New American Standard Bible | NASB

The goal of the Lockman Foundation in producing this word-for-word (literal) translation has been to preserve the vocabulary and verb tenses of the Hebrew and Greek texts as precisely as possible while updating the language of the early 20th century American Standard Version. According to their website the NASB is the “most literally accurate English translation from the original languages.”

While the NASB is stylistically spartan and sometimes criticized for being less readable than modern dynamic equivalence translations, many serious students of the Bible appreciate its commitment to accurately representing the individual words and meanings present in the original manuscripts.

The NASB was first produced in 1971 updated again in 1995 to reflect the evolution of the English language.

What does it sound like?

John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

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