Quotes About KJV

Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

The influence of [the Geneva Bible] on the KJV was enormous. The KJV translators employed this as much as Tyndale's (of course, much of Tyndale was incorporated into the Geneva). And although King James despised the Geneva Bible, in the original preface to the KJV the Bible is quoted several times—and every time it is the Geneva version that is quoted, not the King James! This was an implicit and perhaps unwitting admission of the Geneva Bible's superiority.

What is obvious about this section of the Book of Mormon is that it was borrowed from the KJV and placed in an ancient American context.

the "majority of … changes" in Smith's inspired "translation" of the Bible "lack ancient textual support" but are instances where Smith "solves a problem created by the English translation in the KJV.

Famously the KJV translates agap? as 'charity'. Many grumbled when modern translations replaced it with 'love'. Not many realized that the modern translations were simply reverting to what Tyndale had had in the first place.