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A decade ago (!) I worked on parsing bible searches.

https://www.davidwparker.com/2010/03/04/parsing-bible-search...

It was a neat little project at the time, but due to copyrights, I didn't get as far as I would have liked... I had planned on making a `diff` tool for bible verses between versions.

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Well, this is the reason there are so many versions. Copyright on the best seller book of all time.

Copyrights didn’t exist when most were written (not many people use NIV versions) so what are you on about?

> (not many people use NIV versions)

[citation needed]

NIV is always on the list of most popular bible versions, and is in heavy usage. KJV is by far the most popular, but NIV is still very popular.

I'd also add that the very popular New King James Version (NKJV) is both copyrighted and uses different source material from the KJV which means that differences in wording are not just old to new English, but also differences in meaning.

Good point, and I didn't know that about NKJV. Very interesting.

Here you both go:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/299402/preferred-bible-v...

Does anybody actually keep statistics on this? I’ve never seen it used, and I’ve been to probably 15 different churches in 2 geographical regions. Most of the churches I got to say avoid anything new and copyrighted. So no I don’t have citation but I ask you for the same. Let’s see some citation that both NIV and NKJV are the most popular.

Most people read KJV, which version are you trying to use where copyrights exist?

NIV is a very popular version, and is copyrighted, as is NASB, ESV, etc.

I know about NIV, but I’ve never actually seen one being read or used. In fact most places I’ve worshiped they have specifically said avoid NIV

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