I find the RSV refreshingly easy to read, but disturbing in some of its translation choices. Among the more problematic renderings for me are "young woman" instead of "virgin" in Isaiah 7:14, and "expiation" instead of "propitiation" in 1 John 2:2 and elsewhere. The former is, in my opinion, an example of anti-supernatural bias, while the latter is an example of a departure from the biblical doctrine of the atonement.

The ESV is a conservative revision of the RSV. I think you're better off with either that or the mid-'90s updating of the NASB.

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Ron Henzel
PCA
Cape Coral, FL