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Modern English 1986 New Living Translation: NLT Modern English 1996 (revisions in 2004, 2007, 2013, and 2015) Evangelical, Protestant, Roman Catholic (Version) New Revised Standard Version: NRSV Modern English 1989 2021 (Updated Edition) Revision of the Revised Standard Version. Mainline Protestant. Roman Catholic (Version)
A 2015 report by the California-based Barna Group found that 39% of American readers of the Bible preferred the King James Version, followed by 13% for the New International Version, 10% for the New King James Version and 8% for the English Standard Version. No other version was favoured by more than 3% of the survey respondents. [54]
The New Living Translation (NLT) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Published in 1996 by Tyndale House Foundation , the NLT was created "by 90 leading Bible scholars." [ 4 ] The NLT relies on recently published critical editions of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts.
Matthew Henry (18 October 1662 – 22 June 1714) was a British Nonconformist minister and author who was born in Wales but spent much of his life in England.He is best known for the six-volume biblical commentary Exposition of the Old and New Testaments.
The first English New Testament to use the verse divisions was a 1557 translation by William Whittingham (c. 1524–1579). The first Bible in English to use both chapters and verses was the Geneva Bible published shortly afterwards by Sir Rowland Hill [21] in 1560. These verse divisions soon gained acceptance as a standard way to notate verses ...
The first English Jewish translation of the Bible into English was by Isaac Leeser in the 19th century. The JPS produced two of the most popular Jewish translations, namely the JPS The Holy Scriptures of 1917 and the NJPS Tanakh (first printed in a single volume in 1985, second edition in 1999).
The New English Translation, like the New International Version, New Jerusalem Bible and the New American Bible, is a completely new translation of the Bible, not an update or revision of an older one (such as the New Revised Standard Version of 1989, which is a revision of the Revised Standard Version of 1946/71, itself a revision of the ...
Good News Translation/Good News Bible/Today's English Version: 1976, 1992 TCW: The Clear Word (paraphrase, non-official Seventh-day Adventist) 1994 CEV: Contemporary English Version: 1995 GW: God's Word: 1995 NLT: New Living Translation: 1996, 2004, 2015 MSG: The Message: 2002 RNT: Restored New Testament: 2009 INT: Interpreted New Testament: 2020