Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

[RipponRedeaux]

I like the CSB, but I wish it didn't have the gender inclusive language.

You meant the extent of gender inclusive language. Because, as I have said, the 1984 NIV has some, the ESV has quite a lot more. You can't escape from it.

 

[SavedByGrace]

I cannot understand the need for so many English Bibles in the past few years? This has got to do with publishers making money! Versions like the NKJV and NASB are fine for most users who want to move from the old English of the KJV.

 

[alexander284]

I cannot understand the need for so many English Bibles in the past few years? This has got to do with publishers making money! Versions like the NKJV and NASB are fine for most users who want to move from the old English of the KJV.

I agree. Although I'm pleased to have the ESV!

 

[SovereignGrace]

I like the CSB, but I wish it didn't have the gender inclusive language.

Just go back to the 1995 and be blessed.

 

[AustinC]

I'd like to hear your thoughts regarding the Christian Standard Bible (CSB). Thank you.

I was give a CSB as a gift. I rarely look at it, not because I don't like the translation, but purely because the publisher of the Bible printed the text in a light gray color and small font with micro thin pages. I can barely make out the text. Also, it's a "study bible" so it is filled with other stuff I find useless to my actual reading and studying of the text. Since I use the NLT much more often, I don't have much interest in the CSB.

 

[RipponRedeaux]

Just go back to the 1995 and be blessed.

Did you mean go back to the NASB 1995? Because the old Holman Christian Bible came out with the full canon in 2004. That was the precursor of the current CSB.

 

[JesusFan]

I'd like to hear your thoughts regarding the Christian Standard Bible (CSB). Thank you.

Perhaps the best so called "mediating" bible, as not as much inclusive language as the Niv 2011, about same as the Nas 2020!

 

[JesusFan]

Are there any particular editions of the CSB that you're fond of?

The Spurgeon edition

 

[JesusFan]

You meant the extent of gender inclusive language. Because, as I have said, the 1984 NIV has some, the ESV has quite a lot more. You can't escape from it.

The Niv 2011 has the most though

 

[alexander284]

Just go back to the 1995 and be blessed.

Yes, I'm pretty much sticking to the ESV and NASB95 now.

 

[alexander284]

Perhaps the best so called "mediating" bible, as not as much inclusive language as the Niv 2011, about same as the Nas 2020!

Since I'm happy with the NASB95, I don't see any reason to switch to the NASB 2020, do you?

 

[alexander284]

I was give a CSB as a gift. I rarely look at it, not because I don't like the translation, but purely because the publisher of the Bible printed the text in a light gray color and small font with micro thin pages. I can barely make out the text. Also, it's a "study bible" so it is filled with other stuff I find useless to my actual reading and studying of the text. Since I use the NLT much more often, I don't have much interest in the CSB.

Although I rarely use the NLT, I certainly respect your decision.

 

[RipponRedeaux]

Perhaps the best so called "mediating" bible, as not as much inclusive language as the Niv 2011, about same as the Nas 2020!

And how did you make that determination? You never do any personal investigation.

 

[RipponRedeaux]

The Niv 2011 has the most though

Wrong again.

 

[RipponRedeaux]

Although I rarely use the NLT, I certainly respect your decision.

You're even. He rarely uses the CSB and you rarely use the NLT.

 

[RipponRedeaux]

Since I'm happy with the NASB95, I don't see any reason to switch to the NASB 2020, do you?

The grammar of the 2020 NASB is superior to not only that of the 1995 NASB but to the ESV.

 

[RipponRedeaux]

Yes, I'm pretty much sticking to the ESV and NASB95 now.

I asked you about a dozen hours ago --whatever happened to your appreciation (almost fandom) of the CSB? You were enamored with it as recently as a few days ago.

 

[RipponRedeaux]

Matt. 5:47
CSB : your brothers and sisters
NASB : your brothers and sisters
NIV : your own people

Acts 15:32
CSB : the brothers and sisters
NASB : the brothers and sisters
NIV : the believers

In the N.T.

Man
CSB : 702
NIV : 731
NASB : 728


Brothers and sisters
CSB : 150
NIV : 128
NASB : 139

* Of course the edition of the NASB above is the 2020.

 

[RipponRedeaux]

From the book of Proverbs

1:10
NIV : sinful men
CSB : sinners

1:18
NIV : Those men
CSB : they

2:12
NIV : wicked men
CSB : they

2:12
NIV : wicked men
CSB : violent people

11:16
NIV : ruthless men
CSB : violent people

23:28
NIV : men
CSB : people

25:6
NIV : great men
CSB : the great

 

[JesusFan]

Since I'm happy with the NASB95, I don't see any reason to switch to the NASB 2020, do you?

No, as we already had that, in the Csb!