The Modernized Geneva Bible

The Modernized Geneva Bible
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Discover the Bible of the Reformation in easy-to-read volumes.

The Geneva Bible was the translation during Christian persecutions of Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Soldiers in Cromwell's army carried these into battle. It gave men and women courage in the gospel.

It was the first English Bible mass-produced for daily reading at home and the first designed to help ordinary Christians understand even the hard places in Scripture.

Lay Christians of the Reformation began to know Scripture so well, even passages that taught you to defy tyrant kings. That worried King James...

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Read. Finish. Repeat.

The MGB New Testament is not an exact facsimile reprint intended for Reformation scholars.

We updated outdated words and syntax with modern English equivalents and haven't removed a single verse.

The thirteen thin volumes of the MGB New Testament are meant to be pulled off the shelf and read again and again; to be dog-eared and written in; to be consumed.

So on your 2nd or 22nd read, you discover new depths to the Word and grow closer to God in faith.

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Focus on the Word.

Every design decision for this MGB New Testament was made to encourage daily Bible reading.

Unlike most readers’ editions, the MGB retains chapter and verse markings to allow you to keep track of Bible reading plans or sermon references.

The thirteen thin volumes are designed to be easy to take on-the-go, and quick to finish in a sitting or two, making daily progress visible and encouraging.

Old Testament is forthcoming.

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The feature I have enjoyed the most with this bible format is the use of the paperback format. It is easy to hold and read on the go and to sit and relax with it and read it like a regular book. The larger font and the feeling I am reading a regular book are nice.
As far as the actual translation, I can’t compare to traditional Geneva translation, as I have never read it. I have read entire Bible in KJV, NKJV, NASB, NIV, and HCSB(reader style) and portions in NLT and inter linear. Overall I am really like this translation and would say to me it mostly resembles NKJV, as it uses modern verbiage but still retains a more direct translation like NASB. To me thought it still reads more warmly than NASB, as NASB seems too sterile as a reader type version. I would recommend for anyone who likes a more direct translation and is comfortable with a more traditional formal type of speech.

Well done

I am enjoying the new Geneva Bible for its pure reading pleasure. The paper, type and print make for comfortable reading. The absence of superscripts and references and study notes emphasizes the text itself. However, today I read John 5 and found typos. John 5:13 ends with an errant quotation mark. The word “judgment” is spelled two different ways. Hopefully these are the only typos in the edition and will not distract readers. I am an editor so I notice such things that most do not. Overall, a great achievement and gift to the church.

I love it.

I was nervous it would be adulterated but it's not. It's perfect for methodically getting more Jesus into my morning routine without the bulk of my large Bible on my morning tray with my coffee, supplements and day planner.

Very readable

I love that I'm only holding one book at a time...reading through the NT doesn't feel overwhelming as well as the language that speaks to my spirit.

Great idea and foundation for improvement.

Excellent concept and I agree and respect your position on the original manuscripts.

Ways I would improve this Bible:
1. I would make them smythe sewn signatures. 2. Print on higher quality paper.

I would not hesitate to purchase a complete Bible from you. You have my support and recommendation. God bless all of you!

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"A great advance"

Its most felicitous turns have gone into the [KJV]...A man would need to unmake himself before he was an impartial critic.

C. S. Lewis, on the Geneva Bible

"The Bible of choice"

for English-speaking Protestants...England was a Protestant nation, and the Geneva Bible was its sacred book.

Dr. Alister McGrath, on the Geneva Bible

"The most popular Bible"

throughout Shakespeare's lifetime...[His] references are often closer to the Geneva Bible than to any other.

Dr. Naseeb Shaheen, on the Geneva Bible

"The People's Bible"

was deeply loved by English Protestants, and not only those of the more zealous sort

Dr. K. Edwards, Oxford Handbook on the English Bible, on the Geneva Bible

"A masterpiece"

of Renaissance scholarship printing and Reformation Bible thoroughness

Dr. David Daniell, on the Geneva Bible