Favorite Bible version

[pastel]

It all depends on what I'm using the study for. I really like the NASB, and have for years, especially for indepth study. The NKJV was quite a novel thing when it came out, and immediately I purchased one of those. The NIV Study Bible, the Concordia one, is really nice when in group Bible study. Now I have the Life Application Bible in NASB and learning how to use that. Then there is the Thompson Chain KJV with the Strong's numbering system. That is really cool to study words, and haven't done that in a long while, but I should dig them out and dust them off someday soon - to keep up with filo and the rest of the scholars on this board.

 

[ByzantineDixie]

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat??

This is killin' me. It is such a GERMAN thing to say. I can hear my mom (a native) now. They have an interesting sense of logic...as if the whole world should see things their way. And those that don't...well, they are just defective.

Loved it.-----R

 

[KagomeShuko]

This is killin' me. It is such a GERMAN thing to say. I can hear my mom (a native) now. They have an interesting sense of logic...as if the whole world should see things their way. And those that don't...well, they are just defective.

Loved it.-----R

For somebody whose ethnicity is 50% German, I just don't get it. . .I think that might come from growing up in Louisiana. . .LOL

Stein Auf!
Bridget

 

[filosofer]

50% German, I just don't get it.

This makes sense!

 

[KagomeShuko]

For somebody whose ethnicity is 50% German, I just don't get it. . .I think that might come from growing up in Louisiana. . .LOL

Stein Auf!
Bridget

This thread lost me a few posts ago. . .

Maybe it's that Lithuanian in me? If not. . .that English? Norweigen? Dutch? Irish?

LOL

Stein Auf!
Bridget

 

[RevJoshua]

I kinda like the NKJV. My church uses the NIV.

 

[revjpw]

Michael D. Bridges is droolworthy.

He is single... and looking.

(yeah, I know its a tad off-subject for this thread...)


DaRev

 

[revjpw]

I kinda like the NKJV. My church uses the NIV.

I kinda like the NKJV, too. It's the first version I read cover to cover.
It rates a close second to the ESV for me, which we use during services.


DaRev

 

[KagomeShuko]

He is single... and looking.

(yeah, I know its a tad off-subject for this thread...)


DaRev

LOL. . .yes, so I hear. . .um, wow. . .actually, what one of my roommates and I heard at the "Extra Vaganza" was odd to hear. . .who knew he'd just say what he did while there were fans standing around. . .

Stein Auf!
Bridget

 

[revjpw]

LOL. . .yes, so I hear. . .um, wow. . .actually, what one of my roommates and I heard at the "Extra Vaganza" was odd to hear. . .who knew he'd just say what he did while there were fans standing around. . .

We heard him say it at the LCMS Youth thingy in Orlando!

I've known Michael for a while. The kids in my youth group were so impressed that he knew my name when we met him in the hallway.

DaRev

 

[KagomeShuko]

We heard him say it at the LCMS Youth thingy in Orlando!

I've known Michael for a while. The kids in my youth group were so impressed that he knew my name when we met him in the hallway.

DaRev

Well, I'll just say that what my roommate and I heard could be considered a bit more "rumorish" than just him being single and looking. . .but it made us be hyper squealing girls when they asked, "so, like you're practically in love with Michael?" LOL

I saw them in 2000 and then I got to know Michael and George in 2002, and they know my name. George always said hi to me every time I passed him and Monday morning, Michael called me over to the sales table to ask how things were going.

I do a whole lot of praying about my liking Michael . . .who knows. . .but I've had a HUGE crush on him heading for about two years now.

Stein Auf!
Bridget

 

[johnnymapson]

To sit and read, the NET (New English Translation), the little translator in my mind pretty well goes away, the English is English as I know it.


If, at this point, you were to say I had to pick one Bible and use it for everything, I would probably go with the NET. It's literal where it can be, while still using thoughts where literalness would loose the thought. It reads easy. It does it's best to be gender correct. It is understandable to a lot of different ages and backgrounds. And best of all, it documents these things in the footnotes, so I can see the decisions the translators made and why, and that gives me something I can't get anywhere else. You can read it online or download it free at www.bible.org.

Thanks,
Marv

I haven't heard a lot about the NET bible on the boards. It's good to bring some attention to it. I have a copy and like it, it just takes me time to change, especially bible versions! I think the bible.org web site is awesome. There are so many good articles there. I use them frequently in the sunday school class I teach. The translator notes in the NET bible are really neat. It is awesome to see how the translation came about. The only thing I would offer with that bible is to have the notes in the back and have them refrenced some how. I like to read the bible for what it is sometimes and my eyes sometimes wander to much from the task at hand, meaning the notes can sometimes be to distracting. From what I have read it seems good. I am with you on using different translations for different purposes. I have been reading the ESV a lot lately. If I had to take ONE I would probably pick the KJV, just because I am the most familiar with it and have the most memorized from it. Keep up the good work on the NET bible, I am sure that God will do great things with that ministry!