As an authoritative version of scripture, faithfully rendered into today’s English by over 90 international leading biblical scholars, The New Living Translation conveys the message of the original texts in clear, contemporary language. The NLT’s guiding principle is to render words and phrases as simply and literally as possible when that approach yields an accurate, consistent and natural English text, preserving literary devices, metaphors and word choices that give structure and provide meaningful connections between different passages.

The NLT Bible also adopts a more dynamic approach when the literal English equivalent would be too obscure or archaic for readers to fully understand. The result is a translation both exegetically accurate and powerful, making it ideally suitable for both private and public use.