Recorded Books Inc. - NKJV, Beautiful Word Bible, eBook

Gods Word is filled with beautiful, wonderful words that give us life. The words of Scripture are indeed beautiful for their love, grace, exhortation, correction, wisdom, hope and truth. While we know that Gods Word stands alone and needs no help from us to speak to the reader, in this Bible we complemented Scripture with illustrations of Gods beautiful words. In partnership with seven unique artists who each brought their own personal creative style to 500 verses, we added visual beauty to the pages of Scripture. With the help from data collected by BibleGateway, we selected key verses online Bible readers search most often. We paired our review with an editorial eye to select verses that represented every book of the Bible and that balanced popular verses with less familiar ones.

Some verses are great to memorize, others will introduce you to a section of Gods Word that may be unfamiliar. How many women have prayed a prayer such as Hannah did in reminds us, The LORD is faithfulboth sun and rain are important to growth and he will not fail you in any season. We hope that through the beauty of these illustrated words, you will pause, read and be drawn in to explore Gods Word deeper than you have before. We also hope that the artwork will inspire you to illustrate or journal about your favorite, life-changing verses and passages in the margins of this Bible. We pray that this inspirational, Scripture-based art will open your hearts to His beautiful, wonderful words of life in a way youve never experienced. Melinda Bouma Associate Publisher, Bible Group Purpose In the preface to the 1611 edition, the translators of the Authorized Version, known popularly as the King James Bible, state that it was not their purpose to make a new translation but to make a good one better.

Indebted to the earlier work of William Tyndale and others, they saw their best contribution to consist in revising and enhancing the excellence of the English versions which had sprung from the Reformation of the sixteenth century. In harmony with the purpose of the King James scholars, the translators and editors of the present work have not pursued a goal of innovation. They have perceived the Holy Bible, New King James Version, as a continuation of the labors of the earlier translators, thus unlocking for todays readers the spiritual treasures found especially in the Authorized Version of the Holy Scriptures. A Living Legacy For more than four hundred years, and throughout several revisions of its English form, the King James Bible has been deeply revered among the English-speaking peoples of the world. The precision of translation for which it is historically renowned, and its majesty of style, have enabled that monumental version of the Word of God to become the mainspring of the religion, language, and legal foundations of our civilization. Although the Elizabethan period and our own era share in zeal for technical advance, the former period was more aggressively devoted to classical learning.

Along with this awakened concern for the classics came a flourishing companion interest in the Scriptures, an interest that was enlivened by the conviction that the manuscripts were providentially handed down and were a trustworthy record of the inspired Word of God. The King James translators were committed to producing an English Bible that would be a precise translation, and by no means a paraphrase or a broadly approximate rendering. On the one hand, the scholars were almost as familiar with the original languages of the Bible as with their native English. On the other hand, their reverence for the divine Author and His Word assured a translation of the Scriptures in which only a principle of utmost accuracy could be accepted. In 1786 Catholic scholar Alexander Geddes said of the King James Bible, If accuracy and strictest attention to the letter of the text be supposed to constitute an excellent version, this is of all versions the most excellent. George Bernard Shaw became a literary legend in the twentieth century because of his severe and often humorous criticisms of our most cherished values.