Which Bible Translation Do You Use?

[Shrewsbury]

If you are like me then you probably have many different translations, but the one I use the most is the NIV.

I am interested to see how the new NIV stands up when it is released later this year.

 

[stork321]

I use the mobile kjv go bible..through this cellphone application I can now read and study the bible anywhere..

 

[k4c]

I use the mobile kjv go bible..through this cellphone application I can now read and study the bible anywhere..

I use multiple translations and refer to the original langauge when I study but I like reading the NKJ and the Amplified Version.

 

[Shrewsbury]

I use the mobile kjv go bible..through this cellphone application I can now read and study the bible anywhere..

Show off!

Seriously, I have considered getting a Bible app but wondered how good they are.

 

[EastCoastRemnant]

After reading and watching studies on the 'modern' versions and how they omit verses and change the meanings of the verses by the words used, I use the KJV for my studies, acknowlegding that there were some punctuational errors contained in it. I see no harm in using a modern translation of a verse, for clarity of understanding, if it is cross referenced with the KJ to ensure the spirit of the verse is not altered.

As an example, the NIV uses the word 'slave' in substitution to the KJV word 'servant'. To me, when I read that I am a slave to Christ vs a servant to Christ, it brings up a different connotation in my mind.

 

[OntheDL]

If you are like me then you probably have many different translations, but the one I use the most is the NIV.

I am interested to see how the new NIV stands up when it is released later this year.

The Devil has always sought to destroy/corrupt the pure word of God. God preserved His word with the remnant that fled into the wilderness during the dark ages. It was passed down to the protestant reformers to be translated into the reformation bible. You should definitely use KJV bible and stay away from all modern corrupt translations. Here is a good book on which translation is authentic. http://media.sabda.org/alkitab-8/LIBRARY/WLK_ABVI.PDF

 

[OntheDL]

You can get an interlinear bible that has original Hebrew and Greek. But you will quickly find out the translators of KJV did a very good job.

The Roman Catholic church for over 1000 years kept the bible out of people's hands by conducting service in Latin (a dead language) and claiming the interpretation is strictly a prerogatives of the Church. Any one found with bibles were termed heretics.

When the early church fell into apostasy and turned to a persecuting power, the true church went to hiding: into northern Italy/southern France, into the British Isles, into northern Africa, into India... At the dawn of Reformation, the Valdois/Waldensians passed the Word of God they preserved with their lives to the protestant pioneers. This bible is then translated by the reformers into their own language: Geneva bible, Tyndale, KJV, Lutheran...

To counter the Reformation, the Catholic church started the Renaissances, Shakespearean play and (secular) Medici learning to compete with bible learning. In the late 1800s, Westcott and Hort headed the Jesuit bible revision effort to introduce the Catholic bibles (Vaticanus, Sinaiticus (miraculously appeared in a trash bin in a Catholic monastery in 1844), Alexandrian text, Latin Vulgate...). These texts were masked as modern revised translations: NIV, RSV, NKJV, TLB...

Take NIV for example (the probably the worst of all), it has words and even paragraphs missing. Take your NIV to Isaiah 14. It calls Lucifer the morning star. The original Hebrew phrase here is 'son of morning'. Only Jesus Christ is the morning star.

 

[OntheDL]

If you are like me then you probably have many different translations, but the one I use the most is the NIV.

I am interested to see how the new NIV stands up when it is released later this year.

Take the NIV challenge:

http://www.chick.com/information/bibleversions/articles/nivquiz.asp

 

[Shrewsbury]

Suddenly this thread sounds like a meeting of the KJV-Only's! lol.

Seriously, I like the KJV, but disagree with the view that modern translations remove anything or in someway are satanic perversions.

My local SDA uses the NIV, apart from one brother who uses the KJV.

 

[stork321]

my only problem in kjv is that sometimes its hard to understand maybe because of the construction of the sentences and the archaic words.

 

[Shrewsbury]

And can I say I mean no disrespect to anyone who uses the KJV. It's just that I am yet to be convinced that it is the only translation we should use, although I am open to persuasion.

 

[OldStudent]

One day I was reading Gen 3:1-6 and noticed something. Man was taken down when they accepted Satan's proposition which was presented to them by "revising" God's word. Then followed the question: "If Satan was successful with revising God's word then, I wonder if he is doing something like that at this end of history?" That led me to look into the prospect that maybe there might be untrustworthy bibles today. In my mind the answer is a conclusive, "yes."

I have come to discard for serious use (any study of God's Word is serious) any Bible of the Wescott & Hort, UBS, Nestle/Allan lineage. I am willing to use the NKJV and grudgingly the NASB. I use KJV, Geneva, Webster, NKJV. These all have roots to and evident credentials of God's use in the Reformation. The new NT translation from the newly collated Majority Text is currently under evaluation and doing well.

I have a New Jerusalem Bible which carries the Roman imprimatur. I did a brief comparion between it and the NIV. They looked like they came from the same foundry. Having some understanding of Protestant heritage and Roman intention that was another red flag for me.

 

[gmanon]

I use The Spanish Valera, the old and the modern KJV, the NIV.

My original bible is Valera, but it's very similar to KJV because they are both from the same original Latin translation, The Vulgata.

I started reading NIV, just because of the church I am going to. But I see that the NIV differs with the rest of other translations in the meaning of some words. I am not talking about translations from the Vulgata, but other modern translations.

One example is Revelation 21:4. It calls the old things, the old order.

What I mean, is that, I do not really like NIV.

Besides, I would like to go to a church where everyone reads from the same bible. This is crazy now, you can't memorize bible text and expect people to become familiar with them, because they sound different in every bible. It's even hard to follow the reading with so many different translations.

It's easier to follow from one language to another than from two different translations within the same language.

 

[EastCoastRemnant]

my only problem in kjv is that sometimes its hard to understand maybe because of the construction of the sentences and the archaic words.

We should always read the Word with the prayful help of the Holy Spirit to give us understanding of difficult to understand passages... using a concordance along with other translations to clarify passages is one way of coming to an understanding.

 

[EastCoastRemnant]

My original bible is Valera, but it's very similar to KJV because they are both from the same original Latin translation, The Vulgata.

I believe you are mistaken, or I am...lol

The Vulgate was one of the precursors to the Douay or Jesuit Bible....

The KJV comes from the collection of manuscripts known as the textus receptus...

 

[EastCoastRemnant]

Besides, I would like to go to a church where everyone reads from the same bible. This is crazy now, you can't memorize bible text and expect people to become familiar with them, because they sound different in every bible. It's even hard to follow the reading with so many different translations.

It's easier to follow from one language to another than from two different translations within the same language.

A very good point in support of the origin of the modern versions....

What you describe is something, I'm sure, we have all experienced in our church or Bible studies and sounds alot like confusion among the brethren to me....

God= author of order and singleness of mind

Satan=author of confusion

 

[EastCoastRemnant]

Shrewsbury, you bring up a good point and that is we should all be persuaded of our own minds. Through prayerful study the truth will be known but must come to each man at his appointed time.

 

[stork321]

We should always read the Word with the prayful help of the Holy Spirit to give us understanding of difficult to understand passages... using a concordance along with other translations to clarify passages is one way of coming to an understanding.

as should be..thanks for reminding ECR..

 

[Shrewsbury]

Shrewsbury, you bring up a good point and that is we should all be persuaded of our own minds. Through prayerful study the truth will be known but must come to each man at his appointed time.

Amen.

On the point about there being so many different modern translations, the honest truth is that Bibles make money, so each publisher wants their own translation so that they don't have to pay someone else to use it.

The KJV is out of copyright internationally, but not in the UK where it remains copyrighted to the Crown, in an agreement that goes back to 1611.

 

[Cribstyl]

What's your thoughts on the NLT version?
What do you understand from this chapter from any version, can you give me a summary?

Thanks in advance.

1 Timothy 4


Warnings against False Teachers

Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from what we believe; they will follow lying spirits and teachings that come from demons.
2 These teachers are hypocrites and liars. They pretend to be religious, but their consciences are dead. [fn1]

3 They will say it is wrong to be married and wrong to eat certain foods. But God created those foods to be eaten with thanksgiving by people who know and believe the truth.
4 Since everything God created is good, we should not reject any of it. We may receive it gladly, with thankful hearts.
5 For we know it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.


A Good Servant of Christ Jesus

6 If you explain this to the brothers and sisters, [fn2] you will be doing your duty as a worthy servant of Christ Jesus, one who is fed by the message of faith and the true teaching you have followed.
7 Do not waste time arguing over godless ideas and old wives' tales. Spend your time and energy in training yourself for spiritual fitness.
8 Physical exercise has some value, but spiritual exercise is much more important, for it promises a reward in both this life and the next.
9 This is true, and everyone should accept it.
10 We work hard and suffer much [fn3] in order that people will believe the truth, for our hope is in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and particularly of those who believe.

11 Teach these things and insist that everyone learn them.
12 Don't let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you teach, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity.
13 Until I get there, focus on reading the Scriptures to the church, encouraging the believers, and teaching them.

14 Do not neglect the spiritual gift you received through the prophecies spoken to you when the elders of the church laid their hands on you.
15 Give your complete attention to these matters. Throw yourself into your tasks so that everyone will see your progress.
16 Keep a close watch on yourself and on your teaching. Stay true to what is right, and God will save you and those who hear you.