what Bible (or 2 or 3 translations to read)?

[want-love]

yeah I'd like to know ur preferences, i just watch a pastor who knows Hebrew n Greek that he recommends KJV, NKJV, n ESV

 

[2PhiloVoid]

yeah I'd like to know ur preferences, i just watch a pastor who knows Hebrew n Greek that he recommends KJV, NKJV, n ESV

These days, I mainly use the NKJV and NASB.

 

[PloverWing]

I generally use the NRSV for study and the REB for reading long passages. I have a Greek New Testament, but my Greek is still weak, so I have to keep grammar books and dictionaries handy.

 

[com7fy8]

yeah I'd like to know ur preferences,

If I am sharing with a group that uses a certain Bible, I might use that one so we are communicating with the same one.

But in private and for these forums I use the New King James Version. Because it seems fairly close to the King James Bible and also is more up-to-date in English, like a lot of other Bibles.

And I look up Greek and Hebrew words using the Strong's Concordance dictionaries in the back. Plus, I use interlinear work and Spanish Bibles.

i just watch a pastor who knows Hebrew n Greek that he recommends KJV, NKJV, n ESV

My opinion is that any person will choose a Bible and conclusions, based on how that person is capable of understanding. So, what I mean, then, is one genius in Hebrew and Greek can get conclusions which are the exact opposite of what another genius in Hebrew and Greek is able to get. So, knowing a Bible manuscript language does not automatically guarantee how well anyone can know which Bible is really right and what God's word means.

So-o-o-o > pray and trust God to guide you

Each of us has motives which can affect how well we can accept what God's word means. And our character can affect if and how we understand the LORD.

I think of this > the disciples with Jesus could fight among themselves about which one was the greatest. And, they did not understand things Jesus plainly told them. They had access to I would say the "original" language of God's word . . . talking with Jesus Himself in Person! However . . . they did not get it. Why? I note how they seem to have been in a state of pride, so ready to worry about who was the greatest, and what they could use Jesus to get for their own selves; and in that spirit they could not rightly receive and understand things which Jesus was telling them.

And they were self-righteous, I would say . . . so ready to judge and look down on somebody else who was wrong or even not wrong, instead of first evaluating themselves with God guiding the evaluation.

Do we answer to God, first, in our prayer and Bible study????

So, may be we should ask what is the best translator and interpreter of God's word? I might say, a humble heart in God's all-loving family caring and sharing love. And, by the way, in case you are already growing in this love which is how Jesus is . . . then, already, you have the living meaning of God's word, growing in you. Because Jesus is the living love meaning of God's word . . . I would say.

And Jesus in us is our Creator, able to create in us whatever understanding and explanations and beliefs He pleases to share with us. And Jesus in us is able to create with us how to love each and every person, as God rules us in His own peace with His own creativity for loving >

"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful." (Colossians 3:15)

Oh yes . . . another item > God's word says a child of God is God's message >

"You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart." (2 Corinthians 3:2-3)

So, you want to read people who are growing in Jesus while ministering the word of God to you, so that you (like their example > 1 Peter 5:3) are growing in Jesus and how to love like Jesus who is growing in us as our new inner Person > Galatians 4:19.

 

[ChetSinger]

I use the ESV for personal reading. Its scholarship is up-to-date, and it leads toward formal equivalence, which I prefer.

I also like the NET because of its wealth of scholar's footnotes. They're often larger than the text itself and help illuminate the meaning for me.

 

[A New Dawn]

I use an NASB study Bible for my own personal Bible because it is the closest to the original manuscripts, and the church pew Bibles are ESV.

 

[Freth]

I use translations in this order:

• KJV
• NKJV
• Amplified

Then I use references:

• The Blue Letter Bible website, which has a number of references built in
• Strong's Concordance
• Commentaries

 

[A New Dawn]

I use translations in this order:

• KJV
• NKJV
• Amplified

Then I use references:

• The Blue Letter Bible website, which a number of references built in
• Strong's Concordance
• Commentaries

Love the BLB!

 

[Delvianna]

The absolute closest translation to the original text is KJV. Some translations like ESV, give you the idea of the text but it's not good if you're studying scripture. I normally read NKJV because its closest to KJV without the hard english, so its easier to understand but when I'm studying, I always use an interlinear bible or a concordance so I can see what the original wording is to have a better idea of what was being said. It gives me a more well-rounded understanding.

 

[peaceful-forest]

I have been reading the AMP translation for years. At times, I will read the NIV.