From the Back Cover
One Message. Two Ways of Saying It. The world's two foremost Bible translation approaches come together in the Updated NASB/NIV Parallel Bible. This Bible does more than give you two highly respected Bible translations--it lets you access the strengths of the two most trusted translation approaches. The word-for-word literal method of the updated New American Standard Bible (NASB) lets you see what the original authors of the Bible wrote. The thought-for-thought approach of the New International Version (NIV) gives an accurate understanding of what they meant. The Updated NASB/NIV Parallel Bible sets the two methods side-by-side for you to compare and contrast, allowing you to gain insight from the distinctive nuances of meaning of each translation. The Updated NASB/NIV Parallel Bible features: - Updated NASB--the most literal word-for-word English translation available, updated to provide greater clarity of meaning. Vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure have been carefully updated to improve readability. - NIV--Today's best-selling translation, offering a unique combination of scholarly accuracy and easy readability. The thought-for-thought approach to translation allows today's reader to better understand and apply the intended meaning of the original Bible writers. - NASB and NIV Concordances--help you find passages you're looking for and study key themes of Scripture.

From the Publisher
Now available in both bonded leather and hardcover. Comparing these two trusted translations will give readers new insights into the meaning of Scripture.

Based on customer requests, the NASB/NIV Parallel Bible is now available in a bonded leather edition as well as hardcover. Those who want to gain a better understanding of the Bible's original meaning and its precise wording and grammar will welcome the NASB/NIV Parallel Bible. Bringing together two acclaimed translations with distinctly different approaches, this Bible places side-by-side corresponding Scripture passages of the New International Version and the updated New American Standard Bible, allowing readers to compare and contrast. The result: insights that otherwise would be missed, gleaned from the shades of meaning this Bible brings to the forefront. The NASB/NIV Parallel Bible features the 1995 edition of the NASB, updated to make for easier reading of today's most literal word-for-word translation by replacing out-of-date words such as thee and thou with contemporary language. It also features the most popular modern translation, the NIV, to provide a meaning-for-meaning or thought-for-thought approach that presents the intended message of Scripture in an accurate, highly readable format.

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