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COVER STORY SIDEBAR | Issue: "Bailing Out" June 14, 1997

IBS Press Release: International Bible Society Halts revision process of NIV Bible

NIV Sponsor/Copyright Holder Puts Commitment to Serve the Church Ahead of Market Concerns | The Editors

Colorado Springs, May 27, 1997- Amid significant response about potential updates to the New International Version (NIV) Bible, International Bible Society (IBS) announced today that it will forego all plans to develop a revised edition of the NIV, the most widely distributed Bible in the English language, representing 45 percent of Bibles circulated in North America.

With this decision, IBS will also revise its current New International Readers Version (NIrV) Bible, geared to young readers and Adults for whom English is a second language, to reflect a treatment of gender consistent with the NIV.

"The NIV doesn't belong to IBS or our licensed publishers, it belongs to the people" , said Dr. Victor I . Oliver, board chair of IBS. Virtually all other contemporary Bible translations already reflect gender treatments consistent with the language of today. However, the NIV has essentially become the Bible of the evangelical church, which has come to trust in and depend upon the NIV1s current accuracy, clarity and readability.

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