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Originally Posted by IO Storm 
A sweet but pushy relative after church on Sunday was expounding the danger of (not) using just the old (Authorized) King James....
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King James or the New KJ are wonderful translations but....
The NIV is maybe the best word for word translation, even more correct in the word for word then the NKJ but...
Then comes the New American Standard and that is a good translation of phrase for phrase translation or meaning for meaning translation but...
The but in each case is the English language falls short. We don't have enough words like the Greek or Hebrew words have.
An example is the word love...we only have one word that means love where the Greek has 3.
By reading from different translations and seeing the common understanding between them, we can better grasp the full meaning of what is written.
I do not like the Message bible translation because it tends to leave out so much original wording but the Message sure does a good job of showing todays word usage as it applies to centuries old text.
A look at all but we each have our favorite and by using them all, our favorite can tell us even more about what is on the pages.
Either that or learn Greek and Hebrew *LOL*