If you buy a third book for
studying the Bible, buy The New Strong's Expanded Concordance for the Bible  

Don't forget to review the Software options as part of Step 2 

Isn't a concordance part of that fleet of 16 supersonic jets built by the English and French? Or is it a Spanish accordion?



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It's about $28 at Christianbook.com

 If you are sitting at your computer and you want to find a verse in the Bible, but you do not know where it is, the fastest and best way is to use Biblegateway.com

 

TIP: Place the Biblegateway.com
link on the toolbar at the top of your screen. Instructions on how to place a link on your toolbar if you are using Internet Explorer...

 
You will need an Exhaustive Concordance.  Becuase virtually all of English literature's Bible was the King James Version (KJV) and all widely-known passages are from the KJV, rather than from the New International Version (NIV), or New American Standard Bible (NASB) or New Living Translation (NLT), you should have a Strong's concordance regardless of the translation of your Study Bible.

If you have an NIV Study Bible, your first concordance should still be a Strong's which was written originally by James Strong in 1890.  The Expanded version with more study aids was published in 2001.

Or if your don't like the New Strong's Expanded Concordance, you may want to arm-wrestle the Strongest Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible Comfort Print: 21st Century Edition, by Nelson published in 2002, about $27.  ChristianBook.com   You can get the original style Strong's for less than half of the cost of the 2001 version.  The original is excellent too.

Types of concordances....