Our pastor teaches from the NASB version, the Ryrie study bible to be exact, along with the original Hebrew. Ryrie was one of his teachers in seminary. I have compared many verses between NASB and NIV and find them to be almost identical. I would use either. I won't use a KJV version ever again. They are just too hard to understand. I'd rather make sense out of what I'm reading than try to decipher which thee and thou the passage is talking about.