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The Study Bible: A Preacher’s Most Indispensable Tool

Many excellent sermons can arise primarily from sustained and careful use of a study Bible to pursue the questions you have already discovered about your preaching text. Most have features like interpretive notes, maps, genealogies, comments, cross-references, and indices. Yet with dozens of English translations available in countless editions, it helps to stop and think before going to the local bookstore or your favorite web merchant and spending your money.

Read About: Bible Translations and Editions

Recommended Study Bibles, by Title, Publisher, and Translation

	HarperCollins Study Bible. New Revised Standard Version with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books. New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1993.
	New International Version Study Bible, Zondervan
	New Interpreter’s Study Bible, Abingdon Press, New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2003.
	The Access Bible, New Revised Standard Version with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
	The Catholic Study Bible, Oxford University Press, New American Standard Version
	The Learning Bible, American Bible Society, Contemporary English Version
	The Jewish Study Bible. The Jewish Publication Society TANAKH Translation. Oxford University Press, 2004.
	The New Oxford Annotated Bible, Third Edition. New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001