Any Cambridge printing of the King James Bible you can by at any bookstore today is the complete and inerrant words of God.
The underlying Hebrew and Greek text of the KJB has never changed. This is in sharp contrast to versions like the ESV, NIV, NASB, etc. that continue to deliberately change not only their translation, but their underlying Hebrew and Greek texts as well.
And keep firmly in mind, Rick, that you will NEVER show us a copy of any bible in any language that you really believe is the inerrant words of God. Not gonna happen.
Printing errors (typos) did happen in the printings of the King James Bible. There is one undeniable example of where the printer was obviously not paying close attention to what he was doing. He may have been tired or his eyes blurred what he was reading or he just had a mental lapse.
This example is found in 1 Corinthians 15:1-7. You can get a copy of the first printing of the King James Bible 1611 from Thomas Nelson publishers. I have a hard copy myself.
When you go to 1 Corinthians chapter 15 we see the verses are numbered in the following fashion. The verses themselves are the same. But the numbering of the verses is not. What we see here is verse numbering as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 7. Notice the two 5's and the absence of the number 6.
The Cambridge printing you can buy in any bookstore today is the inerrant words of God. Blayney did not change the text of the KJB. He updated the spelling and a little bit of the punctuation, but he did not change the text.
(things like sonne to son, sinne to sin, citie to city, eies to eyes, dayes to days, yeares to years, hee to he, sate to sat, sayde to said.)
Even the American Bible Society, no friend to the King James Bible, had this to say about the "revisions" of the King James Bible. The American Bible Society wrote, "The English Bible, as left by the translators (of 1611), has come down to us unaltered in respect to its text..." They further stated, "With the exception of typographical errors and changes required by the progress of orthography in the English language, the text of our present Bibles remains unchanged, and without variation from the original copy as left by the translators" (Committee on Versions to the Board of Managers, American Bible Society, 1852).
Throughout the history of Bible publishing there have been some rather humorous examples of printing errors .
It should also be noted that there have been printing errors, even with today's advanced technology, in the NASB, NKJV, and NIV as well.
Here are a few of the printing errors that have occurred in various King James Bible editions.
A 1631 edition became known as the "Wicked Bible" because the seventh commandment read, "thou shalt commit adultery."
"Wicked Bible" 1631 - This Bible is an unspeakably rare collector's item. The printers were fined 300 pounds sterling for their terrible typographical error in printing the Ten Commandments, omitting the all-important word "not" and rendering the verse as, "Thou shalt commit adultery"! The lot of 1,000 copies were ordered destroyed, but only a handful escaped destruction, making them the rarest of rare. This is the only one for sale in the world.
"In 2008, a copy of the Wicked Bible went up for sale online, priced at $89,500."
You can read about this infamous "the Wicked Bible" (or The Adulterous Bible) here -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Bible
The printer of the "Fool Bible" had to pay 3,000 pounds for this mistake in Psalm 14:1: "The fool hath said in his heart there is a God."
In 1653, there was a misprint in I Corinthians 6:9 that read, "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall inherit the kingdom of God" and one in Romans 6:13 that read, "Neither yield ye your members as instruments of righteousness unto sin." This Bible became known as "the Unrighteous Bible."
In 1716 an Irish edition contains a tiny but significant typo. In John 5:14 it read "sin on more" rather than "sin no more". No one noticed the error until 8000 copies had been printed and bound.
In 1717, there was a misprint in a heading for the "parable of the vineyard," which called it the "Parable of the vinegar." This Bible was called "the Vinegar Bible."
In 1801, Jude 16 stated, "these are murderers" instead of "murmurers", and Mark 7:27 stated, "let the children first be killed" instead of "filled." This Bible was nicknamed "the Murderers Bible."
In 1820, Jesus says, "Who hath ears to ear, let him hear" in Matthew 13:43, and this was called "the Ears to Ear" Bible.
In 1823, Genesis 24:61 states "Rebekah arose, and her camels", instead of "her damsels," in "Rebekah's Camels Bible."
The cause for all of these defects may be found in "the Printers' Bible"(1702), which states in Psalm 119:161, "printers have persecuted me" (instead of "princes" have persecuted me).
If ever there was a misprint that carried a lot of legitimate meaning, this is it. "Printers have persecuted me."
The whole "Printing Error" complaint the Bible doubters and biblical relativists bring up is really a non issue. What I mean by this is that if every single copy of the King James Bible that has ever come off the presses read exactly the same with no minor printing errors at all found in any of them, it still would not change their opinion that the KJB is not the inspired, inerrant word of God. It is brought up as a smokescreen and is not a serious issue concerning the ultimate truth of Scripture and its preservation.
Most people who reject the King James Bible as being the inerrant, preserved words of God in English, do so for other reasons than printing errors. They have done so because they went to a seminary where they were taught that no Bible in any language and no text, be it Hebrew or Greek, is the inspired words of God.
Or they visited some anti-KJV only website where they were told something like: "The KJV is not based on the best texts", "God forbid" is wrong, or "1 John 5:7 does not belong in the Bible."
They most likely assumed that all KJB Bibles read the same since the very beginning. It wasn't till later they learned of the minor printing errors issue and now they toss this up as a smokescreen. Like I said, if someone is convinced the KJB is not the inspired word of God, no matter if all copies in its long history read exactly the same, his mind would not be changed by this fact. The alleged "revisions" and "printing errors" is a non-issue of no real significance.
