The New Living Translation presents the Give the Word contest and giveaway, a partnership with three great ministries—the Dream Center, Oasis International, and Wycliffe Bible Translators. All three of these ministries Give the Word to people and in places where it is desperately needed, and all three will benefit from the Give the Word contest. [...]

This week Keith and I are at the ETS (Evangelical Theological Society) annual meeting. While here, we’ll be enjoying the buzz around Bible translations, listening to a few papers, talking about the NLT Study Bible and other NLT products, and showing off our latest digital Bible tools, including NLT.to and NLTinterlinear.com. About a year ago, [...]

This week we’re giving away a copy of the NLT Study Bible with the deluxe TuTone Brown/Tan cover. Here’s some information on this bible and how you can win a copy. Introducing the NLT Study Bible. The product of over forty Bible scholars and seven years’ work, it is a detailed, comprehensive study Bible. The [...]

And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.” And he also said, “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega—the Beginning and the End. To all who are thirsty [...]

With all the energy that Keith Williams and others are putting into revitalizing the NLT Blog, I thought I ought to get on the stick and make some announcements of my own. Ever since finishing my work on the NLT Study Bible in 2008 and participating in the ensuing world promotional tour, I’ve gone back [...]

If you have a smartphone (or an iPad), you need to know about YouVersion. It is a great tool that helps me to read my Bible regularly when I have some downtime. And for the next three months, you’ll be able to download the NLT to make your reading experience more seamless. The good folks [...]

We’re making Thursday’s giveaway days here on the NLT Blog. We’ll be coming up with interesting and creative ways to give away some of our great NLT products. What do we have in store for you today? The Holy Bible: Mosaic NLT Encounter Christ on every continent and in every century of Christian History. A [...]

This blog has been too dormant for too long, but all that is about to change. While I’ve been busy at the NLT Facebook page (as well as doing some editorial work on a new edition of the NLT), there really hasn’t been much activity here. Beginning this week, we will welcome a few new [...]

Translating the biblical texts into English (or any other language) is not as simple as it may sound. For starters, the translator has to determine which philosophy of translation to follow. The two basic options are formal equivalence (also called word-for-word, literal, or essentially literal) and dynamic equivalence (also called thought-for-thought). And there is also [...]

We find the story of the widow’s mite in Mark 12:41-44 and Luke 21:1-4. In both passages (which are nearly identical), Jesus makes the point that the widow’s gift to the Temple treasury was very costly to her, because it represented everything she had. But the challenge for the translator is to determine how best [...]