There is no best version. People interperate the originals into English with the best words they can use, there is often a doctrinal bias in interpretation. There is no way around doctrinal bias when people are giving their interpretations, that is why the word of God is what the Spirit teaches you personally, it is alive and in your relationship to God.
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Try witnessing to someone in a cult with a Good News or the NIV - I came badly unstuck as the relevant passages I relied on were so altered as to me of no use.
I grew up on KJV, so I understand better with it, I also used NIV for a time, and I had a version with four versions all parallel. So it's really about knowing the word of God as the spirit has taught it to you. When speaking the word to others, it is always the Version that the Spirit taught me.........the spirit of truth will guide you into all truth. When the Spirit of truth teaches, it's not the Bible or version, it's the Word of God. BTW our faith is in the Word of God as it is spoken to us by God, that is a faith that quenches all the firey darts of the enemy, gets us to step off the boat, enables us to always have the victory, because it is the Word of God.......it always accomplishes its goal, when we in faith walk with it.
There is no best version. People interperate the originals into English with the best words they can use, there is often a doctrinal bias in interpretation. There is no way around doctrinal bias when people are giving their interpretations, that is why the word of God is what the Spirit teaches you personally, it is alive and in your relationship to God.
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
https://biblehub.com/john/16-13.htm
That said I really like biblehub.com for individual verses, there is also a lexicon to check each words meaning.
https://biblehub.com/lexicon/john/16-13.htm
So what the Spirit of truth teaches you is the best version.
Try witnessing to someone in a cult with a Good News or the NIV - I came badly unstuck as the relevant passages I relied on were so altered as to me of no use.
I grew up on KJV, so I understand better with it, I also used NIV for a time, and I had a version with four versions all parallel. So it's really about knowing the word of God as the spirit has taught it to you. When speaking the word to others, it is always the Version that the Spirit taught me.........the spirit of truth will guide you into all truth. When the Spirit of truth teaches, it's not the Bible or version, it's the Word of God. BTW our faith is in the Word of God as it is spoken to us by God, that is a faith that quenches all the firey darts of the enemy, gets us to step off the boat, enables us to always have the victory, because it is the Word of God.......it always accomplishes its goal, when we in faith walk with it.
I like Bible Hub too for strongs, commentaries and bible versions