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The short version

This guide lists KJV and ASV as Word-for-Word translations. This guide lists the same reading grade (12) for KJV and ASV.

This summary uses the listed method and reading-grade listings. It is not a ranking.

  • How literal is it?

    KJV stays closer to the wording and structure of the original languages. ASV stays closer to the wording and structure of the original languages.

  • How easy is it to read?

    This guide lists the same reading grade (12) for KJV and ASV. More complex sentence structure is a teaching group of that number, not a quality score.

  • What does it feel like to read?

    KJV is first listed before 1970 (1611) and more word-for-word. ASV is first listed before 1970 (1901) and more word-for-word.

  • What is it especially good for?

    KJV: In response to Protestant concerns of inaccuracies in earlier English versions (Tyndale's, Geneva, Bishop's). ASV: To address about 300 suggestions from American translators to change the English Revised Version to acceptable American word usage.

On the listed facts compared here, these translations look similar.

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Romans 12:1–2

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The versions you selected differ as translations in the ways listed below. That does not explain any particular word in this passage.

  • LineageKJV: Bishop's Bible (1568), Tyndale's Bible (1535) · ASV: English Revised Version, King James Version
  • Textual basisKJV: Textus Receptus · ASV: Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament
  • Stated purposeThis guide lists a different stated purpose for each of these versions.
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