How Many Bibles?

How many Bibles do you have in your home and/or office, currently?

  • 1

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 2

    Votes: 5 5.8%

  • 5

    Votes: 5 5.8%

  • 10

    Votes: 19 22.1%

  • More?

    Votes: 57 66.3%
  • Total voters
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How many Bibles do you have in your home and/or office, currently? Or, another way of saying it: how many Bibles do you own?
 
I had to go with more than ten, for several reasons. I am unwilling to throw them away, I am an avid book collector (both for study and as a hobby), and I am moderately OCD (not quite as bad as Jon Lake, though, with the clean linen cloth and all !!!!:p :handshake:)
 
I voted more than 10... but to be fair most of the are on my computer... I have probably 30 translations and several Hebrew, Greek and Latin Bibles...

I then have my BHS, my Greek NT, NIV, NKJV, KJV, RSV, CEV, ASV, RSV, and can't forget my NIV Teen Study Bible and my Spirit of the Reformation NIV Study Bible...

WOW! That is a lot! It really makes you realize that God has blessed us incredibly to be able to have so much when other Christians have only a page of Scripture to study from...
 
Easily 15+. I too can never bring myself to throw them away. I still have my Scofield (3) and Ryrie(2) Study Bibles. :um: I also have various translations. Now if you start counting the Bibles of the rest of the family... well, let's just say I don't have enough fingers and toes.
 
Way over 10: besides my working Russian Bibles (1 travelling, 1 funeral, 1... just pocket, 1 preaching, 1 compact preaching, 1 MacArthur Study), I also have 4 KJV, 5 or 6 NIV, 1 NASB, 2 ESV, 2 Parallel (NIV/KJV and KJV/NKJV)... perhaps something else. Most of them are gifts. Never throw them away but often give them out to others. Somehow I feel that acquiring new Bibles is a never ending process - you just cannot have too many.
 
Over 10 plus several New Testaments such as Gideons etc. Then if you add my wife's bibles and our sons bibles it is quite a number.
 
More than ten. Aside from Bibles I have purchased. Which really isn't an awful lot compared to some. I seem to receive two or three Bibles each year as gifts. Isn't it funny that people seem to think the perfect gift for a pastor is a Bible? I usually end up giving a good number away. It is hard to give away the Cambridge and Allan's that I have been given. I have though, at times.
 
I hate to admit it, but I have about 40+ whole editions...I also have Gideon NTs and then Greek NTs, and then Hebrew OTs. (I can't help it...if there is one thing I lust after it is books and Bibles.) I have given some away to those who need them, but most of the ones that I keep are full of my notes, and so I assume that no one else would want them.
 
When I got to five, just for me, and hadn't even started on the family Bibles, what my husbands has, much less the electronic versions, I had to go with more than 10. We even have one wrapped for our 15-year-old for Christmas (Spirit of Reformation NIV study Bible).
 
jd.morrison said:
I voted more than 10... but to be fair most of the are on my computer... I have probably 30 translations and several Hebrew, Greek and Latin Bibles...

I then have my BHS, my Greek NT, NIV, NKJV, KJV, RSV, CEV, ASV, RSV, and can't forget my NIV Teen Study Bible and my Spirit of the Reformation NIV Study Bible...

WOW! That is a lot! It really makes you realize that God has blessed us incredibly to be able to have so much when other Christians have only a page of Scripture to study from...
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I recall one anecdote about people in England during the Reformation era, trading a wagon load of hay for just one or two pages of a Bible printed in their own language. Puts me to shame that I don't spend more time in the Word!
 
Me:
Scofield KJV (from my Dispensational days)
ESV Reformation Study Bible
NASB
Small ESV
Pocket NIV
French Bible
Korean Bible
Kamtok Pidgen Bible
3 Gideon New Testaments

My hubby:
NASB
ESV
Pocket KJV
Grandpa's KJV
Spanish Bible
 
Andrew, you're right on. I've thought the same thing, especially considering the commentaries, sermons, etc., we have right at our finger tips. I am far more ignorant of the Word than I should be given all that is available! (Not to mention the excellent preaching in my own church.)
 
TsonMariytho said:
I recall one anecdote about people in England during the Reformation era, trading a wagon load of hay for just one or two pages of a Bible printed in their own language.
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My friends were telling me how they copied the Four Gospels by hand(!) in the 80s. I myself, while an unbeliever, bought my first Russian Bible in the year of 1988 (or so) at the flee market - there were a lot of brand new Bibles that had been smuggled to the Soviet Union from the West and then somehow appeared in the unofficial book markets.
 
Each of the children have a Gideon's NT from the gent down the road. Two of the children were presented with NT's upon baptism. Four of our children each own an ESV. Three children also own a KJV. I believe we have 3 other ESV, 2 Geneva's, a KJV Thompson (the other Thompson was given away...we have a habit of giving away Bibles to friends and coworkers...many whom either don't have good study material, don't own a Bible but are requesting one, etc), an ASV, and I have no idea if there are more floating about. But when you consider how many are in our household....
 
Im not sure this is quite fair, as I work in a ministry position for the Army and have several hundred Bibles in my office. But personally I have about 12-15 personal Bibles.
 
I answered 10, but we have somewhere between 9-12. My wife had 5-6 and I had 5-6, so when we got married we combined forces, so to speak. We have KJV, NKJV, ESV, NASV, NIV, a Spanish translation, and a dual English/Spanish version I got her as a wedding gift (she's from Spain).
 
Does this include digital and online Bibles? I have been using digitized stuff more and more.
 
I didn't include online. If we do we will have have many, many Bibles.

What is available to us in this day is outstanding. What a wonderful and frightening day we live in!
 
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I hate to say it but I have 40+. I have a weakness for them I have just about every study bible there is, sometimes more than one copy, and 1 or more copies of non-study bibles.

But I try to give them away whenever I have a chance.
 
shackleton said:
I hate to say it but I have 40+. I have a weakness for them I have just about every study bible there is, sometimes more than one copy, and 1 or more copies of non-study bibles.

But I try to give them away whenever I have a chance.
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Ditto, I have some multiple copies on some Bibles, I usually, call a local Pastor and ask that they be given to members with Bibles "on the last leg" and new converts who may not own a Bible.
 
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