What Version of the Bible do you use?

[trishalinn]

Wondering what version of the Bible you guys have your kids memorize from for their Bible memory work!

[GalmiBorn]

We participate in AWANA and their books are in NIV, so that is what we use at home. I grew up memorizing in KJV.

[misty.warden]

Mine wasn't an option (I use Douay-Rheims) so I chose NAB since it's one of the approved versions for use with CCC.

[SFM]

I use all of the top five for various reasons and various times and seasons. We like having different versions.

[raceNzanesmom]

DS, 8, uses NIV since his curriculum and kid's church use NIV.

 

I use NASB, DH and DS, 19, use NLT.

[Freckles]

My kids use the NIV, but I use the ESV or KJV on occasion.

[violamama]

I love the HCSB. Love it. I read them this to them when I hit the reading portion of our dailies. (We use the Long Story Short devotional.)

 

But with the kids, we use whatever the latest verses I've printed up to memorize. It seems a lot are in NIV.

[MyLittleWonders]

We use the NAB Revised Edition for reading/memory work, and sometimes the RSV Second Catholic Edition.

[Dory]

I picked NKJV and NIV but we also use The Scriptures and an OJB.

[Georgiana Daniels]

For memorization we use NIV, except when we memorized Psalm 34 we used American Standard. For personal study I use American Standard.

[Georgiana Daniels]

PS. It IS kind of hard to use a different version from what I used growing up (KJV) but I think it's more meaningful for the kids to use NIV. More than retention, I want them to have understanding.

[sbgrace]

For memory work we use NIV 1984. That's because our church programs use it and it's what I've memorized so easier for me. Their bibles, though, are Contemporary English Version. I use that version myself. My husband is primarily using NKJV right now. He has several versions though.

[Down_the_Rabbit_Hole]

I picked King James Version even though we haven't used it yet...but will starting in January. Before that I used NiV and other versions. I am changing because of something I read by Ruth Beechick and how the wording in King James flows better/more poetic to the ear and is more easily memorized.

[Meriwether]

From: school17777

Posted Yesterday, 10:55 PM

AWANA uses King James.

 

 

 

We participate in AWANA and their books are in NIV, so that is what we use at home. I grew up memorizing in KJV.

 

 

AWANAS prints their booklets using different versions. At our current AWANAS, parents were asked which version they wanted for their children. Many, or most, programs just order one version to hand out but which version they use could vary from church to church.

 

We use the New King James. I love the King James. Our curric uses the New King James, though, and I'm okay with it. I grew up using NIV.

[Mommie_Jen]

I grew up with NIV. I just recently switched to an ESV because I really liked DH's Bible. I still like and use NIV some, and it's what we use to memorize.

[alisoncooks]

I use the NIV1984.

With my kids, we read the NIrV.

[laughing lioness]

We have several but use NKJV. I memorized initially from NIV, but I like NKJV.

[Mommy to monkeys]

ESV because that's what version of "fighter verses" we have.

Years ago when the kids were in awana, I beliebe they used NIV.

We also use songs to memorize, and they tend to use various translations.

[Jayne J]

We memorize KJV. We study and read from KJV, ESV, NIV, and RSV. I like to compare and discuss. For memory work though, you just can't beat the beautiful KJV language.

[SorrelZG]

Currently, the NASB because that's what out church uses. Our church does corporate Bible memorization and although its not written in stone that you must use the same translation, the group factor has a strong influence, particularly since the small house groups used to review together. For me though, I have not been able to memorize well with the NASB the way others can.

[Guest]

We use whatever version the Awana books are. Otherwise I would use NIV or NASB.

[kristi26]

We use lots of different versions here depending on different things...my favorites are The Message, ESV, and New Living Translation. Typically, my kids memorize from NLT though as that is the version we use at church.

[trishalinn]

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We use ESV for study but AWANA at church uses NIV. So 90% of our memory work is NIV.

 

 

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AwANA only has two versions- King James and NIV.

[mims]

FYI all AWANA people: They will be switching the NIV books to ESV in the next year or two. The two options will be ESV and KJV.

[Hedgehogs4]

NIV for the kids. I am gald to hear that AWANA programs are switching to ESV. That is what I read for myself.

[TKDmom]

King James. It's what we use for everything in our home. I like the poetic language. And I guess I like explaining it to my kids, too. ;)

 

An added benefit is that my kids have an ear for that archaic language, and its easier to read old classics with them. I started reading the original Pilgrim's Progress with my ds9 (as a part of our AO reading), and I have been pleasantly surprised at how well he understands it.

[sassenach]

I study out of the ESV, but NIV is what I grew up on, so it sounds right to my ear.

[LinRTX]

Actually AWANA currently is KJV, NKJV, and NIV. They have been both KJV and NKJV for at least 22 years and added NIV in 2001 (I think -- I know my third child was about 9 since it was between her 3rd and 4th grade years) when the Pioneer/Guards and Pals/Chums became the new T&T programs.

 

I had heard that they were adding ESV. Is it going to replace NIV or just be a fourth version? So many churches are using NIV, I think it would be hard to replace it.

 

LInda

[Juliegmom]

Our church uses the NKJ, but we also use NIV which was included in our curriculum.

[ForeverFamily]

We use the KJV. But we also have a set of illustrated scriptures made by our church that we use for reading scripture stories, they make it easier for our kids to understand the stories. At their young age my goal is for them to become fimiliar with the stories and people in the scriptures, as they get older they can dive deeper.

[mims]

Actually AWANA currently is KJV, NKJV, and NIV. They have been both KJV and NKJV for at least 22 years and added NIV in 2001 (I think -- I know my third child was about 9 since it was between her 3rd and 4th grade years) when the Pioneer/Guards and Pals/Chums became the new T&T programs.

 

I had heard that they were adding ESV. Is it going to replace NIV or just be a fourth version? So many churches are using NIV, I think it would be hard to replace it.

 

LInda

 

 

Oops, I do remember that they use NKJV. My understanding is that they are replacing NIV. The new NIV has too many issues (a whole nother topic!) and AWANA is not going to endorse that and probably can't get the copyright to use the old NIV.

[Amy M]

I picked King James Version even though we haven't used it yet...but will starting in January. Before that I used NiV and other versions. I am changing because of something I read by Ruth Beechick and how the wording in King James flows better/more poetic to the ear and is more easily memorized.

We've waffled. DH and I grew up memorizing KJV, but had the kids memorizing with ESV last year, and NASB this year for family memory verses. For school, they were memorizing KJV. I think I'll stick with KJV since I read some articles by Memoria Press (I think?) on it, that said the same types of things as the post above. Plus I figure, if we're doing classical education and having children read the classics in everything else, why would we have them memorize the modern versions of the Bible? That's where we are at this point.