[fortheDeclaration]

When a Bible comes out that can match the King James let me know about it.

Until then, the King James is the final authority and the standard in which are others are to be evaluated.

[LiteKeeper]

Until then, the King James is the final authority and the standard in which are others are to be evaluated.

One of the finest, and far more literal than the KJV, is the New American Standard.

BTW - some compare the NASB translation with the KJV translation, pointing out differences in the NASB, and thus write off the NASB. This is the wrong comparison. The comparison has to be done at the original language level. There are emendations in the KJV that are not justified in the text, and the NASB handles them differently.

[Conservative til I die]

Until then, the King James is the final authority and the standard in which are others are to be evaluated.

You forgot to add "IMO" at the end of your post.

[maestro]

And thus we have our answer. The seven English versions that make the English Bibles up to and including the Authorized Version fit the description in Psalm 12:6 of the words of the Lord being "purified seven times" are Tyndale's, Matthew's, Coverdale's, the Great Bible (printed by Whitechurch), the Geneva Bible, the Bishops' Bible, and the King James Bible.

The Wycliffe, Taverner, and Douay-Rheims Bibles, whatever merits any of them may have, are not part of the purified line God "authorized," of which the King James Authorized Version is God's last one -- purified seven times.

(Romans 10:17)

Maranatha!!