What do you consider to be the best Study Bible?

[Thermodynamics]

I am currently using a Ryrie Study Bible (Authorized Version).

I was wondering which study Bible you like best and why?

[Robert]

I use a KJV myself, and I don't usually bother with the study notes; I write my own.

I want to be sure that I'm understanding the Bible as God wrote it, not as someone else intends it. Yeah, once in a while I'll use study guides, but I'm usually careful on when and what I use.

[lyngraphics]

I like the Life Application Study Bible... I uses the one for students when I was fist saved in junior high and got a lot out of it! Now I use the adult version.

[fracturedInfinity]

I have a KJV with Scofield's notes. Really the only reason I have his though is because it was given to me as a graduation gift from the church I attended 12 years ago.

I tend to try to do like Robert though, and make my own notes in it.

A few of the people in my Monday night Bible study (including the teacher) use a MacArthur study Bible.

[Sunny]

I don't use study Bibles. I do studies for myself. :hat

[mary]

I don't use study Bibles. I do studies for myself. :hat

You sound like the Bereans of old, they search the Scripture to see if those
things were so.

Praise the Lord! I am sure the Holy Spirit will guide you to all truth!
Just my two cents!

[Sunny]

I just came in from working for a minute and I realized my post must have sounded so snooty. LOL It wasn't meant to be, I just didn't elaborate at all.

I just have so little faith in other teaching of men. I have seen so much error. I would just rather study myself, and I gather information from many sources, caching it away, tossing some out, keeping some, putting some in the maybe file, etc.

Study of God's Word is never ending. And a great adventure!!!!

[MillennialSaint]

I have a leather copy of the "Companion Bible." Notes and appendixes by E.W. Bullinger. Of all the study Bibles I've come across, I think this is the greatest. It's jam-packed with information. If I had to sell all my Bible-study books, this would be enough. :thumb

[SSITWOG324]

Hebrew/Greek "Key Word" Study Bible
KJV
AMG Publishers

[bookworm1711]

In my living room next to the chair I usually occupy I have two shelves devoted to Bibles that I frequently use. Many of them are study Bibles or Bible study tools.

The source I use most frequently is Nelson's Cross Reference Guide to the Bible. It lets me dig into the Bible, verse by verse, without dealing with man-made commentary. I find the Bible does very well interpreting itself. It does so, and down to the minute details, to a much greater extent than most Bible readers realize.

Two study Bibles are at the top of my list for their usefulness: The Companion Bible, and Dake's Annotated Reference Bible. Between them I can find the answer to almost every Bible question.

The first study Bible I ever owned was the original Scofield Reference Bible. I bought a fine loose leaf edition, full leather cover, back years ago when I was a student in high school. I still find it useful, though I've learned much since then from the Bible and about the Bible from other sources.

I have the Life Application Bible and the NIV Study Bible, and the McArthur Study Bible. I also have the Archeology Study Bible.

I have the Pilgrim Bible, which has a most helpful analysis of the book of Ecclesiastes, and many other helpful features. I have the Ryrie Study Bible, and Dr. F. Kenton Beshore's Prophecy Bible, which is excellent on Bible prophecy, as is the Dake Annotated Reference Bible.

The Newberry Bible is most helpful. It uses symbols to mark features of the original language, and useful helps pertaining to the names of God in the Bible and much more.

I also have F. W. Grant's Numerical Bible, and an early nineteenth century study Bible published by Bagster and Sons called The Comprehensive Bible.

Most of the time I read from a large print King James Version that has no notes or references, but when I get "stuck," or want to dig deeper, I enjoy using these and many more resources in my library.