Bible Translations

[Deacon]

I find the new CEB to be exciting reading, but I keep a pen with me to cancel out ridiculous politically correct terms (The Human One for Son of Man) and inclusive language.

It is unfamiliar and strange sounding but not ridiculous.
We had a thread on the phrase a while back. [LINK]

I have never trusted the NIV; the NASB has been revised so many times that I question its accuracy.

Let's see, one revision for the NAS (1995) ---- and how many for the KJV?

Rob

 

[mets65]

Well the NASB is actually a revision of the American Standard Version. But after the NASB was released as a whole in 1971 it's only had one revision.

 

[mets65]

Also the NASB is regarded by many as the most accurate. I'm not saying it is, just merely that many regard it to be.

 

[TomVols]

I turn first (after the Grk and Heb) to the NASB, then quickly to the NRSV and ESV. I then pick up the NIV/TNIV. I also consult the Phillips NT. If there is a mss difference, I want to see how the NKJV is handling it.

The revised HCSB is rising on my scale and may quickly climb into second place. It's what I'm using for devotions this time through the Bible. I typically use NASB/NIV parallel for that purpose, but the NIV is the '84 (I'm wondering if they will release a parallel with the 2011 NIV).

 

[mets65]

I use the HCSB in conjunction with the NASB

 

[Tater77]

NASB - main study
HCSB
ESV
NLTse



And I'm seriously considering the NIV 2011. I'm really liking it the more I read it on Biblegateway.com .

 

[jaigner]

1. TNIV
2. NASB
3. NLT
4. NRSV
5. NIV

Almost never use the KJV anymore, though I have a strong sentimental attachment to it, since it was my first Bible and my first memorizing translation. But it's not practically useful anymore. Even more rarely do I blow the dust off my NKJV.

 

[R. Lawson]

This is what I usually work in:

http://bond-servant.net/be-4.gif :godisgood:

 

[mets65]

1. TNIV
2. NASB
3. NLT
4. NRSV
5. NIV

Almost never use the KJV anymore, though I have a strong sentimental attachment to it, since it was my first Bible and my first memorizing translation. But it's not practically useful anymore. Even more rarely do I blow the dust off my NKJV.

I keep a kjv close by because I still think it's a very important translation, but I don't use it daily.

 

[Rippon]

1.TNIV
2. MLB
3. NLTse
4. HCSB
5. NRSV

I will get the ISV when the whole thing comes out. But I still don't appreciate the unacknowledged plagiarism of God's Word translation.

In March both the 2011 NIV will be published as well as the updated Roman Catholic NAB.

 

[R. Lawson]

1.TNIV
2. MLB
3. NLTse
4. HCSB
5. NRSV

I will get the ISV when the whole thing comes out. But I still don't appreciate the unacknowledged plagiarism of God's Word translation.

In March both the 2011 NIV will be published as well as the updated Roman Catholic NAB.

Brother Rippon,

I've used the NIV most of my life. There's a giant print version that I have used since 2006.

Do you think it would be worth the "upgrade"? I'm sure Bible Explorer/Wordsearch will update it as it did with the HCSB. I just hope there will be a large or giant print edition. The TNIV, which I adored before its death was announced, never had a large or giant print edition.:tonofbricks:

YBIC,
Robb

 

[R. Lawson]

Actually there was a large print edition of the TNIV. Forgot about this. I have a softcover and hardback. It's good enough for my eyes.:thumbsup:

 

[RevGKG]

nkjv
nasb
hcsb
esv
nlt
net

 

[PeterM]

I seem to have settled on 2:

ESV
NLT

I use both for study and for preaching.

 

[Martin Marprelate]

I use the NKJV almost exclusively for personal use. It is also my preferred Bible to preach from. I am persuaded that the Received Text is likely to be closest to the original. I find I can also study older books that quote the KJV better and use KJV concordances when using the NKJV.

As an itinerant preacher, I am happy to preach from the KJV or NIV 1984 when asked. I would also preach from the ESV or NASB if asked, but I never have been. Neither is particularly popular in the UK.

I would not preach from the TNIV, NIV 2011, or any other paraphrase. I have heard good things of the NLT, but have never found the need to buy one.

Steve

 

[gb93433]

For study I use the:
BHS
UBS 4th rev. ed.
NA27

For preaching I use the"
NASU 95
NIV 1984

Currently I am using the NIV because most of the congregation are less than 30 years old.

There was a time when I had some KJV only folks in the congregation and preached directly from the NA 27 and it came in handy when one of them was daring enough to tell me that they could not figure what Bible I preached from and responded by saying the Greek New Testament. That ended the KJV only nonsense in the congregation. They were perplexed and did not know what to do.

 

[Rippon]

I would not preach from the TNIV, NIV 2011, or any other paraphrase.

Are you putting the TNIV and 2011 NIV in the same category as a paraphrase?! Far from it. Both are mediating translations which navigate between outright functional equivalence and sheer formal equivalence.

The old Living Bible is a primary example of a paraphrase. Both the TNIV and 2011 NIV are worlds away from that.

I have heard good things of the NLT, but have never found the need to buy one.

Steve

You owe it to yourself to buy one. and if you happen to like aspects of it --you certainly wouldn't oppose the TNIV or 2011 NIV.

 

[R. Lawson]

Rippon is right. The NIV, TNIV, and NIV 2010 are NOT paraphrases.

It may be beneficial to know that all translation is interpretation and all translations paraphrase.

 

[gb93433]

If a translation was a complete translation then at times it would have a lot of explanation to correctly interpret the message that was originally written and delivered in a foreign context and a historical context of many years ago when the words did not always have the same meaning as a nearly equivalent word in English. In English we do not always have the same grammatical ways of wording ideas. For example too often there is no distinction between a first class and third class conditional sentence and a prohibitive imperative a simple imperative. In Eph. 5:21 in the GNT there is not a verb in that phrase but in an English translation there is.

 

[jameslinck]

my BIBLE

I only use the KJB. This started only 3 years ago and after much argument with my pastor and much study of my own. Using the internet I found that my pastor was right.