About the ESV The English Standard Version (ESV) is an "essentially literal" translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Created by a team of more than 100 leading evangelical scholars and pastors, the ESV Bible emphasizes "word-for-word" accuracy, literary excellence, and depth of meaning.
Preface to the English Standard Version The Bible “This Book [is] the most valuable thing that this world affords. Here is Wisdom; this is the royal Law; these are the lively Oracles of God.” With these words the Moderator of the Church of Scotland hands a Bible to the new monarch in Britain’s coronation service. These words echo the King James Bible translators, who wrote in 1611 ...
Salon: When evangelical snowflakes censor the Bible: The English Standard Version goes PC
When evangelical snowflakes censor the Bible: The English Standard Version goes PC
Some of the changes made in the latest — and final — edition of the English Standard Version Bible are creating some controversy among those who see the amendments as "potentially dangerous." The ...
The English Standard Version (ESV) Bible is undergoing its first text update in nearly a decade, with revisions to 36 passages across 42 verses, the ESV Translation Oversight Committee announced. The ...
The Tablet: A Catholic Bible? The Holy Bible: English Standard Version Catholic Edition
In choosing which words to list, the guiding principles were importance, familiarity, and breadth of coverage. Since the ESV is within the stream of English Bible translations that began with the King James Version of 1611, there was a special effort to include references to as many familiar Bible passages as possible.