Publisher's Synopsis
Foreword by the Editor of the Contemporary King James Version to the Reader The purpose of the Contemporary King James Version (CKJV) is to win Men, Women, Boys, and Girls to the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. So why edit the CKJV? For the same reason, the King James Version (KJV) was written: to be in the modern language of the land. (That is why in this First Edition, the 1611 KJV Translators to the Reader is being provided.) So there are no stumbling blocks for souls in reading the Holy Bible. There have been times were this Editor had to explain what a word meant to a reader of the KJV (e.g. wot meaning know or froward meaning contrary). No attempt by this Editor has been made to move commas, semi-colons, etc. Except for most colons that were replaced with a period to make the sentences shorter as is currently the accepted grammar. Capitalizations of words occur when appropriate. (The 1611 KJV had punctuation marks in the middle of a sentence on occasion. To keep some of the poetic licence of the 1611 KJV, they were kept.) Only those words that are no longer a part of the modern dictionary, at the time of Queen Elizabeth the Second
