Bible Version Abbreviations

Legend of Abbreviations for Versions of the Bible

The Bible versions from which the Scripture quotations in The Better Way
Devotional were taken are identified by the following abbreviations:

AAT The Bible: An American Translation (J.M. Powis Smith and Edgar J. Goodspeed)
ABPS The Holy Bible: An Improved Edition (American Baptist Publication Society)
Amp The Amplified Bible
Bar The New Testament: A New Translation (William Barclay)
Bas The Bible in Basic English
Beck The New Testament in the Language of Today (Wm. F. Beck)
Darby The New Translation of J.N. Darby
Har The Psalms for Today: A new Translation from the Hebrew into Current English (R.K. Harrison)
JBP The New Testament in Modern English (J.B. Phillips)
Jerus The Jerusalem Bible
JNT The Jewish New Testament: A Messianic Jewish Translation from the Greek (David H. Stern)
KJV The King James Version
Knox The Holy Bible: A Translation from the Latin Vulgate (Monsignor Ronald Knox)
Lam The Holy Bible from Ancient Eastern Manuscripts (George Lamsa)
MLB The Modern Language Bible: The New Berkeley Version in Modern English
Mof The New Testament, a New Translation (James Moffatt)
NAS The New American Standard Bible
NEB The New English Bible
NIV The New International Version
NKJV The New King James Version
Rhm The Emphasized Bible: A New Translation (J.B. Rotherham)
RSV The Revised Standard Version
Sept The Septuagint (Charles Thomson)
Sprl A Translation of the Old Testament Scriptures from the Original Hebrew (Helen Spurrell)
TEV Today's English Version (Good News for Modern Man) - The New Testament and Psalms: American Bible Society
TLB The Living Bible: Paraphrased (Kenneth Taylor)
Wey The New Testament in Modern Speech (Richard Francis Weymouth)
Wil The New Testament in the Language of the People (Charles B. Williams)




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