Aculama.....In short, what's going on is that the versification system of the Bible was added in the 16th century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapters_and_verses_of_the_Bible), at a time when the text of the NT contained many additions and scribal changes on account of centuries of copying and recopying the text. Then in the 17th to 20th centuries, the discipline of textual criticism arose which developed a methodology for sorting out the additions in the text through a comparison of manuscripts (by establishing lineages for additions and errors in families of manuscripts). In the 19th and 20th centuries, many early manuscripts were discovered that greatly assisted in this process by showing what the early text of the NT was like. The book Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman gives a good introduction to some notable additions and changes to the text in the many thousands and thousands of manuscripts that span over 1,500 years. All modern translations use a critical text that aims to be closest to the lost originals (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novum_Testamentum_Graece), hence the NIV and the NWT both agree in omitting verses that are present in the KJV (which represents the Majority Text of the 16th century). Many of omitted verses are simply verses from one gospel that were displaced into another whereas others represent marginal notes that accidentally were copied into the text itself (such as the Comma Johanneum, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_Johanneum).
"OUR BIBLE NEVER CHANGES" !
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Leolaia
DoomVoyager.....That website presents "KJV-only" apologetics (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Only_movement) that is motivated by religous concerns and not by actual textual evidence. KJV Onlyists may believe that the KJV text is pure and uncorrupted, but that belief is not based on a sober examination of the facts. Ad hominem polemics against one particular textual critic (B. F. Westcott) does not negate the work and results of the whole gamut of textual critics who are active to this day.
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DoomVoyager
Leolaia: I was trying to post my own thoughts on the topic but JWD kept giving me an error, so I ended up just putting the link.
What I was going to say was that the site had an ulterior religious motive, was not a valid scholarly source, but did provide a list of scriptures found in the KJV and not present in NWT.