Update on 23 June 2026: There are now many word-for-word literal interlinear translations of the Bible available online. These use the earliest and most accepted biblical documents.  Using them, along with the Strong's Concordance online enables anyone to perform a word-for-word study of the scriptures from the original languages and the closest thing that we have to the original texts.

If I quote from a specific Bible translation I will give proper credit.

The Original Post, 18 July 2009:  Anytime I quote from the Bible in this blog it will be from the King James Version because it is in the public domain and has no copyright issues.  I personally use several of the newer Bible  translations and also The Greek New Testament published by the United Bible Societies.

My Greek is slightly above the beginners level but I can fight my way through it with a dictionary.  Not so with Hebrew, which I find to be totally alien and incomprehensible, even though Ron Zorn told me it was easy. I'm glad Hebrew is easy for somebody; they'll just have to tell me what it says.