In UK English, there’s a 3rd Edition of the OT with a 6th Edition NT out now, of the Good News Translation, see:
christianforums.com/t7707894/ … it’s a pretty good version. As far as I know the 3rd Edition doesn’t have the Deuterocanonicals though.
For the Deuterocanonicals I recommend the 1989 Revised English Bible, abbreviated REB. You can find it at Amazon if You search for REB Apocrypha. When You buy at
When buying books from Amazon, enter through the link in the right pane on this page:
csntm.org/ … then a portion of Your purchase benefits The Center for the Study of the New Testament Manuscripts without charge for You! REB is also good for the Pauline epistles. Search Classic Bible Series The New Testament Epistles Early Christian Wisdom on Amazon to find a cheap paperback copy that has the Pauline Epistles and Acts from REB, the Johannine Epistles from NJB and the rest of the Epistles of the NT from the NRSV.
REB is also available in Logos:
logos.com/product/24537/the-revised-english-bible-with-the-apocrypha
You can discuss the Old Testaments of these versions in a thread:
christianforums.com/t7653202/
Good versions for Ro are the 2004 Good News Translation 3rd Edition UK English Edition and Paideia: search Romans paideia.
For Mt 1:18-16:1, the Catholic Public Domain Version is pretty good. It can be found both on the internet for free, and as printed matter. If You want only a portion of the Bible in CPDV, a good idea is to buy only the volume(s) You want from the 6-volume Bible. (Of course it also comes as a 1-volume printed Bible.)
I use the Douay-Rheims and the Vulgate for Mt 25:1.
If You want to correct older NT:s so that they align with the 1992 Nestle-Aland 27th Edition Greek text, You can buy the 2009 Comprehensive New Testament - it’s entirely in English.
I would prefer the CTS New Catholic Bible over the NJB. I don’t think the NJB is especially good, personally I use the Jerusalem Bible.
The NRSV is somewhat good, but since You are looking for options I’m not going to say that You
should use it. Personally I compare with it, but I’ve never used is at my main Bible.
I don’t use study Bibles. For discussing commentaries, go to:
christianforums.com/t7541241 … and bump it!
I use many different Bibles. Some of them I have only as printed matter, some only in Logos. And for example the GNT-CE and NABRE both as printed matter and in Logos. I use the 1986 RNAB NT very little, but I use the 2010 NABRE OT somewhat much, although rarely for the most important parts of the OT.
Other versions that I compare with, are for example the 1995 NASU, the 2005 NET 1st Edition, the latter incorporates the findings from cave 4 at Qumran which are for example significant for one of the Historical Books in the Bible (there is a book in mid-level protestant Logos base-packages and probably in the higher Catholic (Verbum) Logos base-packages that quickly says for which chapters in the Bible there’s manuscripts from which cave, PM if You are intrested and I’ll send You the title!). For devotional reading I often use the 1941-1961 Confraternity Version.
For a quick read of the Gospels or Minor Prophets, I often use the 2004 Good News Translation 3rd Edition UK English Edition (it’s without pictures). For quick reading of some other OT books I often use my 1992 Good News Translation Catholic Edition 2nd Edition with colour print drawings by Annie Valoton.
For book introductions, I mostly use the end-of-2011 Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible. A thread about it:
christianforums.com/t7671654/
I don’t use the ESV at all, and not such versions as NIV, God’s Word, KJV.
