This is the short version. The full argument — nine sections, evidence laid out plainly — lives at Why KJV.
We chose the King James Version because we trust the manuscript tradition it was translated from. The KJV rests on the Received Text — the Greek and Hebrew text that the church preserved and used for centuries before modern translations were ever attempted.
Modern translations are not made by bad people. Many translators have worked carefully and meant well. But the modern translations rest on a different set of manuscripts — a smaller, earlier, but more fragmentary tradition that lost or altered passages the church had always held as scripture.
When we read 1 John 5:7 in the KJV, the verse is there. In most modern translations, it is gone or bracketed. We don't think the verse appeared out of nowhere in 1611. We think it was always there, and it was the modern editors who took it out.
So we read the version that kept it. And we are building a free modern English Bible that sits next to the KJV — word for word — so anyone who has been reading a modern translation can see, side by side, what their version left out.
That is the short version.
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