KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

HARD WORD (NKJV)

EASY WORD (KJV)

evil evil evil evil evil evil evil evil evil evil evil evil evil

adversity

Job 2:10 Jer. 19:3 Eccl. 12:1 Eccl. 8:5 Ezek. 5:16 Ezek. 5:17 Prov. 16:4 Jer. 44:17 Amos 9:4

I Sam. 16:14 distressing 2 Kings 22:16 calamity catastrophe

difficult harmful terrible

wild

2 Sam. 17:14 disaster I Kings 17:20 tragedy

doom trouble harm

NKJV

KJV

I Cor. 3:3

behaving like mere men (6) walk as men (3)

2 Cor. 11:29 do not burn with indignation (8)

burn not (2)

Ps. 40:9

I have proclaimed the good news of (8)

I have preached (3) power (2) their way (2) 12 syllables

I Cor. 11:10 a symbol of authority (8) I Sam. 25:12 on their heels (4)

34 syllables

NIV vs. KJV

The advertised "readability" of the NIV is also a ruse. A mind trying to meditate or memorize the word becomes entangled in a maze of multi-syllabic 'cerebral' sounding sentences.