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Thank you, Brother Tim 🌹🔥⭐🔥🌹

I recently gave my own review of the RSV on my podcast. I happen to enjoy it quite a bit. I read the 1972 update.

That is a handsome Bible. I've always preferred Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge to Thompson's. But I wouldn't be mad at this as a Christmas gift,

What a trip! I just ordered this bible (ESV Hardback for $20.00!) a couple days ago. It should hit my doorstep within a day or two.

You’ve presented some really good recommendations. In my ignorance I’ve done almost all of the things you’ve stated to my bibles. The Bibles I’ve tabbed I’ve had to replace because of how the tabs wore down my bibles. It’s better to save the extra cash to buy a thumb index Bible in the first place

I appreciate all of your tips, but the one most useful for me is to store them horizontally. I do that with my premium leather Bibles but never thought about doing that with the hardbacks. Thank you for sharing and providing plenty of good examples of why. Now, I gotta shut off the internet while I go and reorganize all my bookshelves. lol

Thank you. Have you seen the New Catholic Bible, St. Joseph Edition? Catholic Book Publishing Corp. A New Translation.

This is a great video. I want to get some of that tape. When I was a little girl, I wrote on the sides of the text block of a special book that my great grandfather had given me with a blue ball point ink pen. It was not a bible, it was a fairy tale book. My Mom never said a word to me, she just wrote a note and stuck it in the book beside my bookmark, telling me how disappointed she was that I had done it. It was a lesson I never forgot--I was ashamed, and always treated my books with care after that. I'm in my 60's now and I still have that fairy tale book, and I sure wish I hadn't ruined the text block! Your library is sure pretty, Tim. Thanks for the video!

Wish I'd seen this before I put those sticky tabs on mine. I really don't like the tabs but I seem to be stuck with them now as they're nearly impossible to remove. Lesson learned.

I appreciate this video that "just happened" to show up in my recommendations. I've seen Bible so decorated with inserts and drawings and cutesy stickers (I think of the stickers was of a fairy, something that has not business being in a Bible) and notes that they were much thicker at the outside than at the spine and looked like art projects instead of Bibles. It's like the Bible became about the owner rather than about the Lord. I use a leather-bound Cambridge Press KJV Bible that I purchased at a Red Cross Book Fair. The Bible has the name of a total stranger stamped into the lower-right of the front cover! On the back of the Bible, up at the top, there's a horizontal strip significantly lighter than the rest of the back cover. I suspect my Bible, back when it was someone else's Bible, was on a shelf unused for a long time and next to a smaller book so that the top of that back cover was lightened by the sun over a period of time. I love my Bible that had originally belonged to someone else.

I was wondering if this would have a Baptist cessation point of view. I think I’ll stay nasb/nkjv

KJV, NKJV, NASB, NIV, CSB, RSV. Read one a year and re-do the loop. They are all good.

You had me at “Theocracy” T-shirt.

That’s very cool

Very practical and informative.

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Awesome video I enjoyed it

Very useful video. Thank you. The bible yoga gives me the ick 😅. Learned valuable tips today to take good care of my beloved bibles. 😊

About Systematics etc: As a part of the tradition, not sure why we'd need a whole Pentecostal systematic, as the distinctives are second, third, forth tier ideas. Read a solid evangelical Systematic then pickup Stanley Horton or somthing else from AGTS. ;)

Lately, with all the prayer bible videos and use of office and craft supplies, I’ve thought a lot about Corrie ten Boom who tore her bible apart to share pages with others in the concentration camp so pages could be shared inconspicuously or a Vietnamese prisoner pulling bible pages used as toilet paper from a latrine, washing them off and reading them at bedtime to avoid the guards. I put tabs on the fragile pages of an old Thompson Chain Reference bible 25 years ago and repaired tears with washi tape. The leather cover has fallen off and I keep it in a zippered bible cover. The things I’ve written and notated and organized according to the way my brain is organized have taught me so much about the Lord, His Word & His ways. I have bibles that I’ve picked up from give-away tables at churches. I’ve torn out pages to use in journal entries or bible passage projects. This would be unthinkable to some people, but I think how Jesus is the Word of God and He is living water and bread of life, meant to be consumed & hidden in our heart. I am a messy, creative, hands-on learner. I’m also a compulsive over-achiever. If I dwell on respect for the book and paper scripture is printed on, I will organize myself into not using my printed bible at all because I don’t want to mess it up. I’ve done that. How blessed in abundance we are to have this issue. 😅

No tabs for me, I read it often enough I know where the books are pretty much in order. (That and I think tabs are ugly)

A wealth of knowledge as always! Thanks so much for this video Tim! May God continue to bless your ministry! 🙌

1. Sinaiticus is a forgery. QED

Amen! I'm so glad someone said this. Bibles are just not part of this disposable modern society. I learned some of these things in Sunday School and the rest of them later when I worked as a librarian. I can't understand people who use those Bible tabs - you never ever learn where the books are found in your Bible if you don't just learn to hunt for them. And then you eventually memorize them that way. Thank you for this needed video.

What about colored pencils or just regular pencils for marking?

The books with the most reading mileage should be stacked highest, followed by the least read volumes. Since the majority of my bibles are inexpensive, I prop the books vertically to make them easier to retrieve without straining my weak arms. I also invested in good quality bible tabs to make reading the Bible easier and enjoyable. Apart from that, I will continue to treat my bibles with care and the respect they deserve.

I might add bible art journaling (using that word loosely). I feel like if you want to paint or decorate the cover, it’s okay. But the inside should be respected. I’m not talking about little illustrations or notes on the side margins. I’m talking about full blown drawing and paint covering the scriptures. At the end of the day, when future generations find a bible that is doodled and painted all over, where one cannot even read the scriptures, will this be regarded as benefiting society. Even if the process has nothing to do with society, and just one’s relationship with God, what can be gathered from that bible? Can someone be able to read the person’s love of God, reflections and studies, or will they see only artwork (at times not even indicative of Godliness, think a cartoon character). Will they see that this person loves God’s words, or loved their own artistic/crafty expressions?

awesome! love Memphis’ stuff.

Are there recommended paper types and weights that are best suited for writing and highlighting?

Of the seven things listed, the ONLY one I do is stick something other than a ribbon to mark a place in the Bible -- in this particular case, a thin cloth bookmark (actually looks like a miniature oriental rug, but not thick). I use one -- and ONLY one -- in order to mark places when I don't have enough ribbons; in one Bible, I use it near the rear for the reading plan, while in another Bible I use it to mark the Psalm for the daily reading (this Bible only has one ribbon).

Great video. Thank you for making it. After studying my bible on and off for many years, I totally agree with everything you have said. However, I do have several bibles for different purposes. One in my car, one small one for taking to church, a large one for marking and studying, various different study bibles and "smart" bibles on phone and computer. I've even had a small one which I kept solely because it fitted into my overalls in work. I prefer to have several smaller bibles for having around and one main one for central study and reference.

What is your opinion on wite-out (tape)? I use it when I find a bible verse that I find shouldn't have been changed. Ex: Mark 8:36 in my bible it had, " . . and forfeit his very life." I wite-out the verse and put in " . . and lose his soul." Great video, I immediately got up and put my bibles on there sides. Thanks 📖🙏

Loved your final tip, “treat the Bible with respect, it is God’s Word.” 50 years ago my grandma taught me that very important lesson. Her Bibles were always nearby and I learned from an early age to respect that book. NEVER place anything on top of it with the exception of another Bible. That has always stuck with me and to this day, nothing is ever put on top of one of my Bibles except another Bible, not even a Sunday bulletin. God’s Word truly deserves that respect.