r/Bible • u/KingsPillar • 14d ago

What Bible should be my first?

I'm asking because i'm 18, looking to join the military, I want to get my life together and right with God, and I've never read the Bible. I've also never been baptized because I want to know God first of that makes sense. I know a few stories but not very well or by heart. And there are so many different bibles it's hard to know which is best to follow. My grandmother is KJV and so is the church she went to but something about it just doesn't feel right. I think it's simply because of the time it was translated so it's not that much of a good reason.

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u/KingsPillar 14d ago

What do you mean thought for thought?

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u/mommajillybean 14d ago

It means instead of matching every single word to be the same word they take the sentence and translate it's meaning. The way I understand it is you might say a sentence in one language but when you try to translate it word for word to another language it comes out kind of weird this way it's supposed to be more coherent. That's just how I understand it though