I believe there is a benefit to reading the Bible in a variety of translations, this helps round out understanding, generates new thoughts or ideas while reading familiar texts, and helps avoid translator biases and subtle changes that may assist the text in being agreeable to preferred dogmas and doctrines.

So far, my favorite edition has been the NASB, which I discovered on the app, Literal Word. Literal Word contains the NASB 1995, which many agree to be the best version of the NASB, but also contains the Legacy Standard Bible, English Standard Version, King James Version, Greek Lexicon, Hebrew Lexicon, footnotes and cross references. It has no ads, articles or social media trackers, though they do use Google’s analytics to see how the app is being used, this I find minimally invasive – I didn’t grant the app network access and it continued to work just fine.

The NASB is considered by some to be the most literal translation of the modern translations. It’s easy to read, and also enjoyable.

The app is intuitive to use, doesn’t have any bloatware, works offline, and even though it can take notes, I prefer to use my Obsidian.MD notebook because I trust the permanence of that app over this one. The app is customizable and uses a beautiful font as default though there are some options.

The NASB can be found a variety of places though I do prefer reading on the Literal Word app.