What is your favorite Bible translation?

[IsmailaGodHasHeard]

What is your favorite Bible translation? Mine is the New American Standard Bible. I love it because it is very literal and I believe that it is very readable for a translation that is so literal.

 

[JacobEzra.]

I like the usccb NAB. I also like the Douy-Rheims, and the New Jerusalem.

 

[SageTree]

for study, NRSV.

 

[IsmailaGodHasHeard]

Rock on. I like the NRSV too when I want read the Apocrypha.

 

[chongjasmine]

I like the old NIV and the ESV.

 

[Jason0047]

I believe the King James to be the perfect Word of God for our day. I do read other translations so as to update the language sometimes. But they are not my final word of authority, though. Why? Because most of them have watered down the Word of God and placed the name of the devil within them, etc.

I look at reading the Modern Translations as if I am sifting thru the dirt to get to the gold (i.e. so that it matches up with the KJV and the original Hebrew and Greek).

 

[ChrisH]

I have always liked the Douy-Rheims and the ESV version

 

[Aganjuzu]

the greedy priest translation

 

[rusra02]

What is your favorite Bible translation? Mine is the New American Standard Bible. I love it because it is very literal and I believe that it is very readable for a translation that is so literal.

Glad you asked. Mine is the 2013 revision of the New World Translation, available free at jw.org as a PDF. I think it is an absolutely wonderful translation. They also have a free app called JW Library that allows you to click on a verse and compare 5 translations, including the original Greek in the Christian Greek Scriptures. How cool is that!

 

[BilliardsBall]

NASB and NKJV are formal translations and beautiful translations.

NIV is more "stinky" IMHO.