Why quote from the World English Bible or the Gabriel?
The WEB is the only modern English version of the entire Bible that can be legally quoted from without any copyright restrictions (so far as I know). The New King James Version, for example, limits it’s usage to 1000 verses, among other things, that is quite insufficient for my book of Biblical commentary. There is a problem that new translators encounter which is unavoidable. That being that so many copyrighted versions are already available that they have to deliberately choose less desirable wording in many instances because the more preferable wording is legally in “occupied territory”! Unfortunately, quoting from various other modern versions is not really a desirable option because virtually all modern versions are based upon corrupted third hand texts. The Majority Texts that make up the vast majority of the Greek texts are being set aside in favor of the tiny minority of older but poorer quality texts that were preserved only because they werent worn out by usage—because no one
