It is almost four hundred years since the King James Bible as we know it now came to us. The work had begun earlier but the official date is 1611. The preface of that edition had this paragraph:
"Truly (good Christian Reader) we never thought from the beginning, that we should need to make a new Translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one,...but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones, one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against, that hath been our endeavor."
That translation has been with us almost 400 years and it is still one of the most loved translations in the English language. Though many of us do not use the KJV as much today there are still many who do. The KJV made the Bible available to the common person.
Four hundred years is a long time for a translation to remain popular but imagine that if during that 400 years we didn't have any word from the Lord at all.
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