Which Bible Translation Should You Use?

This week's episode is about Bible translations. Is there one you should use? How do you pick the right translation for you? The resources and app that I mention are below the transcript. I'd love to know, which Bible Translation do you use when you study the Bible? DM me on Instagram @deneamarable and let me know.

Transcript:

Hello. Hello. It's Denea, your host of the Faith Filled Mom Podcast. I hope that wherever you are, whatever you are doing, I hope today you make it a mission to pause. Just pause.

Pause before you do the next task. Pause maybe while you were doing a task. And I think, especially as moms, when we hear this, we're like, okay. When am I supposed to have time to to pause? And I think here's the beautiful thing about a pause.

A pause can be ten seconds. A pause can be a minute. It can be ten minutes if you have it, but it's just a way for us to be able to just slow down, just just for a second, just for thirty seconds, just for a minute, however long you have, what this looks like for me. And know that your pause does not have to look like mine. This is just to kinda get the wheels turning for you in terms of some examples.

But what it looks like for me sometimes is I will be about to wash my face, and I'll just but before I I, you know, I get what I need, I'll just stop. Or, um, sometimes when I'm in the car, because, you know, the car sometimes is like a second office. Like like your office. Like an office, I should say. And, uh, sometimes I'll just be sitting there.

And before I'm about to go pick up or drop off or run-in the store or do whatever, I'll just sit there just just for a second. Sometimes I take a deep breath and a slow exhale. Sometimes I will say something really kind to myself. Um, sometimes I'll I'll acknowledge God and ask him, like, God, I really need you to help me, uh, be productive. Focus.

Please help me regulate my emotions and my nervous system while I run-in the store. Give me your wisdom and discernment to be able to go in here and get what I need and come out. Um, sometimes I'll the pause looks like before I'm about to say something, and I'll be like, oh, let me let let me reset real quick. Um, sometimes I'll pause and I'll just listen to, like, how the birds sound. The pause can can look like it can be whatever you need for that what however long you have that time frame.

But I think it's just good for us sometimes to just pause so that we're not always rushing to do something. So I really hope and pray that you you find a way to do that because you do deserve that. Today's episode can I say this again? I'm so excited for it. I feel like I say that every episode, but, yeah, I I really, really do get excited.

Like, when I when I plan these episodes and then when I hit record, like, I don't know. I just get giddy. I'm so excited to talk about it today, y'all. We are talking about the different types of bible translations. Is there one that you should use?

Is there one that you shouldn't use? Um, are all translations the same? Maybe you were like me at one point and had no idea that there was even a difference. We're gonna talk about it today. Let me pray a second.

God, thank you for your word. Thank you for the work of Bible translators that are translating your word into different languages so that Your Word can be known throughout this world. We thank You for those Bible translators, and we pray for them, that You would give them the wisdom and discernment to do what you've called them to do. Give them the endurance, God. We thank you for your word, that it is for us to know you, to know Jesus, uh, to know ourselves, the identity that you have given us, to know how you want us to live.

Help us, God, as we are trying to grow and studying your word for comprehension, with context in mind, with the original language in mind. Please help us as we do this. Holy Spirit, we acknowledge you. And, yes, while we are learning about different Bible translations, we do ask, Holy Spirit that you would come into this conversation and reveal things to us about God and Jesus. In Jesus' name, amen.

Okay. So like I said, at one point, I did not even know there was a difference between Bible translations, y'all. And then I found out that there were different types, and I was like, woah. Does everybody else know about this? Like, is this like?

I don't know. I felt like this was something that needed to be talked about. And then, um, this semester, we were talking about just the different translations. And I was like, okay. Like, I more people have to know about this.

Like, this cannot just be like a you know, you go to seminary and you know it. Like, this needs to be news. This this needs to be widespread. And so that is what today's episode is about. Now there are different groups of translations.

In general, they fall into three main categories. That would be litera