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View Poll Results: Which Bible version do you use? | |
Revised Standard Version (Either Protestant edition or Catholic edition)
|     | 8 | 17.02% | |
Douay-Rheims
|    | 1 | 2.13% | |
King James Version or New King James Version
|    | 17 | 36.17% | |
Jerusalem Bible or New Jerusalem Bible
|    | 5 | 10.64% | |
New American Standard Version
|    | 15 | 31.91% | |
English Standard Version
|    | 11 | 23.40% | |
New International Version (or NIrV, TNIV, etc)
| | 15 | 31.91% | |
The Message
| | 3 | 6.38% | |
New Living Translation
| | 5 | 10.64% | |
Some other Bible version/translation
| | 13 | 27.66% |
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24th September 2009, 06:02 AM
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Reps: 35,820,809,818,121 (power: 35,820,809,888) | | | Which Bible version do you use? A poll with more options.
Which Bible version do you use? This is an expanded poll with more options.
__________________ "There is one true Church, the really ancient Church into which are enrolled those who are righteous according to God's ordinance.... In essence, in idea, in origin, in preeminence we say that the ancient Catholic Church is the only Church." - Clement of Alexandria, Stromata (Before 215 AD) "The second commandment of the teaching: You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not seduce boys. You shall not commit fornication. You shall not steal. You shall not practice magic. You shall not use potions. You shall not procure [an] abortion, nor destroy a newborn child" (Didache 2:1–2 [A.D. 70]). |
24th September 2009, 06:06 AM
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Reps: 35,820,809,818,121 (power: 35,820,809,888) | | Out of the poll options, I use the Revised Standard Version - Catholic Edition, Douay-Rheims, and the New Jerusalem Bible. I also use the New American Bible. 
__________________ "There is one true Church, the really ancient Church into which are enrolled those who are righteous according to God's ordinance.... In essence, in idea, in origin, in preeminence we say that the ancient Catholic Church is the only Church." - Clement of Alexandria, Stromata (Before 215 AD) "The second commandment of the teaching: You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not seduce boys. You shall not commit fornication. You shall not steal. You shall not practice magic. You shall not use potions. You shall not procure [an] abortion, nor destroy a newborn child" (Didache 2:1–2 [A.D. 70]). |
25th September 2009, 06:21 AM
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Reps: 27,694,988,937,009 (power: 27,694,988,957) | | | Mostly ESV and New Jerusalem.
You've missed out NRSV, which is a hugely popular version in mainline protestant and catholic circles.
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light is stronger than darkness,
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25th September 2009, 06:33 AM
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Reps: 21,456,728,675,127 (power: 21,456,728,681) | | | for study NKJV and interlinears, for general reading, complete jewish bible.
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Now to Him who is able to keep you from falling..... be glory, majesty, dominion and authority for ever. (Jude)
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25th September 2009, 07:22 PM
|  | Non-Metaphysical Christian critic
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Reps: 12,841,116,364,811 (power: 12,841,116,365) | | | It's amazing to me that the ESV has become so popular. I remember ordering it when it first came out, and how happy I was with it. It's really quite a balanced translation -- balanced between accessibility and accuracy, I mean.
Or maybe it's just the name. "OOoooh, the STANDARD for English! I've gotta get that one! (And who is King James, anyway?)"
If the JPS had been up there, I would have picked that, although naturally it excludes the NT. But I've never found a really good NT translation.
__________________ ...Do not let me hear
Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession,
Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God.
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
- From The Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
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25th September 2009, 08:00 PM
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Reps: 27,694,988,937,009 (power: 27,694,988,957) | | Originally Posted by ittarter  It's amazing to me that the ESV has become so popular. I remember ordering it when it first came out, and how happy I was with it. It's really quite a balanced translation -- balanced between accessibility and accuracy, I mean.
Or maybe it's just the name. "OOoooh, the STANDARD for English! I've gotta get that one! (And who is King James, anyway?)"
I like the literary quality of the language in the ESV. I suspect its quite traditional sound helps make it popular.
I also like the tendency to translate the same word or phrase the same way in different places. At some points that may be at the cost of accuracy, but it helps make the connections between different texts that are there in the original languages but get lost in (say) the NRSV which translates each passage independently.
It may be my imagination, or maybe Packer's influence, but it also comes across to me as less American (as opposed to British) in its English usage than most other mainstream translations.
The two reasons I like the New Jerusalem are the literary quality and the British English usage.
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Goodness is stronger than evil,
love is stronger than hate,
light is stronger than darkness,
life is stronger than death,
victory is ours through him who loved us.
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26th September 2009, 12:40 PM
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Reps: 271,552,042 (power: 271,558) | | | NIV. grew up on it. |
27th September 2009, 06:14 AM
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Reps: 222,927,969,248,110,912 (power: 222,927,969,248,118) | | King James Version die hard.  |
28th September 2009, 05:52 PM
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| | Join Date: 9th April 2006 Location: Ohio
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Reps: 459,245,930,040 (power: 459,245,934) | | | I use the NIV primarily, but I also use the NRSV and the JB. I grew up reading the KJV, and still use it when I read Psalms. |
28th September 2009, 08:44 PM
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