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Contents

Books of the Bible in Alphabetical Order, iv

About the Bible, v

Preface to The New International Version, vi

THE OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Exodus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Leviticus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Deuteronomy . . . . . . . . . 96

Joshua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Judges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Ruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

1 Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

2 Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

1 Kings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

2 Kings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

1 Chronicles . . . . . . . . . 219

2 Chronicles . . . . . . . . . 239

Ezra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Nehemiah . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Esther . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Psalms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Proverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Ecclesiastes . . . . . . . . . . 365

Song of Songs . . . . . . . . 371

Isaiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Jeremiah . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Lamentations . . . . . . . . 452

Ezekiel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Daniel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Hosea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Joel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Amos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Obadiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Jonah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Micah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

Nahum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

Habakkuk . . . . . . . . . . . 518

Zephaniah . . . . . . . . . . . 520

Haggai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

Zechariah . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Malachi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

THE NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew. . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Romans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

1 Corinthians . . . . . . . . 632

2 Corinthians . . . . . . . . 640

Galatians . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

Ephesians . . . . . . . . . . . 648

Philippians . . . . . . . . . . 651

Colossians . . . . . . . . . . . 653

1 Thessalonians . . . . . . 655

2 Thessalonians . . . . . . 657

1 Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . 659

2 Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . 662

Titus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664

Philemon . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

Hebrews . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

1 Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

2 Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678

1 John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680

2 John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683

3 John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684

Jude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685

Revelation . . . . . . . . . . . 686

Table of Weights and Measures, 696

Overview of the Bible, 699

Teachings of Jesus, 702

Ministry of Jesus, 703

Miracles of Jesus, 704

Parables of Jesus, 705

Life in New Testament Times, 706

Dictionary, 709

Alphabetic List of Books

Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Amos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

1 Chronicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

2 Chronicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Colossians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653

1 Corinthians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632

2 Corinthians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640

Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Deuteronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Ecclesiastes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Ephesians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648

Esther . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Exodus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Ezekiel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Ezra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Galatians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

Genesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Habakkuk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

Haggai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

Hebrews. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

Hosea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Isaiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Jeremiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Joel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

1 John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680

2 John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683

3 John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684

Jonah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Joshua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Jude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685

Judges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

1 Kings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

2 Kings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Lamentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Leviticus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Malachi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Micah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

Nahum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

Nehemiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Obadiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

1 Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

2 Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678

Philemon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

Philippians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651

Proverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Psalms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Revelation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686

Romans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

Ruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

1 Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

2 Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Song of Songs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

1 Thessalonians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

2 Thessalonians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

1 Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659

2 Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662

Titus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664

Zechariah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Zephaniah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520

About the Bible

What Is the Bible?

The word Bible means “book.” The Bible was

given this name because it is the book of God’s

words to us. The Bible is also sometimes

called Scripture, a word meaning “something

written.” The Bible is like a library of 66 books

put together into one big book. But all the

books within the Bible talk about the same

subject: God’s message to us. The Bible tells us

about God, shows us God’s mighty acts in the

lives of his people, and describes how people

responded to God. From the Bible we learn

what God is like and what he expects of us.

How the Bible Was Written

It took about 1,500 years for the whole Bible to

be written—from Genesis, written at the time

of Moses, to Revelation, written by the apostle

John about 65 years after Jesus’ death. The

books of the Bible had many different authors,

living at different times and in different places.

Yet not one of these writers contradicts anoth-

er. God guided them so that they wrote in their

own words what he wanted them to say. This

means that the Bible is a completely depend-

able and trustworthy book. We can believe

everything it says because it comes from God.

The Old Testament

The Bible has two major parts—the Old Testa-

ment and the New Testament. The Old Testa-

ment is a collection of 39 books. Both Jews and

Christians accept these books as Scripture. The

Old Testament starts with the creation of the

universe and of the human race. Then it con-

tinues with the history of God’s chosen peo-

ple—Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their descen-

dants, whom God formed into the nation of

Israel. In the Old Testament God begins to

show his plan for saving people from sin.

Through his prophets he promised many times

to send the Messiah, the savior of sinners.

The New Testament

The New Testament is made up of 27 books

accepted by Christians as Scripture. It tells

about the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ,

and about the beginning of the Christian

church. It describes the life, death and resur-

rection of Jesus. It explains why he died, and it

teaches us how we can be saved from sin.

How the Bible Came to Us

When the books of the Bible were first written,

the only way people could have a copy was for

someone to write it out entirely by hand. This

work was done by men called scribes, who

spent their entire day copying the Bible letter

by letter. Because this was a long, tiresome

job, few people had their own copy of the

Bible.

The Old Testament was first written in the He-

brew and Aramaic languages. About 250 years

before Jesus’ birth, it was translated into Greek

(this text was called the Septuagint ). All of the

New Testament was written in Greek. About 350

years after Jesus’ death, Jerome, who was a

leader in the early church, translated the Bible

into Latin, the language commonly spoken by

many people at that time. Several hundred

years later, most people no longer spoke Latin.

But even so, Jerome’s translation, called the Vul-

gate , was the official Bible in Western Europe

for more than 1,000 years.

In the late 1300s, John Wycliffe came to be-

lieve that it was important for all Christians to

read the Bible in their own language. He and his

followers were the first to translate the whole

Bible into English. But because the printing

press had not yet been invented, copies were

made by hand and very few were available.

About 140 years later, William Tyndale translat-

ed the New Testament from Greek to English.

At that time the printing press was available, so

Tyndale’s Bible was the first English Bible print-

ed on a press.

In 1611 the best-known English Bible, the

King James Version, was published. It was re-

vised many times over many years but re-

mained the standard translation well into the

twentieth century.

During the second half of the twentieth cen-

tury many new translations became available.

The most popular is the New International

Version, the translation you are reading today.

PREFACE TO THE

New International Version

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION is a

completely new translation of the Holy Bible

made by over a hundred scholars working di-

rectly from the best available Hebrew, Aramaic

and Greek texts. It had its beginning in 1965

when, after several years of exploratory study

by committees from the Christian Reformed

Church and the National Association of Evan-

gelicals, a group of scholars met at Palos

Heights, Illinois, and concurred in the need for

a new translation of the Bible in contemporary

English. This group, though not made up of of-

ficial church representatives, was transdenom-

inational. Its conclusion was endorsed by a

large number of leaders from many denomina-

tions who met in Chicago in 1966.

Responsibility for the new version was dele-

gated by the Palos Heights group to a self-gov-

erning body of fifteen, the Committee on Bible

Translation, composed for the most part of bib-

lical scholars from colleges, universities and

seminaries. In 1967 the New York Bible Society

(now the International Bible Society) generous-

ly undertook the financial sponsorship of the

project—a sponsorship that made it possible to

enlist the help of many distinguished scholars.

The fact that participants from the United

States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and

New Zealand worked together gave the project

its international scope. That they were from

many denominations—including Anglican, As-

semblies of God, Baptist, Brethren, Christian

Reformed, Church of Christ, Evangelical Free,

Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Nazarene,

Presbyterian, Wesleyan and other churches—

helped to safeguard the translation from sec-

tarian bias.

fully reviewed by the Committee on Bible

Translation, which made further changes and

then released the final version for publication.

In this way the entire Bible underwent three re-

visions, during each of which the translation

was examined for its faithfulness to the original

languages and for its English style.

All this involved many thousands of hours of

research and discussion regarding the meaning

of the texts and the precise way of putting them

into English. It may well be that no other trans-

lation has been made by a more thorough

process of review and revision from committee

to committee than this one.

From the beginning of the project, the Com-

mittee on Bible Translation held to certain

goals for the New International Version: that it

would be an accurate translation and one that

would have clarity and literary quality and so

prove suitable for public and private reading,

teaching, preaching, memorizing and liturgical

use. The Committee also sought to preserve

some measure of continuity with the long tra-

dition of translating the Scriptures into English.

In working toward these goals, the transla-

tors were united in their commitment to the

authority and infallibility of the Bible as God’s

Word in written form. They believe that it con-

tains the divine answer to the deepest needs of

humanity, that it sheds unique light on our

path in a dark world, and that it sets forth the

way to our eternal well-being.

The first concern of the translators has been

the accuracy of the translation and its fidelity to

the thought of the biblical writers. They have

weighed the significance of the lexical and

grammatical details of the Hebrew, Aramaic

and Greek texts. At the same time, they have

striven for more than a word-for-word transla-

tion. Because thought patterns and syntax dif-

fer from language to language, faithful commu-

nication of the meaning of the writers of the

Bible demands frequent modifications in sen-

tence structure and constant regard for the

contextual meanings of words.

A sensitive feeling for style does not always

accompany scholarship. Accordingly the Com-

How it was made helps to give the New In-

ternational Version its distinctiveness. The

translation of each book was assigned to a

team of scholars. Next, one of the Intermediate

Editorial Committees revised the initial transla-

tion, with constant reference to the Hebrew, Ar-

amaic or Greek. Their work then went to one of

the General Editorial Committees, which

checked it in detail and made another thor-

ough revision. This revision in turn was care-

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