New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

New World Translation
Full nameNew World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
AbbreviationNWT[1][a]
Language279 languages[4][5][6]
NT published1950
Complete Bible
published
1961
AuthorshipNew World Bible Translation Committee
Textual basisOT: Biblia Hebraica
NT: Westcott & Hort
Translation typeFormal Equivalence and Dynamic Equivalence[7][8][9]
Revision1970, 1971,[10] 1981, 1984,[11] 2013
Copies printedMore than 240 million[12][13]
Religious affiliationJehovah's Witnesses
Webpagewww.jw.org/en/library/bible/
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and desolate, and there was darkness upon the surface of the watery deep, and God's active force was moving about over the surface of the waters. And God said: "Let there be light." Then there was light.
For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.

The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NWT, also simply NW) is a translation of the Bible published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society; it is used and distributed by Jehovah's Witnesses.[14][15] The New Testament portion was released first, in 1950, as the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures,[16][17] with the complete New World Translation of the Bible released in 1961.[18][19]

It is not the first Bible to be published by the Watch Tower Society, but it is its first translation into English. Critics have described it as "biased".[20]

  1. ^ "Abbreviations of Publication Titles". Watchtower Online Library. Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
  2. ^ Insight on the Scriptures. Vol. 1. Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. 1988. p. 1277.
  3. ^ Reasoning from the Scriptures (Revised ed.). Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. 1989. p. 6.
  4. ^ "2023 Governing Body Update #7". Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. Retrieved October 20, 2023.
  5. ^ "Jehovah's Witnesses Reach Translation Milestone With Bible Release in Mozambique". Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
  6. ^ "The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures Now Available in Krio". Watch Tower Society.
  7. ^ BeDuhn 2003, pp. 93.
  8. ^ "All Scripture Is Inspired of God and Beneficial" (Revised ed.). Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. 1990. p. 326.
  9. ^ "Principles of Bible Translation from Hebrew and Greek | NWT". JW.ORG. Retrieved 2017-09-04.
  10. ^ "All Scripture Is Inspired of God and Beneficial" (Revised ed.). Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. 1990. p. 325. A second revision of the New World Translation was released in 1970, and a third revision with footnotes followed in 1971.
  11. ^ New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References (Revised ed.). Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. 1984. p. 4. © 1961, 1981, 1984
  12. ^ "Online Bible". Watch Tower Society.
  13. ^ "Baybul we De Insay di Langwej we Pipul dɛn De Tɔk Ɛvride". Watch Tower Society.
  14. ^ Torres-Pruñonosa, Jose; Plaza-Navas, Miquel-Angel; Brown, Silas (2022). "Jehovah's Witnesses' adoption of digitally-mediated services during Covid-19 pandemic". Cogent Social Sciences. 8 (1). doi:10.1080/23311886.2022.2071034. hdl:10261/268521. S2CID 248581687.
  15. ^ "Are All Religions Good?", The Watchtower, August 1, 2009, p. 4, "Jehovah's Witnesses, produce a reliable Bible translation known as the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. However, if you are not one of Jehovah's Witnesses, you may prefer to use other translations"
  16. ^ Scorgie, Strauss & Voth 2009, pp. 185.
  17. ^ Geisler & Nix 2012, pp. 455.
  18. ^ Andrews 2018, pp. 24.
  19. ^ Gordon 2010, pp. 280.
  20. ^ Chryssides 2016, pp. 140.


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