If the Life Application Study Bible in the New International Version appears to be the most popular one, the New Living Translation in other hand, is not too far behind. In fact, people who knows that particular version really love it. And it even find fans among those who are faithful to the New International Version of the Bible as well to those who swear only by the King James one.
If the NIV translation of the Bible appear in the 70s, the NLT only came out in 1996. So on a scale you can say that it's relatively new.
Beside that, the NLT Life Application Study Bible has one more thing different and unique compare to the other translation of the same book, and it's the different formats you can find it. And when I talk about the different formats here, I mean different group of people this study Bible I've been written and adapted for, and particularly the younger folks.
You can find:
- The Kid's Life Application Study Bible
- The Boys Life Application Study Bible
- The Girls Life Application Study Bible
- The Guys Life Application Study Bible
- The Student's Life Application Study Bible (which only came out in 2006)
So here you not only have a Bible that is translated in a more contemporary English language easy to understand that your kids would probably love, but a Bible that is also faithful to the spirit and form of the ancient Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek texts.
Each study Bible are designed specifically for a particular gender and group of age.
The kid's one is for kids between 8 to 12 years old.
The one for the boys is more specifically addressed to boys for about that same age. Then you have the version for older kids - or for teen if you prefer - that is Life Application Study Bible for girls and for guys addressed to teen from 13 and older. And you have a more recent version for students addressed to that same group of age.
So beside that particularity, the standard NLT Life Application Study Bible have basically all the features the other Life Application bible has. Book introductions, timeline, blueprints of the major headline, maps charts, notes and cross references. You find also an harmony of the book of Kings and Chronicles as well as one other Gospels. And of course you have what is unique to the Life Application Study Bible which is the personality profiles of the major characters of the Bible with their particular strengths and weakness.
So finally, whether you choose the NIV, the NLT or the KJ translation of this particular you can be confident that you still have in hand a very good and loved study Bible. In fact the Life Application Study Bible is the number selling study Bible. I think that only this speaks for itself.
The NLT Life Application Study Bible - Find One Adapted For You