Editing King James Version (section)

===Variations in recent translations===
{{main|List of major textual variants in the New Testament}}
{{see also|List of New Testament verses not included in modern English translations}}

A number of [[Bible verses]] in the King James Version of the New Testament are not found in more recent Bible translations, where these are based on [[textual criticism|modern critical texts]]. In the early seventeenth century, the source Greek texts of the New Testament which were used to produce Protestant Bible versions were mainly dependent on manuscripts of the late [[Byzantine text-type]], and they also contained minor variations which became known as the [[Textus Receptus]].{{sfn|Metzger|1964|pp=103–06}} With the subsequent identification of much earlier manuscripts, most modern textual scholars value the evidence of manuscripts which belong to the [[Alexandrian text-type|Alexandrian family]] as better witnesses to the original text of the biblical authors,{{sfn|Metzger|1964|p=216}} without giving it, or any family, automatic preference.{{sfn|Metzger|1964|p=218}}