The King James Bible, defended.

Read the KJV, and see the evidence for its words: the manuscripts behind its text, why it translates as it does, and answers to the passages that seem to disagree.

Read the King James Bible online

Thy Word is True: KJV Bible icon

Thy Word is True: KJV Bible Free

The evidence goes with you: open it from the verse itself, and mark single words the way you would in a paper Bible.

Recently Added

Manuscript Evidence

Matthew 18:11

“For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost” is the reading of the great majority of Greek manuscripts and of Codex Bezae and Codex Washingtonianus of the fifth century, and the Vulgate has it. Chrysostom preached on it in his homilies on Matthew about AD 390.

Translation Note

Easter

In the English the KJV inherited, “Easter” was a name for the Passover feast itself.

Manuscript Evidence

Mark 7:16

“If any man have ears to hear, let him hear” is the reading of the great majority of Greek manuscripts and of three of the fifth century, Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Bezae, and Codex Washingtonianus, and the Vulgate has it. Tregelles printed it.

Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

Psalm 119:160