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5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

I do not see how the context or meaning is lost in the KJV as you state. I also take offense of you statement: "deceived you into believing their lie". You have made no Factual case of a Lie, only your interpretation.

What of this little change

John 1:3: change "All things were made BY him;" to "All things were made THROUGH Him" (NKJV, NIV, NRSV, RSV)

Why the change...to make it more clear?

I do not condemn those that use a NKJV or NIV. I just do not see how on might think it necessary for The NKJV to remove the word "Lord" 66 times, The NKJV removes the word God 51 times, The NKJV removes the word "heaven" 50 times. How In just the New Testament alone the NKJV removes 2,289 words from the KJV and The NKJV makes over 100,000 word changes. Is it so important to make it easier to read that we remove words like Lord or God? I have no problem reading the KJV. (I am not publicly trained though.) What other works will we change to meet our lowering reading skills I wonder.

The NKJV also decides that maybe "Hades" should be "grave"! So the NKJV makes 1 Corinthians 15:55 "much clearer" by changing "grave" to "Hades"! ". . . O Hades, where is your victory?" Clear as mud. . . If Hades is Hell (why change that 23 times?) Hell has victory, the Grave does not.

The NKJV claims to make the "old" KJV "much clearer" by "updating obsolete words" (New King James Version, 1982e. p. 1235)

How about that "obsolete word" - "hell". The NKJV removes the word "hell" 23 times! And how do they make it "much clearer"? By replacing "hell" with "Hades" and "Sheol"! Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary defines Hades: "the underground abode of the dead in Greek MYTHOLOGY". By making it "much clearer" - they turn your Bible into MYTHOLOGY! Not only that, Hades is not always a place of torment or terror! The Assyrian Hades is an abode of blessedness with silver skies called "Happy Fields". In the satanic New Age Movement, Hades is an intermediate state of purification!