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My First Bible was KJV!

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  1. rockytopva

    rockytopva Well-Known Member
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    My first bible was an Open Bible KJV presented to me by the First Freewill Baptist Church after spending a year with them teaching Sunday School while I was going to college. I read that bible until the cover fell off and I had to buy another bible. Which was another KJV Open Bible! Oh to go back in time! I would love to spend a Sunday evening service with them while they had the Footwashing-Communion service!

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    My first Bible also was a KJV (Wide Margin Cambridge) which I bought in the mid 70's. I still have it though it is also showing signs of wear and tear including part of the binding coming undone.

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    My first Bible and only Bible is the KJV... Never used any other, never needed any other and never saw any need to... Right now I have a KJV Holman Compact Palm (I call my speed Bible) A giant print Nelson, red letter edition and somewhere by my bed in a box is my Thompson Chain Reference... Also have Hendrickson Audio KJV read by Alexander Scourby which I am using along with the written to read through the entire Bible in six months... Now you are asking me the first Bible I had?... That was 61 years ago, when I was 13 and probably given to me by my Baptist grandmother, which I no longer have, when the KJV was not just another translation... Brother Glen:)
     
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    So Rocky you are a footwasher too!... Not all Baptist wash feet but ours do... Brother Glen:)
     
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    Brother Glen... My first “foot-warshing” ritual was performed at the Freewill Baptist church, and like Peter, at first I was like, “Leave me out!”

    Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. - John 13:6-7

    But, my goodness! What spiritual purity, cleanliness, and beauty befell my soul afterwards!
     
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    Yeah Rocky, if we take the foot washing as what it is and if the Lord of Glory washed the disciples feet and had to stoop down to do it, you mean we can stoop down to wash another Brothers feet?... You don't understand it, until you've done it but its their loss and our gain... Brother Glen:)

    :oops:... Sorry!... Rocky and I got off track taking a walk down memory lane
     
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    My first was a Lindsell Study Bible, Living Bible, but soon bought a Ryrie Nas!
     
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    Mine was a KJV Scofield Study Bible, maroon leather with gold edging on the pages and God embossing for the cover. It smelled wonderful. I can still smell it. I had t be careful to not tear the pages because they were so thin. I did a lot of underlining in that Bible.
    Later on I got a Ryrie Study Bible, NASB.
    I am now reading an ESV Bible with no commentaries from others. My preference, but these Bibles are very hard to find, is a Bible that has no verse number, only chapters, and breaks the text up by paragraph. This version gives me the best idea of the context which the author is conveying.
     
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