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You are welcome.

I was reared on the KJV. And my memory work was done in it. But it is so archaic, the younger generations have little appreciation for it. And, a lot of nuance is lost to us because it is not our mother tongue.

I really appreciate THE MESSAGE version. Peterson did a great job of matching the current English vernacular with the tone, nuances and vernacular of the original Hebrew and Greek. It makes many Scriptures come alive all the more to me. Certainly the NIV is a quality scholarly version. But it's much more stiff and formal than the original languages, evidently.

I don't have much use for the idea that God spoke KJV English and that all other versions are somehow more corrupted than the KJV.

Certainly daily feeding on THE WORD is vitally important.

And, were I in an abduction context wherein my praying in tongues was somehow not so effective, I'd certainly be quoting Scripture to them at every fitting moment.

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"And, were I in an abduction context wherein my praying in tongues was somehow not so effective, I'd certainly be quoting Scripture to them at every fitting moment."


Such as the Lord's prayer.

"I was reared on the KJV. And my memory work was done in it. But it is so archaic, the younger generations have little appreciation for it. And, a lot of nuance is lost to us because it is not our mother tongue. "

I have been rearing myself on the KJV. In my youth, my folks didn't think it was "appropriate" to force religion down us kids. How wrong they were. Now, I am educating my folks.