Owning Scripture is like owning rain water. It doesn’t make any sense.

I understand that they have to fund raise somehow to even get the projects off the ground, and it might even be a good excuse if we didn’t have a Bible.

The problem is, we do. We have tons of public domain Bibles, and you can quote them and repost them and do whatever you want with them, for free, without Nelson breathing down your neck.

The KJV is fine, and because the judgements of its committee are the basis for the final Textus Receptus revision, it’s comparable in importance to an actual Greek edition. It would actually save everyone time and effort if, instead of retranslating the entire thing every time, these publishers just made minor grammatical and terminology updates, which is all it really needs, and then released that without adding any additional copyright. We actually know this would work, because almost every Bible publisher already prints a version of the KJV unaltered, and it sells *better* than their proprietary versions that they spend decades on perfecting.