So What Bible Version Do You Use Or Recommend?

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For myself I use a NABRE (leather bound) for daily devotional reading, and for serious study I have around 10 versions in my Verbum program and I typically use the NASB.
 
I usually start with the NABRE. I then cross-reference several different versions using a Bible app and the Haydock online.
 
My go to Bible is the RSV-2CE. I also will refer to the NABRE when I want to see what would most likely be the wording at Mass. Plus, I use the RSV-CE too.

If I’ve debating with Protestants, I will usually quote the King James.
 
angel12 said:
I like the RSV-CE2, especially the Didache Bible.
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In case anyone is looking for the Didache Bible: you can find it here:

https://www.theologicalforum.org/Category/124/Bibles

NOTE: there are two different ones.
  1. The NABRE (with the traditional NABRE notes plus references to the Catechism)
  2. the RSV-2CE with references to the Catechism
BTW - the translation abbreviation is RSV-2CE, not RSV-CE2 (in case people can’t find it), and this is very different from the NRSV-CE
 
I like the New American Bible, St. Joseph Edition.

It matches the daily mass readings (i.e – IS the version used).

It comes with footnotes and callouts that reference other Bible passages as one reads along (kind of a running Bible Concordance if you will) on each page … plus a Doctrinal Bible Index after the end of Revelations … to look up, say, Purgatory … temporary punishment for purification prior to fully entering God’s presence in heaven.

www.usccb Books of the Bible.
Readings of the Day (liturgy)

Audios of above are in NAB St. Joseph Edition word for word. The USCCB site also has daily video homilies of short duration for each liturgy.
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NIV, King James Version, easiest to read: Good News Translation
 
I use the KJV and the ESV. I recommend both of them, but I prefer the ESV because it doesn’t have many archaic words.
 
Saxum said:
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drac16:
I use the KJV and the ESV. I recommend both of them, but I prefer the ESV because it doesn’t have many archaic words.
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But both translations are missing the deuterocanonical books.
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I know. I don’t view those books as inspired anyway. I’m not a catholic.
 
drac16 said:
I know. I don’t view those books as inspired anyway. I’m not a catholic.
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Oh right. Even without the apocrypha, they’re good translations. I hope they release a Catholic edition of the ESV one day.
 
The problem is the ESV is published by Crossway, which is an Evangelical publisher. Very little chance they’d publish a version for the hated Catholics.
 
deMontfort said:
Very little chance they’d publish a version for the hated Catholics.
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I heard through the internet grapevine that a Catholic edition was being considered but I don’t know anything specific. It would be welcomed but it’s not essential; I have all I need in the Douay for its Elizabethan style, the Knox for its literary beauty and the RSV 2CE for study.
 
FWIW there’s no chance Lockman will publish a Catholic version of the NASB either. There’s a better chance TAN will do a Catholic version of the NKJV since TAN already does Catholic books anyway.
 
Like others, I use several versions depending on the purpose or how a particular passage sounds to my heart or my view of Catholic theology. But I want to give a plug for:
  1. The Complete NIV Audio Bible: Read by David Suchet.
I have listened to many audio versions, this is the best by far. I hear more in “Poirot’s” version than any other.
  1. Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton.
This is an English translation the Greek Old Testament. “Of the approximately 300 Old Testament quotes in the New Testament, approximately 2/3 of them came from the Septuagint.” SEPTUAGINT QUOTES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT - Scripture Catholic
 
Saxum said:
But both translations are missing the deuterocanonical books.
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Yes, but the ESV is a lovely translation.
A Catholic version has been approved by the bishops of India, so I hold out hope that there will someday be one released here.
 
angel12 said:
A Catholic version has been approved by the bishops of India, so I hold out hope that there will someday be one released here.
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Thanks for sharing. In one of my previous posts, I wrote that I’d heard something about this. I hope the Catholic ESV will become more widespread. I’ll purchase a copy as soon as it becomes available since I’m a Bible fanatic.
 
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