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View Poll Results: What is your Fave Translation of the Bible | |
King James Version (KJV) Also NKJV
|     | 35 | 27.34% | |
New International Version (NIV) Also KNIV
|    | 23 | 17.97% | |
New Standard Revised Version (NRSV)
|    | 10 | 7.81% | |
English Standard Version (ESV) or Contemporary English Version (CEV)
|    | 16 | 12.50% | |
The Message / The Word
|    | 4 | 3.13% | |
Good News
|    | 2 | 1.56% | |
New Century Version (NCV)
| | 0 | 0% | |
New American Standard (NASB)
| | 12 | 9.38% | |
New Living Translation (NLT)
| | 8 | 6.25% | |
Other Bible not mentioned above
| | 18 | 14.06% |
27th June 2012, 12:47 AM
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Reps: 686,314,855,663,773,952 (power: 686,314,855,663,814) | | Originally Posted by MarkRohfrietsch
Very true...
For me, however, when the KJV of the Psalms are chanted (in 4 part Anglican Chant), the language does indeed sound "Holy" and very beautiful!
Are they chanting from the KJV or the 1662 BCP?
I love a good Evensong as much as anyone, but let's not kid ourselves that there's anything very biblical about archaic English in general or that of the KJV in particular.
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I tried to quote you but it didn't work.
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27th June 2012, 11:57 PM
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Reps: 10 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by Estherann  King of Conquerors
I tried to quote you but it didn't work.
I speak to God in my own everyday language and with love and respect.
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28th June 2012, 12:09 AM
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28th June 2012, 02:06 AM
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Reps: 686,314,855,663,773,952 (power: 686,314,855,663,814) | | Originally Posted by dobson67 I prefer the New King James Version.
That's just about my least favourite of the mainstream modern translations. I find the language very clunky.
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28th June 2012, 08:30 AM
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Reps: 1,951,104,503,640,609,280 (power: 1,951,104,503,640,629) | | Originally Posted by ebia That's just about my least favourite of the mainstream modern translations. I find the language very clunky.
It is a bit; but that's what you get when you try and remain as true to a word-for-word translation, and yet have an accurate thought-for-thought translation as well.
Threads like this one show us that there is no perfect translation; we need to sort-out which one(s) suit our needs, and our needs may vary as well.
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2nd July 2012, 01:03 AM
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Reps: 29,780,814,292,892,220 (power: 29,780,814,292,893) | | Originally Posted by ebia That's just about my least favourite of the mainstream modern translations. I find the language very clunky.
I find it very smooth and "fluid". Originally Posted by MarkRohfrietsch It is a bit; but that's what you get when you try and remain as true to a word-for-word translation, and yet have an accurate thought-for-thought translation as well.
Threads like this one show us that there is no perfect translation; we need to sort-out which one(s) suit our needs, and our needs may vary as well.
EXACTLY!!! My wife likes the NIV. I have very little use for it. The NKJV is close to the KJV without all the Thee, Thou, Shalt and Thy's.
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2nd July 2012, 10:53 AM
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2nd July 2012, 07:08 PM
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Reps: 686,314,855,663,773,952 (power: 686,314,855,663,814) | | Originally Posted by ALLorNOTHINGatall4CHRIST I like the NIV.
It's passable on the narrative, but I find it drab. It's often misleading on Paul where it very often adds interpretation.
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8th July 2012, 08:34 PM
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Reps: 10 (power: 0) | | | King James version just leaves me stumbling when I read unto, lest, ye, thou, art, thy. Makes my tongue scream in agony. |
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