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What is New Century Version

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Phillip

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Maybe I am behind on the new versions, but I was listening to a podcast from a church (not Baptist) which I help out technically and the pastor mentioned the New Century Version.

Give me any and everything you know about this version please? I would certainly appreciate it.
 
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franklinmonroe

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Phillip said:
... and the pastor mentioned the New Century Version. ...
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Read it (NT) but did not like it. I place it dead last in its class; for example, the CEV (Contemporary English Version) is much better in my opinion. The NCV is on the 'loose' end of the dynamic range.
 
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sdonahue1

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Phillip said:
Maybe I am behind on the new versions, but I was listening to a podcast from a church (not Baptist) which I help out technically and the pastor mentioned the New Century Version.

Give me any and everything you know about this version please? I would certainly appreciate it.
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Started out as The International Children's Bible. Then was revamped and became the New Century Version. Was AGAIN revised and turned into another gender-inclusive wonder. It is a Dynamic Equivalence translation that has never been really popular. I certainly wouldn't recommend it.
 
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glazer1972

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If it came from the ICB I certainly wouldn't want it. We got our 8 year old an ICB. She tried reading it several times. It is now shelved and she wanted a NKJV like her dad. She reads the NKJV and says that it is easier to understand.
 
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Rippon

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glazer1972 said:
We got our 8 year old an ICB. She tried reading it several times. It is now shelved and she wanted a NKJV like her dad. She reads the NKJV and says that it is easier to understand.
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You are claiming that the NKJV is easier to read than the NCV? That is very unlikely.

2 Cor. 6:12
NCV : Our feelings of love for you have not stopped,but you have stopped your feelings of love for us.
NKJV : You are not restricted by us,but you are restricted by your own affections.

2 Cor. 6:13
NCV : I speak as if you were my children. Do to us as we have done -- open your hearts to us.
NKJV : Now in return for the same (I speak as to children),you also be open.

Philippians 2:27
NCV : Yes, he was sick,and nearly died,but God had mercy on him and me too so that I would not have more sadness.
NKJV : For indeed he was sick almost unto death;but God had mercy on him,and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.


Hebrews 7:18
NCV :The old rule is now set aside,because it was weak and useless.
NKJV : For on the one hand there is an annulling of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness.
 
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