What version of the Bible do you read?

[Joy in the Journey]

Oh boy... I REALLY try to stay out of these type topics as they are nothing but divisive ( I lost a good friend in the Lord over the KJV vs. modern translations argument- he refused to speak to me since I was an "apostate" )...but, here goes -

NIV

NLT ( I absolutely love this version! )

NASV

NKJV

KJV

In that order ( rarely use the KJV anymore )

Be blessed my friends,

Tim

[Homeward]

Oh boy...   I REALLY try to stay out of these type topics as they are nothing but divisive ( I lost a good friend in the Lord over the KJV vs. modern translations argument- he refused to speak to me since I was an "apostate" )...but, here goes -

NIV

NLT ( I absolutely love this version! )

NASV

NKJV

KJV

In that order ( rarely use the KJV anymore )

Be blessed my friends,

Tim

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Tim, I agree. It was with great trepidation that I posted on this thread. I truly hate divisiveness in the body of Christ...

Sorry, you lost a good friend.

[Joy in the Journey]

Oh boy...

[Homeward]

You're welcome, my friend. Yes, we ought not to quarrel amongst ourselves. It pains us greatly, and I'm sure it brings great pain our LORD. I sure don't want that!

Have a great evening.

Homeward

[Sgtazur]

KJV here.

There are a lot of people who say you should only read this, or that, or blah.. this is a good example:

http://www.av1611.org/niv.html

I myself am not too fond of the NIV, but eh whatever version works for you.

Edited August 29, 2005 by Sgtazur

[the_raven_1313]

I used to read the NIV but when I noticed the mistakes and footnotes and other things wrong with it IMO, I threw it in the back of a drawer and haven't touched it since. Pity as it was quite expensive.

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Raven, my NIV is "gone with the wind" also...

Reading it blessed me for years and years, but some things, which I'm too tired to go into right now, bothered me so I too, stopped reading it.

OK, I'll type out one verse as an example...

The way Isaiah 14:12 is translated in the NIV realllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly bothers me, as Satan is referred to as the same name as Jesus. Morning Star. In the New King James, King James, and a few others He is not.

NKJV

How you are fallen from heaven, O lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!

NIV

How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations.

Now, Jesus calls Himself the Bright and Morning Star in Revalation 22:16

I, Jesus have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.

When Jesus says "I am.....", I pay really good attention to what he is calling Himself.

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That was one of the things that I read that put me off it and I haven't went near my NIV since.

Now I am not going to argue or debate over Bible versions its just that there are some which I have a real problem with like the NIV, Refuel and a few others for various reasons. I choose to read the KJV, but that is my personal choice. I like the way it reads and with the old style language used I find it also poetic in a way. If some one quotes me a verse from there version I will always look it up in my KJV, though I certainly would not fall out with some one over which version they would prefer to read. And I am sorry to hear that some of you here have lost friends for that reason.

[yomotalking]

KJV, and NJKV.

Ahh.......I know I said I like the NKJV, but a little bit of the old, traditional version makes the New one much better.

(probably making sense)

[Iryssa]

The way Isaiah 14:12 is translated in the NIV realllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly bothers me, as Satan is referred to as the same name as Jesus.

[Anne]

Hi,

I read the KJV, simply because as time goes by, more and more people are writing updated versions of the Bible, and just like juice when you pour water into it, the Scriptures through mans interference is becoming more and more diluted, and alot of churches are drifting further from the truth.

To be honest, what I really like to be able to learn, is to read The Scriptures in their original languages Hebrew/Greek, but considering how much there is to learn, and Hebrew is not the easiest language in the world, this could take a while, but I'll stick with the KJV for now.

[Guest lyricalprophet]

Only the king James version