December 18, 2008
Side By Side With Parallel Bibles
While I will agree that the King James Version has elegant, flowing and poetic language, I will also agree that it is the most difficult version to understand. Now, if you take the NIV, KJV, NLT and ESV and put them all in one volume, you have one of the finest parallel bibles around! I’m not sure if there actually is a Bible with all of these translations in it, but wow, that would be awesome.
The chief benefit of having more than one translation in a side by side format is to compare, clarify and contrast and in so doing, increase understanding of God’s word.