KJV Bible ?

[pharoahogc]

Hi i was wondering why the kjv bible is missing the seven books and which religions follow kjv bible thank you

 

[inthecloud]

There several threads on the subjet of deuterocannonicals and why the protestants took them away from the Bible.
The KJV is used mainly by english speaking conservative protestant denominations. The original brittish versions of the KJV, the Authorized Version (AV 1611) had those books as the Apocrypha. For legal and politica reasons the americans printers took them away.

 

[lak611]

Not all KJV Bibles are missing those books. I have this Bible, which contains all the books. The books were taken out by Bible Societies in the 19th century to minimize costs. Prior to that, all KJV’s had these books. From this website:

The Apocrypha began to be omitted from the Authorized Version in 1629. Puritans and Presbyterians lobbied for the complete removal of the Apocrypha from the Bible and in 1825 the British and Foreign Bible Society agreed. From that time on, the Apocrypha has been eliminated from practically all English Bibles–Catholic Bibles and some pulpit Bibles excepted.

Typically, the KJV is used most often today by fundamentalists (without the 7 books). However, the original 1611 KJV contained them, as did all other KJV’s until 1825.

From This Rock :

Luther did not completely discard the deuterocanonical Old Testament books he attacked, he merely relegated them to an appendix between the Old and New Testaments. For three hundred years, many Protestant translations retained this appendix because the books were recognized as useful for moral instruction. Indeed, the Protestant kings of England imposed the death penalty on anyone who omitted the deuterocanonical appendix. The books were discarded completely only as late as 1827, by the British and Foreign Bible Society.