Which version of the bible should I read and why are there so many versions?
Anyone reading the Bible seriously will be doing it in Greek. It sounds like you want to give it a fair shake, but perhaps aren’t interested in devoting years of your life to it. So an English translation is probably best for your purposes 😉 Recommendations: Avoid the Good News Bible like the plague. If you can deal with the language, and want to, the King James Version is pretty poetic and is the “classic” version (“thou shalt not” kinda thing). But you’ll probably have to work harder to get much out of it. If you want a Bible that’s easy to understand, period, I really like the Kid’s [sic] Life Application Bible, which is what I had as a kid. It includes oversimplistic kid-like stuff about “sticky situations” and “heroes and villains” in sidebars, but the actual text of the translation is simple without being patronizing, and beautiful withou
