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Views & Reviews: The NET Bible

The NET Bible is available on the Internet, free of charge. (It would be a good idea to bookmark the address–and perhaps even put an icon on your desktop, as I have done–so you can refer to the work easily.) When you go to the site you will see that you can call up any verse in the Bible and find a fresh translation, with lots of helpful explanatory notes. This Bible claims to be, “a translation done by evangelicals whose highest commitment is to represent the meaning of the text as accurately as possible.” Not all will agree that the result always lives up to this, but it is helpful more times than it is not.

Dr. Charles Swindoll says, “There are many wonderful things I could say about the NET Bible, but the most important is this: the NET Bible is a Bible you can trust. The translation is clear, accurate, and powerful. And the notes, those wonderful notes! They bring to the layman scholarly insights and discussions that have up till now been accessible only to those trained in the biblical languages.”

Check out this useful tool at: The NET Bible (Lumina)

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