Why Our Church Switched to the ESV (Biblia.com)

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DeYoung shares seven reasons why he encouraged his church to switch Bible translations to the ESV. A few years into his current pastoral role, Kevin DeYoung was faced with a church that needed to replace its well-worn pew Bibles. DeYoung wrote to his congregation, outlining seven reasons why he preferred the English Standard Version (ESV) and was proposing its adoption. Among his top reasons for...

three words in the original language require only one word for accurate translation. That’s how translation works. But the NIV often adds words unnecessarily, not in order to better translate a Greek or Hebrew word but in order to clarify what the translators think the passage means. The result is that the NIV sometimes over-translates: Ephesians 6:3 [ESV] “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” [NIV] “that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the

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