Bible version debate never, at least on record, as promised by James I, royally proclaimed as the Bible of the Church of England. Some Christian fundamentalists believe that the King James Version is the only version of the Bible English speakers should use due to the conclusion that corruptions are present in the other translations. Some who follow this belief have formed a King James Only movement. Similarly some non-English speakers prefer translations based upon Textus Receptus, or "Received Text", instead of the Alexandrian text edited by Wescott and Hort in 1881. Proponents of this belief system point to verses such as Ps.
The Living Bible of "The Living Bible". After many years of work, the result was an entirely new translation of the Bible. It was published in 1996 as the "Holy Bible:" New Living Translation (NLT). Measurements quoted in this version are converted into metric and in the British version of "The Living Bible" money sums are converted into pound sterling. At 1 Samuel 24:3, The Living Bible has "Saul went into the cave to go to the bathroom", using a contemporary North American euphemism where the original Hebrew (also a euphemism) literally translates as "to cover his feet". In the British edition of