Whenever I make a post with Eugene Peterson's "The Message" version,
I get negative responses from those who are "King James Version" only users.
Not a negative, just a comparison (and I'm not KJVO)...
Eph 2:2 You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. -
The Message
Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
KJV
Eph 2:2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.
NASB
OR
Mat 3:7 When John realized that a lot of Pharisees and Sadducees were showing up for a baptismal experience because it was becoming the popular thing to do, he exploded: "Brood of snakes! What do you think you're doing slithering down here to the river? Do you think a little water on your snakeskins is going to make any difference?
The Message
Mat 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
KJV
Mat 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
NASB
OR
A cheerful disposition is good for your health;
gloom and doom leave you bone-tired.”
Proverbs 17:22 The Message
(Pro 17:22) A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
KJV
(Pro 17:22) A joyful heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the bones..
NASB
I need not go further. People are grown up enough to do their own research and make their own decisions.