The Holy Bible, New International Version
The most widely read modern English translation of the Bible — the text in which most readers today meet the scriptures' running insistence on thanksgiving, from the Psalms' "Enter his gates with thanksgiving" to Paul's "give thanks in all circumstances." Goodreads community rating 4.63 across roughly 100,000 ratings.
The New International Version (current revision 2011) is the contemporary English Bible most congregations and readers actually use, which is why this directory cites it as the reference translation for scripture entries. The full text is freely readable online.
A translation, and every translation interprets: the NIV's committee made evangelical-tradition choices other translations make differently. It is scripture for the tradition that holds it — a claim of faith, not an empirical finding about outcomes.
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