NLT Life Application Study Bible

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A carefully organized cross-reference system in the margins of the Bible text helps you find related passages quickly, including parallel passages and text quoted from another passage. The study notes at the bottom of each page bring to life the culture of the times written about, explain how the scriptures can be applied to our lives today, and help us to grow in our knowledge (and love) of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. The careful work of 90 leading Bible scholars and stylists ensures that the New Living Translation is an accurate, precise, and authoritative representation of the original Hebrew and Greek texts-producing a text that is easy-to-understand, accurate, and excellent for study. The NLT’s scholarship and clarity breathe life into even the most difficult-to-understand Bible passages—but even more powerful are stories of how people’s lives are changing as the words speak directly to their hearts.

The eight full-color and fun sections are designed to help girls learn more about the Bible, understand the Bible’s big story, meet Jesus, know what it means to follow him, learn how to share their faith with others, and gain practical faith and relationship skills that will help them live out what they believe.This is the one Bible resource that incorporates today’s top scholarship in answering your real-life questions. Sure enough the translation there was "virgin" but with the footnote, "Or young woman" and further explanation in the study notes. Survey the big picture of each book through overviews, vital statistics, outlines, and timelines, and grasp difficult concepts using in-text maps, charts, and diagrams—all to help you do life God's way, every day. Nearly 100 contributors and several renowned biblical scholars from various denominations helped prepare and review the study helps. Some of the page layouts are a bit odd due to the amount of physical space the notes take up and a book might end up starting two thirds down the page but this is an incredibly minor flaw in my opinion.

Tyndale products include many New York Times best sellers, including the popular Left Behind fiction series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. The text is easy to read and understand, yet keeps the meaning of the original manuscripts; the maps, the time-line, the profile notes on the main biblical characters, the charts and diagrams, the cross-references are all an incredible help in applying God's word to our daily life.

Some of the example situations and illustrations have been updated to reflect things that are more common now or are unique to our time. It deals with more of today’s issues than the previous editions, including some that were taboo 30 years ago like shame and abuse of power within the church. Thoroughly updated and expanded, offering even more relevant insights for understanding and applying God’s Word to everyday life in today’s world. A must-have foundational resource for boys, the Boys Life Application Study Bible is filled with faith- and character-building features that help boys understand the Christian faith so they can boldly live knowing the who, what, when, where, and why of the Bible.

A couple of these do have a slight doctrinal bias but even then they would offer a great starting point (just tuck in a note with anything you’d add or change). It states the purpose of this particular study Bible and explains it’s various types of study helps. I have used this translation myself as a study bible for several years and have given it as gifts to members of my own family, and we all, without exception, agree that this book opens up our understanding of God's word in a way no other translation does. I had been thinking of getting the NLT Illustrated Study Bible; but a friend pointed out to me that I already have Study Bibles, and that I ought to be able to offer serious Bible students something additional, something to guide as well as inform. It also includes a brief application-focused summary to help you understand why this book is important today.An authoritative Bible translation, rendered faithfully into today’s English from the ancient texts by 90 leading Bible scholars.