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Which translation of the Bible do Protestant churches these days base their doctrine and their teachings on?
Asked by Jeruba (55827)
September 16th, 2020
When I was a young person, what I heard in various Protestant churches (evangelical and otherwise) was the King James Version. The cadences, forms, and vocabulary of the KJV were part of a religious upbringing, and no one I knew stumbled over the archaic language. When they quoted, that’s what they quoted.
I still think of it as the high-water mark of the English language, right alongside Shakespeare, and consider it manifestly worth reading for that reason.
There were also frequent references to the Revised Standard Version and the New English Bible, especially in Sunday school and study materials.
Those seem to have been superseded as texts of choice. What is in most common use now?
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