Interestingly, it appears that "new" versions are not innocently attempting to make the KJV Bible more "read-able" or "understandable", but rather in very subtle ways detract from Who Jesus Christ was and that perhaps there were
not really miracles at all, amongst other subtle deviations from Who Jesus Christ said He was/is. This would explain perhaps the rabid attacks on the KJV. Bottom line is, there is an agenda.
Here's a comparison on specifically, the English Standard Version (ESV) and the King James Version Bible (KJV)
There is a prevalent belief in the mystic “originals”. The “originals” deception is the biggest lie and heresy taught in Christianity. And its rotten fruit is nothing less than the destruction of the authority of the Word of God. . .
The ESV (and virtually all new versions) is translated from the Westcott and Hort Greek text (W-H). The Westcott and Hort Greek text is drastically different from the Textus Receptus. Many verses are “intentionally” removed in the W-H text. Many words are “intentionally” changed or removed in the W-H text. This is the reason the new versions delete verses, remove thousands of words and drastically change the Words of God. It’s not because the new versions are harmlessly “updating” the King James Bible (as they mislead you to believe) but they are translating from a radically different Greek text.
Before we continue, perhaps it would be a good time to introduce you to the two men behind the Westcott and Hort Greek text - Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort. They worked on the translating committee for the Revised Version (RV) of 1881. The RV baptized Christians into the oceanic waters of “new” Bibles. Until that time (from 1611), Christianity knew and believed one English Bible – the King James Bible. The original purpose of the RV was a timid revision of the King James Bible. The timid purpose was slyly subverted by Westcott and Hort’s fiery desire to overthrow the authority of the King James Bible. While working on the RV, Westcott and Hort covertly produced their radical Greek text. Westcott and Hort’s radical beliefs and deceptions are widely documented from their own material and their own words. The following quotes from Westcott and Hort shed light on the many sinister and subtle changes (which we’ll soon examine) lurking inside the new versions.
Westcott openly denies the many miracles in the scriptures
Aug. 11th - Westcott: "I never read an account of a miracle but I seem instinctively to feel its improbability, and discover some want of evidence in the account of it." (Life, Vol.I, p.2).
Wescott and Hort’s driving force was the extinction of the infallibility and authority of the scriptures. Their writings contain many instances where they express bitter contempt toward the authority of the scriptures.
“Further I agree with them in condemning many leading specific doctrines of the popular theology…Evangelicals seem to me perverted rather than untrue. There are, I fear, still more serious differences between us on the subject of authority, and especially the authority of the Bible.”
(Hort, Arthur Fenton, Life and letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort, Vol. 1, p.400)
In the verse John 3:16, in the ESV bible, the word "begotten" is left out:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
KJV:
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." ~John 3:16
The Foundation of the English Standard Version(ESV)
http://www.bible-researcher.com/only-begotten.html
Whole verses are removed from the ESV:
http://www.av1611.org/attack.html
“Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.” ~Matthew 15:14
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” ~Matthew 24:35
"But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." ~II Corinthians 4:2
"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth." ~II Timothy 2:15