New Testament: From the Revised Geneva Translation

The Revised Geneva Translation (RGT) of the Holy Bible is a faithful 21st-century update to the Geneva Bible of the 1500s, the very first widely-distributed Bible in English. Specifically designed to be spoken and heard repeatedly, the RGT is built on the premise that a crucial key to revival in the present can be found in one simple practice from the past: speaking God's Word back to each other in community. To that end, the RGT strives to preserve the textual cadence and poetry that is so essential to Elizabethan literature, while eliminating archaic and potentially distracting 16th-century words, phrases, and punctuation. It preserves the Geneva Bible's pioneering poetic style, such as beginning every verse on a new line, which aids tremendously in memorization.

Unlike the Geneva Bibles of the 1500s, the RGT intentionally omits commentary or other human adornment, making single interpretive choices based primarily on the translations of William Tyndale and F.H.A. Scrivener. The study of textual variants is left to other Bibles more properly suited for that purpose. In scholarly terms, the RGT is a formal or complete equivalency, based on the Byzantine text-type family of ancient Greek manuscripts. It is one of only a handful of modern translations of the New Testament to be so.

It is the hope that this project will be a living and active Bible for this generation, built for hearing and doing (Matthew 7:24), and that it will be profitable for teaching, convicting, correcting, and instructing in righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16). The aim is that the reader's faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God (1 Corinthians 2:5).

The RGT is a faithful update to the Geneva Bible, preserving its textual cadence and poetic style while modernizing the language. It is designed to be spoken and heard repeatedly, with the goal of reviving the practice of speaking God's Word to one another in community. By omitting commentary and making single interpretive choices, the RGT aims to be a living and active Bible for this generation, profitable for teaching, convicting, correcting, and instructing in righteousness, that the reader's faith might be in the power of God.

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