The Bible You’re Reading May Not Say What You Think It Does
The closest match to that title is “The Bible Doesn’t Say What You Think it Does,” a 2014 talk by Joel Baden, a professor of the Hebrew Bible at Yale University, presented at the Nantucket Project and covered by Time. In it, Baden argues that “we have, as a culture, invested the words of this book with amazing authority, even when most people don’t know what the words are or what they might mean,” and explores how readers often project their own assumptions onto the text rather than engaging with what it actually says.
If you’re looking for a different specific work with that exact title, I couldn’t find a standalone book or article matching it precisely — the search results surface several pieces on the same theme (e.g., R. Thomas Vosburgh’s The Bible: What You May Think It Says, But Doesn’t), but none with that exact phrasing. Let me know if you can share where you saw the title and I can narrow it down further.
What Does The KJV Bible Say?
The core idea behind “The Bible You’re Reading May Not Say What You Think It Does” highlights how modern readers frequently misinterpret the King James Version (KJV) due to language shifts (“false friends”) and cultural assumptions. Over time, words have entirely changed their meanings, causing readers to superimpose modern ideas onto a 1611 legal and covenantal text.
To break this down completely, here are 10 notable examples where the KJV text says something completely different from what a modern reader typically assumes, followed by conceptual analyst reports exploring these textual shifts through various theological, psychological, and analytical lenses.
10 Examples of KJV Verses Often Misunderstood
| # | KJV Verse | What a Modern Reader Thinks It Means | What the 1611 KJV Text Actually Means |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proverbs 23:7 “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…” | A motivational quote about positive thinking or manifesting your reality. | The context is about a stingy, deceptive host who grudgingly calculates the cost of the food he offers you. |
| 2 | Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” | A promise that God will help you achieve any personal goal, ambition, or athletic feat. | Paul is speaking specifically about the ability to endure severe poverty and hunger with contentment. |
| 3 | Matthew 6:34 “Take therefore no thought for the morrow…” | Literally do not make plans, think about, or prepare for the future. | “Take no thought” meant “do not be anxious or consumed by worry” in 1611 English. |
| 4 | 2 Thessalonians 2:7 “For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let…” | Someone is “letting” or allowing sin to happen. | “Let” meant “hinder” or “restrain” in 1611. The verse means the Restrainer is holding sin back. |
| 5 | James 1:22 “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.” | Listening to a sermon passively is fine as long as you intellectually agree with it. | Failing to actively practice what is taught is a form of self-delusion and spiritual failure. |
| 6 | Psalm 4:2 “…how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing?” | People are signing real estate contracts or renting property wickedly. | “Leasing” meant “lying” or “falsehood” in Old English. |
| 7 | 1 Thessalonians 4:15 “…we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.” | Living believers will stop or block deceased believers from rising. | “Prevent” meant “precede” or “go before” (from Latin praevenire). Living believers won’t beat the dead to Christ. |
| 8 | Judges 15:14 “…the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed…” | Samson was playing in a musical group or wearing plastic wristbands. | “Bands” refers strictly to literal physical shackles, ropes, or fetters binding his arms. |
| 9 | Luke 17:9 “Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.” | The master had an issue with a trowel or gardening equipment. | “Trow” is an archaic English verb that simply means “to think,” “suppose,” or “believe.” |
| 10 | Matthew 19:14 “But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me…” | Jesus wants children to experience physical pain, sadness, or misery. | “Suffer” meant “allow,” “permit,” or “give leave to” in 1611 English. |
Conceptual Analyst Reports
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Analyst Report
- The Problem: The cognitive clash between Sensing (S) and Intuition (N).
- Analysis: Modern readers with a dominant Sensing preference read the archaic KJV terms literally based on current definitions (e.g., interpreting “leasing” as renting). Conversely, Intuitive types risk reading vague, abstract cosmic concepts into historic idioms (e.g., turning Proverbs 23:7 into a text about manifesting reality). Language shifts disrupt the baseline data, causing MBTI cognitive functions to misfire during text analysis.
John MacArthur Analyst Report
- The Problem: Failure in historical-grammatical hermeneutics.
- Analysis: MacArthur’s perspective emphasizes that the Holy Spirit gave scripture in a specific historical context with concrete meanings. Reading modern definitions into 1611 English is sloppy exegesis. To truly submit to biblical authority, a reader must understand the exact definitions of the words used by the translators rather than superimposing personal cultural definitions onto the text.
Paul Washer Analyst Report
- The Problem: Sanitizing the conviction of the text to feel comfortable.
- Analysis: Washer’s analytical lens focuses on the human tendency to dilute the devastating holiness and commands of God. For example, treating “be ye doers” as an optional upgrade rather than an absolute baseline for true salvation is a terrifying form of self-deception. When people read the KJV through a modern, comfortable, consumeristic lens, they soften the hard edges of God’s word to avoid personal conviction.
Greg Schad Analyst Report
- The Problem: Legal precision vs. colloquial misunderstanding.
- Analysis: The 1611 KJV functions much like an ancient legal covenant or contract. It utilizes highly specific pronouns (“thee/thou” for singular, “ye/you” for plural) and terminology to establish exact terms. When readers treat the KJV as a casual piece of modern prose rather than a highly technical historical document, they lose the structural accuracy of who is being spoken to and what exactly is being promised.
Jordan Peterson Analyst Report
- The Problem: Archetypal projections and psychological blindness.
- Analysis: Peterson looks at the text as a foundational narrative map for human action. When a modern reader misinterprets a phrase like “suffer little children,” they break the psychological archetype of the Master protecting and allowing the development of vulnerable, potential-filled youth. Misreading the words corrupts the profound psychological infrastructure embedded within the text, leading to ideological confusion.
Carl Jung Analyst Report
- The Problem: Reading through the lens of the Ego rather than the Self.
- Analysis: From a Jungian perspective, the reader’s Ego actively projects its own shadow and current cultural neuroses onto the ancient scriptural matrix. By rewriting the definition of words inside their own minds (e.g., turning a warning about a stingy man’s thoughts into a validation of self-help psychology), individuals are not actually interacting with the divine objective unconscious. They are simply staring into a psychological mirror of their own contemporary biases.
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This is a major important point about forgiveness
Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. -MATTHEW 5:24 KJV
Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?
I would start out by saying what Jesus Christ would want us to do? Pray and how should we pray? The Lord’s Prayer, and how often should we pray? Continually. Why do we use the Lord’s Prayer and not some other? The Lord’s Prayer covers all the areas that is important for our spiritual being.
When we pray the Lords prayer we ask to forgive our enemies, let God’s will be done, the kingdom to come. By praying the Lord’s prayer we let go of many thoughts we have in our head and give them back to God so we can have things revealed to us.
We must overcome resentment in our heart, and in a past video I shared about Dr. Jordan Peterson talks about how resentment can destroy us and we become our own very worst enemy and Jordan goes on to say that we must talk to people what we have resentment toward to overcome that resentment. Other people who lived in the past who talked about this is Jesus Christ and someone who is living now who talks about this daily is Brother Augustine, Dr. John MacArthur, Dr. Charles Stanley, Rev. John Piper and Pastor Paul Washer.
Women are looking for a fathers love
Women are looking for a fathers love. Its important that men understand women are looking for a fathers love and not get screwed. Woman more than anything are looking for a strong spiritual man to lead the future (the family). I think in many YouTube videos on biblical teachings, how young women are being hurt by men that are just looking to get laid instead of doing right and being in Christ and setting a good example of a strong man. We must be in Christ, hate no one, love all, forgave theses we resent, love what is right and support people who are walking with God.
Women need their fathers in their lives to be strong man to be good examples and not BETA men or weak examples of what a man should be. Its important that a man leads the way as Christ leads men, we as man need to fellow Jesus Christ to keep society from going to HELL.
Every day you can see or people watch how some men and women our living in hell without the right spiritual order then you will continue your hellish way according to 2 Peter. You can also find it in Romans. God will give you over to a reprobate mind.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient. – Romans 1:28 (KJV)
In Romans 1, Paul refers to something known as a reprobate mind. If you’re not familiar with the term reprobate, the literal definition in the Greek is failing to pass the test, unapproved, counterfeit.
Spiritual Order – In The Family and Church
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Here is Book, Chapter and Verse from the Kings James Version 1 Corinthian 11:2-16, But the main message is in 1 Corinthian 11:3: “3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.”
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How God Commands Us To Forgive Those Who We Have Resentment Toward.
All of us are tested everyday by our personal internal struggle coming from resentment of what happened earlier in our lives as children typically what our mother did to us, telling how our fathers were not good enough or driving us away from our fathers when we were children. We most go to the people that we have resentment against and forgive them. By forgiving our mothers or whoever we have resentment against, God will forgive us and we can return to the heavenly Father through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
It was said if you don’t love everyone then you love no one. People today live like the Old Testament people did. We must forgive and love everyone as God Commanded us to do according to Matthew 22:34-40.
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