Your favorite translation

I chose and always will by God's grace the King James Bible! Sometimes when I've had the WORST day, and just really can't think of how to pray, I hold my precious Bible.
Reading it brings such peace to my soul, and recently it has became even more important to me. If you can ever grasp the concept that you are reading what God actualy said {HIS ACTUAL WORDS!} it will make a major diffrence on how you treat your Bible and the time you read it. I love how it just speaks to my heart over again no matter how many times I read the same passage, I still see something new about it...even though it is over 400 years old, and by some people an archaic book. To me it is living. It is like that two edged sword, and I am so thankful I have a Bible and can read it freely.
Thankyou Lord for Your Holy Word!
~Miss Abby
PS, I would like to see a Tyndale Bible, cause from what I've heard, he spells like me!

 

NMost of us feel this way about the Bible. I particularly like the NIV for these occasions. It is so fresh and real. It is like reading those stories all over again for the first time. It warms my heart because it is God's word.

 

I enjoy reading the NIV as well........Then, lately, I have been reading the Readers Digest Bible, which is the RSV condensed. I read it devotionally and find it refreshing.

Cheers,

Jim

 

I use NRSV most often as my primary biblical translation, but I also use the NASB, NKJV, NIV, KJV and "The Message" on a regular basis.

I'm currenly reading through "The Message."

 

I have almost all English translations, and even though the poetic nature of KJV is nice, having grown up in the Methodist Church, I still tend to favor the RSV that we used there. As a matter of fact, I still have my first bible, an RSV, given to me by the church when I was a child.

As a teen, we used to use Good News for Modern Man NT in Sunday School. I also find the NIV very helpful.

 

Originally posted by Baptist Believer:
>>I'm currenly reading through "The Message."

The Message???!!!

Now you are really going to stir up the hornets' nest.....

 

Miss Abby. Tyndale's NT, or at least part of it, is available through the free downloadable Bible study program called Sword Project. Some of the spelling IMO is almost hilarious. An example would be how Tyndale spelled "devil". If I remember aright it was "devyll" or "deuill". But I realize that is how it was done back then. Wycliffe's Bible has even more hilarious spelling, and is likewise on the Sword Project. I BTW found a hardcopy of Tyndale's NT and his unfinished OT via ABEbooks. Edited by David Daniell, an expert on Tyndale. The spelling is updated somewhat. I think it is still possible to find the same through ABEbooks.

Harald

 

Originally posted by Harald:
>>Some of the spelling IMO is almost hilarious.
>>An example would be how Tyndale spelled "devil".

<hair bristling>
Hey now: are you attacking Tyndale???

I Corinthians 10:24-25
"But and yf eny man saye vnto you: this is dedicate vnto ydols, eate not of it for his sake that shewed it, and for hurtynge of conscience. the erth is the lordes and all that there in is."

As an English purist, this is music to my ears.... Don't forget: this was in 1534, and English was a little different back then.

>>Wycliffe's Bible has even more hilarious spelling,

Now you are attacking Wiclif??
Same passage:
"But if ony man seith, this thing is offrid to idols nyle ye ete for hym that schewid and for conscience. And I seie not thi conscience: but of another, but wherto is my fredom demed of another mannes conscience?"
[It doesn't say "ye" but I don't have the ability to recreate that character on the BB!!]

That was in 1380, and English was a lot different back then...

Regards,

BiR
a.k.a. "English Purist"

 

My favorite is the NIV. I have the KJV Bibles and "The Message" Bible, but NIV is the one I use the most.

Nancy

 

My favorite, all around version is the NIV. It is a version that is easily read, yet is literal enough for serious study.

 

The reason that shows the KJV superiority over modern versions is the four-fold superiority:

1. Texts
2. Translators
3. Technique
4. Theology

 

I use and LOVE the NIV Life Application Study Bible.

 

I am with Dr. Bob on this one. I recently bought the Nelson Wide Margin NKJV. I would recomend it to anyone. Dr. Bob we need to do lunch one of these days.

Bob Ross