New Living Translation Holy Bible for All

The New Living Translation (NLT) is an authoritative and faithful Bible translation, rendered into today's English from the ancient texts by 90 leading Bible scholars. The NLT's living language breathes life into even the most difficult-to-understand Bible passages, and its impact can be seen in the stories of how people's lives are changing as the words speak directly to their hearts. This translation is perfect for every age and stage of life, allowing every member of the family to understand the same text.

The translators of the NLT set out to render the message of the original texts of Scripture into clear, contemporary English. When the literal approach yielded an accurate, clear, and natural English text, they translated as simply and literally as possible, preserving essential literary and rhetorical devices, ancient metaphors, and word choices that give structure to the text and provide echoes of meaning from one passage to the next.

However, the translators rendered the message more dynamically when the literal rendering was hard to understand, misleading, or yielded archaic or foreign wording. They clarified difficult metaphors and terms to aid in the reader's understanding. The translators first struggled with the meaning of the words and phrases in the ancient context, and then they rendered the message into clear, natural English. Their goal was to be both faithful to the ancient texts and eminently readable.

More than 90 Bible scholars, along with a group of accomplished English stylists, worked closely together towards this goal. The result is a translation that is both exegetically accurate and idiomatically powerful, conveying precise scholarship in living contemporary language.

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