Your Favorite Bible.

Scott Hutchinson · #1 07-22-2009, 12:53 PM

What is your favorite bible that you use ?
Almost everybody has a bible that is their favorite,it might be all worn out looking and the pages are falling out,but it just feels right and other bibles just don't seem so comfortable.

What is your favorite bible ?

Scott Hutchinson · #2 07-22-2009, 01:13 PM

I have Holman made KJV with the index tabs and center column references that I dearly love.

U376977 · #3 07-22-2009, 01:15 PM

I asked this a long time ago and a lot of people said ESV. I use a KJV Hebrew-Greek key study bible.

Scott Hutchinson · #4 07-22-2009, 01:21 PM

What one is your favorite that you read at home all the time,or the one you take with you with you when you go to meetings and such ?

KWSS1976 · #5 07-22-2009, 01:32 PM

I have one with pictures of the buildings and streets it talks of in scripture pretty cool I like just going through it looking at the pictures

SeekingOne · #6 07-22-2009, 01:44 PM

My favorite bible for use at home is the Narrated Bible. It is a chronological Bible and helps me make sense of the order of things, even though I know they are guessing on some things. It doesn't bother me they are guessing, because not only is every body else guessing, I wouldn't be able to make heads or tails of some things to even make a guess. LOL

When they quote something that has been repeated elsewhere in scripture, they make the reference they are directly quoting in bold and then list the other places that scripture or event is used.

Sometimes they don't feel they can justify making one reference so they just list both of them one after the other. I love reading this Bible. I also have the One Year Bible by the same publisher (Harvest House I think) that takes you through the Bible in a year with daily readings.

My other favorite Bible is the Jewish Bible, I think it is called. It is written from a Jewish perspective and sometimes the way it is worded is more like plain English for me. If I am looking up something for theological purposes, I use about 6 or 7 translations including the KJV to see how others interpreted it. (Remember, I am the one that feels that God knew we would read what He wrote thousands of years later and didn't expect we should need others to interpret the important stuff though.)

My other favorite is the Student Study Bible, I take either it or the Jewish Bible with me to services or Bible studies.

deltaguitar · #7 07-22-2009, 01:49 PM

I have NIV, KJV, The Message, and the NLT. I like them all. I am probably going to get an ESV because that is what all the Reformed guys like. ;-)

berkeley · #8 07-22-2009, 02:15 PM

I love to read the historical books ( Kings, Samuel, etc ) in the NLT.

Sam · #9 07-22-2009, 10:30 PM

Over the years I've used different Bibles.

When I came to Cincinnati in 1957 our pastor and many of the men in the church had Thompson Chain Bibles. So I got a Thompson and used it for several years until it became practically unusable. Then I went to a Scofield. I had a loose leaf Scofield, probably the last one available here. Several years ago that wore out. For a few years I used the CJB (Complete Jewish Bible) plus The Contemporary Parallel New Testament which has 8 different translations. This meant I had two Bibles but since I only carried one with me I carried the CJB which has both Old and New Testaments. The CJB has worn out so for a while I used The Spirit Filled Life Bible which is NKJV. Around the first of this year I bought a new Thompson. It is their Special Centennial Edition with a leather lined cover (not a mixture of paper and leather like they use in others) and it is the KJV. I'm in the process of moving some of my notes into it. That will probably take a couple of years. I've always marked up my Bibles. When I switch Bibles I always miss those notes, references, etc. I've marked up over the years.

Marking Bibles is Scriptural, you know. Read Jeremiah 23:18
"For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD,
and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath
MARKED his word and heard it?

Sam · #10 07-22-2009, 10:32 PM

KJV has to be my all time favorite.

I have lots of different translations and versions but in my mind I compare them with the KJV.

I like the NKJV and if Thompson had one I would have bought it but it wasn't available. For several years I used a NKJV in lunch time Bible Studies while I was working at General Electric. The reason I like he NKJV is because it is so much like the KJV.

One time I was in a small group and the person next to me was reading something from the book of Isaiah. I realized it wasn't the KJV so I looked over at his Bible to see if it said what version it was. I was surprised when I saw that he was reading from a Hebrew Bible and translating it into English as he read. I later found out he was an expert in Semitic languages and was an instructor at Hebrew Union College here in Cincinnati. Later he was on staff at the Vineyard and taught a few classes. I always tried to get in on his classes if I could. One time he told us that the KJV is the closest to the Hebrew/Masoretic text. He later went to Israel as a missionary working with Jews and Arabs. After he was expelled from the country he became an Israeli citizen so they could not expel him when he went back. Last I heard he was teaching in Israel and working with refugees from Darfur plus working with Jews and Arabs. Since he can speak Hebrew and Arabic I guess he gets along well with them.