Publisher’s Note
The One Year Pray for Life Bible has been prepared especially for Bible readers who wish to read through the entire Bible in one year and to lift up in daily prayer the needs of the vulnerable and precious image bearers of God all around us. Millions of readers have enjoyed the convenient daily reading format featuring a passage from the Old Testament, the New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs. In 365 daily readings, you will journey through the entire Bible and read through Psalms twice!
This special edition of The One Year Bible includes a daily prayer prompt and thoughtful reflections from the leaders of many ministries that work to protect the vulnerable. It opens with a clarion call to prayer from Joni Eareckson Tada, the Founder and CEO of Joni and Friends. We have prepared a user’s guide to help you explore a variety of ways to engage with God’s Word using The One Year Pray for Life Bible. You can find the User’s Guide on page A9.
This edition of The One Year Bible contains the entire text of the Holy Bible, New Living Translation. Each revision of the New Living Translation has increased the level of the NLT’s precision without sacrificing its easy-to-understand quality. This second-generation text was completed in 2004, with minor changes subsequently introduced in 2007, 2013, and 2015. To see a complete list of the scholars involved in the New Living Translation Bible Translation Committee, please visit Tyndale.com/NLT/Scholars.
The goal of any Bible translation is to convey the meaning and content of the ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts as accurately as possible to contemporary readers. The challenge for these translators was to create a text that would communicate as clearly and powerfully to today’s readers as the original texts did to readers and listeners in the ancient biblical world. The resulting translation is easy to read and understand, while also accurately communicating the meaning and content of the original biblical texts. The NLT is a general-purpose text especially good for study, devotional reading, and reading aloud in worship services. To read more about the translation process, please visit Tyndale.com/NLT/process.
We believe the New Living Translation—which combines the latest biblical scholarship with a clear, dynamic writing style—will communicate God’s word powerfully to all who read it. We publish it with the prayer that God will use it to speak his timeless truth to the church and the world in a fresh, new way. May this year and every year be enriched as you enjoy daily portions from God’s Word, and may you see God at work as you join the prayer warriors around the world that are true champions of life.