New International Version
Full name:	New International Version
Abbreviation:	NIV
Complete Bible published:	1978
Textual Basis:	28% deviation from Nestle-Aland 27th edition (NT)[citation needed]
Translation type:	10% paraphrase rate[citation needed]
Genesis 1:1-3
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

The New International Version (NIV) is an English translation of the Christian Bible which is the most popular of the modern translations of the Bible made in the twentieth century. It is exclusively published by Zondervan. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (522x638, 65 KB) Summary This picture was taken by me, Brusselsshrek, with a SONY DCR-HC40E using the photo option. ... This Gutenberg Bible is displayed by the United States Library. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Novum Testamentum Graece (also Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament) is the Latin name of a Greek language version of the New Testament. ... John 3:16 (chapter 3, verse 16 of the Gospel of John) is one of the most widely quoted verses from the Christian Bible. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Bible has been translated into many languages. ... Christianity percentage by country, purple is highest, orange is lowest Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Wycliffe Tyndale · Luther · Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch... This Gutenberg Bible is displayed by the United States Library. ... Zondervan is an international Christian media and publishing company, one of the four businesses founded by Dutch-Americans that have made Grand Rapids, Michigan into the USAs Christian Publishing Capital, alongside Eerdmans, Baker Books, and Kregel. ...

Translation

Work on the NIV began in 1965, sponsored by the New York Bible Society, which is today the Colorado Springs-based International Bible Society. The New Testament was set forth in 1973, the Old Testament and full NIV Bible in 1978, and a modified edition in 1984. The International Bible Society (IBS) translates, publishes and distributes the Bible with the intent of helping people around the world become Christians. ...

The translation took more than ten years and involved 100 scholars from the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. The range of theologians includes over 20 different denominations such as Baptists, Evangelicals, Methodists, Lutherans, Anglicans, and many more. Baptist churches are part of a Christian movement often regarded as an Evangelical, Protestant denomination. ... Evangelicalism, in a strictly lexical, but rarely used sense, refers to all things that are implied in belief that Jesus is the savior. ... The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ... The Lutheran movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity by the original definition. ... The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ...

Circulation

According to Zondervan (publisher of the NIV), the translation has become the most popular modern English translation of the Bible, having sold more than 215 million copies worldwide.^[1] It is especially popular among American Evangelicals. Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      The word evangelicalism often refers to...

Features

Evangelical Protestants received the Revised Standard Version, which first appeared in the whole Bible in 1952, with some trepidation. The RSV was criticized by conservative Christians for not using traditional Christian translations of certain texts regarding the virginity of Mary, and other Old Testament passages whose Christian interpretation referred them to Jesus. The New International Version project was begun to meet the perceived need of having an updated Bible in contemporary English but which preserved traditional Evangelical theology on these contested points. Unlike the RSV and New Revised Standard Version, the NIV is an explicitly Protestant translation; the deuterocanonical books were not included in the translation. Apart from these theological issues, the translation philosophies of the NIV were similar to the RSV, and the NIV, like the RSV, uses the critical Greek New Testament texts, rather than the Textus Receptus of the King James Version. Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      The word evangelicalism often refers to... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      Protestantism encompasses the forms of Christian... The Revised Standard Version (RSV) is an English translation of the Bible published in the mid-20th century. ... Year 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Saint Mary and Saint Mary the Virgin both redirect here. ... This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. ... Theology finds its scholars pursuing the understanding of and providing reasoned discourse of religion, spirituality and God or the gods. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... Deuterocanonical books is a term used since the sixteenth century in the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Christianity to describe certain books and passages of the Christian Bible, in contrast to the protocanonical books which are contained in the Hebrew Bible. ... This article is about the Christian scriptures. ... Textus Receptus (Latin: received text) is the name given to the first Greek-language text of the New Testament to be printed on a printing press. ... This page is about the version of the Bible; for the Harvey Danger album, see King James Version (album). ...

Packaged versions of the NIV usually feature an introduction to the individual chapters as well as charts, maps, etc.

Also, there are numerous study bibles available with extensive notes on the text and background information to make the Biblical stories more comprehensible. Among these are the NIV Study Bible and its Wesleyan revision, the Reflecting God Study Bible, as well as the Life Application Study Bible. A study Bible. ... The NIV Study Bible is a study Bible originally published by Zondervan in 1984 which utilizes the New International Version (NIV). ... The Reflecting God Study Bible is a study Bible published by Zondervan in conjunction with the Christian Holiness Partnership which, as a Wesleyan revision of the NIV Study Bible, utilized the New International Version (NIV). ... The Life Application Study Bible is a study Bible published by Tyndale and Zondervan. ...

Criticism and controversy

Critics argue that it is different from King James Version in some key parts. Some critics strongly oppose the NIV and some claim it to be a heretical counterfeit. Some are part of the King-James-Only Movement, within the Protestant Fundamentalist Christianity of English-speaking countries, which rejects all modern translations of the Bible, accepting only the King James Version (KJV), also known as the Authorized Version (AV). They claim that NIV version supports Catholic doctrine. The King James or Authorized Version of the Bible is an English translation of the Christian Bible first published in 1611. ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Wycliffe Tyndale · Luther · Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      See technical note on... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      Protestantism encompasses the forms of Christian... Look up fundamentalism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Other critics criticise the NIV (along with most other translations except the KJV) for using a text based on Textual Criticism instead of the Received Text. Offered as proof are the verses deleted from the NIV, including 1 John 5:7, Matthew 17:21, 18:11, 23:14, Mark 7:16, 9:44, 9:46, 11:26, 15:28, Luke 17:36, 23:17, John 5:4, Acts 8:37, 15:34, 24:7, 28:28, and Romans 16:24.^[2] It is argued that the Jehovah's Witness New World Translation and the Roman Catholic Jerusalem Bible delete the same verses as the NIV. Although the earliest existing Greek manuscripts, the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, omit these same missing verses as well, both manuscripts contradict each other in many other places.^[3][4][5][6] There are manuscripts older than the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus of Syrian ^[7][8] and Latin ^[9][10][11] origins from as early as the 2nd century that contain the verses. The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NWT) is a modern-language translation of the Bible published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. ... | image= | translation_title=The New Jerusalem Bible| full_name=The New Jerusalem Bible | abbreviation=NJB | complete_bible_published=1966 | textual_basis= | translation_type=Roman Catholic | copyright=Copyright 1966 Darton, Longman & Todd | genesis_1:1-3=In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ... A section of the Codex Vaticanus, containing 1 Esdras 2:1-8 The Codex Vaticanus (Vatican City, Bibl. ... Codex Sinaiticus (London, Brit. ...

It has also been accused of supporting an evangelical agenda, such as in translating "effeminate" as "homosexual".^{[12][13][14][15]} This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

It also sometimes claimed that it works in apologetics to smooth out apparent contradictions in more precise translations, such as between Acts 9:7 and 22:9.^[16] This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Acts of the Apostles is a book of the Bible, which now stands fifth in the New Testament. ...

See also

• Today's New International Version
• New International Reader's Version
• New International Version Inclusive Language Edition (NIVI)

The efforts of translating the Bible from its original languages into over 2,000 others have spanned more than two millennia. ... A number of Old English Bible translations were prepared in mediaeval England, translations of parts of the Bible into the Old English language. ... The age of Middle English was not a fertile time for Bible translations but saw the first major translation that of John Wyclif. ... Early Modern English Bible translations are those translations of the Bible which were made between about 1500 and 1800, the period of Early Modern English. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Jewish English Bible translations are modern English Bible translations that include the books of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) according to the masoretic text, and according to the traditional division and order of Torah, Neviim, and Ketuvim. ... These are other translation projects which are worthy of note which are not easily classified in the other groups: Anchor Bible Series - The Anchor Bible is a translation treating the Bible merely as a historical text; each book is translated by a different scholar, with extensive critical commentary. ... Todays New International Version is an English translation of the Bible, developed by the Committee on Bible Translation, or CBT. The CBT is the same committee of biblical scholars that translated the popular New International Version (NIV) in the 1970s. ... The New International Readers Version (NIrV) is an English language translation of the Christian Bible, translated by the International Bible Society. ... The New Internation Version Inclusive Language Edition (NIVI) was first published by Hodder and Stoughton in London in 1996. ...

References

1. ^ http://www.zondervan.com/Cultures/en-US/Translations/FAQ.htm?QueryStringSite=Zondervan
2. ^ http://www.av1611.org/niv.html
3. ^ http://www.exorthodoxforchrist.com/Textual%20Crit%20Bks.htm#Codex B & Allies-top
4. ^ http://www.ccel.org/ccel/hoskier/codexb1.html
5. ^ http://www.ccel.org/ccel/hoskier/codexb2.html
6. ^ http://www.deanburgonsociety.org/CriticalTexts/sinaiticus.htm
7. ^ http://www.ableever.net/Apologetics/Syrian_Recension/syrian_recension.html
8. ^ http://www.concernedmembers.com/spiritualdeception.htm#5
9. ^ http://logosresourcepages.org/Versions/johannine.htm
10. ^ http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/vindicationof.htm
11. ^ http://www.1john57.com/1john57.htm
12. ^ http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/twohomosexuals.htm
13. ^ http://www.av1611.org/niv.html
14. ^ http://www.ncf.ca/ip/sigs/life/gay/religion/bob
15. ^ http://www.otkenyer.hu/halsall/lgbh-cortim.html
16. ^ http://www.infidels.org/library/magazines/tsr/1994/1/1voice94.html

External links

• NIV Official Website
• Zondervan Bible Search Website
• NIV online at BibleGateway
• NIV online at BibleServer
• Barker, Kenneth L. (ed.). The NIV The Making of a Contemporary Translation. International Bible Society, 1991. (available online)
• Zondervan - a common Bible publisher
• The NIV Report(an exhaustive report by a King James Version supporter)
• Not All Versions Are Created Equal Critical of the NIV