I would really like to know the Bible most used by forum users. I wish we had a poll. That would be cool.
Peace, Shawn!
ESV then NA27 then LEB
Philippians 4: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........
YLT for me. If there's an issue in the greek, YLT quite happily steps into the quagmire and takes a shot at it. He's represents the summation of 2000 years of copyists trying to get it to work.
"God will save his fallen angels and their broken wings He'll mend."
If I want beauty I read the old KJV, if I want literal, I like NAS77, Darby, or YLT. If I'm having a hard time grasping the over all meaning of a passage I read NLT. (Besides studying the original language)
#1 for me is probably NAS77.
Bibel -82
"The Christian way of life isn't so much an assignment to be performed, as a gift to be received." Wilfrid Stinissen
Mac Pro OS 10.9.
1.NKJV,2. ESV,3. NIV
ESV->NKJV->NIV
ENGLISH: NIV ESV NLT NET
GREEK: NA27 LEXHAM LXX
HEBREW: BHS
OTHER:CHINESE BIBLE
2 Peter 3:18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
ESV, NASB, LEB, NET
TNIV - and looking forward to the updated 2010 NIV, which combines the best of both the existing NIV and the TNIV.
The MSG Bible! No, everyone knows MSG isnt good for you.
NAS, NKJV, LEB, NCV, NIV, NLT
Dell Latitude E6500, Intel Core 2 Duo, T9550 @ 2.66GHz, 771 MHz, 4 GB of Ram, Win 7 Home Premie 64bit
ESV, NASB, NKJV, KJV.
Soli Deo Gloria,
Randy
Soli Deo Gloria
NRSV - It's generally the preferred text for worship in mainline denominations, and various editions (either Harper Collins or New Oxford Annotated) have been the standard texts in all of my college and seminary coursework.
ESV - Because, honestly, I don't find a lot of significant difference between ESV and NRSV. I could happily swap one for the other. The Lexham markup which was applied to the ESV is useful.
LEB - This one's growing on me quite a bit! I think it serves its purpose of being a very literal translation quite well.
NLT - I've enjoyed this text for casual reading.
The Message - Sometimes Peterson's interpretations are very good, and sometimes he's off on some flight of fancy, only tenuously connected to the underlying text. Still, this translation more than most others helps me see the words of scripture in a fresh light, and it's valuable for that reason. I try to approach it more as a commentary or midrash on the text than as scripture in itself.
Shawn Drewett: I would really like to know the Bible most used by forum users. I wish we had a poll. That would be cool.
Since our pew Bibles are NIV, I spend most of my time in the NIV. I also have open in my current layout the ESV, the LEB, the Message, the NA27, LGNTI, Lexham LXX, and the LHI.
Help links: WIKI; Logos 6 FAQ. (Phil. 2:14, NIV)
NKJV, ESV, NAS, NIV - Anglicised,HCSB
Dell, studio XPS 7100, Ram 8GB, 64 - bit Operating System, AMD Phenom(mt) IIX6 1055T Processor 2.80 GHZ
1- NLT
2 - NIV
3 - ESV
Jerry
iMac (2019 model), 3Ghz 6 Core Intel i5, 16gb Ram, Radeon Pro Graphics. 500GB SSD.
ESV
NAS
I always have open the above two plus NIV, NET, HCSB, NLT, and KJV 1900, more for comparison than to study from.
Pastor, North Park Baptist Church
Bridgeport, CT USA
(waiting until Rosie has the online survey on Survey Monkey finished and posted...)