Abbrevations for Bible Translations

Below is a list of abbreviations for nearly 100 translations of the English Bible. I place them here not as an endorsement, but as a resource that can be referred to when searching for these abbreviations – especially when I may reference a number of abbreviations in a post on this site.

ABBREVIATIONS OF ENGLISH BIBLE TRANSLATIONS
Abbreviation	Bible Translation
ACV	A Conservative Version, Walter L. Porter (public domain)
AKJV	Authorised King James Version (1611, 1769)
AMP	The Amplified Bible (2015)
AMPC	The Amplified Bible: Classic Edition (1987)
ASV	American Standard Version (1901)
AV	Authorised Version; same as AKJV and KJV
BBE	The Bible in Basic English (1965)
BHIB	Bible Hub Interlinear Bible (2004-2018)
BLB	Berean Literal Bible, Bible Hub and Discovery Bible (2015)
BRG	Blue Red and Gold Letter Edition Bible (2012)
CCB	Christian Community Bible (1988)
CEB	Common English Bible (2011)
CEV	Contemporary English Version, American Bible Society (1995)
CJB	Complete Jewish Bible, David H. Stern (1998)
CLV	Concordant Literal Version (1914 ... 2003)
COV	Coverdale Bible, Miles Coverdale (1535)
CSB	Christian Standard Bible (2017, an update of the HCSB)
DBY	Darby Bible, J. N. Darby (1890; Public Domain)
DRA/DRB	Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
DLNT	Disciples Literal New Testament (2011)
ECB	exeGeses Companion Bible (n.d.)
EMTV	English Majority Text Version: New Testament, trans. Paul W. Esposito (2009)
EHV	Evangelical Heritage Version: New Testament & Psalms(2017)
ERV	Easy-to-Read Version, World Bible Translation Center (2006)
ESV	The English Standard Version, Crossway (2001)
EXB	The Expanded Bible, Thomas Nelson Inc. (2011)
GNB/GNT	Good News Bible (1992) aka Good News Translation; formerly Today’s English Version (1976)
GNV	Geneva Bible of 1587, 1599
GRT	The Great Bible (1539)
GSD	The New Testament: An American Translation, Edgar J. Goodspeed (1923)
GW	God’s Word, God’s Word to the Nations (1995)
HCSB	Holman Christian Standard Bible (2003).
HNB	Holy Name Bible, A. B. Traina (1950-1963)
HNV	Hebrew Names Version of the WEB (2008, aka Messianic Edition of the WEB)
ICB	The Holy Bible, International Children’s Bible, Thomas Nelson (1986, 1988, 1999, 2015)
ISV	The Holy Bible: International Standard Version, ISV Foundation (1996-2012)
JB	Jerusalem Bible, Darton, Longman & Todd (1966)
JUB	Jubilee Bible (2000, 2001, 2010).
KJ21	21st Century King James Version, Deuel Enterprises, Inc. (1994)
KJB	King James Bible; same as AV and AKJV
KNX	Knox Bible, Westminster Diocese (2012)
LEB	Lexham English Bible, Logos Bible Software (2012)
LITV	Literal Translation of the Holy Bible, J. P. Green (1976)
LONT	Living Oracles New Testament, A. Campbell (1827)
MAT	The Matthew Bible (1537)
ME-WEB	Messianic Edition of the World English Bible, Public Domain (2008), See HNV
MEV	The Holy Bible, Modern English Version, Military Bible Association (2014)
MLB	Modern Language Bible: The New Berkeley Version in Modern English (1969)
MNT	Moffatt’s A New Translation of the Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments (1926)
MOUNCE	Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament, R. H. Mounce & W. D. Mounce (2011)
MSG	The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, E. H. Peterson (2002)
NAB	The New American Bible (1970-1986)
NABRE	The New American Bible, Revised Edition (2010)
NASB, NAU	New American Standard Bible, (1960 ... 1977; Updated Edition 1995)
NCV	New Century Version, Thomas Nelson, Inc. (2005)
NEB	The New English Bible, Oxford University Press (1970)
NET	The NET Bible/New English Translation, Biblical Studies Press (2005)
NIRV	New International Reader’s Version, Biblica, Inc. (1998, 2014)
NIV1984	The New International Version, Biblica, Inc. (1984)
NIV2011	The New International Version, Biblica, Inc. (2011)
NIV	The New International Version, used for both 1984 and 2011
NJB	New Jerusalem Bible (1999)
NKJV	New King James Version, Thomas Nelson, Inc. (1982)
NLT	New Living Translation, Tyndale House Foundation (1996, 2007)
NLV	New Life Version, Christian Literature International (2006)
NMB	New Matthew Bible, Ruth Magnusson Davis (2016)
NOG	The Names of God Bible, Baker (2011)
NRSV	New Revised Standard Version (1989)
NSB	New Simplified Bible (2003-2006)
NTE	New Testament for Everyone, Nicholas Thomas Wright (2011)
NWT	New World Translation of the Jehovah’s Witnesses (1950-1961)
OJB	Orthodox Jewish Bible, Artists for Israel International (2011)
PNT	The New Testament in Modern English, J. B. Phillips (1958)
QB	A New and Literal Translation, aka The Quaker Bible, Anthony Purver (1764)
REB	Revised English Bible (1989)
REV	Revised English Version (2013)
RGT	Revised Geneva Translation (2019)
RSV	Revised Standard Version (1952, 1971)
RSV-CE	Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition (1966, 2006)
RV	Revised Version (1881-1885)
TBB	The Bishop’s Bible (1568)
TEV	Today’s English Version, now known as Good News Version
TLB	The Living Bible, Kenneth Taylor (1971)
TLV	Tree of Life Version, Messianic Jewish Family Bible Society (2015)
TMB	Third Millennium Bible, aka New Authorized Version (1998)
TNIV	Today’s New International Version, Biblica (2005)
TPT	The Passion Translation. BroadStreet Publishing (2017)
TYN	Tyndale New Testament, William Tyndale (1526)
VOICE	The Voice Bible, Thomas Nelson/Ecclesia Bible Society (2012)
WBT	Webster’s Bible Translation (1833)
WE	Worldwide English New Testament (1969, 1971, 1996, 1998).
WEB	World English Bible (1997)
WMB	World Messianic Bible (2014); aka Hebrew Names Version (HNV)
WNT	Weymouth New Testament, Richard Francis Weymouth (1903)
WSL	The New Testament, John Wesley (1790)
WYC	Wycliffe Bible, John Wycliffe (1395, translated from Latin)
YLT	Young’s Literal Translation, Robert Young (1898)

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Abbrevations of English Bible Translations

The Psalmist’s Harp, and other worship links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• A Selection of Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship -- “List of Tunes Suitable to the Different Metres.”
• Bound Together: What Makes an Effective Pairing of Text and Tune -- “Instead of painting the emotions in the text, I have found that a Sacred Harp tune more often uses melodic shape, rhythm, and even harmony to accentuate important words in the poetry.”
• Buck Morton Passes Away -- “...Dr. Buck Morton, former longtime emcee of the National Quartet Convention, passed away the evening of Nov. 25 at his home.”
• Faithless Music? The Belief in a Transcendent God Requires Objective Beauty -- “The words of creation, providence, and conscience match the Words of God in scripture.  Values are transcendent and the scripture, which reflects natural law, manifests those in categories of truth, goodness, and beauty.”
• National Sacred Harp Newsletter, 1985–1993 -- “Coinciding with the launch of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter, the Sacred Harp Museum is digitizing and making accessible the first issues of the National Sacred Harp Newsletter, which was published by the company from 1985–1993.”
• Notes on Repairing Songbooks -- “As these books are both beloved and heavily used I teach conservation methods: aiming to preserve the songbooks for generations to come, whilst still getting daily use out of them.”
• Praise & Glory -- “A Selection of the Psalms of David set to the Metrical Psalm Tunes used by West Gallery Quires, 1740 - 1860.”
• Presenting: The Psalmist’s Harp -- “It gives me great pleasure to announce that the First Electronic Edition of The Psalmist’s Harp is now available!”
• Roots of Evangelical Worship: Early American Revival -- “Along with German Pietism, revival in early America contributed to what would become distinctive Evangelical worship.”
• Roots of Evangelical Worship: German Pietism -- “Pietist Johann Samuel Stryk (1668–1715) described church music in the early eighteenth century as (1) contrary to the genius of the New Testament church, and not agreeing with the example of the primitive church...”
• Roots of Evangelical Worship: The Oxford Movement -- “Musically, the Oxford Movement produced three primary contributions.”
• The Continuous Practice of Sin in Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism with Its Music -- “Music not only expresses meaning, but it also arouses or influences other impressions upon its listener.”
• The Psalms in Worship: a Series of Convention Papers Bearing Upon the Place of the Psalms in the Worship of the Church -- “In Ephesians the ‘speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs’ is the sequel of being ‘filled with the Spirit’.”

When an old person dies, and other quotes

The posting of quotes by human authors does not constitute agreement with either the quotes or their sources. (I try to confirm the sources that I give, but may miss on occasion; please verify when possible.)

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” -- Maurice Switzer. The more common version is “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.” This is often incorrectly attributed to Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln.

“When an old person dies, it’s like a library burning down.” -- Alex Haley

“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” -- Stacia Tauscher

“Predestination embraces the ‘whole counsel of God’.” -- Stanley Phillips

“In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching Remedial English in College.” -- Joseph Sobran

“What’s bad for the hive is bad for the bee.” -- Marcus Aurelius

“The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.” -- Billy Graham

“We are all on our way somewhere.” -- Leo Griffith

“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.” -- Herman Melville

“A person’s a person, no matter how small.” -- Theodor Seuss Geisel “Dr. Seuss,” in Horton Hears a Who!

Not a language

I heard someone say this, or something close to it: 

The Word of God is not a language, but a message that can be transferred, translated, and communicated in any language of the world.

Careful Conversations, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• Careful Conversations: Focus on the Position, not the Person -- "To attack the person is to commit a textbook logically fallacy known as argument ad hominem."
• Centennial + 5: History of Smyrna Baptist Church, of Rusk County, Texas, 1873-1978 -- "There is fascination in looking into the past history of people, places, and institutions."
• Chick-fil-A Put an Obama and Hillary Supporter in Charge, but Dumped Christians -- "The Chick-fil-A Foundation will go on funding leftist groups like Atlanta’s Westside Future Fund."
• Corporate Prayer Is More than Your Personal Quiet Time -- "...encourage the individual praying to use the pronoun we instead of I. He is not doing spiritual show-and-tell; he is praying on behalf of the church."
• Data leak reveals how China ‘brainwashes’ Uighurs in prison camps -- "It is very difficult to view that as anything other than a mass brainwashing scheme designed and directed at an entire ethnic community."
• Fake Or Real? How To Self-Check The News And Get The Facts -- "Those who consume news also need to find ways of determining if what they’re reading is true."
• Growing Anti-Natalist Movement -- "Anti-natalists advocate the voluntary extinction of humanity. This is where leftism has been leading us for decades."
• Jonathan Morris: I went to Kanye West’s Sunday Service – Here’s what I saw and heard -- "Fox News sent me to Los Angeles this past weekend to experience and then report on what has become a high-impact religious phenomenon."
• Landmark Case in American Law and in the Pro-Life Movement -- "The Seventh Circuit closed its decision in favor of the pro-life defendants by saying “This litigation has lasted far too long.  At last it is over”."
• Praying Together: An Invisible, Yet Vital Work -- "...the praying church is a church who admits her dependence on God."
• Redemptive-Historical Preaching and the Decline of the Preaching of Repentance -- "Redemptive-historical preaching originated with Dutch Biblical Theologians like Klaus Schilder and B. Howerda in the 1940’s, and the question was, how shall we preach the Old Testament narratives?"
• The History of the Baptists of Tennessee, with Particular Attention to the Primitive Baptists of East Tennessee -- "From the records kept only meagre knowledge of the activities of each individual church can be obtained, for the Primitive Baptists seem to have been better worshipers than historians." (Master of Arts Thesis by Lawrence Edwards, June 1941)
• The Importance of the Virgin-Birth of the Lord Jesus Christ -- "He, and He alone, is our redemption by grace through faith in the manifest wonders of the gospel: His virgin-birth, death, life, and resurrection."
• The Incomparable King James Version -- "We are not claiming that the King James Version is divinely inspired, as some critics of our position often attempt to lead others to believe."
• WALSH: Sex-Ed Program Teaches Six-Year-Olds How To ‘Self-Stimulate.’ This Is Why Sex-Ed Should Be Abolished -- "What we’re witnessing here is not a “slippery slope” to the normalization of pedophilia. This is pedophilia. There’s no more slope. We’ve reached the bottom..."
• What Awaits in Public Schools thru Children’s Books -- "If you are not aware of it, there’s a new book out that – thanks to Common Core and Planned Parenthood – will eventually show up in your child’s classroom."

Black Rock Address, on Theological Institutions

The Black Rock Address is a statement adopted September 28, 1832 by a group of Baptists convened at the Black Rock meeting-house in Baltimore, Maryland. The statement reflects their thoughts on several innovations gaining popularity in that time. The following opinions were given on Theological Institutions.

Colleges and Theological Schools next claim our attention. In speaking of colleges, we wish to be distinctly understood that it is not to colleges, collegial education, as such, that we have objection. We would cheerfully afford our own children such an education, did circumstances warrant the measure. But we object, in the first place, to sectarian colleges, as such. The idea of a Baptist College, and of a Presbyterian College, &c., necessarily implies that our distinct views of church government of gospel doctrine and gospel ordinances, are connected with human sciences, a principle which we cannot admit: we believe the kingdom of Christ to be altogether a kingdom not of this world. In the second place, we object to the notion of attaching professorships of divinity to colleges; because this evidently implies that the revelation which God has made of himself is a human science, on a footing with mathematics, philosophy, law, &c., which is contrary to the general tenor of revelation, and indeed to the very idea of a revelation. We perhaps need not add that we have for the same reason strong objection to colleges conferring the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and to preachers receiving it.—Thirdly, We decidedly object to persons after professing to have been called of the Lord to preach His gospel, going to a college or academy to fit themselves for that service.—lst. Because we believe that Christ possesses perfect knowledge of his own purposes, and of the proper instruments by which to accomplish them. If he has occasion for a man of science, he having power over all flesh, will so order it that the individual shall obtain the requisite learning before he calls him to his service, as was the case with Saul of Tarsus, and others since; and thus avoid subjecting himself to the imputation of weakness. For should Christ call a person to labor in the gospel field, who was unqualified for the work assigned him, it would manifest him to be deficient in knowledge relative to the proper instruments to employ, or defective in power to provide them. 2nd. Because we believe that the Lord calls no man to preach his gospel, till he has made him experimentally acquainted with that gospel, and endowed him with the proper measure of gifts, suiting the field he designs him to occupy; and the person giving himself up in obedience to the voice of Christ will find himself learning in Christ’s own school. But when a person professedly called of Christ to the gospel ministry, concludes that, in order to be useful, he must first go and obtain an academical education, he must judge that human science is of more importance in the ministry, than that knowledge and those gifts which Christ imparts to his servants. To act consistently then with his own principles, he will place his chief dependence for usefulness on his scientific knowledge, and aim mostly to display this in his preaching. This person, therefore, will pursue a very different course in his preaching, from that marked out by the great apostle to the Gentiles, who determined to know nothing among the people save Jesus Christ and him crucified.

As to Theological Schools, we shall at present content ourselves with saying that they are a reflection upon the faithfulness of the Holy Ghost, who is engaged according to the promise of the great Head of the church to lead the disciples into all truth. See John xvi. 13. Also, that in every age, from the school of Alexandria down to this day, they have been a real pest to the church of Christ. Of this we could produce abundant proof, did the limits of our address admit their insertion.

Comments on worship

Some comments I ran across, copied and have forgotten where I found them, on (1) the first day of the week, and (2) church music.

“The first day of the week is set apart unto worship (Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:1-2; Rev. 1:7) and it seems the entire day was set apart as a day of worship and fellowship (Acts 2:43-47; 20:7-10; 1 Cor. 14). Everything else as far as specific time for one aspect of worship is provided in the principle ‘Let all things be done decently and in order.’”

“No stated meeting should have elements that are not commanded. Here are two reasons: (1) A stated meeting is binding on the conscience for all members to be in attendance unless providence has prevented attendance. (2) The conscience of every member should be free from the commands of man in matters of worship when gathered together.”

“Johann Samuel Stryk (1668–1715) described church music in the early eighteenth century as (1) contrary to the genius of the New Testament church, and not agreeing with the example of the primitive church; (2) superfluous; (3) useless, as not promoting but impending divine worship; (4) superstitious, while men imagine that the glory of God can be promoted in this wise.”

I will praise thee

Psalm 138

A Psalm of David.

1 I will praise thee with my whole heart:
before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.
2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name
for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth:
for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me,
and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.

4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord,
when they hear the words of thy mouth.
5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord:
for great is the glory of the Lord.
6 Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly:
but the proud he knoweth afar off.
7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me:
thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies,
and thy right hand shall save me.
8 The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me:
thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever:
forsake not the works of thine own hands.