An analytical catalog  ·  Knoxville  ·  May 2026

KJV passages triggering Tennessee’s Age-Appropriate Materials Act.

Every passage in the King James Version of the Bible that would meet the statutory criteria for removal from public school libraries under T.C.A. § 49-6-3803, applied evenhandedly.

Catalogued passages
147
Verses flagged
754
of 31,102 KJV verses
% of the KJV
2.42%
Books affected
31
of 66 in the KJV
A note on framing This is an analytical exercise demonstrating the textual scope of the AAMA’s criteria when applied evenhandedly to a widely-recognized text. It is not a recommendation that the Bible be removed from any library, nor a critique of scripture. Its purpose is to test whether the law’s own standards — applied without exception — would produce results consistent with how those standards have been applied to other titles, such as Alex Haley’s Roots, removed by Knox County Schools on May 14, 2026.
Nudity
24 passages · 59 verses
Sexual content
27 passages · 155 verses
Sexual abuse
16 passages · 91 verses
Excessive violence
93 passages · 521 verses
Source text: King James Version (1611, Authorized Version), public domain. Parsed from Project Gutenberg eBook #10. Statute: T.C.A. § 49-6-3803, as amended by Public Chapter 1032 (2024). Full methodology: methodology page.