Third Millennium Bible

The Third Millennium Bible is a conservative modernization of the King James Version, undertaken as a revision rather than a fresh translation from the ancient sources. Its base text is the KJV, and its source languages are given as English with original-language reference; its scope is the complete Bible, including the traditional Apocrypha, which many modern English Bibles omit or print separately. The translation philosophy is one of conservative modernization: archaic vocabulary and forms are updated, while much of the King James diction is deliberately retained. Among its distinctive features is that it stands closer to the KJV than the New King James Version does, both in style and in textual inheritance. It belongs to the long line of English revisions descending from the 1611 King James Bible, and its readership has been drawn chiefly from those who prefer the traditional idiom in a lightly updated form.