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That Little © Meaning Copyright

The King James Version is not under the constraints of a copyright as the more recent conflicting versions are.

Millions of 1611 Authorized King James Version Bibles have been copied and printed during the past four hundred years, without requesting permission, without paying royalties and without infringing on copyright. This cannot be said of any of the new translations. The KJV is not copyright the same way the text of the new versions are copyright. 

The new versions are just that. New versions. Things different are not the same. The Bible has been changed, among other reasons, for the purpose of selling a new book. The scholars change the Bible to sell a new book, that they own. How many changes to God’s word must the “new version” publishers make till the readers actually acknowledge they are different? Things different are not the same. The King James Version is the standard, tried and true, pure and sharper than any two-edged sword. In my mind it is time to stop obscuring the point about copyright, and get to the point. The new versions are copyright to protect the interest of the men that are their authors. For one thing, the word of God is being changed. The word of God is changed, and is mixed with the words of scholars. God is the author of the Bible. Men author the new changes in the versions.

Douglas D. Stauffer makes mention of God’s disgust with those responsible for the perversion of His words. The men creating the new books that claim they are new versions of God’s word, that is, changes to God’s word, don’t want you to think about how they have changed God’s word, and how the copyright is just one indication the King James Version is indeed separate and distinct from the modern versions. As D. Stauffer says:

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The 23rd chapter of Jeremiah shows God’s disgust with those responsible for perversion of His word. When the prophets prophesied falsely, attributing their lies to the Almighty, the reader can sense the Lord’s anger. Finally, we see Him rebuking the prophets for stealing His words from their neighbors.

(KJB) Jeremiah 23:30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

How does someone steal the words from another person? The context of the passage shows that they were passing off their own words as the very words of God. The modern version editors are guilty of the same thing. Consider the NIV reading that once again casts doubts upon whether the words were God’s or supposedly His!

(NIV) Jeremiah 23:30 “Therefore,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words supposedly from me.

It seems reasonable for God to rebuke the prophets for stealing His words from their neighbors. However, the NIV says that God was upset because the prophets were stealing words that were SUPPOSEDLY from Him. (One Book Stands Alone, p. 11, Douglas D. Stauffer, © 2001, McCowen Mills Publishers)

How are we to receive the word of God?

1 Thess 2:13
13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
KJV

Here are a few words from William P. Grady about the absence of the © for the KJV:

The basic difference between the King James Bible and all modern facsimiles can be determined by the presence (or absence) of that little © meaning copyright. This author is aware of the crown copyright laws of England which governed the King James translation. These seventeenth-century conditions cannot be compared to those of a nation predicated on the free enterprise system as well as a separation of church and state. He is also cognizant of the fact that copyrights do not pertain to material produced before the year 1900, as such works (Beethoven, Byron, etc.) are the public domain. The burden of ethics, therefore, rests squarely upon the Sam Moores of this age who would dare to place what they purport to be the very words of God under human copyright. (Final Authority, p. 284, W. P. Grady, © 1993 Grady Publications)

The book sellers must change so much, in order to copyright their books. So they change the Bible to copyright and market their book. The King James Version is not copyright the same way new versions are. 

Here are a few words dealing with the contemporary copyright laws. Mark this, the King James version is not copyright as the new, conflicting, changed versions are, and the matter of the copyright is a valid and useful subject when dealing with the distinction and separateness of the King James Holy Bible.

Begin quote, Circular 14 Copyright Registration For Derivative Works, United States Copyright Office) A “derivative work,” that is, a work that is based on (or derived from) one or more already existing works, is copyrightable if it includes what the copyright law calls an “original work of authorship.” Derivative works, also known as “new versions,” include such works as translations, musical arrangements, dramatizations, fictionalizations, art reproductions, and condensations. Any work in which the editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications represent, as a whole, an original work of authorship is a “derivative work” or “new version.” A typical example of a derivative work received for registration in the Copyright Office is one that is primarily a new work but incorporates some previously published material. This previously published material makes the work a derivative work under the copyright law. To be copyrightable, a derivative work must be different enough from the original to be regarded as a “new work” or must contain a substantial amount of new material. Making minor changes or additions of little substance to a preexisting work will not qualify the work as a new version for copyright purposes. The new material must be original and copyrightable in itself. Titles, short phrases, and format, for example, are not copyrightable. (End quote)

It's called changing God's word. They changed it. The message of the Bible has been changed. So now, just like in Genesis 3, the question is asked, "Yea, hath God said..."

Matthew 4:4 
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
KJV

Jeremiah 23:30-31
30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
KJV

Luke 11:52
52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
KJV

Revelation 22:19
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
KJV

Deuteronomy 4:2
2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
KJV

Deuteronomy 12:32
32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
KJV

Proverbs 30:6
6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
KJV

One must realize that if the KJV is correct, then the other changed versions are not. Of the many, many changed versions that do not agree with the KJV, and do not agree among themselves, one must realize we are told to live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

There is enough in the corrupted changed copyright versions to make them appear as God's words, but there is enough different that is not God's words. God speaks to us through the written word of God, the Bible. Our Lord Jesus often used the words, "It is written" and we can do the same, knowing the words are true. If the scholars change that Bible, the scholars, and not God speak to the reader. 

Thus saith the LORD: I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.

The premise of the new versions is, “Yea, hath God said…”

The thrust of the King James Version is, “Thus saith the Lord…”

Here is the text for these verses as they are in some of the later day copyright versions:
Matt 17:21, Matt 18:11, Matt 23:14, Mark 7:16, Mark 9:44, Mark 9:46, Mark 11:26, Mark 15:28, Luke 17:36, Luke 23:17, John 5:4, Acts 15:34, Acts 24:7, Acts 28:29, Rom 16:24

There is no text. The so called "better and easier to read; easier to understand" versions have the text removed. They have been removed, deleted.

So I ask, have you got your ears on? Are you picking anything up from those verses from the changed versions where they deleted the text? Is the Holy Spirit better able to illuminate and communicate truth to you using no words? Are you of the mind to call that “translation” whereby words are deleted is God’s word? 

Faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the word of God. The Bible is the word of God. But as the Bible changers have taught, to market their books, the Bible is a fallible work of man, and they insist the Bible has errors, yet remarkably they also insist they have before them an infallible very word of God, and they do not need to worry about translation mistakes. That is a remarkable case of double-talk. 

Things different are the same, say the Bible changers. But words do matter. People think God lies by giving a Bible that is not true. The very God that spoke and created the heavens and the earth were created, the very God that is trusted to save our soul, and people think He tells a lie in the Bible, not telling the truth, not able to give a true Bible to tell us the truth.

By God's grace, still presenting the same old message from the same old Book that produces the same old faith...

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