Hello my friends, Although we do not have the original manuscripts of the New Testement, We do have more than 99.9 percent of the original text because of the faithful work of manuscripts copyists over the century. Copying was a long, arduous process. In anciet days copyists did not sit at desks while writing, but rather stood or made copies while sitting on bench or stools, holding a scroll on their knees. Notes at the end of some scrolls tell of the drudgery of the work. "He who does not know how to write suppose it to be no labor: but though only three fingers write, the whole body labors". "Writing bows one's back, thrusts the ribs into one's stomache, and fosters a general debility." "As travelers rejoice to see their home country, so also is the end of a book to those who toil." Even so, without the work of faithful copyists, we would not have the Christian Scriptures today. As one scribe aptly noted : "There is no scribe who will not pass away, but what his hands have written will remain forever." If you truly want your work to last, do work that touches the eternal and nature of God. "Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves donot break in and steal". Matthew 6:20 niv