MIX AND MATCH: 
Your Favorite Translation with Favorite Study Notes

 
  
Modern Bible translators and authors who write  the study notes are the best Biblical scholars. 

If you don't want to hear what they have to say, just read the Biblical text in your study Bible.  

But chances are that on every page you will want to have more information about what the Bible says and when you do, it will be like dozens of Bible experts are pouring over the same Biblical texts just waiting to respond to your question and ready to assist you with historical, cross reference, definitional, and teaching information. Just read the study notes they have spent years developing.

 

 Translation Chart showing which translations are word-for-word and which are thought-for-thought.

MIX AND MATCH. Yes, that's right, in buying a Study Bible you can probably match your favorite Bible translation with your favorite Bible Study Notes. 

I. Most any Major Bible Translation:  

NASB=New American Standard Bible

KJV=King James Version

NKJV=New King James Version

NIV=New International Version

NLT=New Living Translation

can be matched with just about any of the 

II. Major Study Notes:

developed originally for the NIV Study Bible.

developed originally for the Life Application Bible.

developed originally for the KJV Open Bible. (Biblical Cyclopedic Index is one of the largest, fastest, and best Bible Indexes ever created). 

developed for the Thompson Chain-Reference Bible.

developed for the Scofield KJV Bible.

And there are others.

And new combinations seem to be created every few years.