I just bought a SHWEEEET new Bible, its an ESV (ESV: English Standard Version) reference Bible from Amazon.com, it is really cool. (take a look at it here).

So, why the ESV? I have been looking into checking out this version and making it my definite for Bible studies, I like it because of the easy read and true translation of the Word of God. It is still fairly "new" compared to other popular Bible versions, but sticks true to the Word and does not intend to adapt it to today's modern language (like THE MESSAGE, which I can not stand or the NLT that paraphrases everything).

For the past years I have mostly sticked to the NKJV and the NIV (although I have never been a big fan of this one). With the NKJV, I like the wording and how it stays close to the true translations of the Biblical manuscript, I was also indoctrinated with this one for a while, I have never been one of those hardcore King James people that believe that it is the only translation that is correct. I like it, don't get me wrong, but the more I have looked into the ESV, the more I like it.

So, here we go, I will now be using my ESV for studying and when I refer to parts in scriptures in blogposts for the most part.

Here is a screenshot of what the cover looks like, pretty nice:


I invite you to check out the ESV as well, you will be very pleased with it.