Bible Recommendations

“Which Bible Should I Read?”

Some Recommendations from Pastor Emily

For Young Children:

Tutu, Desmond. Children of God Storybook Bible. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010.

Spark Story Bible. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2009.

For Slightly Older Children:

Tomie DePaola’s Book of Bible Stories: New International Version. New York: Puffin Books, 2002.

For Young Readers:

Hastings, Selina. The Children’s Illustrated Bible. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2000.

New International Reader’s Version (NIrV): The Beginner’s Bible. Grand Rapids: Zonderkidz, 2005.

For Teens:

The NRSV Student Bible. Notes by Philip Yancey and Tim Stafford. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.

For Sheer Beauty:

The King James Version. Public domain.

For Devotional Use:

The Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible – New Revised Standard Version. San Francisco: Harper Collins, 2005. 

For Study:

The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha. Augmented 3^rd Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. (NOTE: A 4^th Edition was released in 2010, but I have no experience with it!)

The Harper Collins Study Bible – New Revised Standard Version. New York: Harper Collins, 1993. (NOTE: This was my primary Bible in seminary. A new edition was released in 2006 with a concordance, but again – I have no experience with it!)

***NOTE: If you choose to purchase any of these online, please consider signing up for One Cause first (onecause.com). A portion of your purchases can then go back to St. Matthew’s!