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NIV, Holy Bible
NIV, Holy Bible
NIV, Holy Bible
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NIV, Holy Bible

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Read the Bible on your device just as if you were reading a physical book. 

The Bible is the bestselling book in history, and the New International Version (NIV) Bible is the most popular modern English translation available. This bestselling Bible eBook is designed for an intuitive user experience. With quick page turns and a hyperlinked textual footnoting system that allows you to easily jump from Bible text to footnote and back again, this NIV Bible eBook is fast and robust. And with the “How to Use This Bible” feature included, navigating the Bible has never been easier. 

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  • Complete text of the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version (NIV)
  • Easy navigation to individual books and chapters of the Bible from the table of contents
  • Hyperlinked alphabetical footnote system that allows quick and easy access
  • "How to Use This Bible" section that explains all you need to know to get the best user experience

 

The New International Version (NIV) is the world’s bestselling modern-English Bible translation—accurate, readable, and clear, yet rich with the detail found in the original languages. The NIV is the result of over 50 years of work by the Committee on Bible Translation, who oversee the efforts of many contributing scholars. Representing the spectrum of evangelicalism, the translators come from a wide range of denominations and various countries and continually review new research to ensure the NIV remains at the forefront of accessibility, relevance, and authority. Every NIV Bible that is purchased helps Biblica translate and give Bibles to people in need around the world.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherZondervan
Release dateJan 9, 2011
ISBN9780310440895
NIV, Holy Bible

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    My first Bible and I'm very fond of it - love the Concordance in the back!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The Bible does not really need a review. This particular edition has a good centre reference section.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book is about how god created the world and how man fell. It also tells how independent man has tried to be and how God has either corrected him or punished him. This book is by far the best book anyone could read and I like reading it because it is my religion.In the beginning of the bible it tells how God created the world in seven days. At first he separated the waters from the heavens. Then he creates light and darkness, land, creatures and then he wants to create man in his own image so he makes Adam. Then he realized that man needed a partner so he creates eve. When eve sinned and encouraged her husband to do the same thing they were both cursed.People kept on reproducing and because Adam and eve sinned so did everyone else. But it got so bad that God kept the most holy man and his family which was Noah. God told Noah that he was going to bring a flood and wipe out all creatures and man except for him, his family and two animals of each kind male and female. God brought a flood. It rained for forty days and forty nights. After the flood God said that he would not bring another flood that would wipe out the entire earth again and he made this promise by putting a rainbow in the sky.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was my Bible version from my teens until mid 20's and is therefore covered in colourful stickers and scrawled writing. It provides a good middle ground between versions like New American Standard Version (NASB) and English Standard Version (ESV) and versions like The Message and The Good News Bible or even The Street Bible.

    The former options are more accurate to the original text so I switched to NASB some years ago, however, if I'm struggling to concentrate I sometimes return to my trusty NIV which makes for simpler reading. I do not agree with those who dismiss it as a paraphrase. However, I would caution those adults who use the latter versions (The Message etc) as their primary devotional Bible.

    I am wary of making too much of Bible versions being aware that there are those who subscribe to King James Version only and who think that other versions are somehow irreverent or misleading. Some have become so focused on this as to lose perspective about what is important.

    My own view is that we should all be reading the most accurate translation that we can understand and apply to our lives. What is the point in persevering with a dated text using words that are no longer familiar when we have more modern translations that are accurate that we can understand more easily?

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Inspirational and moving. Enough said.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    So inspirational!!! My favorite book!!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    It was a long read but so much awesome stories that you don't hear.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I'm an atheist but I respect everyone's beliefs (as long as they respect mine!), and I'm reading the Bible for the first time in an attempt to understand others' perspectives better. It really is fascinating and is an incredibly valuable historical and anthropological resource. I'm only up to Deuteronomy, but I'm very much enjoying the read already--though I do find myself skipping over the census parts and the stuff about how many cubits the tabernacle has to be. :) I think this will be an extremely educational read and I'm glad I decided to try it. I'd recommend it to anyone regardless of their spiritual inclinations.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I am not a believer, but the Bible is a Western culture classic that has its uses in literary studies.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Very difficult task tackling The Bible, since The Bible is, after all, not a book but an anthology housing 66 books written by dozens of different authors on different continents across thousands of years. Billions of people of at least three major world religions consider The Bible, or, at least portions of The Bible, divinely inspired: Muslims, Jews, and Christians.The leather bound copy I own, a Christmas present from my parents, circa 1980, has my name on the cover inscribed in gilded lettering. I used to read it every day. In fact, I had entire chapters of it (mostly in the Psalms and Gospels, memorized). I'm surprised, picking it up again, after so many years, how good it is. Proverbs for instance, contains some of the finest Wisdom (common sense) Literature, ever written. Check out chapter 6, verse 30: "Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving,". Makes sense to me! And that verse, even though it mentions only "men," applies to women too. You think maybe the French magistrates in Les Misearables could've had that verse handy when they arrested Jean Valjean for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's (a widow) starving children, maybe? Of course Victor Hugo knew that verse too, and was commenting on his culture's abuse of the very tenets those in power claimed to live by. One of my favorite verses from The Bible, taken from the Hebrew (Torah or "Old") Testament, is Ezekiel, chap. 23, verse 20. It's about the "Two Adulterous Sisters" who, of course, symbolize the rebellious, backslidden nation of Israel. "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses." That's some solid sensuous imagery, eh? And it's not even from The Song of Solomon! mind you, the "honeymoon" book of The Bible. I always enjoyed reciting this verse (I had to memorize Bible verses for Sunday school in order to win cool prizes like Vanilla Wafers) and also for my Boys Brigade meetings (now called "AWANA"). Funny how my Sunday school teachers and Boys Brigade leaders didn't much appreciate my memorizing that verse, though my snickering peers seemed to appreciate it mightily! Once, one of my volunteer teachers suggested I pick another verse to recite for the class. And I said, "Well what about 2 Timothy 3:16 and 17?"And she said, "What about it?"I replied, "it proves that Ezekiel chap. 23, v. 20, is a valid verse for me to recite.""No it doesn't," she said."Oh yes it does," I confidently retorted (I think I was 12), and recited her the verses from memory, 2 Timothy 3: 16, 17 "'All Scripture," I said with my own emphasis on the "All," "Is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God [and that means woman too] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.'"She hemmed-and-hawed, not sure it seemed, in retrospect, how to handle this precocious geekwad twerp (yours truly), while I tried sincerely (not obnoxiously) explaining inbetween her counter arguments that there must be a very valid reason indeed for Holy Scripture to compare the size of a Babylonian's (i.e., an "unbelievers"), uh, "unit," to the size of a donkey's "unit," shouldn't there be? And that if there wasn't a good reason that God compared the volume of "emission" from said same Babylonian's "unit" to that same volume ejected from an equine "unit" (neighhhhhhhhhhhh) then why in the world would God have ever bothered including such a verse in the Holy Bible to begin with? "All Scripture is God Breathed, right?"Sunday school teacher: "Uh, next question please." Another awesome passage, one of my favorites, which never ceases in ruffling personal and political feathers and has divided Biblical scholars and churches for centuries: "A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner." - 1 Timothy, chapter 2, verses 11-15. Women! Can't live with 'em; can't sin without 'em! I believe the Bible can, in fact, despite often being mislabeled by many as "boring" or "archaic," indeed be a fun, informative, infuriating (at times) and exciting read. You just gotta know where to look!
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Awful, faithless translation and notes
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Excellent, full of life and wisdom and love - from above.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is not my favorite version, but it is nice to have such a small, pocket version for travel.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    If you're going to insult this book you ought to read it at least once. Most of its cultured detractors are so ignorant of its contents that they should sit still and learn and not talk. I love the English Standard Version, a clear, readable translation that sticks close to the manuscripts. I like the footnotes, only the most important stuff included.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Superstitious hateful nonsense used to instil fear to control the ignorant
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Love ❤️ best to read god bless you ??? spread love ?
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    the bible is totally gay and this edition doesn't even have the usual, kinky leather cover!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I love my journalling bible, with text only on the left page; the right is blank for journalling and notes. I'm highlighting favourite passages, often in a different version of the Bible, in mine. I know this will be a favourite Bible of mine for years to come.

    1 person found this helpful

  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    LIES!!!!! NOTHING BUT LIES!!!! Theres no scientific proof for a god with freaky powers. For being forgiving he seems hate everyone.

    1 person found this helpful

  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    A flat, fictional work, describing the lives of neanderthals who believed they met Jesus, the supposed "sun of god." This book is full of lies, fallacies, and contradictions. The characters are flat and one-dimensional. This book also contains myriad murder, violence, and violence-based laws that have no place in a civilized society.

    1 person found this helpful

  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    handy rucksack size, not the best translation