Strauss has also criticized the ESV for what he calls " Biblish ", which, he says, " is produced when the translator tries to reproduce the form of the Greek or Hebrew without due consideration for how people actually speak ", and considers the ESV, like other formal-equivalent versions, to be " a good supplement " to dynamic or periphrastic versions, but " unsuited as a standard Bible for the Church " or for main use.

Bible translator and linguist Wayne Leman has compiled a list of what he considers to be translation problems in the ESV.

In 2008, the ESV Study Bible was published, under the general editorship of Wayne Grudem and theological editorship of noted Calvinist theologian J. I.

Grudem served on the committee overseeing the English Standard Version translation of the Bible, and from 2005 to 2008 he served as General Editor for the 2. 1 million-word ESV Study Bible ( which was named " 2009 Christian Book of the Year " by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association ).

: Luke 21. 20-21 ( ESV ) " But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.

" Rather, " God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance " ( Romans 2: 4, ESV ); nonetheless, there has traditionally been a stress on reconciliation as a precondition to fellowship.

The publisher cites the fact that the ESV " has been growing in popularity among students in biblical studies, mainline Christian scholars and clergy, and Evangelical Christians of all denominations.

Similarly, in a few difficult cases in the New Testament, the ESV has followed a Greek text different from the text given preference in the UBS / Nestle-Aland 27th edition.

Strauss has also suggested that criticism against competing Bible translations to the ESV is contrived for marketing purposes.

Crossway, as quoted in The Christian Post, stated, " With pre-publication demand surpassing the first 100, 000 printing, the ESV Study Bible has already gone back to press for a second printing of 50, 000 copies, with a 50, 000 third printing soon to follow.

" The ESV Study Bible has received extremely high praise for its quality of presentation, formatting, and supplemental materials, with the few negative reviews being of those who disagree with the interdenominational nature or certain doctrinal positions presented in some of the annotation.

The LCMS has adopted the ESV as the official text used in its official hymnal Lutheran Service Book, released in August 2006.

In a surprising move ( as the ESV has had no Catholic input ), the International Committee for the Preparation of an English-language Lectionary ( ICPEL ), which determines the form of the English-language Roman Catholic lectionary used in England and Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Australia, insofar as it conforms to Vatican directives such as Liturgiam authenticam, selected the ESV for use as the base text in preparing a new Lectionary for the English-speaking Catholics in only those countries in late 2011, along with the Revised Grail Psalter.

The ESV lectionary is set to replace the current English, Welsh, Irish, and Australian lectionaries, and to eventually replace Canada's " provisionally approved " NRSV lectionary ( which has had its " provisional approval " renewed for almost twenty years ) and the United States of America's lectionary drawn from the New American Bible lectionary — a translation which has drawn a wide range of criticism and little praise for wooden English and lack of style, non-traditional renderings, heterodox annotations, gender-neutral language, and systematic removal of Messianic prophecy, to the point where the 1991 NAB Psalms were condemned by the Vatican.

In Ruth 1: 13, she had said to her two daughters-in-law " it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me ," ( ESV ), but the NIV translates this as " It is more bitter for me than for you ..." which indicates that Naomi is indeed bitter.

The ESV, for example, has " Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked.

" ( ESV ), which has traditionally been interpreted to mean that the Christian has, in some way, become righteous ( by impartation or imputation ), in exchange for Jesus ' sinlessness.

" ( ESV ), which has traditionally been interpreted to mean that the Christian has, in some way, become righteous ( by impartation or imputation ), in exchange for Jesus ' sinlessness.

* ( ESV )—" For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people.

William D. Mounce, the New Testament Editor of the ESV, responded briefly to Strauss on the Koinonia blog owned by Zondervan:

Both the Escalade ESV ( based on the Chevrolet Suburban ) and Escalade EXT ( based on the Avalanche sport utility truck ) were made in Silao, Mexico, before the 2006 redesign ; the new Escalade ESV is sourced from Arlington, Texas.

In 2008, Cadillac offered the Platinum Edition on its redesigned Escalade and Escalade ESV models.

The ESV version of these books is based on a revision of the Revised Standard Version 1977 Expanded Edition (" expanded " taken to mean it includes those books considered canonical by neither Catholics, Orthodox, nor Protestants, such as 4 Esdras and 4 Maccabees, but are nonetheless historically included in major manuscripts of the Vulgate and Septuagint ).

The ESV is based on the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible as found in the second edition of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia ( 1983 ), and on the Greek text in the United Bible Societies ' fourth corrected edition of the Greek New Testament ( 1993 ), and the twenty-seventh edition of Novum Testamentum Graece, edited by Nestle and Aland ( also 1993 ).

He goes on to state, “ This is because the ESV too often fails the test of ' standard English '”.

This weakness that Strauss identifies is considered a strength of the ESV and other literal translations by proponents of that methodology, emphasizing that it reminds readers of the Bible's strangeness, coming from a world thousands of years gone, by not fitting it to grade-school English — when the texts themselves are not always grammatical — and modern Western sociocultural sensibilities, such as feminism and the pursuant gender-neutral debate ; and that it also allows for more transparency to the source texts, requiring less interpretation on the part of translators, with the goal of leaving as much semantic vagueness as the original texts possess visible to the reader in translation, not arbitrarily closing off exegetical choices to the reader at the level of translation.

In 2007, the ESV Literary Study Bible — with extensive introductions and essays alongside brief annotation ( focusing on the Bible as literature ) written by professor of English literature Leland Ryken of Wheaton College and his son, Presbyterian pastor and theologian Philip Ryken — was published by Crossway Bibles, the publisher of the ESV.

Most modern Bible translations such as the NIV, NASB, ESV, and NRSV are based on the Critical Text and either omit the Comma entirely, or relegate it to the footnotes.

Comparable to the Cadillac Escalade ESV, the Navigator L is longer than the standard Navigator on a longer wheelbase, increasing its cargo capacity.

* The " seed promises " of Genesis ( which, in the RSV, were translated as " descendants ", precluding the possibility of a fulfillment in an individual ; ESV translates " offspring ").

In particular, they understand all to refer to all of the elect ( as in ) instead of every person in the world ; or to refer to all qualitatively, instead of quantitatively, as in all races of people, not just Israelites ( as in ; ; ; and ); or to refer to the elect in all places throughout the world ( as in, where the words " the sins of " have been added to the last phrase by the ESV and other translations and literally reads " but for the whole world ", as in the NKJV, ASV, the Vulgate, etc .).

The ESV is one of several English versions that gives the Greek reading Tartarus as a footnote:

On one side are more traditional translations such as the KJV and the ESV that use the word " man " and the masculine singular pronoun in Psalm 1.

: Mark 13: 14 ( ESV ) " But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it ought not to be ( let the reader understand ), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

: Mark 13: 14 ( ESV ) " But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it ought not to be ( let the reader understand ), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Two previously existing study Bibles published previously or concurrently in other translations have now been published in ESV editions.

Modern translations, such as the NIV, ESV, CEV, and NLT, add a footnote indicating that another interpretation may be possible.

" Although many traditional Bible translations, most notably the Authorized King James Version ( KJV ), contain the Comma, modern Bible translations from the Critical Text such as the New International Version ( NIV ), the New American Standard Bible ( NASB ), the English Standard Version ( ESV ), the New Revised Standard Version ( NRSV ) and others tend to either omit the Comma entirely, or relegate it to the footnotes.

The word is traditionally ( following LXX ) left untranslated ( ABC, ACV, AKJ, ASV, BBE, BIB, ESV, GNV, HNV, JPS, K21, KJG, KJR, KJV, NAB, NKJ, NRS, NWT, RSV, RWB, TMB, TNK, UPD, WEB, YLT, LXE, ZIK ), but some modern English Bible translations render it as " zodiac " ( AMP, CJB, EMP, LEE );

Theopneustos is rendered in the Vulgate as the Latin divinitus inspirata (" divinely breathed into "), but some modern English translations opt for " God-breathed " ( NIV ) or " breathed out by God " ( ESV ) and avoid " inspiration " altogether, since its connotation, unlike its Latin root, leans toward breathing in instead of breathing out.

BQF used the NIV version from its start until the 2012-2013 season when it switched to the ESV.