diff --git a/jrnl/cli.py b/jrnl/cli.py
index 3b59da3c..06639108 100644
--- a/jrnl/cli.py
+++ b/jrnl/cli.py
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ def run(manual_args=None):
     configure_logger(args.debug)
     args.text = [p.decode('utf-8') if util.PY2 and not isinstance(p, unicode) else p for p in args.text]
     if args.version:
-        version_str = "{0} version {1} (Python {3})".format(jrnl.__title__, jrnl.__version__, sys.version)
+        version_str = "{0} version {1} (Python {2})".format(jrnl.__title__, jrnl.__version__, sys.version)
         print(util.py2encode(version_str))
         sys.exit(0)