This is my favorite daily Bible. Love the CSB translation, the single-column format, the font style and size, the clean layout of the text, the size of the Bible, etc. I wish they would make the exact Bible with better materials and binding and I’d buy one in a heartbeat!
This was my first CSB bible ever. I bought this to try out the translation. I gotta say, I was really impressed with the quality of the bibke for the price I got it for (it was $7 for me at the time). The paper is pretty opaque, text nice and dark, leathertouch cover feels great in the hand. Also the gold guilding quality on mine completely surpasses some of my ESV thinlines (~$20). Which as says alot. Lol
Well excellent choice for your first CSB I would say! Price doesn’t get much better for what get with this Bible IMO, even at $7. That’s why I mentioned it again in my other video haha I feel like most people should definitely consider it when wanting to read the CSB.
OK bro, I watched this 3 times the past 3 days and had this in my cart and really prayed on it because I've always wanted a CSB but have too many Bibles. I decided to buy it before it's gone and I will donate a few of the ones I currently have. Lol. Awesome video and I had to sub. 👍
Haha well if you wanted a CSB, at least this is a choice that doesn’t break the bank! That’s awesome that you plan to donate some old your other Bibles though. And glad you enjoyed the video, and I appreciate your 3 views ✌🏼😂
@@TheBibleReviewer I watched it 3 times thinking there would be something telling me not to order it lol. But I love compact and personal sized Bibles and non traditional colors. When you showed the close ups and the dimensions I was pretty much sold. I've never been a fan of the expensive Bibles. The most I've spent on one was like $30 for a large print NET by Nelson. That was one that I wanted to use at home and this CSB will be a great everyday Bible. 😄
@@living_the_mac_and_cheese_life haha it really did impress me as well for this price point. Also yeah I’m finding that I too like a nice non-premium! For this channel I’ll try to have upper ends here and there but I feel value tends to help more people
Reminds me of the old Subway $5 foot long sandwich commercials. Holman could make their own jingle. “Five dollar, five dollar, five dollar CSB” If you don’t remember the commercial, just ignore this post/comment. 😂. Great review, thank you for sharing. 👌 Can’t beat that price. I pay more for a hamburger. 😄
I think I paid around $15 for this exact Bible edition. However, even at $15 it's a great deal, so at $5 it would be an absolute bargain! The CSB is a very solid translation too - accurate, clear, natural. For my tastes, the only thing missing in the CSB is it isn't as elegant sounding as, say, the versions in the KJV tradition like the ESV. But to be fair, elegance is probably a less important quality than accuracy, clarity, and naturalness. See what CS Lewis wrote in his introduction to JB Phillips' translation of the NT for example: "There are several answers to such people. In the first place the kind of objection which they feel to a new translation is very like the objection which was once felt to any English translation at all. Dozens of sincerely pious people in the sixteenth century shuddered at the idea of turning the time-honoured Latin of the Vulgate into our common and (as they thought) ‘barbarous’ English. A sacred truth seemed to them to have lost its sanctity when it was stripped of the polysyllabic Latin, long heard at Mass and at Hours, and put into ‘language such as men do use’ - language steeped in all the commonplace associations of the nursery, the inn, the stable, and the street. The answer then was the same as the answer now. The only kind of sanctity which Scripture can lose (or, at least, New Testament Scripture) by being modernized is an accidental kind which it never had for its writers or its earliest readers. The New Testament in the original Greek is not a work of literary art: it is not written in a solemn, ecclesiastical language, it is written in the sort of Greek which was spoken over the eastern Mediterranean after Greek had become an international language and therefore lost its real beauty and subtlety. In it we see Greek used by people who have no real feeling for Greek words because Greek words are not the words they spoke when they were children. It is a sort of ‘basic’ Greek; a language without roots in the soil, a utilitarian, commercial and administrative language. Does this shock us? It ought not to, except as the Incarnation itself ought to shock us. The same divine humility which decreed that God should become a baby at a peasant-woman’s breast, and later an arrested field-preacher in the hands of the Roman police, decreed also that he should be preaching in a vulgar, prosaic and unliterary language. If you can stomach the one, you can stomach the other. The Incarnation is in that sense an irreverent doctrine: Christianity, in that sense, an incurably irreverent religion. When we expect that it should have come before the Word in all the beauty that we now feel in the Authorised Version we are as wide of the mark as the Jews were in expecting that the Messiah would come as a great earthly king. The real sanctity, the real beauty and sublimity of the New Testament (as of Christ’s life) are of a different sort: miles deeper or further in."
I have both brown and blue cover editions, and they are the exact same print Bible series...BUT...the blue edition has double the AMOUNT OF medium BOLDNESS print (looks fantastic) consistently throughout. What a gem!
I wanted this, coming from the pocket nt version. But ended up with the compact value one (6pt about 4x6in)(2018 edition but with 2020 update, so i think it says 2024 is the 5th print). Looking at this vid and my pocket nt, idk for some reason the ghosting abd transparency is bad on all of them.. Im not sure if my value compact is odd, but its the most opaque i have. The paper is slightly yellow and noticeably different than my esv buffalo leather pocket for example. The other side of the pages text is like, distant, or 'far away' and blurry. Like bokeh effect. You can't make out anything on the other side, making this really easy on the eyes. Its line matched almost microscopically lol i think the 6pt actually helps opaque it. Anyway, thanks for the showcase
It’s a chunky monkey for sure. I pre ordered mine for $15. Since that one I now have four others in my navy touch collection 😂. I just got the large print compact reference for $11. Page unsticking took a few hours but I love it! You should review if you haven’t already. Blessings!
Have you ever tried to pan thru the pages at the top and bottom, while bending the Pages backwards or forward? I find usually that releases most of them from sticking together fairly easily..
@@LuvsSno I wish. I had to wear rubber gloves to get the pages to separate a bit then run a slim piece of card stock up and down to fully unstick. It was an ordeal for sure.
So sad to see Bible companies rip people off. The price for this Bible went from $5 to almost $20!! You would have hoped that at least Bible companies wouldn’t jack up prices!
Can never be quite sure price change reasonings. I’m not sure what the retail pricing originally, because the $5 price was a technically a sale price that they had for awhile
In the 4 mo’s since this video it’s now $12.99 supposedly marked down from $24.99. It’s still worth $12.99 but it’s curious they almost tripled the price in such a short time.
Hello, I'm new to your channel and I'm curious if there is ever a new NASB 2020 Study Bible that would be coming out, could you pls do a review on it 😊
This is my favorite daily Bible. Love the CSB translation, the single-column format, the font style and size, the clean layout of the text, the size of the Bible, etc. I wish they would make the exact Bible with better materials and binding and I’d buy one in a heartbeat!
Agreed, brother! This is actually the Bible that I use to pack around with me for outreach.
This was my first CSB bible ever. I bought this to try out the translation. I gotta say, I was really impressed with the quality of the bibke for the price I got it for (it was $7 for me at the time). The paper is pretty opaque, text nice and dark, leathertouch cover feels great in the hand. Also the gold guilding quality on mine completely surpasses some of my ESV thinlines (~$20). Which as says alot. Lol
Well excellent choice for your first CSB I would say! Price doesn’t get much better for what get with this Bible IMO, even at $7. That’s why I mentioned it again in my other video haha I feel like most people should definitely consider it when wanting to read the CSB.
I was thinking about getting this bible. Thank you for your review
It’s an awesome value for a single column compact! And no problem, you’re welcome!
@@TheBibleReviewer I enjoy watching your reviews
OK bro, I watched this 3 times the past 3 days and had this in my cart and really prayed on it because I've always wanted a CSB but have too many Bibles. I decided to buy it before it's gone and I will donate a few of the ones I currently have. Lol. Awesome video and I had to sub. 👍
Haha well if you wanted a CSB, at least this is a choice that doesn’t break the bank! That’s awesome that you plan to donate some old your other Bibles though. And glad you enjoyed the video, and I appreciate your 3 views ✌🏼😂
@@TheBibleReviewer I watched it 3 times thinking there would be something telling me not to order it lol. But I love compact and personal sized Bibles and non traditional colors. When you showed the close ups and the dimensions I was pretty much sold. I've never been a fan of the expensive Bibles. The most I've spent on one was like $30 for a large print NET by Nelson. That was one that I wanted to use at home and this CSB will be a great everyday Bible. 😄
@@living_the_mac_and_cheese_life haha it really did impress me as well for this price point. Also yeah I’m finding that I too like a nice non-premium! For this channel I’ll try to have upper ends here and there but I feel value tends to help more people
Reminds me of the old Subway $5 foot long sandwich commercials. Holman could make their own jingle. “Five dollar, five dollar, five dollar CSB” If you don’t remember the commercial, just ignore this post/comment. 😂. Great review, thank you for sharing. 👌 Can’t beat that price. I pay more for a hamburger. 😄
Hahaha yes I remember those commercials! Holman can hit me up if they need a person for that commercial 😂
@@TheBibleReviewer careful, brother: remember what happened to Subway's spokesperson.
I got one on the way from lifeway for 7.50$ awesome!
@@clintgaskill5162 sweet!
8.25 isn't as bad as i would have guessed for such a small bible. That's actually pretty well done. Thanks for the review.
I agree it’s a pretty decent font size for a compact. No problem, thanks for watching! ✌🏼
I have been finding them at thrift stores
Thanks for your review on this. Just bought one!
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Wow I would love to have one I am in to the compact bible
Compacts are really cool and handy! Especially when they come in a decent font size like this
Just got one of these and sending it off to get a rebind!
Oh that’s awesome! If I was ever to get a rebind this would definitely be among the top choices
Great review! Love your videos!
Thank you! I appreciate it!
I think I paid around $15 for this exact Bible edition. However, even at $15 it's a great deal, so at $5 it would be an absolute bargain! The CSB is a very solid translation too - accurate, clear, natural. For my tastes, the only thing missing in the CSB is it isn't as elegant sounding as, say, the versions in the KJV tradition like the ESV. But to be fair, elegance is probably a less important quality than accuracy, clarity, and naturalness. See what CS Lewis wrote in his introduction to JB Phillips' translation of the NT for example:
"There are several answers to such people. In the first place the kind of objection which they feel to a new translation is very like the objection which was once felt to any English translation at all. Dozens of sincerely pious people in the sixteenth century shuddered at the idea of turning the time-honoured Latin of the Vulgate into our common and (as they thought) ‘barbarous’ English. A sacred truth seemed to them to have lost its sanctity when it was stripped of the polysyllabic Latin, long heard at Mass and at Hours, and put into ‘language such as men do use’ - language steeped in all the commonplace associations of the nursery, the inn, the stable, and the street. The answer then was the same as the answer now. The only kind of sanctity which Scripture can lose (or, at least, New Testament Scripture) by being modernized is an accidental kind which it never had for its writers or its earliest readers. The New Testament in the original Greek is not a work of literary art: it is not written in a solemn, ecclesiastical language, it is written in the sort of Greek which was spoken over the eastern Mediterranean after Greek had become an international language and therefore lost its real beauty and subtlety. In it we see Greek used by people who have no real feeling for Greek words because Greek words are not the words they spoke when they were children. It is a sort of ‘basic’ Greek; a language without roots in the soil, a utilitarian, commercial and administrative language. Does this shock us? It ought not to, except as the Incarnation itself ought to shock us. The same divine humility which decreed that God should become a baby at a peasant-woman’s breast, and later an arrested field-preacher in the hands of the Roman police, decreed also that he should be preaching in a vulgar, prosaic and unliterary language. If you can stomach the one, you can stomach the other. The Incarnation is in that sense an irreverent doctrine: Christianity, in that sense, an incurably irreverent religion. When we expect that it should have come before the Word in all the beauty that we now feel in the Authorised Version we are as wide of the mark as the Jews were in expecting that the Messiah would come as a great earthly king. The real sanctity, the real beauty and sublimity of the New Testament (as of Christ’s life) are of a different sort: miles deeper or further in."
Ordered one today… though it was $17 not $5, lol But it’s going to be my work Bible. Can’t wait! My main translation is the LSB.
Thank you for remembering to measure the width or depth of the Bible
I know I do sometimes forget 😅 but you’re welcome!
That's a steal at $5! Good giveaway Bibles for family and friends!
Yeah that’s what I thought too!
What a great deal I may have to grab one of these.
The pagination of this Bible matches the Single Column Wide Margin and Single Column Personal Size (2020 text edition) exactly.
Oh wow that’s awesome! I didn’t know that!
I have both brown and blue cover editions, and they are the exact same print Bible series...BUT...the blue edition has double the AMOUNT OF medium BOLDNESS print (looks fantastic) consistently throughout. What a gem!
Thank you, Brother 🌹🌹🌹🌹
You’re welcome! ✌🏼
I wanted this, coming from the pocket nt version. But ended up with the compact value one (6pt about 4x6in)(2018 edition but with 2020 update, so i think it says 2024 is the 5th print). Looking at this vid and my pocket nt, idk for some reason the ghosting abd transparency is bad on all of them..
Im not sure if my value compact is odd, but its the most opaque i have. The paper is slightly yellow and noticeably different than my esv buffalo leather pocket for example. The other side of the pages text is like, distant, or 'far away' and blurry. Like bokeh effect. You can't make out anything on the other side, making this really easy on the eyes. Its line matched almost microscopically lol i think the 6pt actually helps opaque it.
Anyway, thanks for the showcase
Love the compactness, but drop that concordance.
It’s a chunky monkey for sure. I pre ordered mine for $15. Since that one I now have four others in my navy touch collection 😂. I just got the large print compact reference for $11. Page unsticking took a few hours but I love it! You should review if you haven’t already. Blessings!
Have you ever tried to pan thru the pages at the top and bottom, while bending the Pages backwards or forward? I find usually that releases most of them from sticking together fairly easily..
@@LuvsSno I wish. I had to wear rubber gloves to get the pages to separate a bit then run a slim piece of card stock up and down to fully unstick. It was an ordeal for sure.
So sad to see Bible companies rip people off. The price for this Bible went from $5 to almost $20!! You would have hoped that at least Bible companies wouldn’t jack up prices!
Can never be quite sure price change reasonings. I’m not sure what the retail pricing originally, because the $5 price was a technically a sale price that they had for awhile
In the 4 mo’s since this video it’s now $12.99 supposedly marked down from $24.99. It’s still worth $12.99 but it’s curious they almost tripled the price in such a short time.
Oh that’s interesting, thank you for this update!
Hello, I'm new to your channel and I'm curious if there is ever a new NASB 2020 Study Bible that would be coming out, could you pls do a review on it 😊
Thanks for watching! I am not sure personally on the NASB 2020 study Bible, but maybe, I buy a lot of these Bibles myself so I have to pick and choose
It was almost perfect. Needs to be red letter.
I don’t personally have a strong preference, but I can understand liking red letter editions
That's a steal! Too bad the shipping cost to Manila costs around 7 times the Bible itself!
Ah man! 😬
@@TheBibleReviewer I was able to get one! My friend facilitated the shipping for free! It just arrived today.
@@Tax_Buster that’s awesome!
"Not great value like wal mart "lol
Had to make sure that was clear 😂
😂 is not $5 anymore , 😭
I know 😅😂 but it’s $10 at Lifeway right now and that is still pretty good in my opinion