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The New International Version (NIV) is a translation of the Bible into contemporary English. Published by Biblica, the complete NIV was released on October 27, 1978 [6] with a minor revision in 1984 and a major revision in 2011. The NIV relies on recently-published critical editions of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts. [1] [2]
[2] The politics of the time were such that there was a marked frustration between the clergy of the continent and the clergy of England; there already was a formally accepted Great Bible used in the church, but the Geneva Bible was enormously popular.
A modified edition was published in 1999. Typical of the changes was Leviticus 15:2-15, where "man" was restored in the 1999 edition, [citation needed] as the passage clearly concerned males. Also a John 17:6-26 speech of Jesus was indented in the 1999 edition, following the indentation of similar passages in the gospel.
The TNIV text is used without chapter and verse divisions. Section headings are removed and footnotes are moved to the end of each book. The books are presented in an alternate order, and longer works that were divided over time are restored to their original unity. (For example, 1 and 2 Samuel and 1 and 2 Kings were originally a single book.
NIV 1978 2 King James Version [h] KJV 1611 3 English Standard Version: ESV 2001 4 New Living Translation: NLT 1996 5 Christian Standard Bible: CSB 2017 6 New King James Version: NKJV 1982 7 Reina-Valera [i] RVR 1602 8 New International Reader's Version: NIrV 1996 9 New American Standard Bible: NASB 1971 10 New Revised Standard Version: NRSV 1989
Lists of "missing" verses and phrases go back to the Revised Version [2] and to the Revised Standard Version, [3] [4] without waiting for the appearance of the NIV (1973). Some of these lists of "missing verses" specifically mention "sixteen verses" – although the lists are not all the same.
2 Kings 4 is the fourth chapter of the second part of the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible or the Second Book of Kings in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of various annals recording the acts of the kings of Israel and Judah by a Deuteronomic compiler in the seventh century BCE, with a supplement added in the sixth century BCE. [3]
Jesus answered their question, saying "Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?" He is referred to as a bridegroom in several places in the New Testament, such as in John 3:29, 2 Corinthians 11:2, the Epistle to the Ephesians 5:32 and Revelation 19:7 and 21:2. Jesus speaking of himself as the ...