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NKJV Gift and Award Bible

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This bible is just small enough to take with you everywhere, and still contains the same inspirational message as regular size King James Bibles. I have found it truely helpful when daily life presents a problem, and im not at home to look at my regular bible,i always keep it with me wherever i go!

This makes a good reference Bible if you do not have a NKJV translation, and want to compare passages for further understanding; the price makes it ideal for this purpose, as reading more than one version of a section that is hard to understand can be edifying.
My daily reading is with The Amplified Bible (which is the one used by popular author and TV preacher Joyce Meyer), and have been using the KJV for comparison. I bought this as a third translation, but the more I read it, the more I like it, and will probably upgrade this volume to one with larger print in the near future, so I am torn between recommending this as a second or third Bible, or advise buying a better quality NKJV.

This is called a "Gift and Award" Bible, but with the print being so small, it would be a mistake to give this to a young person if it is intended as their primary Bible...they will soon tire of it no matter how sharp their vision; though this translation would be ideal for that purpose, a bigger font size is definitely needed.
The words of Jesus are in red, and the back of the volume contains a "Read Your Bible Through in a Year" plan, dividing chapters in the New and Old Testaments on a daily basis; also included is a dictionary/concordance which has some line drawing illustrations, and this portion has a nice font size, and there are also two maps inside the back cover. "Leather Bound" means a single layer veneer, with cut edges.
In the final analysis, this edition is of a superb translation, but one that can be read only for a few passages at a time because of the print.

Psalm 37:4
NKJV: "Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart".
KJV: "Delight thyself also in the Lord; and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart".
Amplified: "Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart".

Just the right size for gift or for personal use. Bought two. One for myself to keep in the car and one for husband to keep in his car.

When my husband and I would do our Bible study he would use the King James Version. I used the New King James on my Kindle. He liked it so well I bought this Bible for him and he loves it.

I would like to address the question about King James suggested in a previous post. The King James in question was James I of England, who had been James VI of Scotland before he ascended to the English throne on the death of Elizabeth I, in 1603. King James did not write or translate the Bible; he commissioned the translation we know as the King James Version as an authoritative replacement for several different versions of the Bible, in the vernacular, circulating Europe in the seventeenth century. Each of these Bibles offered its own interpretation of the Word. James was convinced each was more or less flawed. Thus he commissioned "four and fifty" of the top biblical scholars of the day, men learned in the ancient languages of the Bible, to prepare a translation that would stand as the authoritative Word, for people reading in the seventeenth-century English vernacular.

The King James Version successfully supplanted its seventeenth-century competitors, and has withstood numerous challenges, up to the present day. Ironically, as the King James Version was written in the vernacular of its day, the "old-fashioned" language of the King James is often mistaken for "biblical" language, as if it represented the ways of speech of the Levant at the time of Christ. It does not, of course. More over, unless one accepts the premise that every translator of the Bible must be led by the hand of God, and therefore inerrant, one must accept that the King James version represents an interpretation of the Word appropriate to the seventeenth century, just as contemporary translations are interpretations appropriate to the present era. Luckily, God does not demand of us scholastic precision, only faith, and that we be true to the Word, not bound to mere words.

the sellers marked the product as "very good, like new."

Found the cover to be seriously cracked and the pages waterstained - will not order from them again.