And, of course, there are now coutless different translations of the Christian Bible. The degree of doctrinal slant varies. To help cut through much of the doctrinal influences on translation, we recommend that you obtain a copy of an interlinear Hebrew Old Testament and an interlinear Greek New Testament. These are useful for people who do not initially know much Hebrew or Greek. Since the editors of some common Bibles today have manipulated the translations, or sometimes simply mistranslated, it profits one to have something closer to the source texts such as the interlinear Bibles.
Concordances are also helpful.
They index the words used throughout the Bible, and give their various meanings. The scriptures quoted in these lessons are based on the King James Version of the Bible, but the archaic King James English has been replaced with modern English words with the same meaning. Such corrections, where significant, are noted. You can compare anything we cite here against your own Bible. We recommend examining more than one version, of course.