It's the version I use.
I highly recommend it.
Thanks. I do prefer New King James Version. I’d like to hear about study Bibles too.
Look for one that will show you Jesus in all of Scripture.
I like the ESV and Reformatoon study Bibles.
Find it at theword.net.
If you want a print bible, the Scofield reference is a long-standing popular one, with lots of explanatory footnotes.
The best price for it would probably be at ScriptureTruthBookCompany.com.
If you want any suggestions on other stuff, don't hestitate to email me in a private reply.
Agree.
To add to that, the Wuest translation uses the actual sense of the Greek language... but of course it is just the NT. Young’s also is a literal translation from Greek.
And despite the claims of the advocates of modern versions, whether of literal equivalent, dynamic equivalency, or just plain paraphrase like TEV, I believe that the King James/Authorized Version translation is still the most reliable English translation available, especially when supplementwed by the work of commentators whos analyses are freely available through eSword or other published volumes.
A good one-volume study Bible is the Thompson Chain-Reference KJV Bible (click here) that has been around and critiqued by fine Bible scholars for over a century.
The chief codex behind Westcott's text was the one discovered in the burn barrel of the St Catherine's Monastery down in the Sinai. Their valuation of this "oldest" version was that its preservation can be ascribed to the shelving of it for centuries because of its poorness of faithfulness in reproduction of even earlier manuscripts.
This was also true of many scrolls of the Dead Sea find, and this fact about those scrolls was communicated to me by Dr. Lawrence Schiffman, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls curators, in a personal conversation with him in his visit to Philadelphia College of the Bible, back in the 1990s.
No one who wants to really use a (fallible) translation of the Bible help guide his/her life cannot get very far without (a) having the Indwelling Holy Spirit to guide, and (b) willing to learn something of Greek and the discipline of its translation and interpretation, to begin to understand the mind of a first-century follower of The Christ.
Study of the Bible for this purpose is not a boot-strapping operation. The newborn babe in Christ needs to be discipled by (a) legitimately mature Christian(s) through the process of progressively applied holiness. A good study Bible may help, but it by itself is not sufficient. Modern versions will inherently lead the reader astray through their mistranslations and/or applications, as I have seen in a lifetime of observing the results in their adoption by individuals and whole denominations--the Methodists for one (I am 83, and raised as a Methodist PK, not truly saved until age 34 apart from the Wesleyan culture).
Actually, no. Here is what one of the NASV's sorrowfully repentant contributors has to say about its value (a long excerpt from the non-copyrighted page of "The Sole Authority of the King James Bible and the Corruptions in the Modern Versions"):
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lf you doubt the truth of this statement, consider the following quote from Dr. Frank Logsdon, the theologian and Bible scholar who assisted in the development of the New American Standard Version (NASV):
"l must under God renounce every attachment to the New American Standard Version. I'm afraid I’m in trouble with the Lord... We laid the groundwork; I wrote the format; I helped interview some of the translators; I wrote the preface. I’m in trouble; I can’t refute these arguments; its wrong, frighteningly wrong, and what am I going to do about it.The critical difference between the Authorized King James Bible (KJB) and the modern perversions is in the Greek text from which the New Testament was translated.
“When questions began to reach me at first I was quite offended... I used to laugh with others. However; in attempting to answer, I began to sense that something was not right with the New American Standard Version. I can no longer ignore these criticisms I am hearing and I can't refute them...the deletions are absolutely frightening... there are so many... Are we so naive that we do not suspect Satanic deception in all of this?
"Upon investigation, I wrote my very dear friend, Mr. Lockman, explaining that I was forced to renounce all attachment to the NASV. The product is grievous to my heart and helps to complicate matters in these already troublous times... I don’t want anything to do with it. The finest leaders we have today... haven't gone into it [(corrupted Greek text)] just as I hadn’t gone into it... that's how easily one can be deceived". ...“[Y]ou can say the Authorized Version [KJB] is absolutely correct. How correct? 100% correct!... I believe the Spirit of God led the translators of the Authorized Version. If you must stand against everyone else, stand."
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