The American Standard Version is a slightly more modern revision of the KJ and is out of copyright and widely distributed online. The Standard Version and ESV b

The American Standard Version is a slightly more modern revision of the KJ and is out of copyright and widely distributed online. The Standard Version and ESV build on it with successively more modern language and are in copyright. Comparison between the three: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+1&version=KJV;ASV;ESV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+1&version=... Personally, I don't think that any edition written in English (or latin for that matter) can be close to a canonical version of the Bible... nor do I think it is necessary that one is.