What Bible(s) do you use?

[LIONFURY]

What Bible do you guys use for study? Personally, I use the NIV and the KJV. Usually I read a passage in the NIV first to get the idea of it, and then read it in the NIV. What do you do?

[tintiger78]

NASB, NIV, The Messege, ESV

I use these to see how the translation differs and to understand it easier.

[Botz]

What Bible do you guys use for study? Personally, I use the NIV and the KJV. Usually I read a passage in the NIV first to get the idea of it, and then read it in the NIV. What do you do?

I think this question comes up every couple of weeks lol.

I mainly use the NASB, but I am getting into the ESV...mine has excellent marginal notes and commentaries. I also use Greek and Hebrew versions...Orthodox Jewish, and David Stern's translation with commentary.

I like the KJV and one or two others...I have never used the NIV.

[~candice~]

(insert standard rant about 'The Message' here)

I stick to the NKJV because that is what I am familiar with, but I have others I read. I like YLV and Greens.

(insert standard debate about paraphrases not being bibles)

I have a preference for thought for thought translation when reading in bulk, and when studying a single verse I'd use my interlinear.

HTH

[Leonard]

Since I have given away thousands of my books in recent years, I'm down to only a couple thousand now, and have probably only 20 or so Bible versions left. (Sorta wish I'd kept my Smith & Goodspeed, and my Lamsa, but....oh well!)

Although I read IN all of them, my standard is KJV.

[JohnD]

What Bible do you guys use for study? Personally, I use the NIV and the KJV. Usually I read a passage in the NIV first to get the idea of it, and then read it in the NIV. What do you do?

I think this question comes up every couple of weeks lol.

I mainly use the NASB, but I am getting into the ESV...mine has excellent marginal notes and commentaries. I also use Greek and Hebrew versions...Orthodox Jewish, and David Stern's translation with commentary.

I like the KJV and one or two others...I have never used the NIV.

Though I have become a bit rusty in my Greek and Hebrew I also use the Tanakh, interlinear (since I never spoke the original languages... fluently, at any rate) after years of searching out nuances in every nook and cranny I found the modern English (modern from the 1600's LOL) translations are very very accurate and such in depth research is not always necessary. I first learned on the original NIV (having not much to go on with my Dad's old RSV. I still cringe at that translation and the NRSV. I graduated to the NASB (which then was the NASV ...dating my self) and then with the help of Chuck Missler, I rediscovered the KJV. He made some very good points in that all translations have difficulties (due to the imperfection of human language and communication and understanding, btw). But the KJV's difficulties have had 400 years of scrutiny and documentation. Plus for me, I find the language keeps me on my toes searching out the meaning of the old English words and expressions and I also double check it with the original languages as that point. Also the KJV and the NASB tend to be more word-for-word translations (though the KJV does it a bit more smoothly).

[LIONFURY]

(insert standard rant about 'The Message' here)

I stick to the NKJV because that is what I am familiar with, but I have others I read. I like YLV and Greens.

(insert standard debate about paraphrases not being bibles)

I have a preference for thought for thought translation when reading in bulk, and when studying a single verse I'd use my interlinear.

HTH

lol I wouldn't consider paraphrases Bible either

[Guest LadyC]

my faves, in order, are NKJV, NLV, ESV, KJV, and then NIV.

[Littlelambseativy]

We have many of the different versions but the KJV is the most accurate to the original - though I prefer the NKJV with the New Scofield reference.

[OneLight]

The one that the Holy Spirit writes on my heart.