What version of the Bible do you prefer to read?  

I like the New American Standard Bible a lot. It is a quite literal word-for-word translation that sticks to the original languages really well. However having a more middle ground (like the NIV) that is a mix of word-for-word and thought-for-thought translations is also pretty important I think. I am generally not a fan of paraphrase versions, but I really enjoy Eugene Peterson's The Message translation for personal devotional reading because he usues very evocative language that is pretty powerful (and even though it is a paraphrase, Peterson has a firm grasp of the original languages and did his translation really well).

The NASB is my primary translation and I enjoy it a lot.

I read 10 or 12 versions at different times, but find myself checking them all with the King James Version. There are a lot of variations on different passages, so I like to see what each one says.

I like the King James Version but I like the Amplified better. The amplified brings out the King James better. The word that the King James used came was translated from the Greek and Hebrew. They used the word the way they talked at that time.

You look up those words in the Greek and Hebrew concordance and that what the amplified version is. It brings out the Greek and Hebrew meaning to what the King James version used. Hope I made sense here. I understood what I wrote, I hope everyone does, LOL.

I have had many bibles, including all the ones you mentioned. I now use a study bible, and have found this one to be the best of them all for me. I understand it. It is called the "Life application study bible, niv."

The New American Standard is allegedly the closest translation. The NIV happened because they were upset the the NAS didn't conform to ultra-conservative protestant interpretations - like they used "young woman" instead of "virgin" as a description of Jesus' mother, Mary.

I have the New Testament in the original Koine Greek dialect, the original language of the New Testament, but I have yet to learn the language adequately to use it.

I have several kinds of Bibles. I have a New International Version Study Bible because some studies that I participated in used only NIV. I am told the scholarship on the translation is very good. I also use a New American Standard Version study Bible, it was a gift from my brother the preacher. It has lots of cross references and how to's and study guides. Also very scholarly. Also a translation. Living Bible is a paraphrase, what someone, not a scholar who knows languages, decided a translation really said. A human interpretation. The Message is a Contemporary Language Translation, taken from the original languages into English, and it is much better. Nothing, however, matches the poetry of KJV.

I prefer reading the TEV or the Today's English Version since I grew up with it. It's the bible being used in school when I was in grade school.

I have a "Everyday Bible" I think it is close to RSV. It's easy to understand and has a condordance in the back. God Bless!

i just prefer the catholic bible. because that is my religion. i am a roman catholic and in consistent to that, i read the catholic bible. makes things less complicated.

I like the King James Bible. As you say, there are ones where there are words are different and I don't want that. I don't understand why they have differences like that.