Category Archives: Translations
Every year, September 30 is dedicated as Bible Translation Day. (Watch Wycliffe’s 2021 Scripture Celebration video.) [Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, Bible Translators Launch Campaign to Provide Scripture Access to Every Language by 2033] Christians believe God has preserved the text of the Bible for thousands of years. But how often do we think […]
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Bible Gateway offers free online access to the Bible in more than 60 English versions. One of them is the New Catholic Bible (NCB), which uses the literal or formal equivalence translation method of rendering English text word-for-word from the original Hebrew and Greek biblical languages as much as possible. Its extensive explanatory notes reflect […]
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Newly launched in the NET (New English Translation) Bible lineup is a practical, yet inspiring edition designed to enrich and inform your time in Scripture: the NET Bible Art Edition, Large Print (website). Besides its trim and portable size but large enough to read easily, this Bible is designed to draw you closer to Scripture […]
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Whether you pronounce it distinctly “N-A-S-B” or informally “naz-bee,” since its completion in the 1970s following 18 years of work, the New American Standard Bible (NASB) is widely embraced as the gold standard for the formal equivalence Bible translation philosophy, the method of rendering English text word-for-word from the original biblical languages as much as […]
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With more than 10 million copies sold, the Adventure Bible is beloved by Christian schools, churches, and families alike. The bestselling Bible for children is now available in the New American Standard Bible (NASB), 1995 Text. [Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, The Enduring Popularity of the Adventure Bible: An Interview With Sue Richards] “We’re […]
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The alliance of the world’s leading Bible translation organizations, called illumiNations (@illumiNationsBT), is launching an ambitious Bible translation fund raising campaign to make Scripture available in every language in the next 12 years. [Read the Bible in multiple languages on Bible Gateway] The “I Want to Know” campaign asks people to sponsor the translation of […]
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Thomas Nelson, a division of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, announces its release of The Open Bible, now available for the first time in the widely-read New International Version (NIV) translation. “For more than 40 years, Thomas Nelson has published The Open Bible,” says Philip Nation, vice president and publisher of Bibles for Thomas Nelson (@NelsonBibles). “The […]
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Hebrew scholar and Semitic languages specialist Dr. Larry Walker, the last living translator of the original team of biblical language experts who produced the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible, died March 8, 2021 at age 88. According to CT, he cared deeply about accuracy and specifics, believing a commitment to the doctrine of […]
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The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Bible translation is now included in HarperCollins Christian Publishing’s top-quality leather bound Premier Collection of print Bibles. [Read the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Bible translation on Bible Gateway] The NRSV Single-Column Reference Bible (Zondervan, 2020) features the exclusive NRSV Comfort Print® typeface and is the first NRSV Bible […]
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Recognized by pastors and Bible scholars as being the “gold standard” among word-for-word Bible translations, the New American Standard Bible, 1995 Edition (NASB) (Zondervan, 2020) is now available with new, NASB Comfort Print® typeface exclusively from Zondervan Bibles, a division of HarperCollins Christian Publishing. [Sign up to receive the free 47-day email Bible reading plan […]
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