What is the Simplified KJV™?

Barbour’s new Simplified KJV Bible builds off the familiarity and trustworthiness of the King James Bible while removing its challenges—antiquated language and punctuation—through judicious updating. Keeping all the original translation work of the 1611 Bible, the Simplified KJV Bible refreshes old verb forms, breaks up long sentences by changing colons and semicolons to periods, adds paragraphing, and inserts quotation marks into spoken language. Old forms of address are brought up to date, with divine pronouns capitalized. Confusing older terms (such as wroth or divers) are updated for greater comprehension. 

Why

Often times, Christians feel like they have to choose between the KJV they know and trust and a newer translation that's easier to read. We wanted to break that cycle and develop a version (not a translation) with only minor, non-contextual updates to the trusted KJV. With this new Simplified KJV Bible, readers will have the same translation they rely on, just updated for easier reading!

Who

The Simplified KJV Bible was created by Barbour Publishing, a biblically faithful and 100% employee owned small business in rural Ohio. Focused on its mission to inspire the world with the life changing message of the Bible, Barbour publishes a variety of books at budget friendly prices. Our goal is to get the message of the Bible into as many hands and hearts as we can.

The revision work was conducted by Peachtree Publishing Services. Peachtree is an editorial company that serves publishers who desire to create perfect editions of the Bible and other Bible-related books. The Peachtree team has developed a reputation as the gold standard for Bible proofreading and has reviewed over a thousand Bible editions published in over fifty translations. 
The Simplified KJV Bible maintains the feel of the original King James while greatly increasing its readability, bringing the trustworthy old translation into the 21st century.