The King James Version: Section II. The Efficacy of the Word
God’s definition of effective is clearly revealed in Isaiah 55: 8 – For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
The Modern Versions – Origins and Influences
The 1881 committee that produced the Revised Version, the mother of the majority of today’s modem versions, was unimpressed with the weight of the evidence supporting the Received Text, which had been used for English translations by William Tyndale, John Rogers, and Miles Coverdale, as well as later by the 1611 translators.