NIV The Passion New Testament Bible, New International Version

Features of New International Version NIV Bible

An original translation of the Bible

Clear & accurate contemporary English translation

Translated from the most genuine ancient texts available

Portrays original meaning of the language as it would have been understood when first written

Readers experience orignal form & structure of the Hebrew, Greek, and Aramic languages

Easy to understand & very detailed

Developed and updated by an independent, interdenominational committee of Bible scholars

Meeting yearly, ongoing work contines by this Committee on Bible Translation

Continuous updating as discoveries are made and modern language changes

More than 400,000,000 copies have been printed

Project began in 1965

First complete edition published in 1975

Major updates released in 1984, 2005, and 2011

NIrV New International Reader's Version for Children and others with limited reading ability

TNIV Today's New International Version

Published by Zondervan, Biblica (formerly International Bible Society), and other commercial publishers.