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In 2009, the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) named the ESV Study Bible as Christian Book of the Year. This was the first time in the award's 30-year history to be given to a study Bible. [34] By September 2024, the ESV Study Bible had sold more than 2.5 million copies. [35]
Letter A consists of Philippians 4:10–20. It is a short thank-you note from Paul to the Philippian church, regarding gifts they had sent him. [8] Letter B consists of Philippians 1:1–3:1, and may also include 4:4–9 and 4:21–23. Letter C consists of Philippians 3:2–4:1, and may also include 4:2–3. It is a testament to Paul's ...
2 Corinthians 8 King James Bible - Wikisource; English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate Archived June 17, 2019, at the Wayback Machine; Online Bible at GospelHall.org (ESV, KJV, Darby, American Standard Version, Bible in Basic English) Multiple bible versions at Bible Gateway (NKJV, NIV, NRSV etc.)
The Bible is not always what it seems to those who read it in the great prose of the English version or indeed, in any of the conventional versions. What it is may be partly suggested by a new rendering, such as the following pages present, that is, a fresh translation [ 1 ] of the original, not a revision of any English version."
New American Bible: 4 ESV: English Standard Version: 5 HCS: Holman Christian Standard: 6 NRSV: New Revised Standard Version: 7 NET: New English Translation: 8 RSV: Revised Standard Version: 9 NIV: New International Version: 10 NJB: New Jerusalem Bible: 11 REB: Revised English Bible: 12 JNT: Jewish New Testament: 13 GNB: Good News Bible: 14 NLT ...
Other early printed versions were the Geneva Bible published by Sir Rowland Hill in 1560. [12] This version is notable for being the first Bible divided into verses and which negated the Divine Right of Kings; the Bishop's Bible (1568), which was an attempt by Elizabeth I to create a new authorised version; and the Authorized King James Version ...
Robert Estienne (Robert Stephanus) was the first to number the verses within each chapter, his verse numbers entering printed editions in 1551 (New Testament) and 1553 (Hebrew Bible). [24] Several modern publications of the Bible have eliminated numbering of chapters and verses. Biblica published such a version of the NIV in 2007 and 2011.
The complete Darby Bible, including Darby's 3rd edition New Testament and his students' Old Testament, was first published in 1890. [ 1 ] Darby's purpose was, as he states in the preface to his English NT, to make a modern translation for the unlearned who have neither access to manuscript texts nor training and knowledge of ancient languages ...