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Originally Posted by DMcFadden 
KJV is still the preference for blue haired ladies who live in musty smelling homes....  |
Hey Dennis,
you forgot a niche. I know a contemporary poet who loves language and the precision with which it may depict spiritual realities, who came out of Woodstock, and is a poet of the streets. And who loves the saying by C.S. Lewis, "All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." No blue hair, though -- not much hair at all!
Chris,
I think a lot of what has been said above is true. It is the pew Bible in the church I serve, as I had a choice from the planting church of the ESV or the NKJV.
When I was teaching in Africa, I would have been glad for the class to have NKJVs instead of the ESVs they'd been issued before I got there, as the margin notes of the latter did a lot of damage to these folks' trust in God having a settled word He had given to the church. I could have worked with the NKJV. I did manage to bring some small KJV NTs with Psalms & Proverbs for the pastors in the class. Though some of the tribes had very accurate New Testaments in their own languages.
Steve