If you’re feeling overwhelmed and need some encouragement, these Bible verses will give you courage and confidence. Our encouraging Bible verses and inspirational Bible quotes are taken from the NIV version of the Bible. Why not use these verses to bless and inspire others? The Bible passages below will offer inspiration for each day and provide comfort, strength and encouragement to cope with life’s challenges. I wasn’t required to give a glowing recommendation.God has given us the gift of His word which provides us with encouraging Bible verses.

Thanks to Zondervan, which sent me a copy of this Bible for review.

This Bible is a fantastic idea that needs just a bit more help. And in a culture full of competing Bibles, it’s more likely to succeed if it’s truly excellent in every respect. But I want this Bible to succeed I hope it launches a new format used by every major translation. I sound like a true complainer, and I shouldn’t, because I’m so glad this idea didn’t die with the somewhat half-hearted, paperback-only first editions from a few years back. The binding I have, the “Italian Duo-tone” vinyl, feels chintzy. And whereas the newest ESVs manage to have supple faux leather, a beautiful font, a well-designed interior, and even “line matching” to prevent text ghosting through pages, this NIV lacks all those features. The typeface used for this Bible is superior to the odd one used in the first iteration of The Books of the Bible (a strange quasi-serif face I could never get used to), but overall the Bible simply is not as typographically beautiful as it ought to be. Smith put a great deal of thought into this, and he did an excellent job.Ī few more steps forward need to be taken, however, to make this Bible my go-to text. In poetical passages, two lines in a couplet are kerned closer together than the couplets around them. What you get is pure Bible text in a single column with paragraph divisions and, when appropriate, one or more blank lines in between paragraphs to indicate major breaks in the thought flow of a given writing. No little numbers dot the text, breaking up your reading and inviting atomistic prooftexting. The Books of the Bible takes a step forward by taking several steps backward in time, eliminating typographical encumbrances from the text that have been added over the centuries. Smith and a team of editors who’ve worked hard to present the Bible in a format that is, in one sense, quite novel (read more in Smith’s book After Chapters and Verses) but in another sense very traditional.

This edition of Scripture is the latest fruit of the efforts of Christopher R. Actual quotes: “Cool!” or “This is not a step forward.”īut I’m certain that it is. The first thing people notice when I show them this Bible goes like this: “There are no verses!”

The Bible NIV by Anonymous