Which Translation Would You Recommend for an Adult Who’s New to the Bible?
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, Greg, are you ready for some questions about the Bible? |
| 0:15.7 | All set. |
| 0:16.4 | Okay. |
| 0:17.1 | Here's a question from Christine. |
| 0:19.4 | Which Bible translation would you recommend to an adult that's new to reading the Bible? |
| 0:26.5 | Well, this kind of depends. |
| 0:29.6 | I have a very particular perspective about this, and I don't think you ought to start with kind of easy stuff and then get buy more |
| 0:42.9 | translations that are more challenging. I think what you ought to do is by a good, now this |
| 0:50.5 | presumes that this is an adult that's a Christian anticipating a Christian |
| 0:56.2 | life and growing as a Christian, as opposed to kind of a tire thumper kind of thing, |
| 1:02.0 | and they're just tire kicker, as it were, and they're checking it out. |
| 1:07.1 | And then some kind of paraphrase, if you want to get a general idea of what Jesus taught |
| 1:12.3 | and said, then a paraphrase like a new living translation in LT or something like that. |
| 1:18.1 | The new living translation isn't a paraphrase. The living translation is, but not the new living |
| 1:22.7 | translation, just so people know. Oh, okay. It's more, it's a little, it's a little, I think it's, I was just |
| 1:28.9 | looking at this list, West Huff had put together of like a kind of a, a spectrum and where they |
| 1:35.2 | fall, because you have the more literal, then you have the more thought for thought, and then you |
| 1:38.6 | have the paraphrases. So the NLT is a little bit to the right. |
| 1:45.5 | Like if you're moving towards paraphrase, it's a little bit farther than, I think, the NIV, but it's still within the thought for thought. |
| 1:52.6 | Okay, got it. |
| 1:53.3 | So you have – |
| 1:55.6 | Like the message or would be more of a – |
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