The KJV of the Bible is a wonderful work, but in at least one passage of scripture the translators added a word and it completely changed the meaning of that teaching

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 

 

God showed me to use the King James Version of the Bible for the work I do in handling scriptures.

 

The translators presented a very pure translation of God's intent.

 

When they did add their own thinking to the scriptures they put that word in italics so we would know it was their own added word.

 

Here is one example:

 

I Corinthians 7

 

25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

 

26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

 

27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

 

28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

 

29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

 

30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

 

31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

 

32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

 

33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

 

34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

 

35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

 

36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

 

37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

 

38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

 

In verse 38, the word "her" is twice placed in italics showing us that the translator added the world "her".

 

That verse 38 should read this way:

 

38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

 

Paul is thinking of the interruption that comes to the married and how they split their focus between pleasing their mate whom they married and keeping their focus on the Lord.

 

Yet Paul certainly had permission to write this.  For we read in the scriptures, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God."  (2 Timothy 3:16-17)

 

16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

 

17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

 

Ministers are free to marry except if they divorce a faithful wife, they commit adultery if they remarry.  And certainly they are not free to marry a divorced woman.

 

Peter was married and had multiple children.  We know Peter was married with children because scriptures tell us that Peter was an elder and one requirement of being an elder/bishop is that he must be married and have children who are under his authority, else how could an man rule the church if he does not know how to rule his own house. 

 

Peter was an elder/bishop in the church and to be an elder he had to be married and have multiple children.  

 

Titus 1  If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. 7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; 8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; 9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

 

Further evidence of Peter being married is this scripture:  And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, HE saw his (Peter's) wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.  15 And HE touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.  (Mt. 8)

 

(Ministers in the New Testament church are free to marry if they choose to do so.)

 

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Paul made it very clear in writing that some scriptures he wrote were "the commandment of the Lord" for the New Testament, while other scriptures were spoken by "permission" of God.

 

I Corinthians 7

 

(Verses 10-11 are "commandments" of the Lord)

 

10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, 

 

Let not the wife depart from her husband: 11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

 

12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. 13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

 

This tells the unbeliever to dwell with the believer and if he/she is "pleased" to dwell with the believer, let not the believer leave the unbeliever.  The believer dwells as a believer in what is a godly life.  If the unbeliever is pleased to dwell with the husband/wife who is a believer then this is approved.  If the unbeliever fights against the believer and tries to turn the believer from God or scripture then that unbeliever show he/she is not pleased to dwell in peace with the believer.  Let the unbeliever depart in such cases.

 

Jesus taught us the following:  The man who has an unfaithful wife is free to divorce that unfaithful wife.  The faithful wife is not free to divorce and remarry.  If she does, she will be considered to be an adulterer.

 

Matthew 5:32  But I (Jesus) say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

 

The only scriptural reason for a man to divorce his wife is fornication.

 

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