Which version of the Bible are you most familiar with?

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• Salix Babylonika

  2015-09-03 16:28:20

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

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

  
  

  I'd have to check.
• Aliroz

  2015-09-03 16:35:18

  ...And even when your hope is gone

  move along, move along, just to make it through

  (2015 self)

  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

  2015-09-03 16:44:57

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  English Standard Version.
• Klinotaxis

  2015-09-03 16:45:52

  kill living beings
  

  kjv
• Imipolex G

  2015-09-03 16:48:04

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  I prefer the KJV
  
• Alduin

  2015-09-03 17:26:40

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

  2015-09-03 17:33:39 edited 2015-09-03 18:11:00

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

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

  2015-09-03 17:46:59 edited 2015-09-03 19:37:05

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  MTV is terrible, they don't even play music anymore
  
  yeah, just go and fix it you Orwellian editor
  
• Fossilmaiden

  2015-09-03 17:56:33

  Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  

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

  2015-09-03 19:34:06

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  some updated kjv, and then a bit of niv
• buttercrispy

  2015-09-03 20:25:36

  NIV and whatever catholic edition was popular in 1998
• Tre

  2015-09-03 20:59:28

  
  

  KJV, though if I had to read anything I'd use the NKJV out of preference for the modernized text.
• lee4hmz

  2015-09-03 21:19:00

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  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

  2015-09-04 00:45:59

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  GNB
  
• Bee

  2015-09-04 00:58:23 edited 2015-09-04 00:58:37

  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

  2015-09-04 01:17:55

  My dreams exceed my real life

  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

  2015-09-04 01:20:22

  kill living beings
  

  but what translation!!
  
• Odradek

  2015-09-04 01:22:05

  My dreams exceed my real life

  KJV
• Bee

  2015-09-04 01:42:01

  Yep, if any of them did...
• Corvina

  2015-09-04 14:56:28 edited 2015-09-04 14:58:36

  Vampire Lady of Corvidia
  
  (The other Jane)
  

  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

  2015-09-04 17:47:56

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