The New Living Translation

with the Life Application Study Notes is very readable.
It includes thousands of applications addressing readers who want to know how to live wisely. This is the edition Rich Scott received for Christmas, 1996.

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Botts' Illustrated Edition

of the New Living Translation is a remarkable volume. Tim Botts, a world class caligrapher created approximately 350 calligraphies. If you appreciate artistic excellence this Bible is a good choice for you or to give as a gift to a friend. Just one signed work by Botts would cost many times the price of this edition.

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Leather Bound

Life Application Study Bible featuring the New Living Translation. All of 2,319 pages, it includes more than 10,000 life application notes. A very readable text. Loaded with extras.

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Student's Life Application Bible

New Living Translation. Special notes to challenge teens to apply them to their everyday lives. Includes notes on Moral Dilemmas, I Wonder, Here's What I Did, and Ultimate Issues.

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The Life Recovery Bible

New Living Translation. It features recovery notes that pinpoint passsages and thoughts important to people in recovery.

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What's NLT?

Isn't it time the initials that follow many of the Bible verses on this website are explained? The initials "NLT" stand for the "New Living Translation."

Rich Scott, writer of the SoAmazing Letter has this to say about the New Living Translation, "I have known about, used, and loved the readability of The Living Bible since Ken Taylor introduced it in the 1960's. It has been wildly popular and sales now exceed 40 million.

Despite its success, many readers were concerned because it was principally the work of one man, Ken Taylor, and even though they loved reading it, they wondered if it was a suitable translation for serious study. To combat this issue, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., publishers of The Living Bible, decided it was time for an update.

A highly qualified group of ninety Bible scholars, assembled by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., engaged in a disciplined effort, over seven years, to assure that the text of the update, called the "New Living Translation," reflected the best practices of recent scholarship in the theory of translations. These scholars worked diligently to prepare an accurate translation, not a paraphrase, that is easy to read and understand!

After seeing an advertisement in the fall of 1996, I mentioned to my wife that I would really like a copy of the NLT, and, in particular, a version that contained the Life Application Notes.

Happily at Christmas, 1996, my wife and three children gave me the copy I wanted!

Since then, I've used the NLT to read the New Testament eight times and the Old Testament three times. I've read each of the more than 10,000 Life Application Notes (many of them more than once) and found them very helpful. I've read the 66 book introductions more than once, checked over every book's outline, and studied the detailed timeline provided (did you know that the first known date of the Olympic games in 776 BC was just 17 years after Jonah became a prophet).

I've read its harmony of the Gospels, looked at every map I came across (there must be hundreds), and carefully looked at every chart and diagram. I used the cross-references in the margins umpteen hundred times, checked the textual notes related to asterisks in the text, and spent a lot of time with its index, dictionary and concordance. Finally, I've read every one of the many profiles of characters in the Bible it presents and almost always learned something new.

In short, I was thrilled to find that the The New Living Translation was an excellent study Bible and highly recommend to others that they buy an edition that includes the Life Application Notes.

Because of its fresh, readable text, I enjoy taking favorite verses from it to create SoAmazing Cards.

When you see the initials "NLT" you should now know both what they stand for, and, because of the time I've spent with the text, why I've selected the New Living Translation so often to appear on the SoAmazing Cards.

A new SoAmazing Card is created for each issue of the SoAmazing Letter. Many feature the NLT. Those cards are sprinkled all over the pages of this website.

If you look carefully you will see I have used other translations for the SoAmazing Cards, as well. At one point in my life, inspired by my brother, I read a different translation of the New Testament every month for seven consecutive months. I know how rich and valuable other translations are. We live in times where most of us can own more than one translation--and I think we should. Certainly, one of those translations should be the NLT.

The excellent readability the "New Living Translation" and my confidence in the expert scholarship behind it, would make it my choice if I only owned one Bible.

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