Curious: how many different Bibles you use and what are they.....

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Lost_sheep

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Txroads said:
I actually saw that foundation Bible today when I was in the book store but it was NKJV..... Almost thought about buying it
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I like mine. It does (I think) a good job of explaining passages and giving a little more "meat" to the text. It's been useful to me in certain books of the Bible that are out of my depth.
 
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Gr8grace said:
Your saved and don't even know it.............Brother.

And don't think I am nuts. More than half on this site think salvation can be lost or they are working for their "later" salvation.

I will see you in the eternal state brother.
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It won't let me like your comment so I'll just tell you..........
I like your comment.......
ROFL
 
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May I ask why some of you use so many different versions of the Bible? Are not any of them trustworthy? How do you come to the conclusion which one is right? Which ever one appeals to you?
 
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Gr8grace

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Lost_sheep said:
I'd say I'll buy you a beer, but that might be difficult. I'll see you when we get there.

I had forgotten about the Gideon's Bible. It's so unused that the spine still creaks when you open it. I remember when I took it as it was offered thinking that I'd have all the time in the world to read it, but a couple days later I went to solitary and by the time I got out and back to my regular cell, I didn't care to read it.
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Well I like IPA and A good sweet cigar. You will owe me that beer and cigar while we kick back under the tree of life in the Garden of God in the eternal state while fishing for the eternal record of rainbow trout.
 
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John146 said:
May I ask why some of you use so many different versions of the Bible? Are not any of them trustworthy? How do you come to the conclusion which one is right? Which ever one appeals to you?
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There is no 'perfect' translation, so comparison truly helps.
The EXB (Expanded Bible) is one of my favorite 'all arounds' except for reading in unison. :p
 
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Txroads

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Lost_sheep said:
I like mine. It does (I think) a good job of explaining passages and giving a little more "meat" to the text. It's been useful to me in certain books of the Bible that are out of my depth.
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Hmmmm..... Might have to take another look at it....
 
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i've got a plain old 1984 NIV that i've had since 1984, a big scoffield-reference-version AKJV, and on my phone a simple app that i wind up reading from more than the others, while i'm away from home, in NIV, ESV, KJV, YLT and recently i added NLT because so many people in one of my homegroups read from it.

also online i read from biblegateway & biblehub quite often.
 
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John146 said:
May I ask why some of you use so many different versions of the Bible? Are not any of them trustworthy? How do you come to the conclusion which one is right? Which ever one appeals to you?
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I go to the Greek and Hebrew (interlinear). It's frustrating for me to read a normal bible because I always have to check it against the manuscripts to make sure it's right.
 
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Txroads

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Gr8grace said:
Well I like IPA and A good sweet cigar. You will owe me that beer and cigar while we kick back under the tree of life in the Garden of God in the eternal state while fishing for the eternal record of rainbow trout.
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SAY!!!!... FISHIN?... I like you guys too ya know....
 
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Lost_sheep

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Gr8grace said:
Well I like IPA and A good sweet cigar. You will owe me that beer and cigar while we kick back under the tree of life in the Garden of God in the eternal state while fishing for the eternal record of rainbow trout.
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You had me at "rainbow trout". If I can fly-fish, I'm totally there.
 
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Lost_sheep said:
Do you folks mark up your Bibles? Are you doing something like inductive Bible study and highlighting, underlining, etc.? I'm just curious. I have a set of the gel highlighters, but I just can't bring myself to be marking up a Bible. Putting the adhesive tabs at the beginning of each of the 66 books so I can find them quickly was nerve-wracking enough for me. Is that weird?
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my NIV has over 30 years of underlining and highlighting and margin-note-scribbling in it.
my KJV, for some reason i feel odd about marking in it. it's fancy & new, i guess, where the NIV i've had so long is tattered and many of the prophets are actually falling out... which is why i got the new KJV bible -- but then, my hands know right where to flip to to find any book in the NIV, and i can find verses easier too, according to where i remember underlining something, etc -- so i wind up still using the old, falling-apart bible lol.

i don't think there's anything wrong either with marking up a Bible completely, or with respecting it so much you wouldn't dare. it is after all, a paper copy of an eternal Word - so i don't think you should get too wound up over taking a highlighter to it, and also, it is the word of God - so i understand completely having respect for it too. as for me, apparently i feel both ways about it at the same time! ha!

honestly tho i think that old NIV is one day going to completely lose its binding, and after i take the first step of underlining something in my newer KJV, it will probably just steamroll from there.
 
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Tintin said:
I plan on getting the HCSB Apologetics Bible and the ESV Study Bible in the next few years.
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i've been drawn to reading the HCSB a lot online in the last year or two. i really like it - seems to be quite literal. and a couple people i know have ESV study bibles they highly recommend :)
 
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Gr8grace

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John146 said:
May I ask why some of you use so many different versions of the Bible? Are not any of them trustworthy? How do you come to the conclusion which one is right? Which ever one appeals to you?
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The translators of the KJV themselves told the readers to use every translation available to understand the more complicated parts of the scriptures.
 
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Txroads said:
With all the discussions we have in here I've got real curious to hear what Bibles y'all have and use..... I've got three that I think are great and wouldn't trade them for anything.... One is The Nelson Study Bible NKJV-1997; Life in the Spirit Study Bible NIV-2003; Life Principles Study Bible Charles Stanley NKJV-2009....so what about y'all?
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I still use the version my church gave me when I was in Sunday school as a boy, the Revised Standard Version.
 
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As someone here a while ago brilliantly said, 'the best translation is the one you read“.
 
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