The Berean Standard Bible New Testament Edition The Berean Bible is a completely new English translation of the Holy Bible, effective for public reading, study, memorization, and evangelism. Inspired by the words in the Book of Acts, and based on the best available manuscripts and sources, each word is connected back to the Greek or Hebrew text to produce a transparent text that can be studied for its root meanings.
The Berean Study Bible represents a single tier of the Berean Bible. This printing contains the full Berean Bible text, footnotes, section headings, and cross references. It is not what is considered a traditional study Bible, as it includes only the text, cross-references, and footnotes.
The Scriptures in their original form are God’s inerrant word to us and to all generations. Scholars have sought to reconstruct these Scriptures by collating the manuscripts and sources deemed to be closest to the originals. For simplicity, we have footnoted significant variants between major collections of source texts. The following abbreviations are used in the footnotes to document differences among original language
NA Nestle Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece
SBL Society of Biblical Literature, Greek New Testament
ECM Editio Critica Maior, Novum Testamentum Graecum
NE Eberhard Nestle Novum Testamentum Graece
WH Westcott and Hort, New Testament in the Original Greek
BYZ The New Testament in the Original Byzantine Textform
GOC Greek Orthodox Church, New Testament
TR Scrivener’s Textus Receptus Stephanus Textus Receptus
LXX Greek OT Rahlfs-Hanhart Septuaginta Greek OT Swete’s Septuagint
SP Samaritan Pentateuch
The Berean Bible lies somewhere near the middle of the range from “Word for Word” (Literal) Translations to “Thought for Thought” (Dynamic) Translations. The literal and interlinear tiers are strict word-for-word translations.
The Berean Bible and Majority Bible texts are officially placed into the public domain as of April 30, 2023