The New Century Version (NCV) puts biblical concepts into natural and easy-to-understand English terms. The vocabulary used is based on The Living Word Vocabulary, by Dr. Edgar Dale and Dr. Joseph O'Rourke.  The New Century Version aims to make the Bible easier to comprehend, so that even those who who own multiple Bibles can relax and allow God's message to clearly, accurately, and eternally reach their hearts, and read the Bible for the sheer enjoyment.

Copyright and Usage Information

The Holy Bible, New Century Version®. Copyright © 1987, 1988, 1991 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved.

The text of the New Century Version (NCV) may be quoted or reprinted without prior written permission with the following qualifications:

(1) Up to and including 1,000 verses may be quoted in printed form as long as the verses quoted amount to less than 50% of a complete book of the Bible and make up less than 50% of the total work in which they are quoted; (2) all NCV quotations must conform accurately to the NCV text.

Any use of the NCV text must include a proper acknowledgment as follows:

"Scripture taken from the New Century Version. Copyright © 1987, 1988, 1991 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved."

However, when quotations from the NCV text are used in church bulletins, orders of service, Sunday School lessons, church newsletter and similar works in the course of religious instruction or services at a place of worship or other religious assembly, the following notice may be used at the end of each quotation: "NCV."

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