I used to read the NIV, thinking that the KJV was complicated, until one day I was following along with a radio program that was reading from the NIV, but I couldn't find my NIV, so I picked up my grandma's old KJV. Something definitely "clicked" in my spirit when I started to read the KJV, not to mention that the NIV passage they were reading from used the word "slaves" where the KJV used "servants". That's when I started to investigate the NIV. It's a good translation for liberals who like to say things like "the Bible prohibitions of sins like homosexuality are outdated because after all, 'the Bible also permits slavery'." NOT QUITE! They forget to mention that in the Bible, there were laws regarding the treatment of strangers, exiles, slaves and servants, and archaeological excavations of gravesites of early Christians proves that the early Christians freed their bondservants and referred to them as brothers, while pagan civilizations were still torturing and killing slaves.