What version and Bible do you use, Why?

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by Sam

1 1599 Geneva Bible
2 King James Version, of course, but I also have a
1611 version in that older style of English than the
current KJV and it even includes the Apocrypha
3 Douay Version (Roman Catholic) which goes back to
1609
4 Septuagint, OT only, from 1851
5 The Bible, A New Translation by James Moffatt 1922
6 Syriac Peshitta from 1933
7 The Emphatic Diaglott, NT only, from 1942
8 Revised Standard Version, NT only, from the 1950’s
9 New Testament in Modern English (Phillips) from 1958
10 New English Bible, NT 1961, OT 1970
11 An Expanded Translation, NT only, from 1961
12 The Amplified Bible, NT in 1958 and OT in 1962
13 Jerusalem Bible from 1966
14 The Living Bible from 1971
15 New American Standard Bible from 1971
16 New International Version from 1978
17 New King James Version from 1979
18 New World Translation (JW) from 1984
19 New Century Version, NT only, from 1987
20 New Revised Standard Version from 1989
21 The Message, NT only, from 1993
22 Contemporary English Version, NT only, from 1995
23 New Living Translation from 1996
24 Complete Jewish Bible from 1998
25 International Standard Version, NT only, from 1999
26 Complete Apostles’ Bible, from 2003
27 The Apostolic Bible Polyglot from 1996

You know how they say there are no original manuscripts left? I bet if you looked hard, you could find a few in your library, Sam!