Which version of the Bible are you most familiar with?

Alduin

Mine's the King James Version, out of personal preference.

Salix Babylonika

I believe my family bible is a slightly older Catholic printing?

I'd have to check.

Aliroz

KJV, baby.

Taught to read on it, its phrases are everywhere in our language (From time to time, a fly in the ointment bites the dust by the skin of his teeth).

Of course, I love all bibles and it's really neat to see other versions of the verses I love so well; but it's the KJV that I was raised on.

MetaFour

English Standard Version.

Klinotaxis

kjv

Imipolex G

I prefer the KJV

Alduin

Most people use the ISV but I like the KJV better. The prose is so...flowery, it's gorgeous.

Yarrun XIX

Standard at my church is NKJV, though KJV is hardly disliked.

Imipolex G

MTV is terrible, they don't even play music anymore

yeah, just go and fix it you Orwellian editor

Fossilmaiden

KJV, since it's the standard for the Anglican church (which generally calls it the Authorised Version/AV).

Calica

some updated kjv, and then a bit of niv

buttercrispy

NIV and whatever catholic edition was popular in 1998

Tre

KJV, though if I had to read anything I'd use the NKJV out of preference for the modernized text.

lee4hmz

I grew up on the RSV and the LDS-annotated KJV, so those are what I'm familiar with. I didn't really get the NIV because our Methodist churches didn't use it back in the early 1980s.

Tachyon

GNB

Bee

NRSV.

Most of my family is probably more familiar with the KJVs floating around the house, despite being Catholic.  I'm pretty sure my grandmother hasn't even figured out we're supposed to consider it heretical.

Odradek

Odradek said:

I need a bible for my History and The Bible class, and my mom gave me her old bible that her mom gave her today.

About ten minutes after she left the room, she called me to tell me when she was sixteen or seventeen, she tried to find a passage in the Bible that let her have pre-marital sex, and that's why odd passages might be highlighted.

Klinotaxis

but what translation!!

Odradek

KJV

Bee

Yep, if any of them did...

Corvina

I think we own a NIV (for what reason I know not; my parents are Hindus and I'm an atheist). But whenever I decide to read some, I look at an online KJV, because really, if I'm reading for literary enjoyment, that's the one to go for

buttercrispy

now that I'm back upstairs, the edition i use most often is the NRSV Catholic Edition