The New King James Version (NKJV)
This Bible (1979) is a marketing attempt to put KJV text into modern English with slight revisions.
Scholarship should have been strong, as the publisher reports 150 scholars involved in the effort - but maybe that was not a good thing. There is something very wrong with this version, many documents have been published showing senseless variations and convolutions. This revision of the KJV, uses 19th century texts for the OT and utilizes Byzantine texts for the NT, and in many cases it is divergent from the KJV.
The King James 21st Century Version (KJ21)
This is what the NKJV should have been.
This 1994 publication is not a text-revision, but an updating of archaic words, spellings, and punctuations only. It is a superior version for those who want to keep King James, but just want a clean, modern text. This version also includes (some) textual notes. Sadly, the KJ21 seems to be out of print, but it is still available electronically.
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