Comments on: What is your first favorite bible translation?

By: Kevin Sam

Kevin Sam — Tue, 10 May 2011 19:40:17 +0000

Bubba,

The KJV is written beautifully isn’t it? and it’s still one of the most read versions.

By: Bubbaboger

Bubbaboger — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:20:19 +0000

I read alot of different versions of the Bible, but I mostly read the KJV, NLT, and ESV. I grew up using the KJV only. I later found that some modern versions were easier to read. I would say that my favorite Bible version is the KJV, and no im not old, im only 18 years old. Blessings.

By: HolyBibleTrivia.org

HolyBibleTrivia.org — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:02:00 +0000

HBT currently uses the KJV, NKJV, NIV, NASB, and ESV. HBT is always prayerful about adding other versions.

By: Gary Zimmerli

Gary Zimmerli — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:15:00 +0000

Hey, Kevin. I saw that you are blogging on this and had to come over and put in my two cents worth. I don’t mean to blow you out of the water, but the NKJV wasn’t my first. I actually started out with the RSV way back in about 1961 which my church gave me as a third-grader. The first Bible I bought for myself was a paperback NEB when I left home for college in 1971. But the first Bible that was really my favorite, the one where the scriptures came alive for me was the NIV. I didn’t have a NKJV until I got my MacArthur SB in 2000.

What I think you misinterpreted in my post was the fact that the NKJV (and similar translations)is what I have heard preached, in churches and on the radio and TV, for so many years. That is what has been so firmly impressed upon my mind, and not the NIV, NASB, NRSV, etc.

Sorry if I didn’t make that clear enough. But it looks like it was good enough to get this fine discussion going here at your blog!

By: Stan McCullars

Stan McCullars — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:56:00 +0000

Kevin,
I’m not sure to what degree it was “ElShaddai’s love of the REB that influenced” my first purchase of an REB, but it was fairly substantial. I had never heard of the REB before this year but it quickly went to the top of my favorites.

By: nothingman

nothingman — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:23:00 +0000

The NIV was the translation I used for almost 20 years. In fact, I thought the only 2 translations were the KJV and the NIV for the longest time. Because I used the NIV for so many years, making the switch to the TNIV has been easy, and I now use the TNIV as my main translation along with the NRSV and NLTse for comparison.

By: ElShaddai Edwards

ElShaddai Edwards — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:20:00 +0000

@L. Wells and Kevin: I agree about the Open Bible and wish the cyclopedic index was in every Bible I have – I can’t count the number of times I used that growing up to find references.

By: Nick Norelli

Nick Norelli — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:38:00 +0000

Kevin: I actually love the NRSV but I don’t own a copy. It just so happens that the German Bible Society chose to bind the RSV with the NA27, so that’s my primary New Testament text. But when given the choice, for devotional reading I’ll take the KJV or the NLT, even though (funnily enough) the NIV happens to be the only translation I’ve ever read straight through.

By: tc robinson

tc robinson — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:03:00 +0000

Of course he is. He's using the TNIV and everyone knows that Zondervan only sells the TNIV to kids and young adults. *grin*

El, you're firing on all four cylinders today. Man, you cracking me up.

By: ElShaddai Edwards

ElShaddai Edwards — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:25:00 +0000

I think TC is actually younger than we might think. I have the inside scoop.

Of course he is. He's using the TNIV and everyone knows that Zondervan only sells the TNIV to kids and young adults. *grin*

So far, we have a couple NASB first favourites (ElShaddai and Keith).

Hey now, I said the NASB was my first main Bible, not my first favorite Bible...