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New Testament in Modern English: Student Edition Kindle Edition

by J.B. Phillips (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars 307 ratings
An enduring scriptural treasure and a classic of Christian literature, this modern translation is a beautiful and true rendering of the New Testament.

Written in 1958, The New Testament in Modern English is one of the most dynamic and lively translations to ever appear in print. Phillips’ rendering of Holy Scripture into contemporary English is accessible and powerful to a modern audience. Easy to read and remarkable in its passionate depictions of Jesus and the Apostles, this book is a classic work of Christian literature perfect for anyone looking to supplement their understanding of the Bible and enrich their spiritual life.
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  1. Print length
    578 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Touchstone
  4. Publication date
    March 4, 2014
  5. File size
    5.4 MB
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From the Back Cover

I would like to make it clear to my readers that this new edition is in fact a new translation from the latest and best Greek text published by the United Bible Societies in 1966 and recognized by scholars of all denominations as the best source available. Naturally some considerable parts of the former translation reappear, but that is only because after considerable thought I did not think I could improve upon their wording. However, the reader may rest assured that every single Greek word was read and considered. This rather exacting task me more than two years.

About the Author

J.B. Phillips died in 1983. A canon of the Anglican church, his works include The Newborn Christian and his highly acclaimed translation The New Testament in Modern English.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00HT53KVA
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Touchstone (March 4, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 4, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5.4 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 578 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 307 ratings

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Customers find this Bible translation highly readable and consider it an enlightening New Testament with an encouraging perspective. Moreover, they appreciate its value and accuracy. However, the translation quality receives mixed feedback, with some praising its top-notch scholarship while others note many spelling and grammar mistakes. Additionally, the book lacks verse numbering, which customers find problematic.

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27 customers mention "Readability"21 positive6 negative

Customers find the book highly readable and wonderful to read.

"...Typesetting a little muddy, and very readable nonetheless. Inexpensive paperback...." Read more

"One of my favorite books!" Read more

"...book I read by J.B. Phillips was Your God is Too Small, which is an awesome book for people seeking to know God as He is and not as men imagine Him..." Read more

"Obviously this is an excellent book because of the content, but I wasn't impressed with the quality." Read more

20 customers mention "Content"16 positive4 negative

Customers find the content of the New Testament enlightening and encouraging, with one customer noting its timeless nature.

"...As accurate and true a translation as any, but notably warm and encouraging. Typesetting a little muddy, and very readable nonetheless...." Read more

"...to gain new insight into a particular verse, I am blessed with a heightened understanding when I read it from J. B. Phillips...." Read more

"...The content is there and I enjoyed this approach very much." Read more

"...it is very cumbersome to work, there is no provision to go to a specific book/chapter/verse address so finding a particular verse or even sharing..." Read more

6 customers mention "Value for money"6 positive0 negative

Customers find the book to be a good value.

"...Typesetting a little muddy, and very readable nonetheless. Inexpensive paperback...." Read more

"...This hard cover was a great improvement in quality and a great price...." Read more

"...It was still worth buying for me because the ability to enlarge the print on my Kindle makes it so much more enjoyable to read...." Read more

"Phillips translation is readable and accurate for today, an excellent choice for those wanting to dig deeper into the Word of God...." Read more

3 customers mention "Accuracy"3 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the accuracy of the book.

"...As accurate and true a translation as any, but notably warm and encouraging. Typesetting a little muddy, and very readable nonetheless...." Read more

"Phillips translation is readable and accurate for today, an excellent choice for those wanting to dig deeper into the Word of God...." Read more

"Accurate truth...always a good read..." Read more

70 customers mention "Translation quality"45 positive25 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the translation quality, with some praising its readability and top-notch scholarship, while others report numerous spelling and grammar mistakes, typos throughout the text, and find it difficult to read.

"...As accurate and true a translation as any, but notably warm and encouraging. Typesetting a little muddy, and very readable nonetheless...." Read more

"...I love this translation because it is possible to read the Word of God having confidence that what I understand is what the God inspired writer meant..." Read more

"...That said, it still makes a better devotional Bible than Study Bible due to it's lack of verse indicators as well as it's more vernacular..." Read more

"It is easy to read but it has a need for an editor. Many mistakes in spelling and grammar. But since it is God’s Word I can over look the mistakes." Read more

9 customers mention "Verse numbering"0 positive9 negative

Customers criticize the book's lack of verse numbering and missing passages, with one customer noting that early chapters have sentences broken by slashes.

"...the only noticeable difference is that there are no verse markings only chapters...." Read more

"...Misspelled words mostly but also missing verses that show up several pages later in places that don't make sense...." Read more

"...love the Kindle version just as much except for some typo's and missing verses. Most of Romans 3 is missing...." Read more

"...Upon reading I found passages underlined in several scriptures. Very disappointed." Read more

Kindle review - too many typos, chose to return
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Kindle review - too many typos, chose to return
***UPDATED 27/06/16. I last reviewed this Kindle ebook in on July 23 2014. It's now June 27 2016. The typos are still all there. So have such low pride in one's work that the typos have not been fixed in nearly 2 years is a real shame. This is not a big job for an editor. I have attached just the introduction to Matthew from the "look inside" sample online so you can see what I mean. Just ask yourself "What would jesuf do?" END OF UPDATE*** Within 3 pages, here are the typos I discovered: "Swanagb", Dorset (should be Swanage), "Gospelfreely", "jesuf" (should be "Jesus"), "Gospe's" (should be Gospel's). I did not continue reading. Glad Kindle has a return policy! I had been waiting for a long time for Phillip's NT to come out on Kindle, having heard it quoted and recommended so many times. For a NT that cost nearly 12 dollars, you would think that a proof-reader could have been hired. I hope these issues will be rectified, and that a Table of Contents that hyperlinks to chapters (not just books) will be provided. In the world of today where so many Bible publishers are getting it right and publishing excellent and error-free complex study Bibles, I'm sure it's not too much to ask!
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  • Ken Cox
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Warmer, more Encouraging Perspective, but Still the Truth
    Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2023
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    Very grateful to the person who introduced me to the Phillips New Testament. As accurate and true a translation as any, but notably warm and encouraging. Typesetting a little muddy, and very readable nonetheless. Inexpensive paperback. This student version includes a concise and interesting introduction at the head of each book. Otherwise the same as the reader version. If you read the bible for pleasure, or if you have never read the bible at all, get this one. You will enjoy it.
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  • John Mahler
    5.0 out of 5 stars God's Word in Modern English
    Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2014
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    This is the standard translation for congregants and scholars alike for most of the 20th Century. It is an accurate translation and eliminates the error of mistranslation modern speakers often encounter because of simple problems in simple spelling, sentence construction, changes in cultural values. Shew is Elizabethan for show. Ye, thee,thou,thy,mine,thine, are replaced with "you", "you", "you", "you", because the earlier English speakers distinguished grammerically by spelling variation. Mine is still mine but thine has become "your" and "your's" etc. The wonderful thing about J.B. Phillips is his great knowledge of ancient classic language. He not only understood the vocabulary, and common translation meanings but also the derivation of words etmymlogically, but also understood phrase transliteration was often not what the original speaker had in mind in original context as spoken. I love this translation because it is possible to read the Word of God having confidence that what I understand is what the God inspired writer meant. I have long loved the King James version because I was a lover of Shakespear when I encountered it in high school. I was also generously gifted by happenstance to have three instructors who loved the venerable Bard and gave me insight to how English was spoken fluidly as in Hamlet Act2, Scene 1, "as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue". It is often difficult for modern speakers because love of speech, grammar,poetry,have almost vanished in our sports / celebrity worshipful, hard materialistic, reductionist, revolutionary, politically correct speech and popular vernacular culture. We in our age have become the rubes and barbarians much of the lower economic classes of Elizabethan England were, the residents of lower London, the Cockney of Liverpool, and the occupied Welsh and Irish. England was and remains a melting pot of class and culture, as is America. The main difference is that Americans through assimilation tend to greater homogenization. English society tends toward settling out as by specific gravity in chemistry and physics. America speaks the common language of a homogenous society and the English speak in regional dialect and cultural idiom. J.B. Phillips is readable to all modern speakers of English because post industrial revolution speakers in all regions have become to tend more to the rube / barbarian than poetic.
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  • Fred W. Anson (aka "12th Fret" Anson)
    4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Translation, Flawed Kindle Edition
    Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2015
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    5-Stars for this wonderful, wonderful translation of the New Testament

    3-Stars for the horribly flawed and compromised Kindle Edition

    This is a wonderful translation of the New Testament. It's less literal (and therefore LESS word-for-word accurate) than my beloved New King James Version and less vernacular (and therefore MORE word-for-word accurate) than my beloved The Message.

    Let's compare shall we? Here's John 3:16-21 in all three translations:

    "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

    He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God."
    -- New King James Version (NKJV)

    "This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.

    This is the crisis we’re in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God. Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won’t come near it, fearing a painful exposure. But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is."
    -- The Message (MSG)

    "For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that every one who believes in him shall not be lost, but should have eternal life. You must understand that God has not sent his Son into the world to pass sentence upon it, but to save it—through him. Any man who believes in him is not judged at all. It is the one who will not believe who stands already condemned, because he will not believe in the character of God’s only Son.

    This is the judgment—that light has entered the world and men have preferred darkness to light because their deeds are evil. Anybody who does wrong hates the light and keeps away from it, for fear his deeds may be exposed. But anybody who is living by the truth will come to the light to make it plain that all he has done has been done through God.”
    -- J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS)

    See how J.B. Phillips strikes a nice balance between elegance and readability? It is highly readable without compromising accuracy to the breaking point.

    That said, it still makes a better devotional Bible than Study Bible due to it's lack of verse indicators as well as it's more vernacular translation philosophy and style.

    Finally, the Kindle edition that I read had a LOT of typos - as in at least one per chapter. It also suffers from nearly a complete lack of live links. For example, the Table of Contents only has link to sections ("The Gospel", "Letters to Young Churches") but not individual books, let alone chapters.

    Overall, the Kindle edition that I read seems so slapped together and sloppy that it's as if someone OCR'd the paper edition threw in a few links and then walked away. A translation this fine deserves better! Hopefully Simon & Schuster will do better in future revisions or editions of this classic.
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  • Christine Tonjes
    5.0 out of 5 stars VERY WELL TRANSLATED VERSION
    Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2025
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    One of my favorite books!
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  • Konrad Dobler
    5.0 out of 5 stars Chapters not Verses
    Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2024
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    My wife had an old old well used paperback version that was really falling apart. This hard cover was a great improvement in quality and a great price. the only noticeable difference is that there are no verse markings only chapters. This is okey though, as the word was not recorded by chapter and verse so now sometimes the overall discourse is brought out a bit more.
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  • David Crews Ph.D.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Phillips is Still One of My Favorite Paraphrase Translations!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2024
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    You may not know this, but he was a friend of C.S. the Oxford scholar and Christian apologist. I've owned more than a few Phillip's. It flows without compromising the integrity of Scriptural authority.
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  • Amazon Customer
    3.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read
    Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2024
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    It is easy to read but it has a need for an editor. Many mistakes in spelling and grammar. But since it is God’s Word I can over look the mistakes.
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  • Steven Menard
    5.0 out of 5 stars great item
    Reviewed in Canada on November 14, 2024
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  • Betty Glover
    5.0 out of 5 stars J.B.Phillips translation New Testament.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 12, 2019
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    This was in very God condition. Received on time. J.B. Philips translation is easy to understand without taking away the meaning.
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  • Rod B
    5.0 out of 5 stars Worth Buying
    Reviewed in Canada on April 18, 2016
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    If you want to read the New Testament in a plain and understandable manner I recommend this version.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on March 17, 2016
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    Excellent version in simple English worth every cent
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    1.0 out of 5 stars Old brittle binding
    Reviewed in Canada on September 14, 2024
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    Great translation. Over priced considering the first time I open it to Thessalonians, the binding snaps.
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    Reviewed in Canada on September 14, 2024
    Great translation. Over priced considering the first time I open it to Thessalonians, the binding snaps.
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