What is the New Living Bible?

The New Living Translation is an extensive revision of Ken Taylor’s Living Bible (published by Tyndale House in 1971). It was designed to improve the accuracy of Taylor’s paraphrase.

What is new living?

The New Living Translation is (according to its publisher) intended to be easily accessible to readers of modern English. As part of this effort: Weights and measures, money, dates and times, etc., are described in modern terms, with footnotes giving the literal translation. For example, the Gospel of John 6 :7 reads:

What is the New Living Translation of the Bible?

The New Living Translation ( NLT) is a translation of the Bible into modern English . Originally starting out as an effort to revise The Living Bible, the project evolved into a new English translation from Hebrew and Greek texts.

What is the Living Translation?

The purpose of the New Living Translation (NLT) was to make a translation that is accurate with the original languages, yet lively and dynamic. Bergen and the other translators worked independently to correct the Living Bible or produce new translations, then worked together to produce a joint translation.

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What is the abbreviation for New Living Translation?

New Living Translation is abbreviated as NLT (also MCHT or N.L.T.)

Is the New World Translation a valid version of the Bible?

It is only the Watchtower ‘s pre-conceived heretical beliefs that are behind the dishonest and inconsistent translation that is the New World Translation. The New World Translation is most definitely not a valid version of God’s Word.

Is the KJV the best translation?

Yes, there are. The reason I nevertheless prefer the King James Version (KJV) is that, despite its age, its archaic English, and its often outdated interpretations of passages that subsequent knowledge has thrown new light on, it continues to be the best English Bible translation in existence.