New Living Translation
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This article is about the New Living Translation of the Bible. For the New Life Version, see New Life Version.
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.[1]
Quick Facts Abbreviation, Complete Biblepublished ...
New Living Translation | |
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Abbreviation | NLT[lower-alpha 1] |
Complete Bible published | 1996 |
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Translation type | Dynamic equivalence[3] |
Reading level | 6.0[3] |
Revision | 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015 |
Publisher | Tyndale House Foundation |
Copyright | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. All rights reserved. |
Religious affiliation | Evangelical[3] |
Webpage | www |
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. |
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The origin of the NLT came from a project aiming to revise The Living Bible (TLB). This effort eventually led to the creation of the NLT—a new translation separate from the LB.[5] The first NLT edition retains some text of the LB,[6] but these are less evident in text revisions that have been published since.[citation needed]