What version of the Bible do you read and why?

[redblue22]

I like comic book bibles. As for other bibles, I just go with whatever everyone else is using. I'm generally against pushing kjv on people. (see James White's The King James Only Controversy)

I like religious movies too that tell parts of the bible.

 

[Gnarwhal]

I read the NAB now, I got a free copy when I started catechism.

I have 3-4 other versions that I don't use anymore, NIV, NRSV, TNIV, etc. They're just collecting dust on a shelf.

 

[Toro]

IMO approaching the Bible with an open heart and a will to know and apply the truth revealed to ones life is VASTLY more important than the version in which they read.

I for one believe God can and DOES speak truth even in a world of lies. I certainly believe He can overcome anything that some say is "lost in translstion" cause even if something were false.... as their relationship with Christ grew, so too would their understandings and those errors would be corrected.... I don't believe God is limited in His ability to reach us in truth just cause we aren't reading from the original documents themselves.

Just like people can hear different things and have different feelings in hearing the very same song. So to do I believe different versions reach people differently.

Just kinda on my mind after reading some of this thread is all.

 

[ToBeLoved]

Not sure, but what I posted is true. There was no other way of seeing the verse either. Was enough for me to say "no thanks" back when I was a seeker.

Mormons themselves believe the craziest things anyway. They believe Jesus is the God of the OT, but that "The Father" isn't - God the Father is a whole separate being in their religion. I don't know if that comes from the book of Mormon itself or what, but I think it might come from their extra "sacred texts" like the Pearl of Great Price and their other ones they have. They also believe Jesus is Satan's brother.

I'll add that they believe that God the Father was once a sinful man who worked his way to Godhood. That Mary and God the Father, literally were 'intimate' to create Jesus. And that they will some day become God's themselves and have to die for their planet as Jesus, per se to their 'spirit children' that they have, 'literally' with their concubines in eternity who are forever pregnant.

They believe in more than one God, closer to other religions than Christianity.

 

[ToBeLoved]

Bible versions:

New King James version but I read the NASB if I am having problems understanding a verse.

 

[ToBeLoved]

right?!!!!!!

I hope you guys are single then. lol.

 

[Rhamiel]

NAB because of the scholarship behind it and Douay-Rheims for the poetry and strongly worded footnotes

 

[Goodbook]

For me it did matter what version i read because the students NIV made no sense it was very confusing. God led me to the KJV.

I do recommend it if anyone is struggling and hasnt looked at that version before. Its a two edged sword compared to some other bible versions which are like blunt butter knives.

Its very impotrtant that we receive the FULL counsel of God nothing omitted and nothing added. And that we divide the Word rightly.

You will see the fruit of the spirit in those that follow the Word although ultimately we are looking at Jesus not the individual letters that make up the Word if you get what I mean.

 

[Goodbook]

Toro I thought you would be reading the lolcat version.

 

[Sif]

I read both the RSV and NAB translations as both were gifts for me by friends.

I would like to read the Bible in its original languages but, sadly, I do not have the ability.

 

[sunshineforJesus]

I love the New king James version since its easy to read.

 

[( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]

I like most of them. But my main go tos are the NLT & NKJV

 

[gentlejah]

Douay-Rheims for reading but I listen to NKJV on audio quite often.

 

[.Mikha'el.]

I use ESV.

 

[GospelS]

I've ESV and NKJV. And I recently got this CJB version to read/understand the scriptures from a Jewish perspective. There are also other versions that I like.

 

[David Hunter]

I use different versions, but my main go to is NIV, ESV and NASB (Just read through it and I'm really liking this translation). I haven't read through my NET Bible, but I love it for all of the translation notes it comes with!

 

[Hawthorne]

The Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition is my primary. Very few are the places where I prefer ESV's revision of the original RSV translation. I do use New King James and English Standard Version fairly often and New American Standard and the New Revised Standard Version seldom, but not infrequently.

I've ESV and NKJV. And I recently got this CJB version to read/understand the scriptures from a Jewish perspective. There are also other versions that I like.

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I was quite startled to read in the CJB's preface where they make no apologies about being a paraphrase and the way the 'translate' law in the New Testament. I don't know what you are meaning by the Jewish perspective, but something like the Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible (available in NKJV, NRSV, and NIV) might give you the cultural context you're looking for, along with more reputable contributors and translations. If, however, you are looking for how the New Testament interacts with rabbinic writings, and contemporary literature like Josephus, and Philo, as well as citations from pseudepigrapha, the Jewish Annotated New Testament (NRSV) is surprisingly OK. Caveats being the editors bend over backwards trying to exonerate Jews in some passages and there are some startling bad exegesis since, this is a Jewish and not a Christian work.