The One Year Bible NIV

How do you review a bible? "Yes, this version of God's Word is better than Blank's version of God's Word."? :-)

Yes, versions do matter, I suppose, and the NIV version is a great version for readability. The text flows well and it is coherent and easily understood. I'm not sure I'd likely use it for studying scripture, but for daily reading it is a good translation.

This one is broken up into daily readings, letting you read the bible in one year. It doesn't include the Apocryphal books, but only the books generally found in the Protestant version of the bible. It is designed nicely to include readings from different parts of the bible on a daily basis without burdoning the reader with lots of extraneous text or discussion to confuse them. This is scripture laid bare, and given in a daily dose. Nice.

This version has a bonded leather cover, gilt edges and a place-mark ribbon. It feels good in one's hand. It is also large print, for those of us with aging vision apparatus. We get to the point where we can't hold the book far enough away to read it!

Overall, I like the way this book is constructed and thought out, and will make it a part of my daily prayer and study. It's nicely done. ( )

Would be better if divided up into 365 readings rather than 730. ( )