Revised Standard Version
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The text is based on the New Revised Standard Version, described as “a modern English translation with a strong literal tradition.”
From Washington Times • Oct. 18, 2023
The original Revised Standard Version was 1,400 pages; the abbreviated one, about 800.
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2015
Pulling from the shelf my old college copy of the Oxford New Revised Standard Version, I looked up I Corinthians 13 and read it over a few times.
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2012
While the words in the King James Bible might be a bit confusing because it is not written in modern English, the New Revised Standard Version is a good substitute here.
From Newsweek
Completed last month, it is the latest of several major new English Bibles, but all the others were Christian undertakings, beginning with the Revised Standard Version, published in 1952 by the National Council of Churches.
From Time Magazine Archive
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