KJV is my go to Holy Bible
I have read other versions though. CEV for children, and familiar with NIV, NLT, Good News, NLT as other people have them. Have tried the Jewish bible too.
Someone posted on here that KJV is translated from latin actually thats not correct it was translated out of the original tongues, Hebrew and Greek.
Am still looking for a good bilingual english/chinese version and audio in cantonese.
I asked God which Bible and he led me to KJV. Yes different translations can be confusing sometimes. Its easier for me to stick to one. But I do look up others online because everyone uses different ones, eg some people read from NASB because they are american, but american english is not the same as plain english. I have found KJV to never let me down. If I dont understand I just read further and God shows me something. I can trust that it doesnt omit anything because Ive found some other Bibles have bits missing, or extra bits that arent scriptures, or footnotes, and thats annoying for me.
Do your research but also ask God.
The jewish bible will be in a different order and may omit the new testament. Catholic bibles are in latin and have exxtra books. The translation of KJV was quite a tremendous undertaking and the history of how it came about is nothing short of miraculous. There were other translations before KJV in english but none were as widespread or popular as KJV. In england they call it the AV as in Authorised version. Many translations into other languages bases their translations on the KJV its like the gold standard of bible translations. And its lasted right up to present day 400 somethng years later.
When I was researching different bible versions I found out that there were two sort of original manuscripts (origninal meaning, copies in the original tongues, greek, hebrew) that scholars would bases their translations on, one was the alexandrian mansucripts and the other was Byzantian. They are slightly different from each other which is why, the bible versions from them can vary. And then when it as translated into latin called the vulgate, it was translated again into english for modern versions (these in contrast to kjv, which was from original tongues) You kind if have to go back to the original stream to find out where exactly the translation came from.
Anyway know this may be an old thread but love sharing and talking about the Bible so thought why not post to encourage others. When you first start reading the Bible it can be overwhelming, because there are so many different translations to choose from, not to mention its a huge book, or rather library of 66 books, but its the most important set of books you will ever read.