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Originally Posted by Jibninjas
NASB or NIV are always good choices. KJV is just bad because it translates things weird. Mostly into words that aren't used now, or not in the same capacity. Plus the KJV was not translated from the original documents. So you are getting a copy of a copy instead of a translation of the original.
This. I've also heard that the TNIV is good, with minor updates to the NIV (for example, when the NIV says Mary was "with child", the TNIV just says she was "pregnant.")
