ENDORSED BY: Max Lucado, R.C. Sproul, Joseph M. Stowell, and others

DESCRIPTION

“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.

Extensive cross-reference system (over 14,500 references)

Largest concordance (76,000 entries

Book introductions

Full-color maps

Red-letter except where noted

Size 5 3/8 x 11 5/8