{"id":3149,"date":"2014-12-10T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomrainer.wpengine.com?p=3149"},"modified":"2020-02-07T15:41:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T21:41:52","slug":"top-ten-bible-translations-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/blog\/top-ten-bible-translations-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Bible Translations, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Christian Booksellers Association recently released its list of the top ten selling Bible translations for December 2014. The CBA actually provides two lists: one by dollar sales; and the other by unit sales.<\/p>\n

Top Ten Translations Based on Dollar Sales<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. New International Version<\/li>\n
  2. King James Version<\/li>\n
  3. New King James Version<\/li>\n
  4. New Living Translation<\/li>\n
  5. English Standard Version<\/li>\n
  6. Holman Christian Standard Bible<\/li>\n
  7. The Voice<\/li>\n
  8. New American Standard<\/li>\n
  9. Reina Valera 1960<\/li>\n
  10. New International Reader’s Version<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Top Ten Translations Based on Unit Sales<\/strong><\/p>\n

      \n
    1. New International Version<\/li>\n
    2. The Voice<\/li>\n
    3. King James Version<\/li>\n
    4. English Standard Version<\/li>\n
    5. New King James Version<\/li>\n
    6. New Living Translation<\/li>\n
    7. Holman Christian Standard Bible<\/li>\n
    8. Reina Valera 1960<\/li>\n
    9. Nueva Version Internacional (Spanish)<\/li>\n
    10. New International Reader’s Version<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      What is your preferred Bible translation? What do you think about these two lists? Let me hear from you.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Christian Booksellers Association recently released its list of the top ten selling Bible translations for December 2014.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,184,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-answers","category-discipleship","category-grow"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTop Ten Bible Translations, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Christian Booksellers Association recently released its list of the top ten selling Bible translations for December 2014.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/blog\/top-ten-bible-translations-2014\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Top Ten Bible Translations, 2014\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Christian Booksellers Association recently released its list of the top ten selling Bible translations for December 2014.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/blog\/top-ten-bible-translations-2014\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Church Answers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-12-10T11:00:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-02-07T21:41:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bible.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"339\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Thom S. 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