Protestants: What other Bible Translations do you use?

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To My Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I know you use either the King James Bible and the NIV Bible. I like to know what other translation you used.

I know the Catholics have the New American Bible, the New Jerusalem Bible, the Revised Standard Version, the New RSV Bible, and the RSV- SCE, not to mention the Latin Vulgate.
 
Actually I use the New American Standard Bible primarily and sometime the New King James Version. I rarely use the King James Version now. Actually I have 21 versions, including 5 Catholic versions.
 
SyCarl said:
Actually I use the New American Standard Bible primarily and sometime the New King James Version. I rarely use the King James Version now. Actually I have 21 versions, including 5 Catholic versions.
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What are all the translations you have?
 
Wycliff’s New Testament
Tyndale’s New Testament
The Geneva Bible
The Douhay Rheims
King James Version
Emphasized Bible
Amplified Bible
New International Version
Contemporary English Version
American Standard Version
English Standard Version
Revised Standard Version
New American Bible
Resived Standard Version -Catholic Edition
New King James Version
New Jerusalem Bible
Good News Bible with Deutercanonicals
New Living Translation
The Message
New American Standard Bible
Holman Christian Standard Bible
New Revised Standard Version
New Century Version

Those are the ones I have hard copies of which is 23 instead of 21. I have a bunch more through a free program e-Sword. I am trying to find a copy of the original Douhay-Rheims, before it was revised by Bishop Calloner.
 
I too, have eSword. It’s really the only way I do bible study these days. I have installed every free translation available from the eSword site, plus a couple of others (something like 80 translations total). The ones that I use the most are the Amplified Bible and the King James Version (due to it having strong’s numbers). I consult 4 or 5 others now and then, but I find myself doing more analysis based on individual Greek word meanings these days.
 
SyCarl said:
Wycliff’s New Testament
Tyndale’s New Testament
The Geneva Bible
The Douhay Rheims
King James Version
Emphasized Bible
Amplified Bible
New International Version
Contemporary English Version
American Standard Version
English Standard Version
Revised Standard Version
New American Bible
Resived Standard Version -Catholic Edition
New King James Version
New Jerusalem Bible
Good News Bible with Deutercanonicals
New Living Translation
The Message
New American Standard Bible
Holman Christian Standard Bible
New Revised Standard Version
New Century Version

Those are the ones I have hard copies of which is 23 instead of 21. I have a bunch more through a free program e-Sword. I am trying to find a copy of the original Douhay-Rheims, before it was revised by Bishop Calloner.
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Wow, that’s great you have all those translations. I have:
RSV-CE
RSV (New Oxford Bible with Apocrypha)
Douay-Rheims
NAB
NASB
KJV (one with Apocrypha, one without, plus the 1611 edition)
NEB
ESV
The Message
NRSV (Oxford Study Bible with Apocrypha)

Those are the one’s I have hard copies of. I am looking for a JB and NJB right now. I also have several other translations that I downloaded from e-Sword as well.
 
PC_Master said:
I too, have eSword. It’s really the only way I do bible study these days. I have installed every free translation available from the eSword site, plus a couple of others (something like 80 translations total). The ones that I use the most are the Amplified Bible and the King James Version (due to it having strong’s numbers). I consult 4 or 5 others now and then, but I find myself doing more analysis based on individual Greek word meanings these days.
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The NASB on e-Sword also has the Strong’s numbers. It is not free, though. I think it costs $19.95. I downloaded the NASB on e-Sword.
 
My last Bible I bought as a Baptist is the Life Application Study Bible. It’s a handsome burgundy study Bible with copious footnotes. Zondervan NIV
 
Brian_C said:
My last Bible I bought as a Baptist is the Life Application Study Bible. It’s a handsome burgundy study Bible with copious footnotes. Zondervan NIV
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Wow, that’s interesting. I do not know any Baptists that like the NIV. The Baptists I know like KJV or NASB.
 
Well, you know, I’m from Louisiana. We had Catholics, Methodists, and Episcopalians right down the street. The older generation was KJV but we also had the then-future first head of Baylor’s seminary (who also later officiated my wedding) as a pastor and he was not so high on the KJV. He was pushed out in good ol’ Baptist fashion when the conservatives wanted less of an intellectual lecturer and more of a fire and brimstone preacher. No prob for him since he landed first at Baylor and is now provost at Samford.😃 I often wonder what he’d think about me being Catholic and knowing the struggles going on within the SBC, he’d probably be happy.😃
 
do all king james version are the same? Holy Saint Jude, Apostle and Martyr, Great in virtue and rich in miracles, Near kinsman of Jesus Christ, Faithful intercessor of all Who invoke your special patronage in time of need. To you I have recourse from the depths of my heart And humbly beg to whom God has given such great power To come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition, In return I promise to make your name known And cause you to be invoked. Saint Jude pray for me and all those who invoke your aid. Amen." 🙂
 
mayra_hart said:
do all king james version are the same?
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No. The KJV that most people are familiar with was actually revised in 1769 by Benjamin Blayney. It differs from the original 1611 edition because the language is less archaic than in the 1611 edition. Here’s an example. From the 1769 KJV:
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
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Here are the same verses from the 1611 KJV:
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the Heauen, and the Earth.
Gen 1:2 And the earth was without forme, and voyd, and darkenesse was vpon the face of the deepe: and the Spirit of God mooued vpon the face of the waters.
Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God diuided the light from the darkenesse.
Gen 1:5 And God called the light, Day, and the darknesse he called Night: and the euening and the morning were the first day.
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Also, some KJV’s contain the Apocrypha (what we Catholics call the Deuterocanonicals) and others do not. The 1611 edition had the Apocrypha.
 
lak611 said:
Wow, that’s interesting. I do not know any Baptists that like the NIV. The Baptists I know like KJV or NASB.
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Besides, it’s the “Today’s NIV” that the SBC condemned. Good ol’ gender-neutral language.
 
thank you for your respond. if you said that the version differ how reliable are this different versions. as compare with the catholic bibles versions. iam catholic an i owned a few bibles an i have a kjv that is in a box a gift from a baptist that almost crucified me one morning. i have never open it. i wonder why? well thank you for your help. Holy Saint Jude, Apostle and Martyr, Great in virtue and rich in miracles, Near kinsman of Jesus Christ, Faithful intercessor of all Who invoke your special patronage in time of need. To you I have recourse from the depths of my heart And humbly beg to whom God has given such great power To come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition, In return I promise to make your name known And cause you to be invoked. Saint Jude pray for me and all those who invoke your aid. Amen." 🙂
 
Mannyfit75 said:
To My Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I know you use either the King James Bible and the NIV Bible. I like to know what other translation you used.

I know the Catholics have the New American Bible, the New Jerusalem Bible, the Revised Standard Version, the New RSV Bible, and the RSV- SCE, not to mention the Latin Vulgate.
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Many Protestants use either the RSV or the NRSV. Many people are also fond of paraphrases such as the Living Bible or the Message.

Typically the KJV is used by fundamentalists, the NIV by more moderate evangelicals, the RSV by more old-fashioned “mainline” Protestants, and the NRSV by most contemporary mainline Protestants. I myself use either the KJV or the NRSV as a rule, but I like the RSV as well (except for its silly use of “thou” when addressing God). I strongly dislike the NIV and rarely use it.

Another interesting modern translation is the NEB, a British translation from the sixties (C. S. Lewis was a consultant, I believe). I was taught growing up that it was a “liberal” translation, but I rather like it on the whole (though it has the same falsely reverent use of “thou” as the RSV).

I’m not really a big fan of the NRSV (its commitment to gender neutrality leads to some bad translation, for one thing), but it’s commonly used both by Episcopalians and by academics, and since I’m an Episcopalian academic I use it quite frequently.

I also sometimes use the NAB, but I’m not a big fan of it either. Actually for the NT I prefer to read the original Greek on the whole if I’m just reading to myself; I sometimes read the LXX for the OT but don’t know Hebrew well enough to use it comfortably for devotional purposes (when I read it it takes me a very long time and is a lot of work). I occasionally use the Vulgate devotionally but not too often any more.

Edwin
 
Mannyfit75 said:
To My Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I know you use either the King James Bible and the NIV Bible. I like to know what other translation you used.

I know the Catholics have the New American Bible, the New Jerusalem Bible, the Revised Standard Version, the New RSV Bible, and the RSV- SCE, not to mention the Latin Vulgate.
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Many Protestants use either the RSV or the NRSV. Many people are also fond of paraphrases such as the Living Bible or the Message.

Typically the KJV is used by fundamentalists, the NIV by more moderate evangelicals, the RSV by more old-fashioned “mainline” Protestants, and the NRSV by most contemporary mainline Protestants. I myself use either the KJV or the NRSV as a rule, but I like the RSV as well (except for its silly use of “thou” when addressing God). I strongly dislike the NIV and rarely use it.

Another interesting modern translation is the NEB, a British translation from the sixties (C. S. Lewis was a consultant, I believe). I was taught growing up that it was a “liberal” translation, but I rather like it on the whole (though it has the same falsely reverent use of “thou” as the RSV).

I’m not really a big fan of the NRSV (its commitment to gender neutrality leads to some bad translation, for one thing), but it’s commonly used both by Episcopalians and by academics, and since I’m an Episcopalian academic I use it quite frequently.

I also sometimes use the NAB, but I’m not a big fan of it either. Actually for the NT I prefer to read the original Greek on the whole if I’m just reading to myself; I sometimes read the LXX for the OT but don’t know Hebrew well enough to use it comfortably for devotional purposes (when I read it it takes me a very long time and is a lot of work). I occasionally use the Vulgate devotionally but not too often any more.

Edwin
 
Contarini said:
Another interesting modern translation is the NEB, a British translation from the sixties (C. S. Lewis was a consultant, I believe). I was taught growing up that it was a “liberal” translation, but I rather like it on the whole (though it has the same falsely reverent use of “thou” as the RSV).
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I like the NEB also. I don’t think too many people from the US are familiar with it. Mine is published by Cambridge and printed in England.
 
I have a lot of translations that I use, but my favorites are the Douay Rheims (Challoner), and the RSV-CE(2nd edition) which I find are the best for both reading & study.
I also own: RSV, NRSV, NEB, NAB, Revised English Bible, Moffatt, KJV, NKJV in the Nelson Study Bible edition, NASB, NIV,Living Bible, New Living Translation, The Message (New Testamnet only), JB Phillipps’ New Testamnet, Jerusalem Bible, New Jerusalem Bible, Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society), Good News/Today’s English, and Everett Fox’s translation: The Five Books of Moses. That;'s in English.
I have my great-grandmother’s Dutch/Netherlandic Bible that she brought with her when my great-grandparents came to the USA in the 19th Century, and a Dutch New Testament that is the equivalent of the Good News/Today’s English.
In Latin, I have a print copy of Theodore Beza’s Latin New Testament & Psalms (1642), and I have the Latin Vulgate bookmarked at drbo.org/lvb/
I think that’s all…Well, there are some duplicates of some of those. I have other family Bibles (most of them KJV), & a couple of other Bibles with some special study apparatus…many of which I rarely if ever use any more.
My stepfather used to look around at all the Bibles that Mama & I had, and say that,😉 “If all it took to get to Heaven was to own Bibles, you two could get away with murder”…😃

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