Aside from gender, weights and measures, and names, what are your favorite improved verses in the TNIV compared to the NIV?
This first one is by far my favorite so far which has been previously mentioned here.
Philippians 4:13 NIV
I can do everything through him who gives me strength.
Philippians 4:13 TNIV
I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
This was also mentioned a little later at Koinonia.
Another one I like:
Philemon 1:6 NIV
I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.
Philemon 1:6 TNIV
I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ.
What are your favorites?
Related posts:
- NIV & TNIV – Thoughts and Meditations
- NIV vs. TNIV: Hebrews 11:11 – TNIV Truth
- NIV vs. TNIV: 1 Peter 4:12 – TNIV Truth
Hmm, I guess I haven’t done any comparisons of the TNIV to the NIV. I completely switched and never looked back I guess. I think it may simply be that I am more interested in the various traditions than the changes within them.
I like John 1:18 where it changed God the One and Only in the NIV to the one and only Son, who is himself God in the TNIV.
All of them, I never really cared for the NIV
This is not a favorite change but the TNIV does a lot of unique renderings.
Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was not abandoned to the realm of the dead, nor did his body see decay. (Acts 2:31)
Hades, hell, and grave are sometimes now rendered realm of the dead.
I once read an article why this was a better translation in relation to Gk., but for the life of me I can’t remember where I read it.
Excellent examples for further reading. Thanks.
Jeff
Here is another one:
Philippians 2:6 NIV
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
Philippians 2:6 TNIV
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
HT: Robert Jiminez
I like this post.My favorite has to be Romans 3:25, from “through faith” to “to be received by faith.”