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The New Living Translation

The New Living Translation combines the latest biblical scholarship with a clear, dynamic writing style that communicates God's Word powerfully to all who hear and read it. It renders the message of the original texts of Scripture into clear, contemporary English that was written to be read aloud. With a focus on clarity, The New Living Translation invites readers to go deeper into the biblical text to discover God's story for their lives and the world.

The translators of the New Living Translation set out to render the message of the original texts of Scripture into clear, contemporary English. As they did so, they translated as simply and literally as possible when that approach yielded an accurate, clear, and natural English text. Many words and phrases were rendered literally and consistently into English, preserving essential literary and rhetorical devices, ancient metaphors, and word choices that give structure to the text and provide echoes of meaning from one passage to the next.

On the other hand, the translators rendered the message more dynamically when the literal rendering was hard to understand, was misleading, or yielded archaic or foreign wording. They clarified difficult metaphors and terms to aid in the reader's understanding. Their goal was to be both faithful to the ancient texts and eminently readable. The result is a translation that is both exegetically accurate and idiomatically powerful. More than 90 Bible scholars, along with a group of accomplished English stylists, worked closely together toward that goal. In the end, the NLT is the result of precise scholarship conveyed in living, contemporary language.

All of the Bible scholars and stylists involved in this work are Christians who accept the Bible as the inspired Word of God. They represent a rich variety of theological and denominational backgrounds, united by the common conviction that the Bible is God's Word and that all people should have a translation of Scripture that they can really understand.

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NLT Filament Bible, Midnight Blue Clothbound Hardcover: The Print+Digital Bible

Regular Price $59.99

Our Price $52.79

Filament combines the simple elegance of a premium Bible with the powerful capabilities of your mobile device. You get the best reading experience a print Bible can offer and instant access to more meaningful content than you'll find in any one study Bible or devotional Bible.

The Filament Bible features a carefully crafted page design, offering the best possible reading experience in a single-volume print Bible. A line-over-line single-column setting, generous font size and margins, and optimal line length create a strikingly beautiful presentation of God's Word in a portable package.

This Bible also includes exclusive access to the Filament App, available in the App Store and Google Play. Simply scan the page you are reading with your device's camera. Your phone or tablet recognizes the page and instantly connects you to content centered around that passage.

This print+digital setup gives you options you've never had in a single Bible. If you want to read God's Word without distraction, leave your phone in your pocket. If you want to dig deeper, your device unlocks a rich set of curated content--study notes, devotionals, videos, interactive visuals, and more.

Your Bible reading will never be the same.

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NLT Teen Life Application Study Bible, Teal LeatherLike

Regular Price $44.99

Our Price $36.99

The only teen Bible based on today's #1-selling study Bible, the Teen Life Application Study Bible is packed with features designed to meet the challenges and needs of today's high school students.

Combining traditional study-Bible features like book introductions, textual notes, person profiles, and maps with application-oriented features focusing on choices, real-life issues, and real-life stories of actual teens, the Teen Life Application Study Bible helps teens understand and apply God's Word to all areas of their lives and encounter God in an authentic way.

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NLT Life Application Study Bible, TuTone Black/Onyx LeatherLike, Red Letter

Regular Price $69.99

Our Price $61.59

The Life Application Study Bible is today's #1-bestselling study Bible.

The notes begin with helping the reader understand God's Word, then shows how to apply what God is teaching to everyday life. This Bible includes nearly 10,000 Life Application notes and features designed to help God's timeless truth become a personal truth for every reader.

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Features:

Nearly 10,000 Life Application notes and features
Over 100 Life Application profiles of key Bible people
Introductions and overviews for each book of the Bible
More than 400 maps & charts placed for quick reference
Dictionary/concordance
Extensive side-column cross-reference system to facilitate deeper study
Life Application index to notes, charts, maps, and profiles
16 pages of full-color maps
Presentation page
Single-column format
Christian Worker's Resource, a special supplement to enhance the reader's ministry effectiveness
Full text of the Holy Bible, New Living Translation (NLT), combining the latest biblical scholarship with clear, natural English
Words of Jesus are in red letter

NLT in Comparison to Other Translations

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2 Corinthians 8:6-7

So we have encouraged Titus, who encouraged your giving in the first place, to return to you and encourage you to finish this ministry of giving. Since you excel in so many ways—in your faith, your gifted speakers, your knowledge, your enthusiasm, and your love from us I want you to excel also in this gracious act of giving.

In so much that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also. Therefore, as ye abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

So we urged Titus, since he had earlier made a beginning, to bring also to completion this act of grace on your part. But just as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech ,in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us ee that you also excel in this grace of giving.

So we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, so he would also complete in you this gracious work as well. But just as you abound in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the love we NLTd in you, see that you abound in this gracious work also.

Romans 3:25

For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past,

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—

Whom God displayed publicly as a propitiationin His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed;

Colossians 2:9-10

For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.

For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;

Proverbs 18:24

There are "friends" who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother.

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A man of many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.