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Introduction
“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 in the British Coronation service hands the new monarch a Bible. What he says expresses what the translation team of the English Standard Version wishes to tell the world.
Here, we would say, is the Word of God, true and trustworthy, infallible and inerrant in its facts and its teaching, adequate and authoritative for faith and practice in all aspects of one’s relationship with God.
Here is the Word of wisdom and eternal life, which proceeded from God, which proclaims God, and which will point its readers to God.
Here is the Word of witness through which the Holy Spirit of God makes known the reality and power and grace of Jesus Christ.
The Bible excites us, because its Triune God excites us; our prayer for this version is that it will bring similar excitement to all to whom it comes.
History
The English Standard Version (ESV) stands in the classic mainstream of English Bible translations of the past half-millennium. The fountainhead of that stream was William Tyndale’s New Testament of 1526; marking its course were the King James Version of 1611 (KJV), the Revised Version of 1885 (RV), the American Standard Version of 1901 (ASV), and the Revised Standard Version of 1952 and 1971 (RSV). In that stream, faithfulness to the text and vigorous pursuit of accuracy were combined with simplicity, beauty, and dignity of expression. Our goal has been to carry forward this legacy for a new century.
To this end each word and phrase in the ESV has been carefully weighed against the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, to ensure the fullest accuracy and clarity and to avoid under-translating or overlooking any nuance of the original text. The words and phrases themselves grow out of this Tyndale-King James legacy. Archaic language has been brought to current usage and significant corrections have been made in the translation of key texts. But throughout, our goal has been to retain the depth of meaning and enduring language that have made their indelible mark on the English-speaking world and have defined the life and doctrine of the church over the last four centuries.
The first edition of the ESV was published in September 2001.
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