What bible can I trust? 

Lets boil it down for you.

In the past, many copies of the bible were circulated.  People would copy the text, word for word for themselves.  You just couldn’t go out and buy a bible.  You had to copy it by hand.

Those texts were called “manuscripts”.  They gathered them all together and grouped them into families much like you would match socks.  They created piles of those which matched, and those which didn’t.  These groups are called text family, or a text type.  They were grouped into 4 types.  Names for these texts are – Traditional Text, Syrian Text, Byzantine Text, and the Common Text.

They found that in the one pile of documents, more than five thousand (5000+) manuscripts were identical, and these texts were used to compile the Textus Receptus. Since 99.9% of these manuscripts agree, we can be comforted knowing that the words we read from are ACCURATE and true to the words which were originally written down.

On the other hand, the other piles contained five manuscripts are radically different. They DO NOT agree with each other.   It is interesting that the majority of the bibles are based off these faulty texts.  Their names are as follows: