I learned from the ESV Blog that our beloved English Standard Version turns 5 on Sunday.  Check out these impressive stats:

“Today, the ESV is available in more than one hundred formats, has seen nearly 3 million copies distributed worldwide, and is reaching the world in creative and strategic ways.”

J. I. Packer, who has written so many important books that have served the church in so many ways, says this about his role as ESV General Editor:

“I find myself suspecting very strongly that my work on the translation of the ESV Bible was the most important thing that I have done for the Kingdom, and that the product of our labors is perhaps the biggest milestone in Bible translation in the past fifty years or more.”

These are strong words from a strong leader in evangelicalism.  Let us thank God to have such an accurate, readable translation in our own English language.

“For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” (Hebrews 4:12)

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