English Bible Translations

 

Where did the Bible come from?

Bible Translations Overview

Commentary Recommendations

Top Book Recommendations (Book Stores)

  1. The Bible
  2. Pillars of Truth for Baptist Churches
  3. The Doctrines of Grace (Presbyterian Authors, excellent for all). (Steven Lawson’s Grace Video Series)
  4. Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary

History of the Bible

History of the English Bible

Enduring Word Traveling Museum

Museum of the Bible

Why it’s Hard to Understand

The Documentary Hypothesis Lie

Literal Translations

  1. King James Version
  2. New King James Version
  3. The Modernized Geneva Bible
    • Uniquely bound in different volumes for each book of the Bible.  The Bible the KJV depended on and the Bible of the reformation.
  4. Legacy Standard Bible
  5. ESV
  6. Christian Standard Bible
  7. New English Translation (A newer translation we are still evaluating, as many are.  For now, we would recommend this as a supplement to one of the above)

Thought for Thought Translations

Some people use these their entire lives, which is fine.  We recommend moving up from thought for thought to literal translations noted above to enable exegesis of the Bible.

  1. NIV –  Purchase
  2. NLT – Purchase
  3. GNT – Purchase

Copyrights

Digital Bible

Study Bible

Apps

What is in the Bible?

 

 

Bibles to avoid

  • The Message Bible (MSG)
  • The Passion
  • The Living Bible (TLB)
  • New World Translation – Jehovahs witnesses rewrite of scripture, heretical. 
  • Book of Mormon – Reinterprets scripture including heretical doctrines. They use KJV Bible, but they preach, teach, and live by their book.
  • The YouVersion Bible App (It is free and full of charismatic false teacher references)