Read the King James Bible only. The New-age Bible translations have perverted God's Holy Bible by omitting verses, deleting key words and phrases in order to diminish God's power, confuse Christians and redefine what sin is. See the link document for details. God bless you.
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Sorry, OP, but even the KJV is a version.
I have been in church all my life, and I can't get on board with you here. Not that I have issues with KJV. It's a good Bible, but it's still one translation. One needs to be a Hebrew scholar to get the real, untranslated stuff. Even the Septuagent is a translation.
What I have issues with, is the way Christians make themselves into cliquish circular firing squads all the time, by imposing these types of "thou shalts" on each other and those who are seeking, and being dismissive of anything that doesn't match. The church has been woefully bad at communication in general, and even worse about carrying out Christ's mission, because of over-judgementalism. I'm guilty of this as well. God is the judge, but many Christians assume this role for themselves, and it pushes people away in the same way that over-liberalism pushes people away.
My personal experience is that God speaks in any way He sees fit to. Through music, through signs and wonders, through relationship, through business. We just need to listen.
What is the best version of the Bible in English, in your opinion?
Edit: This was aimed at u/Fefifofumdrum since it was his comment, but feel free to join in.
ESV is a good updated version based on translations derived from the KJV. The philosophy is to be as literal as possible.
For study, I like the NET. It comes with notes that explain why the translation team decided what it did and what the other options are. With the notes, you get more of a sense of how to translate the source text without learning Hebrew and Greek.
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Textual Basis and Resources
The ESV is based on the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible as found in Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (5th ed., 1997), and on the Greek text in the 2014 editions of the Greek New Testament (5th corrected ed.), published by the United Bible Societies (UBS), and Novum Testamentum Graece (28th ed., 2012), edited by Nestle and Aland. The currently renewed respect among Old Testament scholars for the Masoretic text is reflected in the ESV’s attempt, wherever possible, to translate difficult Hebrew passages as they stand in the Masoretic text rather than resorting to emendations or to finding an alternative reading in the ancient versions. In exceptional, difficult cases, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Septuagint, the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Syriac Peshitta, the Latin Vulgate, and other sources were consulted to shed possible light on the text, or, if necessary, to support a divergence from the Masoretic text.
https://www.esv.org/preface/
The ESV translators attempted to stick to the English phrases found in the King James Bible while modernizing them, and claim to have used the Masoretic text for their Old Testament, which they did in all parts except where the modern translations diverge from the Masoretic text. In other words, the changes in the so-called modern translation are mirrored in the ESV.
The ESV does not stick to the Hebrew Masoretic Old Testament and uses the Nestle Aland NT, not the Textus Receptus NT, which are the texts the Geneva Bible, the King James Version, and Young's Literal Translation are based upon.
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God
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Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Repeat ad nauseam. I find most translations utter trash.
https://anthonygflood.com/2019/03/romans-13-another-contrarian-interpretation/ does a fair job explaining why your Bible probably lies to you if it says anything about obeying the government. It's laughable to anyone with common sense