I really enjoyed this! My perfect Bible exists. I dreamed up the Stridon like 10 years before it was a thing.

Mr. Dinosaur here!🦕😊Because I grew up with it, I prefer verse by verse center column reference, as in The NKJV Classic Center-Column Reference Bible. I would customize it by using your choice of paper as cited, changing the red highlights and words of Christ to Maclaren blue, adding blue drop caps, and have one blue and one silver ribbon. Finally, it would have a light gray cover, and blue under silver page gilding. 😎👍📖Thanks & Blessings

Wow. I’m gawking at all these gorgeous Bibles. 🥰

I guess I'm really easy to please...I just bought a $14 NKJV hardback to pair with my $21 TBS Westminster hardback. The goats are sitting on the shelf.

This was a good concept for a video. You thought through in detail the aspects/features important to you. It made me curious as to what my top five features would be. Just some random thoughts on the subject... It would definitely have to be NKJV, and I would want all of the notes the version originally came with (language, translation, explanation & textual). It would have to be printed somewhere besides China. The print would have to be larger than what I have now. I don't know what the font size is on my EDC (30-year-old Thomas Nelson wide margin edition), but I need larger print in both the text and the notes. The binding would have to be done by my best friend. I've known him since 1968, and for as long as I've known him, his hobby has been carving leather. I've had belts, wallets, checkbook covers, guitar straps, holsters and a sheath for a cell phone made for me by him. And 3 decades ago, I encouraged him to get into rebinding Bibles. I have 3 he's done for me (including my EDC), so my "perfect Bible" project wouldn't be perfect for me without his contribution.

I like all those choices you made. Great video. I enjoyed it

Single column, wide margin, 10pt font. Like the Inductive Study Bibles. I love having room to take notes and single column reads better than double. The Tyndale House Greek NT references. Double column on the bottom. Plenty of space between the two. CSB Maps, love them. Also love the drop caps and cream vellum-style paper in the Ancient Faith Bible. Also like it's thumb indexed tabs, black for OT, red for NY. Goatskin leather, tooled sides. Gilded pages, like the ESV heirloom (actual Dutch version, please). Also, words of Christ in....black. Yep. Same as the rest of Scripture. But, I do want, like Beale's coming OT in NT Study Bible, allusions and citations from the OT in NT (or later in OT) in blue.

I like the Topaz layout best.

Cant wait to see this Pastor Tim!

Love the blue! Love the words of Christ in blue! I have a HIStory, NKJV MacLaren, NASB and NIV Heritage Passaggio Setting Bibles by Zondervan with blue print text. They are all my favorites due to the blue lettering, blue accents, or words of Christ in blue. Easy reading and easy on the eyes. But I love anything that is His Truth, God’s Word.

Personally as I’ve been in the faith for almost thirty years now, I’ve gotten to dislike the xref in any Bible but prefer a translation have extensive text notes. Really enjoyed this video!

Center column references, 9 pt type with generous leding. Lexicon type, CSB translation. Opaque paper that works well with Microns. Medium sized margins. Holman maps.

TY Tim, I learn something in every video you put out... have a great day!

I’d have my maps in the style of the Lord of the Rings maps along with Doré Art. 10pt Single column, side column reference on the inner margins. Foot notes at the bottom. Wrap that in Badalassi Carlo waxy leather and send it my way.

Guessing.. . Smaller drop caps in the Canterbury Psalms because there is more white space there. Larger drop caps on “empty” page would probably look HUGE??

Yea, I think you pretty much nailed it. I agree with everything you said!

Thank you, Brother Tim. GO GO GO 10K!!!

I would need a genie for mine. 1. Wish that the Gothic Bible was fully intact. 2. A fully annotated English translation of said Bible. 3. Making it an interlinear with both Greek and Gothic.

Sounds good!

I want that to happen as well!

Mine would be NKJV, at least 10 pt font, 12 pt lead, wide margins, and a good junk of note taking paper in the back.

Wow. I can't disagree with most of that. I do love blue under silver though for the edges. Good summary. Like it!

It's funny how similar your dream Bible is to mine. I mean, just everything you mentioned is what I would want in my Bible as well, except I don't really care for the drop caps.

Perfect Bible: Take the TCR, increase the font to 11, add the compete set of NKJV footnotes, and 6 inch wide margins, and somehow manage to make it small enough to fit in my pocket...and wrap it in burgundy Horween Chromexcel leather If anyone can figure out a physics behind that I'll buy it yesterday.

My "perfect Bible?" 🤔 Does it have to be portable? 🤭 If you could only hear the argument now brewing in my ADHD brain cuz it just went "all of them! The interlinear with every translation laid out side by side & ALL the notes, pictures & maps." I know this is not possible but ADHD brain is like "You know if we use the low priced "economy" versions...I feel like this a challenge" 🤦‍♀️ But more realistically, New Testament only, side by side, NASB, MEV, & The First Nations Translation, with all of the notes & maps.

ESV Large Print Personal Size, no references/concordance/maps. Nice and simple with large text

I am surprised that you did not choose a study Bible to include in your favorite.

I could be wrong because I’ve never owned a Canterbury but I’m guessing it’s smaller on psalms because some psalms are quite short like 117. And it would look weird if the drop cap was twice as big as the chapter itself

I have a Maclaren too... is that one rebound? if so who did you use?

Just a thought, but maybe the Book of Job uses large drop caps because in the original Hebrew, the Book of Job is written in verse for the majority of the book.

Nice requirements.

Eotc bible English review?

Text block Allan reader NASB exact layout and references, but in KJV with red letter. Must still have old testament quotes Capitalised. Take away introductions, maps and concordance. Cover Green schuyler goat skin, semi yapp, NO Jerusalem cross (centre or not) 😉

For me, the perfect Bible would be a text only KJB with the Epistle Dedicatory to James and the Preface of the Translators to the Reader. No maps, no references, no pronunciation marks, italics for supplied words, Words of Christ in black, 10-12 point font, 28-40 GSM French Indopaque paper. If I wanted one with references, I would want the above, except, the references should only be the translators notes from 1611.

so ... when are you going to create your perfect bible ... and offer it for sale ?

Why do many Bibles have a strong ink smell? It is a big problem I've run into lately. I'm praying the premium Bible I just orded won't. No Bible reviewer that I've come across ever talks about this important issue. ??

Not a fan of the Gauffered edges personally.

I don’t really care about all that fancy stuff - I spend my time reading and studying the Word. My perfect Bible would be the Didache Bible because I like the commentary and the cross reference to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You always want a Catholic Bible, so you do not waste time tracking down a matching set of Deuterocanonical Books - and if you are serious about Bible study you need those. I go back and forth on RSVCE and RSV2CE - right now I am using the RSVCE during my Holy Hour and enjoy the language used. I would like a soft cover on the Didache Bible - leather or leatherette is fine with me. Blue to match the current version of the Catechism would be awesome.