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Looking for a good Bible

Post by featheredprop » Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:39 am

I've been searching for a wide-margin Bible - or one that somehow allows me to write some notes near the text. However, I haven't really found anything sutible yet. Does anyone have any recommendations? Does anyone have a Bible like this? Of course I would like to have both the OT and NT in it. As far as translation is concerned I would settle for a KJV, NKJV, NASB, or NET. Can you help?

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dane
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Re: Looking for a good Bible

Post by slipperyfish » Fri Nov 21, 2008 11:07 am

I havn't saved the money yet, but this is one of the best I have found in the last year or so of looking.
http://www.amazon.com/Margin-Reference- ... 80AQ8U8EAP

It is NKJV but there is also a NASB available and an ESV early in '09.

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Re: Looking for a good Bible

Post by featheredprop » Fri Nov 21, 2008 6:10 pm

slipperyfish wrote:I havn't saved the money yet, but this is one of the best I have found in the last year or so of looking.
http://www.amazon.com/Margin-Reference- ... 80AQ8U8EAP

It is NKJV but there is also a NASB available and an ESV early in '09.
Wow! That looks like an awesome Bible ... a bit on the pricey side ... but awesome nonetheless. Thanks for the tip - it looks exactly like what I've been looking for ...

peace,

dane
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Re: Looking for a good Bible

Post by mattrose » Fri Nov 21, 2008 11:34 pm

On the cheaper side, I have this Bible which has plenty of room for notes too

http://www.amazon.com/Zondervan-NASB-Wi ... 392&sr=1-1

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Re: Looking for a good Bible

Post by featheredprop » Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:20 pm

mattrose wrote:On the cheaper side, I have this Bible which has plenty of room for notes too

http://www.amazon.com/Zondervan-NASB-Wi ... 392&sr=1-1
Looks good Matt ... is that a soft cover or hard back? Are you generally pleased with this one?

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dane
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Re: Looking for a good Bible

Post by Paidion » Sat Nov 22, 2008 7:59 pm

Here's a Wide-Margin Bible, genuine black leather, 10.2 type size for $43.94.
Best of all it's the English Standard Version, an update of the old RSV, but more literal.

From the ESV Website:
Altogether the ESV translation work involved an exceptional team of more than 100 worldwide, including: (1) the twelve-member Translation Oversight Committee, led by Dr. J. I. Packer as the General Editor; (2) sixty leading Bible Scholars; as well as (3) a sixty-member Advisory Council—all of whom are committed to historic Christian orthodoxy and to the timeless truth and authority of the Bible.

If you wish to purchase this Bible, click on the link below for one of the sources:

ESV Wide-Margin Bible
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Re: Looking for a good Bible

Post by mattrose » Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:01 pm

featheredprop wrote:
mattrose wrote:On the cheaper side, I have this Bible which has plenty of room for notes too

http://www.amazon.com/Zondervan-NASB-Wi ... 392&sr=1-1
Looks good Matt ... is that a soft cover or hard back? Are you generally pleased with this one?

peace,

dane
Mine is hardcover. Not sure if you can get it softcover. It's what I was looking for, but I ended up not using it as much as I thought I would. I write my notes on a half sheet of paper instead and only use underlining in my Bible.

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Re: Looking for a good Bible

Post by Priestly1 » Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:53 pm

Peace!

Get a copy of the Orthodox Study Bible (OSB) published by Thomas Nelson. It is the NKJV Bible, with the Old Testament Text and Canon corrected and revised according to the Greek LXX Old Testament...cited by Christ and used by the Apostles. So you get a Complete Bible in NKJV English, but based upon the Greek from the Ancient Greek Texts from Genesis to Revelations. It has Maps, Diagrams, Notes and Cross References. Now you will have the Bible Canon and Text (in American English) upon which all Ancient Translations into Latin, Goth, Gaelic, and other tongues throughout the world...the very Bible Wycliff and Huss used and died preaching and publishing in their own languages (Old English & Bohemian).



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Re: Looking for a good Bible

Post by look2jesus » Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:12 am

I have to concur with Paidion. I own this bible and I am very pleased with it. I especially like the single column format. The print is fairly large and there is adequate room for making notes. It's a very readable translation.
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Re: Looking for a good Bible

Post by featheredprop » Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:57 am

A few months ago I decided that I wanted the NKJV that "slipperyfish" recommended. At that time I was sending all of my extra money to a mission in Kenya, and couldn't afford it. I happened to mention my desire for the Bible to a brother and he sat down and wrote a check out for it. I was so blown away that I started to cry right there on the spot. He wouldn't let me not accept it. So, today I'm using the "fancy" NKJV, wide-margain Bible that God bought for me. Awesome.

peace,

dane
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