evidence: The verses weren't "removed"; they were relocated to same-page footnotes in order to distinguish between older and newer versions of biblical texts. On 11 July 2015, musician Erica Campbell shared a meme on Facebook claiming that 45 complete verses and 64,575 words had been removed from the New International Version Bible (NIV) — as compared to other versions, such as the King James Bible — by publisher HarperCollins: While it's true that the arrangement and translation of some verses presented in the NIV Bible differ from those found in the King James Bible or other versions of the holy book, that phenomenon does not indicate an effort on the part of HarperCollins (who bought the NIV Bible's original publishing house, Zondervan, in 1988) to entirely eliminate those verses from the Bible.