What makes you say the corruption is in the
new translations?
Since the King James Bible was completed in 1611 many new manuscripts have come to light. Today's scholars have access to manuscripts much older (closer to the source) than anything the King James translators dreamed of.
If you read the translator's introductions and other supporting material included in the NRSV, RSV, NJB, REB, JPS and other versions, you will find plenty of information about why the committees make the choices they do. They explain the matter of textual support. In cases where they were forced to choose from more than one ancient reading, they tell you which sources they followed in the main text and provide the alternative in a footnote.
All the verses you describe as 'omitted' are in fact shared with the reader in these translations. If the material does not appear in the earliest manuscripts it is not placed in the main text. But it does appear in footnotes, along with a brief explanation of why it was put there. You get all the information.
This is not corruption. This is scholarly integrity.
The manuscripts used for earlier translations were more 'corrupt' than anyone knew. And the reader of a King James Bible will not be told, as will the reader of a reputable modern translation, which verses have the best manuscript support and which only show up in later copies. All sources are treated the same regardless of merit. The reader is much better served by translations like the NRSV and NJB.
The King James translators did well-intentioned work. In the process of doing it they created a landmark of English literature. But their work is and remains seventeenth-century work. You wouldn't allow yourself to be operated on by a surgeon using only the tools, methods, and knowlege available to medicine in 1611. There is no reason to approach literature that way.
The body of knowledge has grown. Scholarship has moved on. Avail yourself of it. There's no reason to shortchange yourself.
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