One Year Bible New Testament Sampler, Lakeside Haven - Flipbook - Page 10
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The One Year Bible New Testament divides the entire NLT New Testament into 365 daily readings, making it easy for regular Bible readers to read through the New Testament in a year.
Instead of following a Bible reading chart and experiencing the delay finding your place each
day, you will find the text already set off into daily readings, ready for your quiet reading and
reflection. This fulfills our goal at Tyndale to make the Bible as accessible as possible for people
no matter what their background or walk of life.
The Holy Bible, New Living Translation was first published in 1996. It quickly became one of
the most popular Bible translations in the English-speaking world. While the NLT’s influence
was rapidly growing, the Bible Translation Committee determined that an additional investment in scholarly review and text refinement could make it even better. So shortly after its
initial publication, the committee began an eight-year process with the purpose of increasing
the level of the NLT’s precision without sacrificing its easy-to-understand quality. This secondgeneration text was completed in 2004, with minor changes subsequently introduced in 2007,
2013, and 2015.
The goal of any Bible translation is to convey the meaning and content of the ancient Hebrew,
Aramaic, and Greek texts as accurately as possible to contemporary readers. The challenge for
our translators was to create a text that would communicate as clearly and powerfully to today’s readers as the original texts did to readers and listeners in the ancient biblical world. The
resulting translation is easy to read and understand, while also accurately communicating the
meaning and content of the original biblical texts. The NLT is a general-purpose text especially
good for study, devotional reading, and reading aloud in worship services.
We believe that the New Living Translation—which combines the latest biblical scholarship
with a clear, dynamic writing style—will communicate God’s word powerfully to all who read
it. We publish it with the prayer that God will use it to speak his timeless truth to the church
and the world in a fresh, new way. May this year and every year be enriched as you enjoy daily
portions from God’s word.
The Publishers
A full introduction to the NLT can be found at tyndale.com/nlt/process.
A complete list of the translators can be found at tyndale.com/nlt/scholars.
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