin. 12:3, Cross out measure your value by how much.  In margin write, Each got same amount!   13:8, Put an insert mark after the word pay, and in the margin write off.  

I Cor. 1:18, cross out being. II Cor: 2:5, at top of section, write (I Cor. 5). 2:14, at the top of the column, add, Always causes us to triumph.  3:18, at end of this verse circle the *. At footnote or above * add I Cor. 13:12.  4:18, cross out so, and write in margin, while. Also write, Col.3:2. 6:7, cross out weapon to the period. Add in margin, armor all around; Eph. 6:14. 7:12, cross out show, you, us and write see, we, you. 10:5, cross out proud arguments, their rebellious ideas. Put a * and one at bottom margin. There write, KJV, imaginations and thoughts! 13:9, cross out restoration to. 12:7, cross out puffed up, proud, and add in margin, exalted. Because this is so misunderstood, on facing page write this:

12:7 ~ a thorn in the flesh is people. Num. 33:55, Josh 23:13, Jud. 2:3. God wants to exalt us. Mt. 23:12, Lk. 14:11, 18:14, I Pet. 5:6. Paul was delivered, II Tim. 3:11.

Galatians: 3:29, Cross out the true.  (We are also.) 3:13-14, put a * to refer you to a note at the bottom:  Write, curses and bles-sings, Deut, 28.  6:2, underline law of Christ, and add John 13:14.

Philippians: 3:1, cross out may the Lord give you joy, and add rejoice!  4:19, cross out who takes care of me, and write in the margin between 15 -19, Because they gave!

I Thessalonians: 5:2, cross out unexpec-tedly. II Thess. 1:10, cross out receive glory and praise from, and write in margin or footnote, be glorified in. 2:6, cross out him and underline you know.  Add I Thess. 2:18.  2:7, cross out it (holding it back.) and cross out steps.  Write in margin, is taken.

I Timothy: 5:16, Cross out woman and the s on she. 6:12, cross out for what we believe, and write in margin, of faith. II Tim  2:10,  Underline God has chosen, and add Rom. 8:29. 

Hebrews: 6:12, cross out are going to.

James:  1:15, underline death, and write I John 3:14. 1:18, cross out giving us. 1:25, cross out for doing it, and add, in everything you do. As a footnote for 1:25, you may want to add Psa. 1:2-3 and Josh. 1:8.  4:7, underline humble and add submit. 5:20, underline death and write I John 3:14.

I Peter: 1:2, underline made you holy and add “sanctified” = set apart. (15-16 says to be holy!) 2:2, underline spiritual and add milk of the Word. 3:7, underline she is your equal, and add Gal 3:28. 3:18, cross out in and add by. II Pet. 2:4, cross out into hell. (That’s not yet.) 3:10, cross out unexpectedly.  3:14, cross out with God.

I John: 5:18, Cross out God’s Son holds them securely, put a * and at the bottom too. Write, KJV, He keeps himself!  II Tim. 2:21.  III John 2, cross out I know.

Revelation: 7:14, cross out coming, and write who came. 11:17, cross out now, have, begun to, and add ed after reign. 12:7, cross out then.   16:15, cross out un-expectedly as.  18:3, Underline wine, and in margin write wrath, 19:15.  19:11, Cross out then.  20:2, Cross out in chains.

Old Testament:  Numbers 14:21, Cross out and as surely as, is, and write in margin, shall be!  Put a period after glory.

Psalms:  34:10, cross out trust in, and add seek. 103:20, cross out each of, commands, and write after his, word.   119:36, Cross out do not inflict me with, and add Keep me from the.  119:68,  Cross out only.  149:9, underline glory and write honor.

Proverbs:  4:22, Cross out meaning, and make their them.  10:30, Cross out disturbed, and add removed.  22:15,  Write under discipline, 23:13/ the rod of.  Put insert mark after but. 

Ecclesiastes:  5:7, Cross out empty. 8:11, after punished write quickly. 

Isaiah 26:21, Cross out the last sentence. Add, Earth can’t cover them all. 42:22, at end put a *.  At the end of chapter, write, * None says restore.   53:5, Put a * by peace.  At bottom: *Hebrew, Shalom = total well-being!  59:19, Cross out the entire last sentence. In bottom margin write, When the enemy comes in like a flood the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.    

Daniel:  3:17, Make it read, If you throw us.  3:18, Cross out he doesn’t, and write in margin, you don’t.  And write, See James 1:6-7.

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