Ranking Bible Translations: Which Ones to Trust (and Which to Avoid) | Live Free with Josh Howerton
Live Free with Josh Howerton
Lakepointe Church
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 137 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Just because you wrestle with a desire to sin doesn't mean something's wrong. |
| 0:03.4 | Actually, the fact that you're wrestling with it means something is right. |
| 0:05.8 | You are being renewed day by day. |
| 0:07.9 | It's transforming your mind, even when you don't feel like it is. |
| 0:11.5 | Because it's like one day you'll wake up and like, oh, I'm a different person. |
| 0:15.7 | What will keep you from understanding the Bible most is not the translation in your lap, but the posture in your heart. Let us kick this pig. Let's do it. Jana, welcome to episode 59 of Live Free. I'm happy to be here. Hey, in the words of me and Carlos Sarazo, let's kick this pig. All right, let's do it. Where did you get that from? As long as I've known you, you've said that. |
| 0:37.9 | It's a rural Kentucky. Actually, we've had listeners say from Kentucky say that it's not a Kentucky thing. Well, maybe in Bowling Green, Kentucky. I was going to say where I grew up in my high school, my friend said, let's kick this pig. Okay. Yeah. I don't know. I didn't know if it was from a movie or? |
| 0:54.0 | Nope. |
| 0:54.6 | Okay. |
| 0:55.2 | No. |
| 0:56.4 | Okay. |
| 0:57.0 | Jana, let's talk about the Bible. All right. I love it. So this is going to be for |
| 1:00.8 | free listeners. Welcome to episode 59. We are going to talk all things really practical about the Bible. We're going to talk about what translations are best and what translations you should never ever have in your house. Throw them away and burn them. And by the way, there are translations like that. Are you gonna burn one today? Maybe. Listen, if they can't see it, I got one right here, I would like to burn. And I'm gonna cover it so they won't know. We going to answer questions like, how do I study the Bible? How do I choose a Bible reading plan? What Bible reading plans are good? Which ones might we avoid? Which translation is best? How do I get, you know, all the things? That's great. So we're going to get like super, super practical. It's going to be fun. Yeah. I'm looking forward to it. If you are part of live free nation by the way man I think we didn't you say isn't like 400 of these hats we sold now didn't like that that's great listen man we're pushing hats and uh I'm starting to see it's funny I'll get up to preach and I'll look around the room I'll be like there's a live free hat there's a hat, there's a live free hat. I want to meet that dude in the lobby. |
| 2:01.6 | That's awesome. |
| 2:02.6 | So first of all, you can help us out by liking, |
| 2:06.6 | commenting, subscribing, sharing. |
| 2:09.6 | If this is helpful to you, that helps us get word out, that'd be awesome. |
| 2:13.6 | And then you can grab you a little live free hat at livefree. That sounds great. Are we going to give one away today? Yeah, I think you should. Hey, well, you try that on. Let's see what you look like here. You know what? I've never tried one of these on. How many of the women wear these? That's what I wouldn't know. I think you look amazing. I think Janelle looks amazing. I think I need one. That's your live free hat. All right. But we are going to give. Nobody wants it after I put it on. That's right. We are, listen, man, we're going to up the live free hat merch push. So how about this? I've just unilaterally decided we're giving away 10 live free hats 10 okay they weren't ready for that |
| 2:52.4 | sorry trinidad we're going to give away 10 live free hats so head over to youtube and if you'll do |
| 3:00.6 | this me and janet are going on a date night right after this yeah we were just talking about what |
| 3:04.6 | restaurant we should go to so do this Drop in the comment your restaurant recommendation. |
| 3:10.5 | Even if you live in some remote state or country, you can at least tell us what your favorite restaurant is. |
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