The Paragraph Style KJV - Review

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Kingdom Bible reviews. I've got a brand new Bible to go over tonight, and yes, it's not new in the sense, like, it just got released, but it's new for me. I have never seen anything like this, and if you can see from the slipcase here, you'll know what's very unique about this King James version from Thomas Nelson. This is the paragraph style. large print thin line in the black leather soft, and this does have the thumb index features in it as well. So what's so unique about that is that the King James version is usually 9.9 times out of 10. Verse by verse. So this is completely unique. This is something I saw reviewed a few months ago, and I thought it'd be cool just to grab it, and I got this at a bookstore that, I think, I don't know if it was used or not, but this slip case looks a little rough around the edges. There's even some tape there, so please bear, bear in mind that this is not going to be a spotless... version of this just because I did get this at a used bookstore. So, but here it is, this is the features here, Words of Christ in red, the concordance, one-year reading plan. Parables and Miracles of Jesus, the full-color maps, two satin ribbons, and we got a 10-point King James Version comfort print from 2K Denmark, and there is the ISBN, if you guys want to take a pause and have a look there. It is retailed for 5499 US. I did not pay that for this at all. So this is a very, again... and I'll get into it here. Thomas Nelson does a fantastic job with their leather softs, and this does come in genuine leather and whatnot, but I have this in the black leather soft collection. This is the slipcase, again, it comes into, there we go, wonderful, beautiful. Here is the Bible. Now, as you can see, I... Again, what I was saying about Thomas Nelson, their leather softs are top of the line. Like, this stuff, this feels really good, high quality. I love the size of this. You have on the, it's not raised spine hubs, spine hubs at all. This is just printed in, you know, Holy Bible. You got some decorative kind of... designs here, then the King James, and then the Thomas Nelson logo, and then you have the ISBN is on the back in the gold stamping, which I know some people aren't huge fan of. For what you're paying, it's not a big deal. for me personally, but the size of this, this is the first thing, before I even get into the interior of it, this is a fantastic size. The thin lines, the Thomas Nelson thin lines are, they, they, they, it's just, it means made for your hands, like it just, it feels so nice in it. This is a regular size Bible. I'll do a quick, uh, measurement here for you guys, so you can, uh, see it. We have, uh, just over six and a half. by nine and a half, and again as a thin line, this is just a smidge over an inch thick, just a fantastic size. You'll love holding this. I've never held the genuine leather, but if it's anything like their other genuine leathers in this type of format, it'll be really nice. Just a great, affordable, beautiful-sized Bible. On the front, we'll get into the inside here in a second, but it is perimeter stitched, as you can see, really nice grain on the leather soft as well, yeah, as well, you have your two satin ribbons, you got a black one, and then that gold color one. Now, this may be why... I got this at such a cheap price. The gluing just seems to be a little off here. Now, again, this is, you know, I didn't pay anything close to what the retail was. So the tailband looks like just a mass produced, so you can't really see it there, but the glue's a little bit off there. But they're blackhead and tail bands as well. And then let's open it up. So it is a paste-down liner with the majority of the budget-friendly Bibles that Thomas Nelson does provide. Pace-down liner with that decorative kind of stamping or design on it. Not really sure what you would call that. But your presentation page is right on the inside cover. The paper is really nice. You know, it's the standard Thomas Nelson paper for these type of budget-friendly Bible, so I'm guessing a 32-ish GSM. Nice opacity, so it's line match. They say it's line matched, but we'll see here in a second with this paragraph style. Here is the particulars. You have printed in South Korea, the paragraph style Bible, large print, thin line. And then you got your table of contents. Pretty straightforward. Not a huge, not a lot of features in this Bible. It is a reference Bible, so I'll show you that going forward here, but not a ton of features. The parables and stuff will get to in the back as well. Bible book abbreviations, the Epistle Dedicatory, and then you got your Old Testament title page. Really easy to turn to. It's got the little brief introductions, and here is the, well, we'll just... Let's just do this. We'll do this here so you can get a good, instead of with that introduction. Let's have a look here. This is the layout. This is the paragraph style, which is a lot of people love this. The majority of other Bible translations have the paragraph style. This is the first, like, the only one I know of, there could be other... Bibles, King James versions that are paragraph style, but here is what you get. You get the big bold, sorry, chapter numbers, but then, like, you know, you can't even see it unless you really dig in there, but the verse numbers are now kind of hidden. This is definitely not something you would be preaching from. I mean, maybe you could if you got really good eyesight, but the verse numbers are really small, and they're the same color as the text. It's all black text here until you get to the New Testament, but it's a little hard to, you know... get the verse numbers here, but this is designed just to read. It's just, you know, the paragraph style is designed to be read, not necessarily to be, I don't even know. I don't, maybe it is, maybe people study with these type of, this is new to me. This is completely new to me. I got to be brutally honest with you guys. I have never really been a huge fan of the paragraph style. I've seen it in the New King James here and there. It took me a while just to get over the single column. But this here is just, it's different. It's definitely different. It's much more comfortable, let's say, to read than seeing the verse numbers on each side, but it's got a little, you know, poetry setting as well, which is different in this layout. But you can see here the poetry style. It's definitely unique, definitely unique. Yeah, so here is the references. So there is references and supplied words here. This is the kind of Skylar Canterbury slash sovereign kind of look where everything is down at the bottom. This is super hard to follow if you're trying to find the, you know, the verse on top of the supplied word and then the... You know, the reference, like, this is a lot. So this is why I said, I don't know if this would be so much of a study Bible. This is more of just straight reading through. But, you know, it's all here. You got your references down at the bottom, again, more of the poetry setting here. You have your black ribbon there. Sorry, I forgot to mention. This is the... The index, the thumb index version. So you do have all of the books here. The nice, the thumb index, the printing is pretty nice. No real, like the stamping and printing of this when they cut it is pretty uniform. It's not bad at all. It's, you know, I'm not a thumb index guy, but... This is pretty nice. It's definitely easy to find your places here for sure. And it is gold gilding. Sorry, I forgot to mention that. Gold gilding. Decent gold. Nothing to write home about. Just, you know, your typical gold gilding. But when you get to Psalms and Proverbs, it becomes verse by verse. So now here you get back to the verse by verse in Psalms and Proverbs. So that is, that's unique. So you've got paragraph style until it gets into the poetry and verse by verse going into Psalms and Proverbs. And even into Ecclesiastes here, too. There is some parts where, no, it is, it's verse by verse, 9, 10, 11, yeah, it's verse by verse in Ecclesiastes too. It is verse by verse as well. Wow, that's pretty cool. Verse by verse in Isaiah as well. But then you get into Ezekiel, not verse by verse, it's back to the paragraph format. And I forgot to mention here up top, you do have your chapter headings as well. And then there is some paragraph headings, too, throughout the scripture, but it's not all the time. There won't be, there's not a paragraph heading on each paragraph. It's just kind of breaking up the text a bit there, too. And Daniel, yeah, and then, sorry, we get to the New Testament. You got your title page here, and then again, the book introductions here in Matthew, and then the red letter. Now, I did notice there's some red that's almost faded a little bit, blurry almost, but generally overall Thomas Nelson does a really good job with the red letter. Nothing to, that was really hard to, you know, you know, read, it was, there was just a few parts I noticed where it was a little blurry, but overall, for what, for what do you pay for this? It's just, you know, it's, it's, it's real good quality print and everything. And I, I still love this paper. I still, I'm still such a big fan of the Thomas Nelson paper for these budget -friendly, uh, bibles. But, uh, yeah, so again, this is the, the paragraph settings going all the way, red letter. We're in the New Testament here. and it goes all the way through to Revelation in there. I'll give you guys a good look at the red letter. You can see, they say it's line match, but because it's paragraph, you do see a little bit of see-through. It's not bad. In the light, it looks a little bit worse than it does when you're reading it. And then, sorry, at the end of Revelation, you have, like I said, red letter all the way through. references and supplied words at the bottom, and then you go into the miracles of Jesus, you've got the miracles of Jesus, you've got the parables of Jesus, you do have a one-year reading plan, and then you have a concordance. Decent-sized concordance, I mean, you know, again, I wouldn't be doing a lot of study in something like this, maybe people do, but... it's there, it's, you know, and it is a thin line, so it doesn't, it doesn't really add a lot of bulk to the, to the, uh, the Bible itself. And then you have your standard, uh, glossy maps in the back. And then your paste down liner in the back as well. So, my opinion, um, I will probably never read this. And it's just because, This is really hard for me to kind of find my spot. I mean, you know, when you get into the poetry verse by verse is fine, but, you know, you're going through, you know, like, look at First Samuel. I mean, where are you, where's the two? The two's right here. The three is in the middle there. This is really hard to read. Now, I forgot to mention this. This is something that they did do. and I'll just get here. Obviously, when it's a red letter, they kept the black letters, the black number, excuse me, of the verses are black, and then you have the red letters, so that's a lot easier to see. Now, I don't know if you would do that, if Thomas Nelson would ever do that in the Old Testament, where maybe the letters are bolder, maybe, I doubt they'd do a different color, but it's just, they're really hard. I mean, here we're in Chronicles. I mean, that, that isn't even bold. Like, like, Second Chronicles 1, verse 4, you can't even see that. It's literally, what's, is it a verse? Is it a reference? So, for people that are familiar with paragraph -style Bibles, I'm sure they'd have no problem with this. And especially being in a King James, they might actually prefer that, that it's in a paragraph. This is something I would not read, just because preference, just preference. As a Bible, as the presentation, the leather soft, the feel of the size is great. Even the thumb indexes are really nice. And what you pay for it, it's definitely something to look at if you're into the paragraph style. If you're not in a paragraph style, it's a real hard trend. transition from reading verse by verse into this. But this is unique. Again, like I said, 99.9% of the King James Bibles I have seen in my lifetime are verse by verse. This isn't. So if you want something different as a reading experience, and that's very affordable, I know there's a lot of Bibles out there right now that are in the paragraph style that are like in the premium lines. This is... This is, you know, if you want that kind of reading experience, but don't want to pay a premium price, is a good option. This is definitely a good option. For me, personally, I would not read this just, it's just, it's a little too much. Like, it's hard to find my spot, my place here. That's just a personal preference. For people that are into it, I'm sure they'll love it. So that is the King James Version, paragraph style from Thomas Nelson, large print thin line. The pros of this, the size of it, the leather soft is great, the print is really nice, it's pretty uniform throughout, you know, just a really affordable paragraph style if you're into that. The con to me is that it is paragraph style, it's not something I'm used to, and it's not necessarily a con, it's more a personal preference. Yeah, I do love the size of it, though. This is definitely one of the better-sized Bibles. It feels great in the hand. And again, the Thomas Nelson Leather Soft, as you guys know, is really, really good. So hope you enjoyed the review, and I'll see you on the next one.

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