The classic New Testament edition of The Good News Bible; got one of these at home?
Each of these resonated with readers who were looking for a unique or fresh take on familiar words, and The Living Bible was ‘renovated’ years later to become the NLT.
If you’re scanning BibleGateway.com, it’s a good idea to check out how the verse or passage in question is rendered in these two versions. A warning though, sometimes we think a verse says something and then we try to find a translation that says what we want it to say. This is where having multiple translations can help us have greater clarity of meaning.
This week I’ve found both the GNT and CEV to be exactly what I needed with a particular reference. Each is its own version — the CEV wasn’t an update to the Good News as some of us believed at the time — with the CEV having the lower (easier) reading level.
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Our goal in sharing scripture is not to make the Bible relevant, but to communicate the relevance it already has.
Any observations on the NET Bible, known for its exhaustive notes ? I believe it came from Dallas Theological Seminary.
I’ve used the text from Bible Gateway a few times, but I’ll check out the hardcover copy at our local store. It’s advertised as having 7,000 notes, and I think that’s just a New Testament.